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Engaging Performance connects undergraduate students directly to the touring, world-class artists who perform music, theater, and dance on the U-M campus. Students will attend live performances, talk with the artists and arts administrators, and explore how the performing arts are an integral part of our lives and the world at large.

UMS is pleased to welcome Ash Arder as this season’s Flint Artist in Residence. Ash is a transdisciplinary artist whose research-based approach works to expose, deconstruct, or reconfigure ecological and industrial systems.

Presented annually by Americans for the Arts, an organization dedicated to advancing the arts nationally, the Arts + Business Partnership Awards recognize businesses of all sizes from around the country for exceptional mutually beneficial, innovative, and sustained collaborations with the arts.

We sat down with UMS 2021/22 Season Preview sponsor and Beztak partner, Maurice “Jerry” Beznos, to learn more about All Seasons’ philosophy and what inspired them to support UMS.

Helga Davis and Yuval Sharon, Artistic Director of Michigan Opera Theatre, discuss how his creative approach to presenting immersive musical experiences became all the more crucial during the pandemic.

U-M alumni and UMS supporters Faith and Stephen Brown retired to the San Francisco area in 2001. We spoke with Stephen about his UMS memories, his chance meeting with UMS president emeritus Ken Fischer, and what inspired their gifts to the Forward Fund this past year.

Explore our full lineup of music, theater, and dance.

We ask all audience members, regardless of vaccination status, to do their part to allow us all to return to live performances.

UMS staff members contributed tracks for a playlist of their favorite music for the beginning of the fall semester. Listen on your preferred streaming service, and read about the inspiration behind some…