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The Last Play Ever at Strider Theater! Friday, April 28 and Saturday, April 29 at 7:30 p.m. Directed by John D. Ervin and Kaylee Pomelow Book '19 Esteemed playwright Sarah Ruhl has reimagined this classic myth from a feminist perspective, giving the title character the power to control her own fate, except Eurydice has just died […]
Portland Ballet and Colby College Department of Performance, Theater, and Dance collaborate to bring to life an evening of work featuring an expanded company of dancers. Joining forces again after their celebrated partnership in 2018, this performance will thrill classical and contemporary fans alike. Featuring a new work, based on research conducted with Colby students in […]
Friday, February 3, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 2 p.m. In the sophisticated setting of a cabaret, Project Broadway presents some of the most renowned Broadway hits in Strider Theater. Produced by the departments of Music and Performance, Theater, & Dance, Project Broadway brings together more than 45 performers, musicians, and production crew, to conjure […]
Friday, November 18, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, November 19, 2022 at 2 p.m. Student dancers perform in a mixed repertory concert featuring new works directed by faculty, students, and guest artists Megan Mazarick and the Maine Arts Academy. Stay for a reception following Friday's performance, and engage the artists involved through a post-show talk […]
The ballet Giselle, a story of love and betrayal, life and death, vengeance and forgiveness. Follow the story, as passionately told by the dancers of Portland Ballet, of the peasant girl, Giselle, as she falls in love with the nobleman, Albrecht, whose betrayal condemns her to the unearthly realm of the Wilis. This beloved romantic […]
What Are You Afraid Of? Join Us for Colby Theater Company: HAUNTING HOUR! Friday, October 28, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, October, 29, 7:30 p.m. Coming this Friday and Saturday, a theatrical event of chilling proportions arrives on campus: Haunting Hour, a craftily curated collection of short plays just in time to usher in Halloween 2022. An […]
This unique program — a recitation of T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets by John Farrell and a performance of Beethoven’s String Quartet in A Minor, Opus 132, by the DaPonte String Quartet — offers audiences a truly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience in close succession the crowning artistic achievements of these peerless masters. With rarely granted permission of […]
Wendy, a 17-year-old plus-sized, body-positive makeup artist with her own YouTube channel, is having her life exploded by internet trolls. In the meantime, Jess discovers that her long-term boyfriend Chad spends his time harassing young women on the internet to “blow off steam”. From here, the two stories converge in a hilarious and insightful examination […]
A French Hip Hop Performance with Compagnie Dyptik Finding your place, precarious as it may be. You fight for it. Fight to keep it. Beyond the inner workings of society. Beyond conventions. Beyond the common good. Beyond individual liberties. You play around the rules to keep going. Even to the point of transgression. Even if […]
The Department of Theater and Dance presents a short program of new works that features the full range of performance research created in the department, including theater, dance, design, and hybrid dance theater. First-year students and theater and dance majors and minors will share the stage in both student- and faculty-directed new works. Developed in […]
An informal showing of performative sculpture by Brit Biddle ’19, Dominic Malia ’21, and Chang Zhang ’20 Friday, May 3 at 7:00 p.m. Saturday, May 4 at 7:00 p.m. What happens when sculpture meets live performance? Students in AR/TD268 Design Thinking Studio: Performative Sculpture explored this question through the design and fabrication of body modifications […]
Part of the Colby Fringe Festival, this Dabke night and poetry event features the Boston Dabke Troup, brought to Colby by Fulbright Scholar Amira Chatti in collaboration with the Theater and Dance Department, the Colby International Club, and the Colby Cultural Events Committee. FMI: Amira Chatti, achatti@colby.edu
In his latest solo work, Guillermo Gómez-Peña draws from his 30-year-old living archive and combines new and classic performance material to present a unique perspective on the immediate future of the Americas. Combining spoken-word poetry, activist theory, radical storytelling, and language experimentation, Gómez-Peña offers critical and humorous commentary about the art world, academia, new technologies, the culture […]
The Departments of Computer Science, Music and Theater and Dance Present Strings March 7-8 at 7:30 p.m. March 9 at 2 p.m. How can we as individuals act meaningfully in imbalanced systems? Strings interconnects lights, sound, lasers, sensors and performers to explore our world of all-pervasive computation. Systems breathe. We are in a constant flow […]
Interweaving demanding physicality with spoken dialogue, sonic religiosity, and sublime virtuosity, creator and Colby Theater and Dance Visiting Assistant Professor Vanessa Anspaugh investigates masculine vulnerability and the historical and unyielding dynamics of cultural domination. From her subject position as a lesbian choreographer and mother to a young son, Anspaugh, along with an all male cast, explores […]
Fall Performance Projects includes new works by four student choreographers; highlights first year students in the first year theater and dance projects directed by senior majors Gabriella Foster and Kaylee Pomelow; and features a powerful solo by Visiting Assistant Professor Tsaibwom Akuchu. FPP highlights products of curricular creative research that emphasize experimentation, collaboration, and hybridity. […]
Over their forty-two year history, Dance Exchange has remained committed to breaking boundaries between stage and audience, theater and community, movement and language, tradition and the unexplored. They are known for innovative performance projects and creative practices that engage communities and partners across wide ranging disciplines, and for catalyzing collaborations across generations and communities that ignite inquiry and […]
Come enjoy snacks, give your feedback, and pose questions to the cast and creative team of Set in the Living Room of a Small Town American Play. This informal meeting will be moderated by Matthew Cumbie of the Dance Exchange. Cumbie will lead us through Liz Lerman's Critical Response Process.
Jaclyn Backhaus’s Set in the Living Room of a Small Town American Play is the story of a group of middle- and working-class suburbanites living in Illinois in 1947, all enmeshed in their own tragedies. The play is rooted in the American drama of the 1940s and 1950s, and it playfully explores that style, as […]
The American Shakespeare Center and the Department of Theater and Dance present Sophocles' Antigone, directed by Doreen Bechtol and sponsored by Richard B. Smith. In the aftermath of her brothers’ bloody war, Antigone is left torn. Her brother Eteocles will be honored, but her brother Polyneices will be shamed and denied funeral rites. In this ancient […]
Methtacular! is the brutally honest story of writer/performer Steven Strafford’s three years as a crystal meth addict in Chicago. Remarkably, the account of his exploits manages to be simultaneously hilarious and devastating. Don’t miss your opportunity to experience this heartfelt, fun, and searingly honest memoir directly from someone who’s been through the worst and came out […]
A staged reading of a play by Kaylee Pomelow, Colby Class of '19, May 4 and 5 at 7:30. The coffee is on and the pressure is brewing. A culmination of a yearlong independent study in full-length playwriting, Shift 19 by Kaylee Pomelow ’19 explores family dynamics, youth, class, and independence through the lenses of […]
Live performance is ephemeral. Sometimes we slip into it and sometimes it drips through our grasp; we experience its impact more palpably than we can recreate individual moments. This evening of new work highlights that ephemeral process of meaning-making as performers, audience members, and student choreographers together negotiate performances of passing realities. The performance features […]
Performances Friday and Saturday at 7:30 We’ve been waiting for you. Ephiria lies beyond the red door. Take the next step; make the Switch. A culmination of a year’s worth of research and writing, this immersive production seeks to break the boundaries of conventional performance and explores what it means to blur the lines between […]