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Director’s Note: A Christmas Carol
Yes, it is set at Christmas time and takes the form of a fable or carol, but its contents deal with social injustice and result in a cry for change and direct action.
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How to Get Ready for Handel’s Messiah
In 2015, we followed conductor Scott Hanoian into a rehearsal with the UMS Choral Union.
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People Are Talking: National Theatre Live: Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Tell us what you thought! This is the place to comment on the performance and talk to other people about what you saw and heard. What will you remember about the performance…
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Watching Sankai Juku: How do we stay vulnerable to art?
I don’t buy into the idea that art is best consumed by the young or—despite what pop music tells us—that the best living is done in our twenties. But I do wonder what the trick is to staying open in this way. How do we continue to experience art as though we are finding it for the first time?
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Watching Sankai Juku: I want to climb up Sleeping Bear Dunes in bright sunlight
My body becomes similarly constricted, mirror neurons blazing.
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Student Spotlight: Embedded with Mariachi Vargas
Editor’s note: As part of the UMS 21st Century Artist Internships program, four students interned for a minimum of five weeks with a dance, theater, or music ensemble part of our 2015-2016 season. Christina Maxwell…
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Artist Internships for 21st Century
Follow U-M student Sophia Deery on her journey through our 21st century internship program. Open to U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance sophomore and junior students, the next session of this…
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Free Dance Workshops for All
Lots of happy faces at our You Can Dance workshop and Breakfast Download Discussion event this weekend. Photos by Sharman Spieser. Interested in more? See the full listing of upcoming free activities…
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Behind the Scenes with Hubbard Street Dancers
We caught up with the dancers from Hubbard Street Dance Chicago ahead of their performance of the works of choreographer William Forsythe in Ann Arbor. Interested in more? Learn more about how…