March 2018

This day-long immersion explores the rich African-American history of Ypsilanti, Michigan.

A couple both onstage and in real life, Sébastien Ramirez, a Frenchman with Spanish parents, and Honji Wang, a German woman with a Korean mother, make their UMS debut with Borderline.

Join dancers from Company Wang Ramirez for an exploration of the company’s movement style.

A couple both onstage and in real life, Sébastien Ramirez, a Frenchman with Spanish parents, and Honji Wang, a German woman with a Korean mother, make their UMS debut with Borderline.

After a three-year project exploring all of Beethoven’s string quartets, the Elias Quartet decided to consider how composers after Beethoven lived up to his monumental legacy.

Looking to attend more performing arts events? Interested in further developing your writing skills? Want to explore the performing arts with a like-minded group of community members?

Looking to attend more performing arts events? Interested in further developing your writing skills? Want to explore the performing arts with a like-minded group of community members?

Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles was the first major work commissioned by the professional vocal ensemble Tenebrae.

School day performance.

Ragtime rhythms, a unique finger-picking guitar style, and understated vocals are the hallmarks of the folk music style found in the Piedmont region, the area between the Atlantic Coastal Plain and the Appalachian Mountains covering central Georgia to central Virginia.

Though hip-hop and jazz are clearly no strangers to one another, Sélébéyone takes the conversation between the two forms to “feverish new heights” (The WIRE), drawing from Senegalese rap, modern jazz, live electronics, and underground hip-hop to create a unique form of urban experimentalism.

Please note: this workshop has been canceled.

Looking to attend more performing arts events? Interested in further developing your writing skills? Want to explore the performing arts with a like-minded group of community members?

The U-M Institute for the Humanities and UMS will offer a series of open dialogues around contemporary visual art, performance, and identity.

Looking to attend more performing arts events? Interested in further developing your writing skills? Want to explore the performing arts with a like-minded group of community members?

In conjunction with the Ann Arbor Film Festival, UMS will present two screenings of Lily Baldwin and Saschka Unseld’s virtual reality film, Through You. Admission is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.

Jillian Walker sits down with director, writer, and U-M Professor of Theatre & Drama Anita Gonzalez to talk about the ways that she has both used and imaginatively transcended the limits of the historical archive in her new play Tignon.

In conjunction with the Ann Arbor Film Festival, UMS will present two screenings of Lily Baldwin and Saschka Unseld’s virtual reality film, Through You. Admission is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.

In conjunction with the Ann Arbor Film Festival, UMS will present two screenings of Lily Baldwin and Saschka Unseld’s virtual reality film, Through You. Admission is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.

Welcome to the steam baths! The word bubbemeises is a Yiddish term meaning “a grandmother’s story” or “an old wives’ tale.”

In conjunction with the Ann Arbor Film Festival, UMS will present two screenings of Lily Baldwin and Saschka Unseld’s virtual reality film, Through You. Admission is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.

What role will technology, content, and audience engagement play for the future of art, and how do our most storied institutions weather this dramatic technological shift?

Join UMS and the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance’s EXCEL Lab for a dynamic conversation on women leadership and the shifting demographics of performing arts patrons.

Join UMS and the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance’s EXCEL Lab for a dynamic conversation on women leadership and the shifting demographics of performing arts patrons.

Welcome to the steam baths! The word bubbemeises is a Yiddish term meaning “a grandmother’s story” or “an old wives’ tale.”

“The world’s most magnificent dancers… a retina-shredding spectacle of passion and power” (The Sunday Herald, Scotland)

Welcome to the steam baths! The word bubbemeises is a Yiddish term meaning “a grandmother’s story” or “an old wives’ tale.”

In conjunction with the Ann Arbor Film Festival, UMS will present two screenings of Lily Baldwin and Saschka Unseld’s virtual reality film, Through You. Admission is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.

Join guest artist Lily Baldwin and members of the Detroit women’s filmmaker collective Final Girls for a discussion about pushing the boundaries of storytelling — and in particular, the ways in which VR can be used to engage audiences in new ways.

Join dancers from Nederlands Dans Theater for an exploration of the company’s movement style.

Welcome to the steam baths! The word bubbemeises is a Yiddish term meaning “a grandmother’s story” or “an old wives’ tale.”

Welcome to the steam baths! The word bubbemeises is a Yiddish term meaning “a grandmother’s story” or “an old wives’ tale.”

“The world’s most magnificent dancers… a retina-shredding spectacle of passion and power” (The Sunday Herald, Scotland)

In conjunction with the Ann Arbor Film Festival, UMS will present two screenings of Lily Baldwin and Saschka Unseld’s virtual reality film, Through You. Admission is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.

Welcome to the steam baths! The word bubbemeises is a Yiddish term meaning “a grandmother’s story” or “an old wives’ tale.”

Welcome to the steam baths! The word bubbemeises is a Yiddish term meaning “a grandmother’s story” or “an old wives’ tale.”

Looking to attend more performing arts events? Interested in further developing your writing skills? Want to explore the performing arts with a like-minded group of community members?

