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2020-2021 Production Season Archive
Senior Theatre Showcase
May 12 – 19
FREE on-demand/virtual performance
Following a group of friends across Sacramento, this Senior Production is a collage of genres and social commentary that tracks daily life during the pandemic. Sitcoms, advertisement, political farce, horror, coming-of age tales, and psychedelic wonder all interweave in a creative process written, directed, produced, and performed by students. Laugh, cry, laugh again, and experience the bemusement of twenty six young artists coming together and crafting their Senior swan song.
Senior Dance Showcase
May 5 - 12
FREE on-demand/virtual performance
The 2021 Dance Capstone Course offered a unique opportunity for our graduating Dance Majors in this unprecedented year. Given the charge to enter a dialogue with Dance as a field of creative, theoretical, and/or embodied inquiry, each student has proposed, researched, and implemented an independent Capstone Project of their choosing. The following showcase offers a look at their respective creative work, ranging from 3 choreographed and performed solos, a duet choreographed for fellow seniors, to a group dance work created with members of the community.
In addition to creative works, one of our students implemented a research project exploring Dance Therapy as a modality to support those with neurodegenerative diseases. Their research offers unique insight into one of the transformational ways in which dance can intersect with health and wellness for the general population. Please take a look at the abstract for that paper, included in the digital program.
Thank you for your support of these fantastic students. We are so proud of the incredible work they have done this year and throughout their time in our program. Enjoy the show!
ENCORE PERFORMANCE: Sacramento/Black Art of Dance: Thrive
ENCORE Performance Dates
April 30 – May 2
Virtual Performance | On-demand
In anticipation of Sacramento/Black Art of Dance’s 30th anniversary, we are presenting an encore of S/BAD: Thrive!, our first virtual concert.
Sacramento/Black Art of Dance has a rich history of highlighting narratives and cultural practices from across the African diaspora. It also continues to provide opportunity for emerging and established artists to connect to and to perpetuate these legacies.
It is our hope to name a scholarship fund in honor of Founding Director, Professor Emerita Dr. Linda Goodrich to support our ongoing efforts to support artists of color and those with a desire to study Black Dance.
March 17 – 21 (original showing dates)
Virtual Performance
- Directed by: Bernard Brown.
- Featuring choreography: Bernard Brown and three guest artists: Nicole Manker, Jade Charon, and Maurice Watson.
Founded by Dr. Linda Goodrich in 1991, the S/BAD company follows in the footsteps of Katherine Dunham, carrying on the tradition of Black Concert dance in America. Faculty and Guest choreographers explore the movement culture of the African and African-American diaspora through the concepts of modern dance.
| Dates | Times |
|---|---|
| March 17-20 | On-Demand |
| March 21 | 2 p.m. |
2021 Sacramento Dance Sampler (Festival of the Arts)
This 10th Anniversary Season is dedicated to the memory of Jory Horn (1991-2019). Jory may have left too soon but his abundance of creativity and dedication to the art of dance continues to inspire us all.
50% percent of the ticket price will help establish the Jory Horn Memorial Scholarship for aspiring dancers at Sacramento State.
The mission of the Sacramento Dance Sampler is to foster community growth by providing a platform to showcase the works of emerging and established professional dance artists and to expose audiences to the growing dance culture in our region. Founded by Lorelei Bayne in Sacramento in 2011, this annual event is modeled after New York City’s, Symphony Space Dance Sampler. The goal this year is to bring together acclaimed professional area dance companies for a virtual celebration of dance!
Sacramento Dance Sampler is scheduled to showcase April 10th, 16th and 18th as part of the Sacramento State, College of Arts and Letters, Festival of the Arts (FOTA) week-long celebration April 5th-11th, 2021.
Your ticket gives you access to all Dance Sampler Programs A - C through April 30th.
We are Proud to Present...
