Transformational Gift to Miles Davis Jazz Studies
New at UNCG: Robinson Family Fund in Jazz Studies
Television, Film, and Stage Actor Chris Chalk ’01 Gives Advice to UNCG Theatre Students
Chris Chalk ’01 gives acting advice to students
“Spartan New Musicals”: Two World Premiere Films
The UNC Greensboro School of Theatre is pleased to present Spartan New Musicals, featuring Flatbush Avenue, with music, lyrics, and book by Madeline Myers, and Radio: A Musical Ghost Story, with music and lyrics by Murphy Taylor Smith and book by Emerson Mae Smith. Spartan New Musicals will be available for streaming April 22-24. Flatbush Avenue tells the story […]
Dance Concert Explores the Human Condition
The UNCG School of Dance will showcase original choreographic work by eight senior Choreography and Performance students in the Spring 2021 BFA Dance Thesis Concert “the human condition,” which premiers via YouTube on April 24, 2021 at 8 p.m. Here are the choreographers and artistic statements for their works: Chania Wilson (Raleigh, NC): The Second […]
James Keith ’08 MM Vocal Performance, ’13 DMA Choral Conducting, Owner of Double Oaks Bed & Breakfast
Long before “nimble,” “flexible,” and “pivot” became the buzzwords of the pandemic, one segment of the workforce already had those things down pat. The career path of an artist is full of twists and turns. Just ask School of Music alumnus James Keith: “There are lots of ways to make the arts a big part […]
Alexandra Joye Warren ’06 MFA Dance, Founder of JOYEMOVEMENT
For Alexandra Joye Warren, starting her own dance company was not so much an act of entrepreneurship as it was a calling. It just took her some time to listen to it. Warren was in her senior year, completing a BA degree in Drama with a concentration in Dance/Pre-Medicine from Spelman College, when she first […]
Grace Clark ’21 MFA Studio Art, Creator of Overland Artworks
Grace Clark started out on a fairly standard path for an art student. Raised in western Minnesota, the daughter of a photography professor and an elementary school teacher, she attended an arts high school in Minneapolis and went on to get her BFA with an emphasis in photography at Minnesota State University-Moorhead where her father […]
An Evening With The Creative Class: Traveling While Black
An Evening with the Creative Class presents The Resistance Project: Traveling While Black Wednesday, March 24th, 2021 7-8:30pm EST with featured guests: Natacha Nikokeza, Germaul Barnes, and Jurne Smith Music by Jonboyondabeat! Moderated by Duane Cyrus This provocative installment of An Evening with the Creative Class will feature a behind the scenes look into The […]
Getting the word out: School of Theatre’s “Podcast & Crew”
The School of Theatre is tapping into an essential, fast-growing, and fairly new medium to engage and increase audiences for the 2021 spring season of shows. “Podcast & Crew” made its debut this semester, produced by Chris Forrer (’22 MFA Directing) who is working as the School’s Marketing Director as part of his graduate assistantship.
School of Music Vocalists Advance in National Competition
Seventeen students from the Voice Area competed in the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Mid-Atlantic Region’s Conference and Student auditions, and ten of those students advanced to the national online screening round. They will now compete with other talented student singers from the United States and Canada for a chance to perform in […]