Two Hudson Valley dance students were awarded with scholarships to be used toward their studies by the Southern Ulster Performing Arts Company. Awarded scholarships were Nina Dudar and Brynn Zbikowski, both of whom study at Madeline’s Dance Center in Marlboro. Each scholarship is worth $468.75. In September, the Southern Ulster Performing Arts Company conducted its…

Midterm season, and Meliora Weekend basically flattened the staff of the CT on Oct. 7, rendering our production schedule — from noon to 6 p.m. on Sundays in Wilson Commons 103, for those interested — semi-useless. Thus, instead of hanging out in the office all day, some of our staff decided to touch grass that…

“There’s some things that are super local in those experiences, and then there’s some things that are very universal, and so both local and universal themes come out in this performance as well,” Graham said.  She said the performance encourages audiences to think critically about data, about how categorizing people can limit the stories we…

The Human Race Theatre Company’s regional premiere of “Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous” by Atlanta playwright Pearl Cleage (”Flyin’ West,” “Blues for an Alabama Sky”) will be held Oct. 26-Nov. 12 at the Loft Theatre. This heartfelt comedy addresses passing the torch from one generation to the next while embracing inherent risks and unknowns. The…

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Paul Corn recently instructed the students in his jazz ensemble to “make the music dance.” Many times throughout the class, Corn told his students to stop playing their instrument and start over — because he could hear someone breathing into a saxophone too hard, or because someone didn’t drag out a…

It’s 10 a.m. on a Wednesday morning and 18 dancers are leaping, jumping and twirling in the Dayton Ballet studio. All are focused on their new artistic director, Brandon Ragland, and his instructions. This is the way the members of the ballet company begin every weekday morning. “Reach, reach, good!” Ragland says as he guides…

New performing art productions are provided with a window through which they can reach potential partners and investors from around the world during the 22nd China Shanghai International Arts Festival Performing Arts Fair, which opened at the New Bund 31 in Pudong’s Qiantan area. As an important session of the ongoing arts festival, the fair…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Backlight Productions, a Nashville-area group that provides adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities the opportunity to participate in theater and arts programs, is celebrating their 10th year with a production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella at the Polk Theater at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. The performance is at 2:00 pm…

Reading Civic Theatre is celebrating the spooky season with their production of Richard O’Brien’s “The Rocky Horror Show,” running Friday through next Sunday and Nov. 3-5 at their theater in the former Fox East, Exeter Township. This cult classic, starring Tim Curry, opened on the West End in 1973, and was released as a movie…