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Professor L.M. Bogad Awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency

Landscape on a lake at the Bellagio Center

Professor L.M. Bogad, theatre and dance and performance studies PhD program, has been awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency for summer 2025.

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Faculty and Alum Perform Holiday “Nutcracker”

UC Davis Theater and Dance alum Angel Rodriguez (‘12) and faculty member and alum Michele Apriña Leavy recently appeared in the Alameda Civic Ballet’s 20th Anniversary production of The Nutcracker. The production was performed Nov. 23 and 24 at the Castro Valley Center for the Arts in Castro Valley.

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Faculty Attend Latinx Theater Commons’ Encuentro 2024

Jon Rossini and Michele Apriña Leavy ay Latinx Theatre Conference

Professor Jon Rossini and Continuing Lecturer and Alumna Michele Apriña Leavy in Los Angeles this weekend for the Latinx Theater Commons’ Encuentro 2024. Rossini serves as a scholarly advisor while Leavy is the LTC’s Steering Committee.

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Alum Performs Non-Singing Role in “Don Pasquale” at Mondavi Center

Alum Slater Penny (MFA, dramatic arts, ‘19) appears at the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts in Gaetano Donizetti’s delightful comic opera Don Pasquale on Nov. 15. Penny appears in a non-singing role in the Manetti Shrem Opera, which was first produced by Festival Napa Valley in summer 2023.

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Call for Choreographers “Rules of Play”

Rules of Play – the 2025 Spring Dance Concert – seeks collaborators in the form of choreographers and makers who will create work to be shown in May. Students must be enrolled in DRA 146B in the Spring Quarter and will be required to commit to production meetings and rehearsals beyond the class period. Enrollment in DRA 146A in the Winter Quarter is highly recommended.

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