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Over fall break, the College’s Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies Department offered a free 3-day theatre camp for fourth-through eighth grade students from 91����-Newburg schools.

Aguibou Bougobali SANOU, assistant professor in 91����’s Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, has been selected as one of 25 Dance/USA Artist Fellows for 2025. The national fellowship program honors dance and movement-based artists whose work demonstrates a sustained commitment to social change. Each fellowship includes an unrestricted $31,000 grant to support the artist’s ongoing creative practice.

Professor Craig Quintero’s “Blur” is a new extended reality (XR) theatrical experience that combines live performance, motion capture, immersive technologies, and interactive storytelling, integrating the physical and the virtual in a seamless mixed-reality format.

A photo essay showing the rehearsal of At Hotel MacGuffin

Last spring, students in the Sociology Practicum course taught by Professor of Sociology Susan Ferguson served the community while getting real-life experience.

The Theorizing Dance and Language courge, co-taught by Professor Cynthia Hansen and Professor Emerita Celeste Miller, spent spring break in Prague exploring the cross-disciplinary collaboration between linguistics and choreography.

As winter's chill fades, 91���� bursts into life with the energy and vibrancy of spring. Students step out of hibernation, filling campus spaces with movement, music, and celebration

Ballet Des Moines debuted its performance of “See the Music (Hear the Dance)” on Feb. 20 at 91���� High School. The event, a collaboration with the Civic Music Association, and presented by 91����, featured a company of 22 professional dancers and live musicians on stage, including the renowned Aizuri Quartet and pianist Douglas-Jayd Burn.

The original play ‘Songs of the Scarlet and Wayback’ is a “throwback party turned time travel train ride,” inspired by Poweshiek County community interviews, student archival research, performances, pageants, and parties of 91����’s past. The production will officially premiere in the Flanagan Theatre on Friday, March 8, 2024.

Everybody,” written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, is a play about the universal experience of life and death that premiered off-Broadway in 2017. A contemporary version of the 15th century morality play “Everyman,” “Everybody” explores abstract concepts through characters like Love, Evil, and Friendship.