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New Students
Dance Major Auditions (2023-2024)
Dance major auditions for academic year 2023-2024 will take place in person on Saturday, February 4, 2023 on the Loyola University Chicago Lakeshore Campus.
Loyola's Bachelor of Arts in Dance requires a two part application process: an application for admission to the University and an application to audition for the major.
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New Students
Music Major Auditions (2023-2024)
Application to the Music Major is a two-part process: an application for admission to the University and an application to audition for the major. If you have not completed the general application, please do so.
Music Major auditions will be conducted in person at the Loyola University Chicago Lakeshore Campus on Saturday, February 4, 2023.
All students seeking admission to the Music Major must audition. Click for details and application!
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New Students
Theatre Scholarship Auditions (2023-2024)
The Theatre Scholarship Audition application for new Loyola theatre majors starting in academic year 2023-2024 is now available.
To be considered for the theatre scholarship at Loyola University Chicago, students must attend an in person audition/interview on Saturday, February 4, 2023. Application deadline is January 27, 2023.
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Faculty News
Dr. Frederick Lowe Appointed Director of Music
Dr. Frederick Lowe, Senior Lecturer and Director of Ensembles, was appointed Director of Music effective July 1, 2022. Lowe succeeds Professor Anthony Molinaro, who has relocated to the West Coast to pursue new endeavors.
Dr. Lowe “brings all the skills and experience to the table that will make him an outstanding Director of Music—his work with ensembles and his long-standing position as director of the graduation band make him a familiar face to our community,” noted Fine and Performing Arts Chair, Mark E. Lococo.
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Faculty News
DeRon Williams, Ph.D. Joins the Loyola Theatre Faculty
DeRon S. Williams, Ph.D. joins the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Loyola University Chicago as Assistant Professor of Theater. Williams is an artist-scholar of 20th & 21st Century African American theatre and performance and has held teaching positions in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Georgia.
Dr. Williams is currently co-editing the forthcoming anthology Contemporary Black Theatre & Performance: Acts of Rebellion, Activism, and Solidarity for Methuen Drama's "Agitations: Politics, Text, Performance" series that accentuates the expansiveness of Black theatre and performance and the ways in which the usage of conventional and nonconventional performance techniques persist to function as a vehicle of activism.
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Study Abroad
Loyola Dance Students Perform with Mandala Dance Company in Rome, Italy
Following a year of online instruction, the John Felice Rome Center reopened its doors to study abroad programs for Fall 2021. Students in Loyola’s Dance Program were among those who jumped at the opportunity to extend their classroom and learning experience overseas. Dance faculty Dr. Amy Wilkinson has lead students in summer study abroad programs for several years, creating a long-standing relationship with the Mandala Dance Company in Ladispoli, Italy. This summer, Dr. Wilkinson and a group of Loyola dance students traveled to the John Felice Rome Center for an immersive learning experience.
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The 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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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. -
In the Media
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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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.
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Concert
Joyola!
Thursday, December 8
7:30pm (CT)
Mundelein Auditorium | Lakeshore Campus
A Loyola tradition, Joyola returns for a spirited evening of holiday celebration featuring a mix of sacred and secular works.
In-Person and Livestream Tickets available
Masks Required
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