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Assistant Professor of Costume Design Aly Amidei and her husband Brian Amidei have launched a new local theatre company, Cartage Theatre Co. Their first production, Odd Tales – Stories of the weird and uncanny, is an evening of original radio plays. It will be presented on Friday, October 27, at 8:00 pm at Free Range […]

Faculty in the Department of Dance presented scholarship at the 2017 Joint Conference of the Congress on Research in Dance and the Society of Dance History Scholars (newly merged to form the Dance Studies Association). The conference was titled Transmissions and Traces: Rendering Dance and was hosted by The Ohio State University Department of Dance, […]

Award-winning actress Laura Linney was on the campus of UNC Charlotte on Thursday, October 19, to address the campus community, conduct a masterclass for acting students, and deliver the Chancellor’s Speakers Series presentation at UNC Charlotte Center City. A graduate of Brown University and the Juilliard School, Linney has won numerous awards for her roles […]

By Melody Songer Melody Songer is an art major and journalism minor. A student this semester in the Installation Art class with Carmen Papalia, she wrote this article for a journalism class with Professor Cheryl Spainhour. On the first day of Installation Art class at UNC Charlotte, students sit in their plastic, paint-ridden chairs in […]

The Department of Music will honor retiring professor and former department chair Dr. Royce Lumpkin at the Faculty & Friends Concert on Monday, October 16. Lumpkin came to UNC Charlotte in 1998 as the second department chair in the history of the music department, leading the program for 15 years. He will retire in December […]

The Department of Dance will welcome choreographer Marcus White for an intensive residency October 14-21 at UNC Charlotte. During the residency, White will set a new work on dance students and will also offer open workshops on urban street and social dances and dance for the camera. The new work that White develops with students […]

Voice professors Brian Arreola, tenor, and Carl DuPont, bass-baritone, will perform in the Opera Carolina production of Cyrano in November. A contemporary opera that premiered in 2007, Cyrano is based on the French play, Cyrano de Bergerac, and was composed by David DiChiera, with a libretto by Bernard Uzan. Arreola, the director of the Department […]

AGA Collaborative, the trio of choreographer-performers that includes Associate Professor of Dance Gretchen Alterowitz, will perform at the SHIFT | DANCE Festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on October 20. AGA Collaborative will perform win. place. show., a work that they premiered at UNC Charlotte in February 2017. Running approximately 55 minutes, win. place. show. investigates […]

Assistant Professor of Architecture Marc Manack and students from his summer studio will travel to Chicago this month to participate in the Chicago Architecture Biennial. Over the summer, the studio designed an installation in response to research by Archeworks, a Chicago-based lab dedicated to public interest design. Their challenge was to translate the research into […]

Two UNC Charlotte architecture alumni, Miyuki Tsujimura, AIA (Bachelor of Architecture, 2013) and Chuck Travis, FAIA (B.A. in Architecture, 1982) were honored this fall at state conventions of the Americans Institute of Architects (AIA). Tsujimara received the Associate Member Individual Honor Award at the 2017 AIA Florida Convention in Naples. Tsujimara has been at Hoy+Stark […]