April 21 – 25
Virtual performance
- By Jackie Sibblie Drury
- Directed by Dr. D. Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson
We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884–1915 by Jackie Sibblies Drury is a satirical comedy is about the first genocide of the 20th century of the Herero and Nama peoples in present-day Namibia by German colonizers from 1904 - 1907. Actors meet in rehearsal to retell this genocide with irreverent humor, slap stick, clowning, mime, and comic tableaus.
| Dates | Times |
|---|---|
| April 21 - 25 | On Demand |
Working: A Musical
April 14 - 18
Virtual performance
From the book by Studs Terkel. Adapted by Nina Faso & Stephen Schwartz. With additional contributions by Gordon Greenberg
- Songs by: Craig Carnelia, Micki Grant, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mary Rodgers and Susan Birkenhead, Stephen Schwartz, and James Taylor.
- Directed by: Sam Williams
- Music Direction by: David Williams
| Dates | Times |
|---|---|
| April 14 - 17 | 7pm (virtual) |
| April 18 | 2pm (virtual) |
University Dance Company: Dance Sites 2020
- Directed by Philip Flickinger
This fall 2020 dance concert will take you on an exciting virtual journey through movement due to COVID-19. Please join faculty choreographers Lorelei Bayne, Bernard Brown, Megan Brunsvold Mercedes, Philip Flickinger, Osvaldo Ramirez and very special guest, STRONGmovement/ Darrius Strong as they work with our talented students and alumni to create engaging online performances. For over 17 years, UDC has celebrated the tradition of concert dance in America and has served as a research vehicle for faculty and students to explore and create new works and restage important historical works. Highlighting the diverse perspectives on the ever-evolving art form of dance, renowned faculty and professional guest artists expose audiences to riveting concepts and fierce athleticism.
| Dates | Times |
|---|---|
| Dec. 9 - 12, 2020 | On-Demand |
Sweat
- By Lynn Nottage
- Directed by Nicole C. Limón
Set in 2000 at the onset of widespread layoffs, and 2008 at the height of the Great Recession, Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer prize winning play, Sweat, maps the rising tensions among a group of working-class friends who have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs while working together on the factory floor. When layoffs and picket lines begin to chip away at their trust, close friends find themselves pitted against each other in a heart-wrenching fight to stay afloat. A tale of divide and conquer, capitalism, class and race, Sweat is a filled with warm humor, tremendous heart, and a heartbreak that often mirrors the events of our current times. Directed by Nicole C. Limón and performed by a cast of students and alumni.
| Dates | Times |
|---|---|
| Nov. 18 - 22, 2020 | On-Demand |
Love and Information
- By Caryl Churchill
- Directed by Casey McClellan
Our first virtual performance of the season promises to be a production like you've never seen at Sac State before! The cast, creative, and production team embraced all the challenges that come with creating theatre during a pandemic; including adhering to all COVID-19 safety protocols. We transformed the University Theatre into a blue screen studio, allowing those actors who felt comfortable to film scenes in the same space. Using film, editing, and in-home green screen studios, along with an incredibly versatile cast, we've created a completely virtual production that is sure to entertain!
In this fast moving kaleidoscope, more than one hundred characters try to make sense of what they know. From award winning playwright, Caryl Churchill, comes an acclaimed new play that examines the Information Age and its endless stream of data. It’s a portrayal of modern consciousness and our need for intimacy, love, and connection.
This performance only runs through November 1st, so be sure to buy your ticket to view this performance before it is done! Only $10.00!
| Dates | Times |
|---|---|
| Oct. 31 - Nov. 1, 2020 | On-Demand |
Dedication
We dedicate the Theatre and Dance Spring 2021 production season to the creative spirit, ingenuity, resilience and undying love of the performing arts, of former Department Chair and Professor Emeritus, Harvey Lawrence “Larry” Shumate (1928-2020.) We honor Larry’s memory and stand on his shoulders as we continue to share the art of theatre and dance in Sacramento.