Looking to attend more performing arts events? Interested in further developing your writing skills? Want to explore the performing arts with a like-minded group of community members?

Surprise! This perennial favorite is back, but this time with jazz pianist Chick Corea at the helm. Corea’s staggering career, spanning more than 50 years, is a torrent of creative and professional highlights.

This day-long immersion explores the rich African-American history of Ypsilanti, Michigan.

A couple both onstage and in real life, Sébastien Ramirez, a Frenchman with Spanish parents, and Honji Wang, a German woman with a Korean mother, make their UMS debut with Borderline.

Join dancers from Company Wang Ramirez for an exploration of the company’s movement style.

A couple both onstage and in real life, Sébastien Ramirez, a Frenchman with Spanish parents, and Honji Wang, a German woman with a Korean mother, make their UMS debut with Borderline.

After a three-year project exploring all of Beethoven’s string quartets, the Elias Quartet decided to consider how composers after Beethoven lived up to his monumental legacy.

Looking to attend more performing arts events? Interested in further developing your writing skills? Want to explore the performing arts with a like-minded group of community members?

Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles was the first major work commissioned by the professional vocal ensemble Tenebrae.

School day performance.

Ragtime rhythms, a unique finger-picking guitar style, and understated vocals are the hallmarks of the folk music style found in the Piedmont region, the area between the Atlantic Coastal Plain and the Appalachian Mountains covering central Georgia to central Virginia.

Though hip-hop and jazz are clearly no strangers to one another, Sélébéyone takes the conversation between the two forms to “feverish new heights” (The WIRE), drawing from Senegalese rap, modern jazz, live electronics, and underground hip-hop to create a unique form of urban experimentalism.

Please note: this workshop has been canceled.

Looking to attend more performing arts events? Interested in further developing your writing skills? Want to explore the performing arts with a like-minded group of community members?

The U-M Institute for the Humanities and UMS will offer a series of open dialogues around contemporary visual art, performance, and identity.

In conjunction with the Ann Arbor Film Festival, UMS will present two screenings of Lily Baldwin and Saschka Unseld’s virtual reality film, Through You. Admission is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.

Jillian Walker sits down with director, writer, and U-M Professor of Theatre & Drama Anita Gonzalez to talk about the ways that she has both used and imaginatively transcended the limits of the historical archive in her new play Tignon.

In conjunction with the Ann Arbor Film Festival, UMS will present two screenings of Lily Baldwin and Saschka Unseld’s virtual reality film, Through You. Admission is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.

In conjunction with the Ann Arbor Film Festival, UMS will present two screenings of Lily Baldwin and Saschka Unseld’s virtual reality film, Through You. Admission is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.

Welcome to the steam baths! The word bubbemeises is a Yiddish term meaning “a grandmother’s story” or “an old wives’ tale.”

In conjunction with the Ann Arbor Film Festival, UMS will present two screenings of Lily Baldwin and Saschka Unseld’s virtual reality film, Through You. Admission is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.

What role will technology, content, and audience engagement play for the future of art, and how do our most storied institutions weather this dramatic technological shift?

Join UMS and the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance’s EXCEL Lab for a dynamic conversation on women leadership and the shifting demographics of performing arts patrons.

Welcome to the steam baths! The word bubbemeises is a Yiddish term meaning “a grandmother’s story” or “an old wives’ tale.”

“The world’s most magnificent dancers… a retina-shredding spectacle of passion and power” (The Sunday Herald, Scotland)

Welcome to the steam baths! The word bubbemeises is a Yiddish term meaning “a grandmother’s story” or “an old wives’ tale.”

In conjunction with the Ann Arbor Film Festival, UMS will present two screenings of Lily Baldwin and Saschka Unseld’s virtual reality film, Through You. Admission is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.

Join guest artist Lily Baldwin and members of the Detroit women’s filmmaker collective Final Girls for a discussion about pushing the boundaries of storytelling — and in particular, the ways in which VR can be used to engage audiences in new ways.

Join dancers from Nederlands Dans Theater for an exploration of the company’s movement style.

Welcome to the steam baths! The word bubbemeises is a Yiddish term meaning “a grandmother’s story” or “an old wives’ tale.”

Welcome to the steam baths! The word bubbemeises is a Yiddish term meaning “a grandmother’s story” or “an old wives’ tale.”

“The world’s most magnificent dancers… a retina-shredding spectacle of passion and power” (The Sunday Herald, Scotland)

In conjunction with the Ann Arbor Film Festival, UMS will present two screenings of Lily Baldwin and Saschka Unseld’s virtual reality film, Through You. Admission is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.

Welcome to the steam baths! The word bubbemeises is a Yiddish term meaning “a grandmother’s story” or “an old wives’ tale.”

Welcome to the steam baths! The word bubbemeises is a Yiddish term meaning “a grandmother’s story” or “an old wives’ tale.”

Looking to attend more performing arts events? Interested in further developing your writing skills? Want to explore the performing arts with a like-minded group of community members?

Surprise! This perennial favorite is back, but this time with jazz pianist Chick Corea at the helm. Corea’s staggering career, spanning more than 50 years, is a torrent of creative and professional highlights.