Department of Performing Arts

Arena Stage

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The Liz Lerman Dance Exchange

The Liz Lerman Dance Exchange is a professional company of dance artists based in Takoma Park, Maryland that creates, performs, teaches, and engages people in making art.

In February 2008, the Dance Exchange in partnership with Georgetown University's Theater and Performance Studies Program presented Love, Etcetera: Dances to William Shakespeare and Willie Nelson. In part one of the production, Shakespeare’s sonnets were brought to outrageous theatrical life in The Farthest Earth From Thee, a vibrant dance/theater work that featured explosive movement, stage-filling video, and an all-abilities cast of daredevil performers. The second piece, Nocturnes, choreographed by Founder Liz Lerman, was a poignant and playful dance suite set to songs by country-western balladeer Willie Nelson, and performed by a multi-generational cast.

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Rorschach Theatre

Rorschach Theatre is a fierce young company known for their inventive use of space, performances of feverish intensity and a passion for epic stories told in new ways.

In the Summer of 2007, Rorschach took up residency in the Devine Studio Theatre of the Davis Performing Arts Center. Working with a corp of GU student actors and crew members, Rorschach mounted three top notch productions in short measure including the world premiere of Jason Grote's This Storm is What We Call Progress and the world premiere of Rorschach Artistic Director Randy Baker's Dream Sailors ("A hallucinatory, pop-culture-savvy, romantic quasi-mystery... Part nightmare, part thriller, part fairy tale, part wartime coming-of-age saga" - Washington Post).

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Sojourn Theatre

Sojourn Theatre is a multi-ethnic, ensemble-based company based in Portland, Oregon and around the nation. With a commitment to both adventurous theatricality and community engagement, Sojourn creates unique, often site-specific investigations of stories and themes that consistently surprise, delight and provoke diverse audiences.

Working with a talented cast of GU students, Sojourn Artistic Director Michael Rodh, Scenic Designer  Shannon Scrofano and Stage Manager Liam Kaas-Lentz created The Race. This unique, multi-media, civic theater project  incorporated a cross-section of voices into an on-stage conversation about some of the most important issues raised by the Fall 2008 election: Who will vote for whom? Who won’t? Why? And most specifically, what does leadership mean today?

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Synetic Theater

Nominated in 2008 for 16 Helen Hayes awards, Synetic Theater seeks to advance and enrich the theater arts through presentation and education in its unique performance style of a synthesis of the arts, fusing the classical elements of drama, movement, dance, mime, and music into a distinct form of non-realistic theater.

Synetic Theater and the Theater and Performance Studies Program presented Aristophanes’ timeless political satire Lysistrata.

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