Hollins University

Book Launch Party
2024-06-26 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center, Room 119
As part of our Alumni Retreat, we will celebrate new book releases by our program alumni and faculty. A slideshow of all books published (or to be published) in 2024 will be presented with short talks by attending creators. The talk will be followed by a group book signing.

Book Launch, Wednesday, June 26, 6:30 pm, Wetherill Visual Arts Center, Room 119; book signing in lobby. Sponsored by the graduate programs in children’s literature. Online: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/9154582283?omn=84139553380

Lab Readings: "Twenty Something Teenager" by David Veatch
2024-06-26 19:00 - 20:30 | Hollins Theatre
Each Wednesday evening, as part of the course Playwright’s Lab, an early draft of a student written play is presented in an orchestra style reading. July 3, 10, 17, 24

#1: Twenty Something Teenager by David Veatch

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The Second Biennial Children’s Literature Symposium (Virtual)
2024-06-27 00:00 - 2024-06-30 23:59 | VA
Symposium Theme: VALUING
What do we value in our field? How do we define value? This interdisciplinary symposium will reflect on what matters to us and examine the challenges that undermine such values as equity, inclusion, and access to books. We invite explorations of the theme in every sense of the word.
This four-day symposium will be held virtually via Zoom.
More Information and to register >

Seeking Submissions
Deadline extended to February 19
We seek submissions from authors, illustrators, librarians, publishers, educators, and scholars in any discipline and from any ethnic, gender, or abled identity.
Additional details can be found: Kit Lit at Hollins symposium
Invited keynoters include:

Mitali Perkins, a critically acclaimed Bengali-American author of novels for young readers published by Penguin Random House, Charlesbridge, Candlewick, Little Brown, and Macmillan Children’s Books.
Stephanie Toliver, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; scholar and author of Recovering Black Storytelling in Qualitative Research: Endarkened Storywork.
More to come!

2024 Children’s Literature Writer-in-Residence and Symposium Keynote Speaker, Mitali Perkins
2024-06-27 19:00 - 20:00 | Frances Niederer Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center
Born in Kolkata, India, Perkins lived in Ghana, Cameroon, England, and Mexico before her parents settled in California when she was in middle school. She is the author of many award-winning picture books and novels for young readers, including Rickshaw Girl, which was adapted into a film. She’s also written a nonfiction book for adults about children’s literature, Steeped in Stories: Timeless Children’s Novels to Refresh our Tired Souls. Her newest releases are a picture book, Holy Night and Little Star, and a middle-grade novel, Hope in the Valley. Perkins lives and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area. mitaliperkins.com

Lecture, Thursday, June 27, 7 pm. Niederer Auditorium, Wetherill Visual Arts Center and online. Email kidlit@hollins.edu for link. Sponsored by the graduate programs in children’s literature. Online: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/9154582283?omn=84139553380

No Shame Theatre
2024-06-28 23:00 - 2024-06-29 00:30, 2024-07-05 23:00 - 2024-07-06 00:30, 2024-07-12 23:00 - 2024-07-13 00:30, 2024-07-19 23:00 - 2024-07-20 00:30, 2024-07-26 23:00 - 2024-07-27 00:30 | Hollins Theatre
No Shame Theatre is an experiential performance lab where writers, performers and audience are constantly changing roles. Anything can happen and usually does in this late night venue for original work. We take the first 15 pieces to walk in the door and there are only three rules: pieces must be original (no copyright violations), short (five minutes or less), and not break anything (including the law). Inside those rules you can do pretty much anything you’re interested in trying in front of a live audience–plays, monologues, songs, dance, poetry, mime, juggling, comedy, tragedy, Improvisation, dada, magic–we’ve even seen people do floral arrangements! Pieces are accepted starting at 10 pm, doors open at 10:30 pm, and the show starts at 11 pm, running on average an hour and a half.

M.F.A. Dance Performance III / Mobile Tour
2024-06-29 00:00 - 23:59 | Hollins University Campus, 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, 24020, United States
M.F.A. Dance Performance III features a collection of original work in performance and/or choreography by current M.F.A. dance candidates in alternative-site locations on and around the Hollins campus. As part of the thesis capstone research project, performance and dance work featured in this concert highlight a diverse approach to contemporary dance practices, research, and making.

