October 19, 2023
When Texas Tech advertised for a movement specialist on faculty, someone to bring non-western methods to the department, Staley highlighted his extensive Suzuki training and promoted it as an opportunity to share not only an eastern acting method but also a global one.
October 03, 2023
As Head of Dance, I could not be more excited about the year ahead. Over the summer, I worked on the self-study for our upcoming accreditation site visit for National Association of Schools of Dance (NASD). We are proud that the program has grown tremendously in the last ten years.
October 03, 2023
Inevitably, it seems I write the column for our fall newsletter in Provincetown, where the School of Theatre and Dance sponsors 9 graduate students to join the Scholars Institute at the Tennessee Williams Festival (which we helped to create in 2012). This year, the subject is Williams, Science Fiction, and Fantasy, truly breaking boundaries in our conventional thoughts about the playwright.
October 03, 2023
When Susana Monreal was five, she watched her mother make quinceañera dresses in Plainview, TX, eventually learning to sew by gathering the left-over scraps of fabric and creating dress patterns for her Barbies. By the time she graduated high school, sewing was second nature, and a career was blossoming.