Tag: Missy Pfohl Smith
Disability arts ensemble Kinetic Light performs at the Sloan Performing Arts Center
The internationally recognized ensemble Kinetic Light performed at the Sloan Performing Arts Center as part of the group’s fall 2022 East Coast tour. Using art, technology, design, and dance, the artists create, perform, and teach at the intersections of access, queerness, disability, dance, and race.
‘ARTs + Change’ a formula for transformation
A virtual conference hosted by the University’s Institute for the Performing Arts brings together artists and educators to reimagine the arts.
Restaging of the ‘Blank Placard Dance’ at Rochester
Students from the Program of Movement and Dance will present a recreation of the iconic 1960s work in the city of Rochester to inspire thought about the pandemic and the power of protest.
inspireDANCE moves online to connect the dance community and beyond
The virtual version of the annual inspireDANCE festival welcomes everyone to learn new dance styles for free from top choreographers and instructors.
Love of the dance floor: 10 years of inspireDANCE
The inspireDANCE Festival—a signature event from the University’s Program of Dance and Movement—features nine days of more than 30 master classes, workshops, and performances on the River Campus.
Q&A with the Director of the Institute for the Performing Arts
Newly appointed as director of the Institute for the Performing Arts, Missy Pfohl Smith talks about ideas and aspirations for the institute and discusses the status of the Sloan Performing Arts Center, slated to be operational by Fall 2020.
Missy Pfohl Smith named director of Institute for the Performing Arts
The Institute for the Performing Arts was formed in 2015 to bring together the disciplines of music, theater, and dance into a collaborative venture. Smith, who also serves as the director of the Program of Movement and Dance, is appointed to a three-year term.
University builds bridges to community through Fringe Fest
Students, faculty, and alumni take their unique perspectives on difficult and controversial conversations into the community as part of the annual arts fest.
Installation shows ‘beauty in inclusivity’
On Display, a “deconstructed art exhibit,” explores the diversity of the human form. The piece been performed around the world and had its Rochester premiere at the Memorial Art Gallery in October. A December performance is planned at the Disability Studies Cluster conference.
Compartmented: Regional artists to perform in historic space
Seventeen artists from the region will take over ‘The Sunday School’ located in the back of the Rochester Lyric Opera Theatre for two evenings of site-specific installations, dance, and performance art organized by the University’s Program of Dance and Movement.