Choreographies of a Life: Mapping Afro - Worlds and Cultures
Oliver will discuss a number of her choreographic works, her methods for creating the teams with whom she creates, their inspirations and the socio cultural aims of her projects overall.
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2025 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Competition-Call for Submissions
The deadline for submitting a play to the A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Competition has been extended to Monday, February 10, 2025!
Paws with the PAD
Take a pause with us and enjoy some pet therapy with the Performing Arts Department!
The Wolves
Sarah DeLappe's 21st century coming-of-age tale offers a glimpse into the lives of nine teenage teammates on a girls soccer team
Performance and Social Theory: Reification and Role in Marx’s Political Economy
Featuring Pannill Camp, Associate Professor of Drama, Performing Arts Department, Washington University in St. Louis
Major/Minor Welcome
2025 Welcome Gathering for Majors & Minors in Dance & Drama
2025 MFA Dance Concert: ¿Te puedo contar algo?
This year’s concert, "¿Te puedo contar algo?", celebrates the eighth year of the MFA in Dance final project with choreography by Tess Angelica Losada-Tindall and Lourdes del Mar Santiago Lebrón.
Film Screening: Taylor Mac's "24-Decade History of Popular Music"
2025 Helen Clanton Morrin Lecture: Taylor Mac
The Three Bodies of Horikoshi Hideshi: Corporeality, Performance, and Medium in Meiji Kabuki
Featuring Jonathan Zwicker: Associate Professor, Agassiz Professor of Japanese and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
¡Habla!: Embodied Code-Switching and Listening to Our Dances
Featuring Jade Power-Sotomayor, Assistant Professor Department of Theatre and Dance, UC San Diego
WashU Dance Collective: Transcendence
The annual concert of PAD's resident dance company, Washington University Dance Collective.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Performing Arts Department Alum Brenna Jones (AB '23) will be returning to campus to direct this lighthearted musical with quick remarks and even quicker definitions.