Welcome to the Stage

2026/2027 SEASON

 

  • Mon Sep 21

    YouCube Activation

    Come See and Be Seen! Live, local, and customizable, the YouCube welcomes your creativity in any genre. Act, sing, share, dance, read, play music, or just sit (You Are Enough!) while an audience of about 15 spectates through cracks in the walls. We can't guarantee you 15 minutes of fame. But we ...
  • Fri Oct 23

    Dance Department Open House Showing

    Step inside the studio. Faculty will highlight what's happening in class and dancers from across the Dance Department’s ensembles—CoDa (contemporary dance and ballet), Kusika (African dance, music, and storytelling), Sankofa (step)—open their doors for a behind-the-scenes look at how each company trains, rehearses, and builds new work. ...
  • Fri Oct 23 - Sat Oct 24

    Hung Ha ‘26.5’s Honors Thesis: I Am That I Am Performances

    As part of the culmination of her studies, senior Hung Ha presents an original Honors thesis project, developed over the course of her senior year under the guidance of a faculty advisor. This performance represents the final stage of an intensive process of research, creative development, and rehearsal, reflecting Hung ...
  • Fri Nov 06

    Bringing the Impossible to Life: A Puppet Workshop

    Step into a world where the soft, the strange, the edgy, and the wonderfully impossible come alive. In this course, you’ll discover the magic of giving breath and intention to the inanimate—from humanoids and animals to a drifting ghost, a geometric shape, or even a living color. Through ...

    Integrated Programming

  • Sat Nov 07

    Wakka Wakka: Dead as a Dodo Performance

    Deep within the underworld, two skeleton friends, a Dodo and a boy, tirelessly dig for fresh bones. Their ancient skeletal forms are deteriorating and without them they will disappear completely. One day, something peculiar happens: The Dodo miraculously sprouts feathers!  A wave of transformation begins, shattering the established order of ...
  • Thu Nov 19 - Sat Nov 21

    Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play Performances

    In the aftermath of an apocalyptic event, a group of people around a fire pass the time by describing an old Simpsons episode. Thus begins Anne Washburn’s wild exploration of iteration, memory, pop culture, and how a community, over time, tells the story of disaster. In a broken or ...
  • Fri Dec 04 - Sat Dec 05

    Pachedu (F)All Ensembles Performances

    Pachedu, the Dance Department's annual fall concert, brings all of our performing ensembles together on one stage. Pachedu means "among ourselves" in the language of Zimbabwe's Shona people—a fitting name for an evening built on community, exchange, and discovery. It's our chance to share repertoire, premiere new work, and ...
  • Tue Feb 23

    Black Grace US Tour Performance

    Black Grace brings its distinct style of “exhilarating, seemingly inexhaustible energy” (The New York Times) back to the USA.  Founding Artistic Director, Neil Ieremia (ONZM), who “has spread his artistic roots in several rich pasts and grown up and out into a sunlight of his own making” (The New York ...
  • Fri Mar 05

    Nature Theatre of Oklahoma: Victory Over the Sun Performance

    A theatrical, consciousness-raising motivational pep rally in which we inspire the world to do much much better than it’s currently doing right now.   There will be singing and dancing. Also talking and crying. Definitely a lot more crying and talking than singing and dancing. Tickets coming soon!
  • Sat Mar 13

    Theresa Ruth Howard & Collage Dance Collective: Chapter One of Harlem Renaissance the Ballet Showing

    This showing is the culmination of three research residencies led by Theresa Ruth Howard to create Harlem Renaissance the Ballet, with dancers of Collage Dance Collective realizing the first iteration of the work. Choreographed by Donald Byrd with an original score by Carlos Simon, this excerpt offers an early glimpse ...