Communication Studies, Dance, and Theatre Calendar

Date and Location

Event

September 27 2011

O'Laughlin Auditiorium, Moreau Center for the Arts

An Evening with Sigourney Weaver

Join the internationally acclaimed stage and film actor for an evening lecture on the winding and diverse paths of her remarkable career.  Earlier in the day, Ms. Weaver will be conducting two master classes with theatre students, coaching them on audition materials, and sharing tips and advice with our majors as they host her at a private luncheon.

This wonderful event is offered through the generosity of the Margaret Hill Endowed Visiting Artist Series.  SMC, ND, and HC community members can call the Special Events Box Office (574) 284-4626, for a complimentary ticket to the evening talk.  South Bend community may call and purchase a ticket.  

November 10-13           2011

Little Theatre, Moreau Center for the Arts

Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl.  Directed by Professor Katie Sullivan.

This newer play is a quirky, funny, tragic, romantic, poignant, post-Modern re-imagining of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth-taken from the perspective of the bride who loses her life on her wedding day and travels to Hades where her new adventure begins.

Performance will be Nov. 10, 11, & 12 at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 13 at 2:30 p.m.  For tickets, call the Special Events Box Office at (574) 284-4626.  For more information, click here.

December   2011

Vander Vennet Theatre, Student Center

 Communication Studies Senior Comprehensives

The Culmination of the year-long Communication Studies Senior Comprhensive Projects.  Vander Vennet Theatre is the setting as our majors present their research findings to the Communication Studies faculty and students.  A question-and-answer session follows each student's presentation.

March 29 - April 1 2012

Little Theatre

Lysistrata by Aristophanes.  Directed by Mark Abram-Copenhaver.

A comic account of one woman's mission to end The Peloponnesian War, the play was originally performed in classical Athens in 411 B.C. Lysistrata is one of the few surviving plays written by Aristophanes.  Saint Mary's version will be an all female production!  For more information, click here.

April 27-28   2012

O'Laughlin Auditiorium, Moreau Center for the Arts

DanceArts 2012

The student dance "company" in residence "D.E.W."-Dance Ensemble Workshop-will be performing dances choreographed by faculty and guest artists.  The concert "A Time to Dance", will be presented in O'Laughlin Auditorium on Friday, April 27 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, April 28 at 2:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.  Please join us for a "Time" under the artistic direction of Professor Indi Dieckrafe-Dryer.  For more information, click here.

April 2012

Student Center

In its fourth year, the Bold Beauty Conference provides a venue for women to critically discuss and deconstruct societal norms and restrictions on what counts as female beauty.  As an all women’s college campus, it is important to help women understand that the representations of female beauty they see promulgated through media are unattainable.  Additionally, the conference strives to help women understand that beauty transcends the physical.  Beauty is a way of being, a state of mind, an understanding that who you are is an embodiment of Bold Beauty