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Welcome to the Department of Theatre & Dance at ƷSMӰƬ

The Department of Theatre & Dance is a community of students, scholars, artists and artisans who regard the collaborative and creative process as the core of education.We engage with that process at all levels of our work as we pursue excellence and understanding.

Theatre

The theatre division offers 8degrees, a minor, and two certificate programs. There are approximately200 theatre students in our house.

Weproduce a robust season of plays each academic year, ranging from classical texts to new work, and the theatre divisionplays an active role in several community engagement programs.

All theatre courses focus on building a strong foundation that blends theory and practice.​

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Dance

The dance division offers 3degrees, aminor,and a hip-hop studies certificate. There are over 120dance students in ourhouse;collectively weproduceseveral faculty, guest, and student-choreographed productions each semester.

The dance division also plays an active role in several community engagement programs.

Our curriculum is designed to develop concrete skills in performance and choreography while instilling an appreciation of the role that dance plays in human cultures around the world.

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Fall 2025General Theatre Auditions

The Department of Theatre and Dance will be holding in-person auditions for the Fall 2025season on Saturday, August 23rd and Sunday, August 25th 2025in the Roe Green Theatre. Any CU student currently enrolled in the Fall 2025 semester is eligible to audition.

Fall 2025 Season Shows

Pride & Prejudice and The Olive Tree

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Is ƷSMӰƬ right for you?

From the root of process stems practice, and that practice bears the fruit of experience. The Department of Theatre & Danceguides that fruition, offering students an expanse of opportunities to encounter the art forms of theatre and dance, their making and meaning.​We strongly value the ampersand in Theatre & Dance, and seek to makeconnections across communities. We aim to make change, make art, and to make a difference, together.

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Statement on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Office of Collaboration Resources

We stand with our students, faculty, and staff as active agents against racism and all of the insidious ways that it has marred our disciplines, our campus, our department, our interpersonal relationships, and our own personal thinking and actioning.

We are eager to lend our voices and bodies to the transformative work that will bring about equal representation and change.Inspired by the power of what we have experienced, lived and learned, we thank the Black Lives Matter movement for galvanizing sharp focus on equitability. In our house, we are proud to say Black Lives Matter, and we are committed to dismantling structural inequities that have historically privileged specific ways of knowing and making over others.

We welcome partnership, collaboration, and dialogue to transform the trajectories of our fields and celebrateChange, Growth, and “Radical Re-Imagining.” In the spirit ofJohnLewis’“Good Trouble” we say: Yes please!

Like you, many of us love this work and have re-arranged our entire lives for it. It is important that we create learning and working environments that feel healthy and celebrate the many vantage points and voices within the human experience.