Spotlight

Marie Ramirez Downing comes to us from California State University, Chico where she taught Voice, Movement, Acting, Political Theatre and Performance of Identity.  She has been visiting faculty at U.C. Berkeley, Santa Clara University, and Texas Tech University.

In an effort to keep dancing “alone but together”, the THAR 115 Hip Hop class organized this video project as an alternative for the class showings the Dance department would hold at the end of each semester, and as a more tangible reminder of the energy the class has built and will carry on, now

For their culminating Solo Performance projects in the first-year THAR 160 Humanities Learning Community “Performance, the Artistic Process, and You,” Psychology major Lillian Jue went for her sewing machine, while fellow Psych major Jasmynn Collier-Lozano went for her photo album.  This yea

In the Department of Theatre Arts & Dance we are thankful to have involved professors who are committed to the education of their students and who continue their intellectual and artistic study and practice outside the classroom.

In an effort to adapt to our current need for distancing, Spring Dance Concert 2020 co-directors Profs. Christine Cali and Kristen Daley have given their students an assignment known as ekphrasis: a literary description of OR commentary on a visual work of art.

The day before the COVID-19 CSU travel restrictions were announced on campus, fourteen SSU students arrived for the four-day ACDA West Regional Conference held at Scottsdale Community College in Arizona in early March. 

The Department of Theatre Arts & Dance is excited to announce that Theatre Studies major Joelle Joyner-Wong (’21) was entered in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF), Region VII (Northwest), which took place Feb.

Internationally celebrated, New Zealand-based Indian Ink Theatre Company came through Sonoma State for a performance at the Green Music Center, and along the way they stopped to train our students!

Visionary artist, choreographer, writer,and educator Liz Lerman and her company spent a week in residence at Sonoma State’s Green Music Center as part of the campus

On October 19, thirteen Theater Arts & Dance students joined their counterparts from the Department of Music on stage at Schroeder Hall for Center for the Scholarship Showcase. The annual event is a highlight of the year, celebrating the exceptional work and potential of these students.