The School of the Arts approaches the end of the fall semester with a full week of performances. From a Big Band Jazz Classics Concert to the Senior Dance Showcase, there is something for everyone!
This Friday and Saturday is the annual Holiday Choir Concert, featuring a special presentation of "Amahl and the Night Visitors". This show has sold out the last several years, so buy your tickets early!
The Division of Dance and Theatre will amaze you with the theatre production of "The Caucasian Chalk Circle", complete with an original score, musicians, singers and Asian Shadow Puppets. And let's send our special seniors off with a packed house for the Senior Dance Showcase this weekend as well.
We look forward to starting off the Holiday Season with you!
See you soon,
Marketing and Publicity Director, School of the Arts |
| SENIOR DANCE CONCERT |
 Senior Dance Showcase - "Shards of Intellect," is the Division of Dance capstone project, featuring the choreographic and performance talents of three senior dance majors, Chantel Doyon, Rich Lugo, and Grady Soapes, joined by a large number of dancers, designers, and technicians, creating an outstanding, original, and impacting dance showcase. As a graduation requirement, the three seniors choreographed a 10-12 minute group piece, as well as 3-5 minute solo performances. The hour long presentation is comprised of everything the dance students have retained during their training at Colorado State. READ MORE (PDF)
When & Where
Friday, December 5, 8:00 p.m.; Saturday, December 6, 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., University Dance Theatre, UCA
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| HOLIDAY SOUNDS |
 All-Choral Holiday Concert featuring Amahl and the Night Visitors. This traditional holiday concert brings together all four major choral ensembles - Chamber Choir, Concert Choir, University Chorus and Women's Chorus - performing various holiday tunes from both secular and sacred repertoire including Franz Biebl's "Ave Maria" and Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus". The evening features a beautiful collaboration with Opera Theatre of the Christmas classic "Amahl and the Night Visitors" by Gian Carlo Menotti. READ MORE, PRINT A POSTER
Friday, December 5 and Saturday, December 6 at 7:30 p.m., Griffin Concert Hall, UCA. $5/CSU students, $5/ youth (6-17), $10/public
BUY TICKETS
 Holiday Concert featuring the NEW Brass Faculty Trio and Theatre Department Friends. Enjoy holiday sounds at this popular annual concert featuring classic recital music, and traditional holiday tunes. Poetry and holiday stories by Walt Jones and Theater Department friends! Fabulous door prizes: CSU Student Art Work, Colorado Symphony Christmas Concert Tickets, Fort Collins Theater Tickets! PRINT A POSTER Monday, December 8, 7:30 p.m., Griffin Concert Hall, UCA
$5/CSU students, $5/ youth (6-17), $10/public BUY TICKETS
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| THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE |
 OPENING THIS THURSDAY!
The Caucasian Chalk Circle, one of Bertolt Brecht's best loved plays, is an epic fairytale, told with original music, songs, and theatrical magic...
"As a director, I'm truly excited to be staging Colorado State University's first production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle, a popular masterpiece by Bertolt Brecht, the pioneering German playwright and great theatrical innovator," says Artistic Director Eric Prince.
With a cast of 30 students performing more than 70 roles, plus musicians, singers, and Asian Shadow Puppet Theater, it promises to be an epic play and a thoroughly entertaining evening. Brecht's plays contain a rare poetic vision, a voice that has rarely been paralleled in the 20th century," said Prince.
Grusha, a young peasant woman sacrifices everything to protect an abandoned child, is made to confront the biological mother in a legal contest over who deserves to keep him. The judge calls on an ancient tradition - the chalk circle - to resolve the dispute, and determines the child's true mother. READ MORE (PDF)
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When & Where
December 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13 at 8:00 p.m. and December 7 at 2:00 p.m., University Theatre, UCA, $7/CSU students, $7/youth (ages 6 - 17), $14/seniors, $16/public BUY TICKETS
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| CLASSICS OF THE LEGENDARY BIG BANDS! |
 This Wednesday night, enjoy an evening of hot jazz charts by Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, and Thad Jones. Joining the Jazz Ensembles is the Jazz Vocal Ensemble for a toe-tapping audience favorite! READ MORE (PDF), PRINT A POSTER
Wednesday, December 3, 7:30 p.m., Griffin Concert Hall, UCA, $5/CSU students, $5/youth, $10/public - BUY TICKETS | |
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