Recent News

After years of preparation and work, the Zodiaque Dance Company (ZDC) 50 Anniversary Fall concerts will finally take place this week at UB Center for the Arts, beginning Thursday, October 24! In keeping with ZDC’s mission, the fall program features a diverse array of dance styles, including modern, contemporary, jazz, African, tap, and other percussive forms. Performances are: Oct. 24 - 25, 2024 at 7:30 p.m., plus Oct. 27, 2024. (The Oct. 26 Gala is sold out.) https://www.ticketmaster.com/zodiaque-dance-tickets/artist/836688

There are many Spring 2025 Theatre and Dance courses which are open to all UB students. Several classes also satisfy your PATHWAYS requirements towards graduation. View the full list of eligible classes below!

Congratulations to Urban Bush Women on the occasion of the dance company's 40th anniversary and accompanying cover story feature in this month's Dance Magazine.

“A Crack in the Egg” is a new rock musical written by senior UB Music Theatre major Jeremy Ephraim Meyers, with alumna John DellaContrada (‘24 Theatre BFA). Its official premiere won’t be until February 2025 as part of the 2024-2025 Theatre and Dance (THD) production season, but this Sunday, September 15, 2024 audiences can preview the show as a work-in-progress / staged reading at UB Katharine Cornell Theatre on North Campus beginning at 8pm.

UB Theatre and Dance (THD) students and graduates are in demand with professional theater companies in Buffalo and nationally. We’re proud to announce that ten current and former THD students will appear in the Kavinoky Theatre’s production of “Newsies” at Shea’s 710 Theatre this September! https://www.kavinokytheatre.com/newsies

We are looking for one actor to join our UBTHD Fall Drama Production of Fabulation or, The Re-Education of Undine. We are excited to welcome another actor into our production, and look forward to meeting anyone who would like to audition! You DO NOT have to be a Theatre & Dance major to audition: you can be undergraduate or graduate, and you can have extensive experience or just want to try this out because it sounds interesting! 

Founded in 1974 by University at Buffalo Professor Linda Swiniuch, Zodiaque Dance Company (ZDC) is the region's premier pre-professional dance company. Archival video footage was captured beginning in 1985, presenting the opportunity to revisit 40 years of performances. Enjoy 40 years of dance in only 30 minutes!

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Danielle Rosvally, PhD, on the publication of her most recent book Theatres of Value: Buying and Selling Shakespeare in Nineteenth-Century New York City.

Congratulations to Associate Professor Ariel Nereson, PhD, on being named co-editor of Theatre Journal along with Laura Edmonson, professor of theatre at Dartmouth University. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, the Journal celebrates its 75 anniversary this year, with seventy-five volumes and a total of 298 issues to date. 

Zodiaque Dance Company Celebration 50 Fall Program
Co-Directed by Kerry Ring and Michael Deeb Weaver
Production Design Coordination by Lynne Koscielniak
Choreographers: Richard Ashworth, Liz Borom, Michael Deeb Weaver, Brittney Griffin, Robin Hibbert, Thomas Ralabate, Kerry Ring, Cesar Salinas, and Bill Thomas

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Kellen Hoxworth, PhD, on the publication of his most recent book Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance.