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Fredonia Dance Ensemble offers expanded Merrins Chamber Series event
Following a sold-out inaugural run in 2018, the Merrins Chamber Series returns in November for six performances.
Beck choreographer of program at Philadelphia’s Performance Garage
Terry Beck, an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Theatre and Dance, was one of five choreographers of “Zero to Sixty: A Journey from Then to Now,” a showcase of new and resurrected works staged on Oct. 4 and 5 at the Performance Garage in Philadelphia.
Fredonia theatre department offers Steinbeck classic ‘Grapes of Wrath’
The Department of Theatre and Dance will open the 2019-20 Walter Gloor Mainstage Series with six performances of John Steinbeck’s award-winning “The Grapes of Wrath” from Oct. 18 to 26 in the Robert W. Marvel Theatre.
Fredonia students attend daCi conference in Buffalo
Six Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance students participated in the first regional daCi USA Day of Dance Conference, where they participated in a variety of classes and opportunities to engage in creativity, collaboration, culture and community, at the Tapestry Charter School in Buffalo on Sept. 22.
Alumni performers return for 50th Anniversary Gala Pops Concert
Some have starred on Broadway, others have toured the world with award-winning musical acts and some have found success on television. What they all have in common is they got their start at Fredonia – and they are all returning for Rockefeller Arts Center’s 50th anniversary celebration.
Commencement eve concert offers Broadway classic ‘My Fair Lady’
The Commencement-eve Pops tradition continues at Fredonia with a musical considered “the standard by which all other musicals are measured.” Rockefeller Arts Center presents Lerner and Loewe’s “My Fair Lady in Concert” on Friday, May 17 at 7:30 p.m., in King Concert Hall.
Fredonia Dance Ensemble concert to feature variety of styles
From slow, sustained modern dance to upbeat, contemporary hip-hop, the 2019 Fredonia Dance Ensemble concert explores a variety of movement aesthetics and features performances by the talented Dance majors.
Fredonia Theatre students shine at USITT national conference
Students in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Fredonia collected first and second place awards, as well as a third place team award, at the 2019 USITT (United States Institute for Theatre Technology) Conference and Stage Expo, held March 20-23, in Louisville, Ky.
Cole Porter’s ‘Anything Goes’ continues Fredonia’s Mainstage Series
Take a musical score by one of America’s greatest songwriters, add a comedic love story and set it all on an ocean liner sailing the seas. What you have is the recipe for a timeless Broadway musical – and the next offering in the Walter Gloor Mainstage Series at the State University of New York at Fredonia.
Fredonia alumna heads to Broadway
Many people have to work their entire career to make it to Broadway. For Fredonia alumna Cassie Williams ('17), it took a little over a year.