Former Granada Artists-in-Residence David Adam Moore and Victoria
“Vita” Tzykun return to UC Davis in spring 2025 to create and
develop a immersive mixed reality performance experience.
The Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of
California, Davis is dedicated to integrating consent-based
practices into all classroom, studio and production environments.
Professor L.M. Bogad has recently received two major grants
for his project Sinfonia de la Justica/Symphony of
Justice, a performance with farmworkers in the vineyards of
Sonoma County about their struggles around issues of labor and
climate justice and immigrants’ rights. Bogad won a $50,000
Creative Work Fund
Grant, and a $100,000
San Francisco Foundation Creative Corps Grant.
The 180 Series of courses provide exciting practical instruction
and participation in all aspects of theatrical and dance
production. Whether you are exploring these courses as a
Theatre & Dance Major, Minor, or are simply an interested
non-affiliated student, you will find passionate people working
to create art and tell stories on stage. We invite you to
join us at this link.
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.
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.
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.
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 encouraged.
The Department of Theatre and Dance presents Beth
Wohl’s Small Mouth Sounds in winter quarter
2025. Directed by Granada Artist-in-Residence Peter J. Kuo,
the minimalist work of experimental theater that casts
the audience as voyeurs in an entertaining adventure that
gradually turns more serious.
The play opens at the Wyatt Pavilion Theatre on Feb. 27 at 7 p.m.
and performs Feb. 28, March 1, 6 and 7 at 7 p.m. and March 1 and
8 at 2 p.m..
