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News From The Chair
by Tom Bloom, Chair, Associate Professor, Scenic Design
The weather we've endured this winter set me to singin' a song from the "southern rock" band Little Feat - with lead vocalist Lowell George moaning - "Cold - Cold - Cold .... Freezin." Truer words ...
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Arts Grounds Precinct To Be Named for the Casteens
As it embarks on a $6.3 million campaign for the expansion of the Drama Building, the University of Virginia is planning to name the arts precinct on Grounds for President John T. Casteen III and his wife, Betsy Casteen.
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Remembering Jimmy Helms
October 29, 2009 marked the 50th anniversary of the crash of Piedmont Airlines Flight #349 in the Blue Ridge Mountains. As local residents looked back at the details surrounding the tragic crash, we took time to remember our friend Jimmy ...
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Viva Las Vegas
MFA Students Visit Cirque du Soleil
By Justin Smith, MFA Candidate, Technical Direction
What do you think of when you think about Las Vegas? Just the two words “Las Vegas” conjure images of Sin City, bright lights, gambling, bizarre...
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Ready to Rumble
MFA Actors Study Stage Combat
By Andrew Cronacher, MFA Candidate, Acting
Almost everyone can recall a time when you’ve sat in a dark movie theatre on the edge of your seat, holding your breath, with your mouth gaping open...
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MFA Student Directs Environmental Theatre
By Will Rucker, 4th year Drama major
In early December, U.Va.’s Arts Grounds played host to an exciting night of theatre featuring everything from clowns to Luther Vandross …
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AXIS Dance Residency
U.Va. Dance is proud to welcome the physically integrated AXIS Dance Company to Charlottesville March 23-26, 2010. AXIS Dance’s focus is on creating and presenting contemporary dance by artists with and without disabilities. During their weeklong residency, AXIS will work with students and community members through workshops, master classes, lectures, demonstrations and live performance. For more information, visit www.virginia.edu/drama/axisdance/. |
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Faculty and Alumni News
News from Richard Warner, Marcy Linton and more...
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Headlines
Big Bang 2010, Dance and Engineering Collaboration, Carribbean Theatre and more...
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