Loyola University Chicago
Department of Fine and Performing Arts
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Community Partnerships
In/Motion & Pivot Arts Dance Film
On Saturday, June 11th, the In/Motion Dance Film Festival and Pivot Arts will present a dance for the camera program featuring diverse Chicago area artists who created digital works during the pandemic. We're celebrating the resiliency and creativity in our community, so please join us in person at 8:00 pm at the Edge Theater!
Led by Dance Faculty members Amy Wilkinson and Sarah Cullen-Fuller, along with Dance alum Sarah Flugel, In/Motion collaborates with prominent international artists and artists advocates, provides intimate workspaces to learn and experiment with experts in the field, connects Chicago's vibrant dance and film communities with national and international artists, and fosters intersectionality in the presentation and creation of movement-based art.
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Arts and Social Justice
PTO Conference at Loyola
The Loyola University Chicago Department of Fine and Performing Arts is proud to host the 25th Annual Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed Conference: Popular Power/Poder Popular.
Honoring the theme of the PTO Chicago 2020 conference that has been postponed for 2 years due to COVID-19, PTO Chicago 2022 will emphasize popular struggle and popular power, which are themes as relevant as ever now.
Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed (PTO) is an international organization that supports people whose work challenges oppressive systems by promoting critical thinking and social justice through liberatory theatre and popular education. Our approaches stem from the theories and practices of Paulo Freire and Augusto Boal. We foster collaborative connections to share, develop, promote, and document liberatory theatre, popular education, and other revolutionary actions. Our annual conference seeks to provide an accessible, inclusive, and educational space.
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Student Jobs for 2022-2023
The Department of Fine and Performing Arts is hiring student workers for academic year 2022-2023! Join one of the largest student employers on the lakeshore campus.
Student workers in our department gain skills and experience in all areas of the fine and performing arts - from arts administration, facilities/shop/studio work, concert production, to front of house audience engagement and all areas in between - in a fun and dynamic environment where students, staff, and faculty work together to bring rich arts programming to the public, support rich engaged arts learning, and build a thriving arts community at Loyola.
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Students
Theatre Senior Showcase Website
This online showcase features profiles, resumes, and audition materials for graduating actors as well as portfolio materials for graduating stage managers and designers. The website highlights what our B.A. program proudly fosters: multi-talented and collaborative theatre artists who consistently find ways to adventurously explore their art and how they make it.VISIT -
In the Media
Opal Pools of Milk and the Luzhin Defence: Review of This Too Shall Pass
Ralph Arnold Gallery exhibition This Too Shall Pass was recently reviewed in Sixty Inches From Center. Sixty is a collective of writers, editors, artists, curators, librarians, and archivists who publish and produce collaborative projects about artists, archival practice, art history, and culture in the occupied lands known as Chicago and the Midwest. This Too Shall Pass was curated by Joshi Radin Flores with works by Rebecca Beachy, N. Masani Landfair, and Nancy D. Valladares.READ MORE -
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In the Media
Every Moment Is Magical When Venturing Into the Woods
The Theatre Program's production of Into the Woods received a rave review in the Loyola Phoenix.
In a poignant story about childhood, Loyola’s Department of Fine and Performing Arts makes a familiar story feel brand new with its spring musical, “Into the Woods.”
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In the Media
Music alum Kabir Dalawari featured in the Chicago Tribune
Jazz Studies grad Kabir Dalawari's debut album Awareness is featured in an article that discusses his academic trajectory at Loyola and the important role that Professor Mat Ulery's mentorship played in Kabir's musical growth. Awareness features Kabir on drums, Ulery on Bass, and recent Loyola graduate Eric Arroyo on piano. READ -
In the Media
"Vulnerable Yet Comedic, ‘Everybody’ Wows its Audience"
The Theatre Program's production of Everybody was enthusiastically reviewed in the Loyola Phoenix.
Loyola’s showing of “Everybody” successfully dazzles with an immersive show of stellar acting, sound effects, lighting and unique presentation of a morality play.
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Building Community Bridges Award Winners
Department of Fine and Performing Arts students Beth Bredlau (Senior, Art History) and Mikayla De Guzman (Senior, Theatre) are among the twelve recipients of the second annual Building Community Bridges Awards for Juniors and Seniors from marginalized communities within the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS). These $1,000 awards are provided to students who have had a positive impact at Loyola and/or in their communities through their advancement of diversity and inclusion initiatives during 2021. -
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How College Dancers Can Marry Their Passion to Activism
The Loyola Dance Program and it's student-led Dance Honor Society are featured in a Dance Magazine article that surveys undergraduate programs that merge the arts and social justice.
“Why should I be dancing now? Shouldn’t I be doing something more ‘serious?’ ”
In the midst of a turbulent political climate, racial injustices and a global pandemic, a lot of dancers might find themselves asking the same questions. But rather than abandoning the arts, college dancers are discovering ways to marry their schoolwork with activism, using movement to respond to the world around them.
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Study Abroad
Building International Bridges Awards
Theatre students Luca Calabro, Malia Hunter, Madeline Nesbitt, and Anna Pecci are among twelve recipients of the inaugural Building International Bridges Awards for Juniors and Seniors in the College of Arts and Sciences who are studying abroad during the 2021-2022 academic year. This award aims to encourage and celebrate the study abroad efforts of our students by offering them the financial support necessary to pursue their academic goals, both at home and globally.
Luca Calabro (senior), Malia Hunter (junior), and Anna Pecci (junior) will be participating in a faculty-led Theatre trip to London, UK. Madeline Nesbit (senior) will be traveling to the Universidad Loyola Andalucía in Córdoba, Spain.
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In the Media
After School Matters on theMART
Fine Arts faculty Lisa Armstrong was featured on NBC 5 Chicago on her transformative work with Chicago teens on their creation of Shaping the Future, After School Matters’ Art on theMART projection celebrating 30 years of providing Chicago teens the opportunity to discover their passion and find their future.WATCH -
Alumni
An Unexpected Calling
Bob Newhart's improbable journey from Loyola business student to American comedy iconREAD -
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Alumni
Art with Impact: Empathy on Stage
"The point of learning how to make theatre is to do it, and to do it in community, and to do it in service to the world"READ -
Alumni
Alumnus Featured at the Chicago Cultural Center
Karolis Usonis is currently featured in Furtive, a three-person exhibition curated by Jennifer Murray, Loyola faculty and Executive Director of Filter Photo, at the Chicago Cultural Center. Usonis presents work alongside Daniel Hojnacki and Krista Wortendyke.
