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U-M student and UMS intern Libby Seidner spent five weeks with the San Francisco Symphony as part of an internship.

Photo: At the inaugural Faculty Institute. How can a symphony inform a course in environmental science? What can a dance teach us about literature? How might we use a play to discuss…

Photo: Moment in superposition. Photo by Kazuo Fukunaga. superposition is a performance created by visual and sound artist Ryoji Ikeda. Inspired by the mathematical notions of quantum mechanics, Ikeda employs a spectacular…

Editor’s note: This summer, UMS launched a new 21st Century Artist Internships program. Four students interned for a minimum of five weeks with a dance, theater, or music ensemble part of our 2014-2015 season….

How visual and sound artist Ryoji Ikeda weaves together visual and sound data tapestries to access the sublime.

Are we characters—locked into our one and only story? How Luigi Pirandello’s “Six Characters in Search of an Author” provokes us to re-think our lives.

Héctor Flores Komatsu (U-M student and UMS intern) shares photos and anecdotes from his summer internship with Théâtre de la Ville.

UMS Lobby contributor Greg Hicks recently spoke with Jaco van Dormael about the unique process of assembling Kiss & Cry, all the way from its minimal beginnings to its full-fledged stage production.

UMS director of programming Michael Kondziolka on why he’s excited about the upcoming boundary-pushing film, theater, and dance work Kiss & Cry. Charleroi Danses perform Kiss & Cry at the Power Center…