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Events and news of what's happening around the Fredonia campus.
Events and news of what's happening around the Fredonia campus.
Jong Sang Rheu, a senior majoring in Musical Theatre from Busan, South Korea, has been named Student of the Month for October by the Office of Residence Life. Mr. Rheu was nominated by Department of Theatre and Dance faculty members Dr. Jessica Hillman-McCord and Professor Paul W. Mockovak.
When COVID-19 became a global pandemic in early 2020, the Dance faculty of the Department of Theatre and Dance at Fredonia promptly decided all Dance performances would be virtual for the academic year of 2020-21. The upcoming concert will feature four pieces created and filmed separately in advance and then brought together in a comprehensive format for viewing on the above dates.
Applications are being accepted from students within Fredonia as well as prospective students looking to transfer from other universities or community colleges who are interested in enrolling in the B.F.A. Dance or B.F.A. Theatrical Production and Design programs.
The Dance area of the Department of Theatre and Dance has created a new and exciting opportunity for students in the department to showcase their choreographic chops at the Informal Choreography Showing.
The National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) recently granted a National Honor Society for Dance Arts (NHSDA) chapter to Fredonia.
Two Fredonia seniors, Olivia Soto and Niklas Dahlen, who won the Fredonia Technology Incubator’s fifth annual Student Business Competition, officially formed a new business, Lessons Learned, LLC., during the summer through the support and services provided by the incubator.
For an artist, the opportunity to perform is always special. In the current climate of COVID 19 restrictions, such opportunities take on even more significance. So, when a professor and his group of Fredonia Dance majors had the opportunity to perform at Buffalo Pride Week in late August, they made the most of it.
Donald C. Shorter Jr., a gender nonconforming artist, will conduct two separate programs – a conversation exploring community activism and the arts and presentation of his one-woman show “Genderosity” – on consecutive nights via Zoom.
Carl Cofield, associate artistic director of The Classical Theatre of Harlem, gave a TED-type talk for the Department of Theatre and Dance on recently, discussing his journey working as an actor, a director, a person of color and human.
When it was announced that the university would go to distance education, the Department of Theatre and Dance students, faculty and staff made sure they rose to the occasion.