Center for Dance, Music, & Theatre
Dance | Theatre | Arts Administration
The Center for Dance, Music, and Theatre at Goucher College fosters curious, innovative
creators, performers, and thinkers. We transform students into engaged artists and
lifelong learners through mentorship that synthesizes traditional and contemporary
skills, technologies, and philosophies. The center offers a major and minor in Dance,
a minor in Theatre, as well as a concentration in Arts Administration.
Events
- February 21, 2019
Fluid Frequencies
A Site-Specific Video Installation by Greg St. Pierre ‘08
Greg is one of Goucher College’s Sherman Fairchild Artists in Residence for the Spring 2019 semester.The work will be presented in the Athenaeum Art Window Gallery
- February 24, 2019
Clarinetist Anthony McGill is one of classical music’s most recognizable and brilliantly multifaceted figures. He serves as the principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic, that orchestra’s first African-American principal player. Hailed for his “trademark brilliance, penetrating sound and rich character” (The New York Times), as well as for his “exquisite combination of technical refinement and expressive radiance” (The Baltimore Sun), McGill also serves as an ardent advocate for helping music education reach underserved communities. McGill was honored to take part in the inauguration of President Obama, premiering a piece by John Williams alongside violinist Itzhak Perlman, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and pianist Gabriela Montero.
McGill appears regularly as a soloist with top orchestras around North America including the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, Baltimore Symphony, San Diego Symphony, and Kansas City Symphony, and is a favorite collaborator of the Brentano, Daedalus, Guarneri, JACK, Miró, Pacifica, Shanghai, Takacs, and Tokyo Quartets, as well as Emanuel Ax, Inon Barnatan, Yefim Bronfman, Gil Shaham, Midori, Mitsuko Uchida, and Lang Lang.
A graduate of the Curtis Institute, McGill previously served as the principal clarinet of the Metropolitan Opera. He serves on the faculty of the Juilliard School, the Curtis Institute of Music, Bard College’s Conservatory of Music, and the Manhattan School of Music.
- March 8, 2019
A collaborative devised musical.
For tickets call 410-337-6513 or visit www.goucher.edu/learn/undergraduate-programs/theatre/reserve-tickets
- March 10, 2019
The Goucher College Chorus welcomes five choral ensembles from the Mid-Atlantic region for a festival of choral music benefiting Camp Opportunity, a Baltimore-based organization that provides summer camp experiences for at-risk children in the Baltimore area. Each choir will sing three pieces, and all voices (nearly 200!) will join together to perform three pieces as well. Admission is free and open to the public.
- March 11, 2019
Soprano, Elysia Hempel, will present an art song lecture-recital accompanied by Dr. Lisa Weiss, featuring all-female performers and composers including Hildegard, Clara Schumann, the Boulanger sisters, and Lori Laitman.
- April 12, 2019
Goucher students will perform works by Goucher faculty, Elizabeth Ahearn and Linda Garofalo. Also on the program will be works choreographed by Durante Verzola, up and coming choreographer and former dancer with the Suzanne Farrell Ballet, and Loni Landon, artistic director of Loni Landon Dance Project.
Please join us on Friday evening at 6:45 p.m. in Merrick Hall to hear about the evening’s choreography from some of the artists themselves.
- April 25, 2019
The Goucher College Chorus (Daniel McDavitt, director) and Orchestra (Elisa Koehler, director) will collaborate in a performance that will include one of Mozart’s masterworks, Coronation Mass, among other instrumental and vocal works. Goucher voice faculty members, and other professionals within the Baltimore area, will join Goucher students for this exciting collaboration.
- May 2, 2019
A play by Caryl Churchill
For tickets call 410-337-6513 or visit www.goucher.edu/learn/undergraduate-programs/theatre/reserve-tickets
- May 2, 2019
Students of the Goucher Opera and Musical Theatre Workshop, directed by Jennifer Blades and Lisa Weiss, will present Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, an opera based on Book IV Of Virgil’s Aeneid. It recounts the story of Dido, Queen of Carthage, her love for the Trojan hero Aeneas, and her despair when he abandons her.
In a nod to the original performance which took place at a school for girls in London around 1687, the Goucher production is set in a modern day high school but adds another dimension by telling the multi-layered story of not only the characters in the opera but the high school students who portray these characters.
- May 11, 2019
A play by Sarah DeLappe
For tickets call 410-337-6513 or visit www.goucher.edu/learn/undergraduate-programs/theatre/reserve-tickets