Toby Sedgwick trained at the Jacques Lecoq
School in Paris, where he founded The Moving Picture Mime Show,
which established itself as one of the innovators of “physical
theatre” throughout the world. He was part of Danny Boyle”s
creative team as director of movement and choreographer for the
Green and Pleasant Land and Industrial Revolution sequences of
the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony.
Alumna Alicia Coca, B.A. theatre 2018, appears in South Coast Repertory
Theatre’s upcoming production of the romantic musical
comedy She Loves
Me. Running Jan. 25 through Feb. 22, two
clerks in a 1930’s Hungarian parfumerie are constantly at odds,
unaware that, outside of work, they’re each falling madly in love
with an anonymous pen pal, unaware that it is the other.
Alumna Jasmine Washington, B.A. 2018, appears in Big Idea Theatre’s upcoming
production of “The Revolutionists.” Running Jan. 17 through Feb.
15, the girl-powered comedy centers on four beautiful, badass
women who lose their heads during the French Revolution’s Reign
of Terror.
David Grenke, Department of Theatre and Dance chair, recently
participated in a seminar at New York’s Lincoln Center
celebrating dance pioneer Paul Taylor, who passed away in 2018.
Students enrolled in Ekaterina Zharinova’s DRA
014: Introduction to Contemporary Dance recently took “The
Nelken Line,” a classic work by the late dance pioneer Pina
Bausch, to campus.
Wayne Barker,
the Tony Award-nominated composer of “Peter and the Starcatcher,”
will discuss his career and perform his songs and music at UC
Davis on Feb. 5. The event takes place in the Arena Theatre,
Wright Hall, at 6 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
The Department of Theatre and Dance will present the
award-winning ”Peter and the Starcatcher” as its winter 2020
production. The adventure/comedy will be performed February
27-29 and March 5-7 at 7 p.m. and February 29 and March 7 at
2 p.m. in the Main Theatre, Wright Hall.
