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The University of Texas at Arlington Department of Theatre Arts and Dance will present
Dance in Flux, a concert of creative faculty research performed April 24-26. at the
University of Texas at Arlington Fine Arts Building in the Studio Theatre.
🎠NEW! Dallas Theatre Newsletter
Under the artistic direction of UTA assistant professor Laurie M. Ndecontee Taylor, Dance in
Flux celebrates new works by dance professors Taylor (Daba Waraba, The Thirst Before the
Pour), Claudia Pacheco Orcasitas (AnahÃ), and Ginny Wheeler (No Words).
Additional design elements provided by UTA Design & Technology faculty; Lighting and Projections Design by Phillip Schroeder, Sound Design by Tyler Haws.
Taylor is a Liberian American choreographer and creative culturalist. Her work
centers around iterative and creative practices of “placeness,” posing questions around
the reconceptualization and functionality of “place” as a thinking-based movement
practice. She has toured nationally and internationally with her company, Laurie M.
Taylor/Soul Movement, as well as with Nicholas Leichter Dance, Urban Bush Women,
Francine E. Ott/The Walk, Aguibou Bougubali Sanou, among others.
Dance in Flux plays April 24 at 7:30pm, April 25 at 7:30pm, and April 26 at 2pm in the
Fine Arts Building Studio Theatre at UTA.
Tickets are $22 for the public, $15 for UTA faculty,
students, and seniors, and $10 for theatre majors. You can purchase tickets at
www.utatickets.com.
The Department of Theatre Arts and Dance in the College of Liberal Arts at UTA
provides comprehensive undergraduate education through theory, research, and practice
in the performing arts, theatrical design, and dance. Theatre Arts and Dance’s educational
environment is characterized by shared values, unity of purpose, diversity of opinion,
mutual respect, and a commitment to lifelong learning.