Tag Archives: University Center for the Arts

Dancers in There is No Planet B

Dance Professor Grace Gallagher receives grant to create climate-focused dance work

Posted by School of Music, Theatre, and Dance on Tuesday, November 11, 2025
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The Sharon Prize, a $5,000 annual grant celebrating and supporting women and non-binary artists in Colorado, has been awarded to CSU Dance Professor Grace Gallagher for her innovative contemporary dance work, There is No Planet B, a multimedia performance that fuses art with environmental activism to address the urgency of climate action. This compelling dance and art experience will have its world premiere at the University Center for the Arts at Colorado State University on Nov. 21 and 22, 2025.

Members of the play's cast and staff

Immersed in learning: Endowed funds give theatre students the stage to innovate

Posted by School of Music, Theatre, and Dance on Wednesday, October 8, 2025
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The Cherryfield Toy Company, which welcomes audience members to become part of the production by moving through a created world of spaces and scenes, has many more moving parts than you might expect for a typical seated stage production.

Harbinger Coffe Shop

Music’s Impact on Community Spaces: CSU Students’ Ethnographic Studies

Posted by Jennifer Clary on Thursday, February 15, 2024
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A new School of Music, Theatre, and Dance course, Music of the 20th and 21st Centuries (MU 430), offers music majors the opportunity to produce original ethnographic research, which includes observing or interacting with people moving through their chosen environments. The research took place online and in the Fort Collins community – settings where the students found music and/or sound to be an aspect of the human experience – including a local record store, The R Bar, a YouTube channel, and the Harbinger coffee houses.