The Muses – Original Works Project
Sunday, May 5, 2024. 3PM
Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
The Muses proudly present their Original Works Projects, a memorable night of short plays written, directed, and performed by women who are either current UMD students or alumni. This event showcases new works that are sure to excite and inspire you.
Free, no tickets required
Maryland Opera Studio presents:
Opera Scene Study
May 2 & 3, 2024 • 7:30PM
Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
First-year Maryland Opera Studio students demonstrate their talent in this showcase featuring scenes from a wide operatic repertory. To keep the focus on beautiful, pure sounds and vivid acting, the performance is accompanied only by piano and minimal props. Opera Scene Study Part 2 will take place on May 3 at 7:30 p.m.
The Maryland Opera Studio is dedicated to the future of opera. Preparing the next generation of great singers and offering performances ranging from classic repertoire to provocative new works, it is building contemporary audiences for opera and advancing the art form to sustain those audiences.
Free, no tickets required
Maryland Day 2024
Saturday, April 27, 2024 • 10AM-4PM
Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
Explore the creativity of Terps and the local community on Maryland Day! This annual campus-wide open house features artistic and creative performances, experiences and activities at The Clarice, and across the University of Maryland campus. Bring your family and your friends for a day of fun and frolic! Our schedule will be announced in Spring 2024!
Free, no tickets required. Click here.
Maryland Opera Studio presents:
Opera al Fresco
Craig Kier, music director
Thu, Apr 25, 2024 . 12:30PM to 02:00PM
Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
Drop in for some light opera in The Clarice’s expansive indoor Grand Pavilion. This afternoon audience favorite offers a casual preview of the Maryland Opera Studio’s scene study performances scheduled for the following week.
Free, no tickets required. Click here.
SALT: Work-in-Progress
Performance from André Zachery
Saturday, April 20, 2024 • 5-6:30PM
Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
“Salt” is an excerpt from a current work-in-development collaboration between interdisciplinary choreographer André M. Zachery and interdisciplinary sound/media artist Sadah Espii Proctor entitled “Against Gravity: Flying Afrikans and Other Urban Legends.” This section is named and inspired by a novel of the same name by Trinidadian writer Earl Lovelace, the tale of “Igbo Landing” and the legend of “the people who could fly.” The relationship between “the water” and “flight” is symbiotic and at times reciprocal in African Diaspora cultural landscapes. This excerpt contends with how we are moving the speculative, unseen and yet to be heard towards the center of our trajectory while collectively engaging in futuring practices.
This event is part of Moving with Screens + Machines: A Symposium on Embodied Practices and Technology.
Free, registration required. Click here.
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