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About

Identity

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. From the root of process stems practice, and that practice bears the fruit of experience. The Department of Theatre & Dance guides that fruition, offering students an expanse of opportunities to encounter the art forms of theatre and dance, their making and meaning.

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Values

Ways of Knowing 

Through the collaborative and creative process, we find ways of knowing ourselves and the world around us using cognitive diversity. We not only train skills in the performing arts, we teach ways of discovery and creation in the tradition of a liberal arts education.  We cultivate what education theorist Howard Gardner calls “multiple intelligences.”

Connection to Profession 

Our faculty members are working artists and scholars in the field. They bring this experience to the classroom and educate students in the current standards and practices of the industry.

Diversity of Tradition 

We honor the global diversity of theories, practices and performance conventions that have come before us and manifest this value in our scholarship and production.

Four-fold Mission

To provide excellent education and training, through classes and productions, at the graduate and undergraduate levels, to students seriously interested in careers in theatre, dance, and related areas.

To provide classes in theatre and dance that will enrich the educational experience of students majoring in other fields.

To offer performances that are aesthetically and intellectually stimulating to the campus community, the Boulder area, and the state.

To contribute, through research and productions, to the health and development of the arts of theatre and dance locally, regionally, and beyond.

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Theatre & Dance

University Theatre Building
261 UCB
Boulder CO, 80309-0261
Main Office: 303-492-7355
Box Office: 303-492-8008

The Department of Theatre & Dance acknowledges that the University sits upon land within the territories of the Ute, Cheyenne, and Arapaho peoples and are grateful to have the opportunity to be here. Further, we acknowledge the 48 contemporary tribal nations that are historically tied to lands that make up Colorado. We recognize and pay our respects to these Indigenous Peoples as traditional stewards of this land and the enduring relationship that exists between Indigenous Peoples and their traditional territories. We pay our respects to the ancestors, elders, relations past, present and emerging.

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