Artist Interviews & Blogs
Artists share personal perspectives about their work, their lives and the world that inspires them to create. Hear first-hand what they're thinking about.
Stephen Webber (SITI Company)
Orson Welles and William Shakespeare via Macbeth
January 18, 2011 — Before assuming the role of Macbeth in SITI Company’s Radio Macbeth, Stephen Webber explains the origins of this radio play and tells us what audiences should expect. Learn more…
Walter Dallas (UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies)
Changing the World with Chekhovian Passion and Love
January 11, 2011 — Last year Walter Dallas made his directorial debut at the Clarice Smith Center with an acclaimed production of The Bluest Eye. We talked with him about he chose to direct The Seagull this year and how he plans to approach it. Learn more…
Erica Philpot (UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies)
Post-Show Blog for Am I Black Enough Yet?
December 7, 2010 — Erica Philpot, a student theatre performance major, reflects on what it was like to turn the audience “black” in UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies’s recent production of Am I Black Enough Yet? Learn more…
Leon Major (Maryland Opera Studio)
The Power of Art and the Power of Magic
November 9, 2010 — Maryland Opera Studio director Leon Major shares why he chose to produce Florencia en el Amazonas, a rarely performed, Spanish-language work inspired by Gabriél Garcia Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera. Learn more…
Daniel Phoenix Singh (Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh)
Touching Hearts, Tackling Issues and Inspiring Audiences
October 26, 2010 — In anticipation of remounting four works by Anna Sokolow, Daniel Phoenix Singh shares his thoughts on returning to his alma mater and Sokolow’s influence on modern dance. Learn more…
Lauren Withhart (Dance MFA)
Femininity within the Architecture of the Body
October 5, 2010 — A third-year student in the Dance MFA program, Lauren Withhart prepares for her They are of threaded glass., her graduate thesis concert. Learn more…
KJ Sanchez (Guest Director for UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies)
Directing Feel-Good Theatre at a University
September 28, 2010 — KJ Sanchez is the guest director of Enchanted April, the debut performance of the UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies. Learn more…
Archives
- Liz Lerman & Bill Dorland: Rearranging the Way We Think About Things (Liz Lerman Dance Exchange)
- Angel Gil-Ordóñez & Joseph Horowitz: Reintroducing Gershwin to American Audiences (Post-Classical Ensemble)
- Michael Votta: Revitalizing the Classical Music Concert with the UM Wind Orchestra (UM Wind Orchestra)
- Heather Henson: Mythic Imagery, Sprawling Landscapes & Wild Places (IBEX Puppetry)
- Liz Lerman and Ben Wegman: The Matter of Origins and the Poetry of the Mind (Liz Lerman Dance Exchange)
- Greg Sandow: The Future of Classical Music (Artist-in-residence at the UMD College of Arts and Sciences)
- Robert Gibson: The Sound of Light (UMD School of Music)
- Gesel Mason: Women, Sex, and Desire: Sometimes You Feel Like a Ho, Sometimes You Don’t (Mason/Rhynes Productions)
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