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The Department of Theatre and Dance will present Control/Shift, the fall dance concert, Nov. 19, 20 and 21 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 1 and 2 at 2 p.m. in the intimate Vanderhoef Studio, Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at UC Davis. 

Featuring a small ensemble of select dancers, the program is curated by Doria E. Charlson, visiting professor of theatre and dance, and showcases new works developed and performed by undergraduate students. Doria Charlson will create a new work for the company as will guest choreographer Meredith J. Charlson.

Doria Charlson’s research and scholarship is deeply informed by her decades of praxis as a dancer. She has trained with ODC/Dance, Mark Morris Dance Group, the Alvin Ailey School, the Joffrey Ballet School, L’école Superieuse de Danse Rosella Hightower, and at Stanford University (Diane Frank, Robert Moses, and Aleta Hayes). Her writing and scholarship can be found in TDR: The Drama Review, Women & Performance, and Dance Research Journal, as well as in African American Arts: Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity (Rutgers UP 2019).

Meredith J. Charlson is a director/choreographer based in San Francisco. Favorite theater credits include Carrie: The Musical at the American Conservatory Theater’s Young Conservatory (Choreographer), Alice By Heart at Hillbarn Theatre, Teen Company (Director/Choreographer), Bright Star at Palo Alto Players (Choreographer), Into the Woods at the American Conservatory Theater’s Young Conservatory (Choreographer), Tinderella: the modern musical at Custom Made Theater Co. and FaultLine Theater (Choreographer), and the world premiere of A Walk on the Moon at the American Conservatory Theater mainstage (Assistant Choreographer). Meredith was a trainee for Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company in Northern Israel, and is an associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC).

Ticket information will be posted in early fall quarter. 

The Department of Theatre and Dance is part of the UC Davis College of Letters and Science. For information about other department productions, visit theatredance.ucdavis.edu.