Dance

Join the University of Kentucky Department of Theatre & Dance Faculty for a day to explore our Theatre Degree program. This event will be online and FREE but you must register in advance.

• 9:30am Meet & Greet Students  
• 10:00am Student Breakout into classes/foci 
  • Musical Theatre with Patrick Garr 
  • Acting for the Camera with Peter Stone 
  • Design & Production with Yoon Bae / Zak Stribling /Nelson Fields 
  • Q&A w/Parents - Tony Hardin, Department Chair
• 11:30am Follow up Q&A and Farewell 

The Studio Season goes online this year!

The Musical Theatre Certificate Cabaret has always been a space for students to bring whatever they want to the table. To showcase new repertoire, sing their favorite songs, and test out wild ideas that don't fit into our regular curriculum. This semester, it's more interesting than ever before, as performers take their songs into their living spaces. Enjoy a night of songs from our kitchens, our bathrooms, our bedrooms, and our backyards - our stage for the time being. 

The Studio Season goes online this year!

Un-Staged is this season’s curveball. Created specifically as a response to the unique situation of school this year, Un-Staged is designed to put your opinions and thoughts at the forefront. This virtual festival will be comprised of videos submitted by individuals or households and will feature 100% original works. Write a poem, monologue, or short play, choreograph a dance, film a skit, write and sing a song, or do something we haven’t even thought of.

The Studio Season goes online this year!

Un-Staged is this season’s curveball. Created specifically as a response to the unique situation of school this year, Un-Staged is designed to put your opinions and thoughts at the forefront. This virtual festival will be comprised of videos submitted by individuals or households and will feature 100% original works. Write a poem, monologue, or short play, choreograph a dance, film a skit, write and sing a song, or do something we haven’t even thought of.

The University of Kentucky Department of Theatre and Dance presents Once Vacant: Bodies in motion…still. The dancers will perform in the Orange parking lot on UK's campus, while the audience will maintain social distance surrounding the performers in their cars. The practice of occupying vacant spaces is a tool that many dancers and dance companies are accessing globally to continue to create, perform, and advance the field of dance during the pandemic.

2021-22 Entry Auditions

November 7th
8:30am-2:00pm
Online via Zoom

Appalachia in the Bluegrass goes online this year with weekly streamed performances!

Carla Gover is a flatfoot dancer and clogger, a banjo player, a singer-songwriter, an educator, and a community organizer. She is an eighth-generation Kentuckian who hails from a small coal town in Eastern Kentucky, and her rural sensibilities permeate the work that she does and the art that she creates.  She is the artistic director for the Appalachian/Latinx collective Cornbread & Tortillas and also performs with CornMaiz String Band and Zoe Speaks original roots music band.

The University of Kentucky Department of Theatre and Dance presents Once Vacant: Bodies in motion…still. The dancers will perform in the Orange parking lot on UK's campus, while the audience will maintain social distance surrounding the performers in their cars. The practice of occupying vacant spaces is a tool that many dancers and dance companies are accessing globally to continue to create, perform, and advance the field of dance during the pandemic.

The University of Kentucky Department of Theatre and Dance presents Once Vacant: Bodies in motion…still. The dancers will perform in the Orange parking lot on UK's campus, while the audience will maintain social distance surrounding the performers in their cars. The practice of occupying vacant spaces is a tool that many dancers and dance companies are accessing globally to continue to create, perform, and advance the field of dance during the pandemic.

Discussion to be led by Tony Hardin and Herman Farrell III.

Part of the series: When Art Challenges/When Art Offends: Navigating Ideology, Tolerance, and Censorship in Music, Dance, Theatre, and the Visual Arts