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Placeholders--a site-specific dance performance/art installation

September 12, 2014 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Saturday, September 13 in the Long Branch neighborhood of Silver Spring, Maryland. Meet at Flower Avenue Park at 12:00pm for the performance

TDPS Main Season Selection 2015-2016

September 12, 2014 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

The TDPS Season Selection committee respectfully requests submissions for the 2015-2016 season.  Both theatre, dance and hybrid projects will be considered as part of this selection process.  The deadline is Friday, October 3rd. 

Kennedy Center presents Local Dance Commissioning Project: "Grains" by Adriane Fang

September 03, 2014 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Assistant Professor, Dancer and Choregrapher, presents her commissioned work, "Grains".

Come and support TDPS performers at the NextNOW Festival

September 03, 2014 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Thursday and Friday, September 11 and 12

2014-2015 New Faculty Appointments

September 03, 2014 American Studies, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, History, Linguistics, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

The College of Arts and Humanities welcomes new faculty cohort to UMD.

ARHU Faculty Earn Promotions And Tenure

August 29, 2014 College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, History, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Fourteen faculty members from the College of Arts and Humanities awarded tenured positions and promotions to full professor.

Big Ten Theatre Consortium announces the second year of New Play Initiative

August 19, 2014 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

A series of plays commissioned from outstanding American female playwrights featuring larges casts and excellent age-appropriate roles for young women.

The Kennedy Center, in collaboration with the University of Maryland, presents In His Own Words: A Tribute to Walter Dean Myers

August 19, 2014 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

The Kennedy Center, in collaboration with the University of Maryland, presents a performance combining music, dance, and spoken word with text from Myers's books, including We Are America and Monster, and his memoir Bad Boy.

Patrik Widrig and Sara Pearson provide creative opportunities for TDPS students

July 17, 2014 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Governor's Island, New York, and St. Petersburg, Russia, are 2 of the destinations where TDPS students performed with PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER