Pin-up girls − those iconic, perfectly proportioned beauties who have adorned magazine pages, posters, calendars and bedroom walls for more than a century – will come to life in a new musical set to debut with a New York staged reading this July.
The new show – Art of the Pin-Up Girl − is the culmination of a decade-long dream for UF alum Heather Storm, the Jupiter, Fla., based playwright, lyricist and singer/songwriter who has lovingly crafted the book and lyrics. The 15 original songs in the musical were composed by Gregory “Popeye” Alexander, Storm’s husband and a well-known South Florida composer, producer, singer and radio personality.
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“The Marvelous Wonderettes,” a hit off-Broadway musical, opens at the Hippodrome from May 30 and will run until June 24, with discount previews the first two days of the show.
This musical takes you to the 1958 Springfield High School prom where we meet the Wonderettes, four girls with hopes and dreams as big as their crinoline skirts. As we learn about their lives and loves, we are treated to the girls performing such classic ‘50s and ‘60s songs as “Lollipop,” “Dream Lover,” “Stupid Cupid,” “Lipstick On Your Collar,” “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me,” “It’s My Party” and over 20 other classic hits. You’ve never had this much fun at a prom, and you will never forget The Marvelous Wonderettes—a must-take musical trip down memory lane!
The show is produced by Mary Hausch, UF BFA alumna and 2004 Alumni Outstanding Achievement Award honoree, and directed by Lauren Caldwell, UF MFA alumna.
“The Marvelous Wonderettes” also features the work of Kent Barrett, set designer and UF MFA alumnus; Katrina Asmar, actress and UF BFA alumna; Marilyn Wall, costume designer; and Robert P. Robins, lighting designer.
The UF Center for Arts in Medicine and the School of Theatre and Dance invite you to join us for a free dance class for community members living with Parkinsons disease and their friends and family during our special training workshop by the Mark Morris Dance Group. The dance class will take place on Sunday, June 10th at 1pm in room G-6 of the McGuire Theatre and Dance Pavilion.
For more information, please visit the following websites or contact us at: cam@arts.ufl.edu
http://mad.ly/f19062
http://www.arts.ufl.edu/cam/danceForLife.aspx
The University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine, part of the College of Fine Arts, has been awarded a $30,500 grant from the Parkinson Research Foundation to conduct research on the effects of dance on Parkinson’s disease. The center’s weekly Dance for Life program is designed to help people with a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease improve their quality of life. The award allows the center to document the physical and psychosocial impact of dance on the disease, and ultimately help provide this cost-effective, enjoyable intervention more widely to people living with Parkinson’s.
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http://news.ufl.edu/2012/05/15/parkinsons-grant/
Three-day workshop will train teachers from throughout florida and the southeast in The Dance for PD® approach
A free master class, taught by dance for pd® founding teachers from the mark morris dance group, will be offered to the community in connection with the workshop
Workshop June 8-10
The University of Florida Center for the Arts in Medicine and School of Theatre and Dance will host a special Dance for PD training workshop, designed and developed by the Mark Morris Dance Group and Brooklyn Parkinson Group, for dance teachers and movement practitioners. The workshop will take place Friday June 8-Sunday June 10.
The two-and-a-half day program is designed to help dance teachers adapt what they already know so that they can work effectively and comfortably with the Parkinson’s population, replicating a class model that started at the Mark Morris Dance Group in Brooklyn, NY. The workshop will also expose other movement practitioners to Dance for PD® Best Practices so that they might incorporate components of the program into their own work.
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UF BFA alum Jerry Dickey currently serves as Associate Dean of the College of Fine Arts. He has also served as Interim Director for the School of Theatre Arts, where he previously held the positions of Vice-Director and Director of Graduate Studies. Jerry is a former recipient of the Charles and Irene Putnam Award for Excellence in Teaching (2001) and the Roy A. and Stardust K. Johnson Faculty Mentoring Award (2000) in the UA College of Fine Arts.
A Professor of Theatre Studies, Jerry specializes in the history of early twentieth-century theatre in the United States. He is the co-author of “Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell” (with Barbara Ozieblo; Routledge 2008), co-editor of “Broadway’s Bravest Woman: Selected Writings of Sophie Treadwell” (with Miriam Lopez-Rodriguez; Southern Illinois UP, 2006), and author of “Sophie Treadwell: a Research and Production Sourcebook” (Greenwood, 1997). He has also published chapters in Longman’s “A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama” and “The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights.” He previously chaired the Theatre History Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and served on the Executive Board of the American Theatre and Drama Society.
Dickens is not alone in the ranks of UF alums that are now leading campuses or arts programs in higher education. Click here for a list of Gators contributing
creativity and leadership in higher education. If there are Gators we can add to this list, please let us know: ahoward@arts.ufl.edu or 352-273-1489.
This July, UF alum Kay F. Williams will join the University of the Arts in Philadelphia as the new Dean of the College of Performing Arts. On April 20, the University of the Arts announced the appointment of Kay F. Williams as dean of the University’s College of Performing Arts (CPA), effective July 1, 2012. Williams will come to UArts from Washington, D.C., where she operates SiG Productions, LLC, an arts consulting and production company.
The new dean will lead the three performing arts schools in CPA: Dance, Music and the Ira Brind School of Theater Arts. Williams joins UArts with extensive artistic and administrative experience in each of the disciplines encompassed in the College of Performing Arts. As a producer, designer, company manager and stage manager, she has worked with Tony-and Pulitzer-prize winning artists, musicians from Oscar Peterson to Yo Yo Ma to Bruce Springsteen, and dance companies from the Washington Ballet to the Trey McIntyre Project.
An architectural consultant specializing in the creation of performing arts spaces, she has has also been a lecturer and adjunct professor at George Mason University, Indiana/Purdue University and Butler University. She holds an MA in Lighting Design from Indiana University and a BFA from the University of Florida in Theater Design and Technology with a minor in Painting, and was selected as an intern at the Loeb Drama Center at Harvard University.
Williams is not alone in the ranks of UF alums that are now leading campuses or arts programs in higher education. Click here for a list of Gators contributing
creativity and leadership in higher education. If there are Gators we can add to this list, please let us know: ahoward@arts.ufl.edu or 352-273-1489.
Eleven students from UF College of Fine Arts School of Theatre and
Dance will present an evening of scenes, monologues and songs at the
2012 UF Actor Showcase on May 7th at the Laurie Beechman Theatre in
New York City. Before that, please come see an open dress rehearsal
on May 4 at 5pm in G15 in the McGuire Pavilion on the University of
Florida campus.
Inaugurated in 2001, the UF Actor Showcase is an opportunity for
graduating students from UF graduate and undergraduate acting and
musical theatre programs to present their work to representatives of
the New York-based entertainment industry community (agents, casting
directors, managers and producers) to generate interest in their
talents and launch their professional careers.
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University Scholar (Theatre student): Catherine Perez
Faculty Mentor: Stacey Galloway
School of Theater and Dance
College of Fine Arts, University of Florida
Title of Research: Creating a Romantic Landscape: Costume Design and the Modern Romanticization of Pride and Prejudice
JUR is the Journal of Undergraduate Research. Congratulations Catherine!
