Get pumped for RBIM's annual spring showcase, LEGENDARY! Come see the largest dance RSO on campus take over the stage in Mandel with styles ranging from jazz to hip-hop, Carribean to flamenco, and more! For more info, visit the Dance Council website:

Rhythmic Bodies in Motion Gets LEGENDARY

Don't miss out on what is sure to be a magical show with University Ballet in May! For more info, visit the Dance Council website:

Bedtime Stories with UBallet

Come see UChicago's superb circus troupe perform what is sure to be a devilishly beautiful and daring show inspired by the writings of Jeanette Winterson. For more info and to RSVP, visit the Facebook Event

Le Vorris and Vox Circus is Back!

The long-awaited new play An Actor Prepares, by Mickle Maher, directed by Devon DeMayo, premieres this week! Don't miss out! To Reserve Tickets Click Here

An Actor Prepares Opens!

Keep an eye out for workshops, going up 8th week. May 17-19 Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7pm. Plays directed as workshopped pieces by students. For a list of plays and more info, click here!

A Weekend of Workshops Spring 2012

Every project begins with a question.

TAPS/UT represents the collaborative efforts of students, staff, and faculty committed to performance at the University of Chicago whose mission is to balance creative opportunity with professional experience by involving approximately 500 students annually in theatrical productions as actors, designers, directors and production staff. The TAPS/UT collaboration is a symbioses of practical and theoretical coursework with student-driven work; while creatively supporting the artistic contribution of The Dean's Men (Shakespeare) and Off Off Campus (Sketch and Improv) in their thirty plus productions each school year. Since its founding in 1898, TAPS/UT has been a place where intellectual discourse leads to theatrical experimentation.  

Theater and Performance Studies (TAPS) offers a rigorous academic program requiring students to acquire facility in the practice of two media (including but not limited to theater, film, video, dance, music, and creative writing) while gaining a fluency in specific methods of critical analysis. Students receive training in both performance practice and analysis, acquiring the fundamental tools necessary for artistic creation while at the same time developing a vocabulary with which to analyze creativity.

In this way, the program aims to contest the separation of academic theory and artistic practice (or, for that matter, theorists and practitioners). The program is designed to be flexible (in order to afford its majors as much latitude as possible in pursuing their particular interests) and exacting (in order to guarantee the development of comparative practical skills and rigorous analytic capacities). 

Can academics engage performance?

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PROOF AUDITIONS

Audition for... 

Proof

by David Auburn (B.A. '91), directed by Audrey Francis (owner of Black Box Acting Studio)

Monday, May 14th 5:30-7:30 Sign up sheet on the UT/TAPS Board, Logan Center 2nd Floor Sides are available HERE

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Fall Season 2012

UT/TAPS is Proud to Announce our Fall 2012 Season

1st and 2nd Week: TAPS/UT presents Proof by David Auburn directed by Audrey Francis, Theatre West.

1st Week- 24 Hour Play Festival

4th-8th Weeks- Off Off Campus, FXK

5th week: A Weekend of Workshops, Theatre East

6th week: This is our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan, directed by Fred Schmidt-Arenales, Theatre West

7th Week: The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard, directed by Shelley Horowitz

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TAPS at the Logan Center

As of March 22nd, the Theatre and Peformance Studies program has moved into the new Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts.

The new address for TAPS is 915 East 60th Street which is south of the Midway at 60th and Drexel. Entrance to the building is via the doors on both the North and South sides of the Logan.

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New UT Committee!

It is our pleasure to announce the results of the 2012-2013 Committee Elections.

Graham Albacten, Xan Belzley, Colin Bresnahan, Ben Heller, Lizzy Lewis, Jamie Mermlstein, Jesse Roth, Isabel Sen

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Alumni Information is Now Live

Ever wondered what UChicago grads involved in the arts are up to?  Check out our new Alumni Page to see a snapshot of what UChicago artists are contributing to the scene!

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