Fine Arts

Category: Theatre & Dance

  • Ben Kolis Directs Senior Honors Project, Glass

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    A man walks into a bar………. It’s an opening line of a joke and an everyday occurrence. Public places and their place in our lives is part of the fabric of our culture. It is also the basis for the senior honors project of Theatre Honors major Ben Kolis. His vision and his challenge was…

  • Mixed Blood Theatre to Present Hijab Tube at Gustavus

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    Minneapolis-based Mixed Blood Theatre will present Hijab Tubeat 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 18 in Gustavus Adolphus College’s Alumni Hall. The event is sponsored by the Gustavus Diversity Center and is free and open to the public. Hijab Tube explores American-Muslim identity and offers a unique, entertaining, and eye-opening perspective on Islam in 21st century America.…

  • Faith-Based Theatrical Production to Feature Jonathan Swenson ’88

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    The one-man play Witnesses, written by Curt Cloninger and featuring professional actor and Gustavus alumnus Jonathan P. Swenson ’88, will be performed at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 11 in Christ Chapel. The performance is free and open to the public.

  • Britta Peterson ’08 Selected for ACDFA Dance Regional Finale

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    A dance by dancer/choreographer Britta Peterson ’08, a graduate student in the Master of Fine Arts in Dance at Arizona State University, was selected for the gala finale program in the 2012 American College Dance Festival Association’s Baja Regional Conference at California State University. The dance, Violet Flight: Pursuit of Significance, represented ASU at the…

  • Department of Theatre & Dance Occupies Anderson Social Science Center

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    With the Occupy Wall Street movement in mind, the Department of Theatre & Dance at Gustavus will stage its own occupation this weekend in Anderson Social Science Center as the Department combines its courses in Playwriting and Directing to create a 48-hour intensive theatre laboratory project. The project, Occupy SSC, begins on March 23 and…

  • Gustavus presents Something Like Flight: The Spring Dance Concert

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    As Gustavus Adolphus College celebrates its 150th anniversary of inspiring, educating, and cultivating young minds, the Department of Theatre & Dance celebrates the Sesquicentennial with its Spring Dance Concert, titled Something Like Flight. It features the choreography of four Gustavus faculty, three guest artists, and one student. The concert displays talent, artistic vision, and the…

  • Student Art Exhibits Opens in Schaefer Gallery & Anderson Theatre

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    The annual Department of Art/Art History Sophomore Art Majors and Art Minors show opens Thursday, March 15th in Schaefer Gallery in the Art Building. The opening reception is scheduled between 4:30 and 6:30 p.m. on March 15.The exhibit will be open for viewing March 15 – March 29.

  • Sondheim’s Assassins February 17-26 at Gustavus

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    The Gustavus Department of Theatre and Dance is pleased to bring one of Stephen Sondheim’s most controversial musicals, Assassins, to the Anderson Theatre stage February 17 – 26. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by John Weidman, Assassins is the story of 13 of the most notorious characters in American history: 13…

  • Stephan Koplowitz to Choreograph Site-Specific Dances at Gustavus

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    Stephan Koplowitz, an award-winning director and choreographer internationally known for his work on the concert stage and for creating original site-specific multi-media works, will be in residence at Gustavus Adolphus College periodically during the next three months. With support from a Sesquicentennial mini-grant, Koplowitz has been commissioned to create a series of site-specific dances that…

  • J-Term Provides Long Days for Anderson Theatre Production

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    The more than 50 members of the cast and crew involved with the Department of Theatre & Dance January Term Theatre Production project are gaining a new understanding daily of the old saying “No rest for the wicked.” For the students and staff working on the production (to be presented in Anderson Theatre, February 17…