Events
Spring 2024
2024 Spring Dance - Community Show and Groove
Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
Morrell Gymnasium, Bowdoin College
The Bowdoin College Department of Theater and Dance presents this semester's culminating performance and party event:
Free and open to the public: Get tickets.
Bowdoin’s students of Dance invite the Bowdoin and Brunswick communities to experience the power of dance as we come together to cultivate collective joy. Join us for an evening of dancing, performances, a guest DJ, live drumming, and togetherness. Dance is (for the) community, and we want to celebrate that on the dance floor and in community with you (and, yes, we mean YOU!). No dance experience necessary. Show up as you are.
gather . dance . witness . get down
Sponsored by the Alice Cooper Morse Fund for the Performing Arts and the June Vail Fund for Dance.
Prior shows from this academic year:
I Am Bearing Myself in the Mouth of the Sun
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall
Please arrive at 7:00pm to give ample time for the lobby experience and program content before the 7:30pm start time.
We're proud to present a very special, one-night-only show by Dylan Richmond '24: "I Am Bearing Myself in the Mouth of the Sun" on April 13th at Pickard Theater/ Memorial Hall.
This Honors work translates years of research into performance, investigating the meaning of joy and self-formation in the face of systemic and interpersonal violence. Building upon his showing at the 2023 December Dance Concert, Dylan invites you to join him through an intimate transportation to another world, to what lies beyond and within this one— to “tomorrow.”
Sponsored by the Ray Rutan Fund for the Performing Arts provided by David Webster '57 and the Hunter S. Frost Fund.
The Department of Theater and Dance and the Cinema Studiesprogram present a screening and talk with Kristina Satter '96, the director of the hit HBO film:
Reality
Starring Sydney Sweeney
March 27, 2024 - 7:00 p.m. at the "Jewel Box" (Mills Hall, Room 129)
Bowdoin College
This event is free and open to the campus; seating is first-come, first-served.
Come see this remarkable true story based on FBI transcripts of the arrest of Reality Winner, an NSA analyst jailed for leaking to the press that Russia was interfering in the 2016 presidential election. Originally an Off-Broadway play conceived and directed by Bowdoin graduate Kristina Satter '96, the play moved to Broadway in 2021 and was made into a film directed by Ms. Satter for HBO and named one of the best movies of the year by The New York Times. Screening is followed by a question and answer session with Ms. Satter.
Co-sponsored by the Blythe Bickel Edwards Fund, the Edith Lansing Koon Sills Lecture Fund, and the Society of Bowdoin Women.
Valor, Outrage and Woman
February 29 - March 2, 2024
Wish Theater, Memorial Hall
Please plan to arrive at Wish Theater at 7:00 p.m., to enjoy music in the lobby provied by our musical guests ensemble, La Chimera, before the show starts at 7:30 p.m.
=- ADVANCED TICKETS are SOLD OUT - but a very limited number will be available at the door! -
A comedic play by Spanish Golden Age playwright Ana Caro.
Directed by Sylvia Cervantes Blush
Featuring musical ensemble La Chimera
Presented by the Departments of Theater and Dance, Music, Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies, and Romance Languages and Literatures
Sponsored by the Alice Cooper Morse Fund for the Performing Arts.
Diversifying the Early Modern: Bilingualism and Performance
February 29 - March 2, 2024
Presented by the Departments of Theater and Dance, Music, Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies, and Romance Languages and Literatures, this is a full weekend of events!
Open to the public free of charge, seating will be limited. Ticket information will be updated here in the near future. Sponsored by the Alice Cooper Morse Fund for the Performing Arts.
Thursday, February 29 - Saturday, March 2, 2024 - 7:30 p.m. at Wish Theater, Memorial Hall:
Valor, Outrage and Woman by Ana Caro. Directed by Sylvia Cervantes Blush. Featuring musical ensemble La Chimera.
Thursday, February 29, 2024:
- On Valor's opening night, post-show conversation at Wish Theater with Professor Margaret Boyle (Director of Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies/Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Bowdoin), director Sylvia Cervantes Blush, and guest speaker Professor Barbara Fuchs (Distinguised Professor of Spanish and English, UCLA).
Friday, March 1, 2024:
- 4:00 p.m. Mare Nostrum concert by Ensemble La Chimera at Studzinski Recital Hall. Followed by conversation with Professor Ireri Chávez-Bárcenas (Associate Professor of Music, Bowdoin) and guest speaker Professor Rogerio Budasz (Professor of Music, U. of California, Riverside).
- Valor's evening performance (Wish Theater) will be followed by Professor Margaret Boyle and guest speaker Professor Carla Della Gatta (Associate Professor of Theatre Scholarship and Performance Studies, U. of Maryland) in conversation.
Saturday, March 2, 2024:
- Closing night of Valor will be followed by conversation with Professor Ireri Chávez-Bárcenas, guest speaker Professor Sarah Eyerly (Associate Professor of Musicology, Florida State University), and La Chimera conductor Eduardo Egüez.
December Dance Concert
December 1-2, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.
Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall
Come see what our dance classes have been working on this semester!
Sponsored by the Alice Cooper Morse Fund for the Performing Arts and the June Vail Fund for Dance.
The 39 Steps
November 9-11, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.
Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall
By arrangement with Fiery Angel Limited
Adapted by Patrick Barlow.
From the novel by John Buchan.
From the movie by Alfred Hitchcock.
Licensed by ITV Global Entertainment Limited.
An original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon.
Directed by
Lindsay Livingston
"The 39 Steps" is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com.
Sponsored by the Alice Cooper Morse Fund for the Performing Arts.
Senior Studio Productions
December 4-7, 2023 at various times & locations - see more below
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! No registration needed.
The Dept. of Theater and Dance is proud to present our talented seniors' projects - come enjoy their wide variety of work!
Mon. 12/4, 8pm: Andy Lopez - Untitled - A Staged Reading of a Play in Progress. (Memorial Hall, Room 601)
Mon. 12/4, 8:35pm: Sydney Starks - Yeah No, For Sure, The Podcast - Premiere party. The Listening Lounge @601. (Memorial Hall, Room 601).
Tue. 12/5, 7:00pm: Dylan Richmond - our sun is a star and those stars way out there may or may not be suns/ but i know i am light - a choreopoem: first staged (Pickard stage/Memorial Hall)
Tue. 12/5, 9:00pm: Louise Cummins - C'mon Out! - A Redneck Drag Show. (Wish Theater/Memorial Hall.)
Wed. 12/6, 7:30pm: Juliessa Aguilar - Shush, a short documentary film. (Beam classroom/VAC)
Sponsored by the Alice Cooper Morse Fund for the Performing Arts