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UMS launched a new Artists in “Residence” program during the 2014-2015 season. Five residents from across disciplines will take residence at our performances throughout our season. We’ll profile each resident here on…

This season, UMS presents the Renegade Series, a series of performances that gives curious audiences the chance to meet unexpected ideas. We ask audiences to share their own favorite renegades, people who…

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.