Bowdoin’s Department of Theater and Dance presents “The Wolves,” a 2016 play that centers on the experiences of a high school girls’ soccer team. The drama occurs as the teammates meet for their weekly pre-match warm-ups.
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Julia Jennings ’23 enjoys a summer internship as stage manager at the Theater at Monmouth. “Stage management is really hard,” she says. “You have to be really on top of things and know the language different people use.”
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Despite the lockdown and isolation of the past fifteen months—or perhaps because of it—director Kevin Newbury ’00 has helped create a new artist collective focused on community and inclusion.
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A number of theater and dance students, from both the Class of 2021 and the Class of 2020, recently held their senior studio performances. Eight original pieces were streamed to the Bowdoin community over ten days in April.
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Thanks to the College’s COVID-19 antigen testing program, theater students have been able to stage an in-person production. The performance was taped over spring break and will be streamed on April 1 and 2 at 7:00 p.m.
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Killeen takes on the role of Civil War hero Elizabeth Van Lew in an episode of the Emmy-winning series America’s Hidden Stories. It will air on the Smithsonian channel on February 1.
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Making Dances in the Digital Age and Performing Freedom are two of the courses offered by theater and dance faculty this semester. Like most classes right now, these are being taught remotely—but that is no barrier to creativity.
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The move to remote learning creates a perfect opportunity for theater professor Abigail Killeen to introduce a new class. Acting for the Camera encourages students to take advantages of the spaces they find themselves in.
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College athlete Alice Hawkins '22 helps prepare soccer-playing youths in Africa to pursue educational and sporting opportunities in the US and Europe.
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Bored out of her mind during lockdown, Olivia Atwood '17 devised a dating app. It’s simple, she says: You submit a few facts about yourself, and she finds you a telephone date. It started as a hobby—now it’s getting big!
Read moreThe theater and dance program at Bowdoin offers students the opportunity to examine the ways in which theater and dance provoke the imagination, tell stories, create community, and challenge assumptions.
Emphasis is placed on theater and dance’s fundamental connection to the liberal arts curriculum at Bowdoin, as well as theater and dance literacy, performance skills, and an understanding of historical and social influences on drama and dance. The aim is to develop imaginative theater practitioners who collaboratively solve problems of form and content with a passionate desire to express the human condition on stage.
No prior experience is expected to participate in Theater and Dance at Bowdoin.