Various Sites – Hollins Campus

Start Time to be listed at later date: https://www.hollins.edu/programs/dance-m-f-a/.

Playwright’s Lab Monday Night Guest Speaker: Nicholas Piper
2024-07-01 19:30 - 20:30 | Mill Mountain Theatre, 1 Market Square SE, Roanoke, VA, 24011, United States
Each Monday night on the Waldron Stage of Mill Mountain Theatre, the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins presents a talk by a prominent working professional theatre artist. This week’s guest is:

NICHOLAS PIPER: GUEST SPEAKER

Piper is the associate artistic director of Barter Theatre in charge of new play development as well as a director and founding member of Barter’s Resident Acting Company. As the director of Barter’s Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights, he has helped develop dozens of new Appalachian plays that have gone on to full production at Barter as well as theatres across the country. He was recently awarded the AAME award for outstanding contribution to the arts in the region.

Mill Mountain Theatre, Waldron Stage

Matt Faulkner: Chalk Talk
2024-07-03 18:30 - 19:30 | Frances Niederer Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center
Award winning children’s book author and illustrator Matt Faulkner has over 35 books to his credit. His graphic novel Gaijin: American Prisoner of War, won the American Library Association Asian/Pacific Best Children’s Book Award. His most recent graphic novel, My Nest of Silence has won wide acclaim: “Deftly combining the personal and historical, Faulkner alchemizes his extended family’s past into magnificent, essential testimony.” ― Booklist, Starred Review. Faulkner has taught a variety of subjects at undergraduate and graduate level illustration programs. He is married to Kristen Remenar, author of Groundhog’s Dilemma and Squirrel Needs a Break, both illustrated by Faulkner. www.mattfaulkner.com

Lecture, Wednesday, July 3, 6:30 pm, Niederer Auditorium, Wetherill Visual Arts Center, followed by a book signing in the lobby. Sponsored by the graduate programs in children’s literature. Online: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/9154582283?omn=84139553380

Lab Reading: "Anamnesis" by Michael Tobin
2024-07-03 19:00 - 20:30 | Hollins Theatre
Each Wednesday evening, as part of the course Playwright’s Lab, an early draft of a student written play is presented in an orchestra style reading. July 10, 17, 24

#2: Anamnesis by Michael Tobin

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Overnight Sensations
2024-07-06 08:00 - 22:30 | Hollins Theatre
Since 2006, Hollins University’s Playwright’s Lab and Mill Mountain Theatre have partnered to bring this popular event to Roanoke. Six playwrights are randomly paired with six directors, who are then draw from a hat one of six casts made up of six actors. Then they draw random prompts to find out what the genre, theme, and location will be. The writers write all night, share their work with the director over breakfast and make revisions, then they share the plays with the actors at 11 am over lunch, and rehearse from noon to 5 pm, when they do a cue to cue, set levels, and open the doors for the audience at 7:30 pm, Saturday night, so that we can share what we’ve done with all of you!

This year, as last year, we’ll be doing this jointly produced event of the Hollins-Mill Mountain Theatre Partnership on the main stage of the Hollins University Theatre. Join us, won’t you?

Always FREE and open to the public! No tickets or reservations necessary.

James Ransome, Award-winning Illustrator Talk
2024-07-08 18:30 - 19:30 | Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center, Room 119
Ransome has been honored with the 2023 Children’s Literature Legacy Award by the American Library Association in recognition of his exceptional contributions to children’s literature. With a career spanning over 33 years, Ransome has illustrated more than 70 books. His passion for drawing began in Rich Square, NC, and as a teenager, he moved to Bergenfield, NJ, before pursuing a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Ransome’s remarkable talent has garnered him numerous accolades, including the prestigious Coretta Scott King Awards, ALA Notables, a Jane Addams Award, and NAACP Image awards. He resides in New York. https://jamesransome.com

Lecture, Monday, July 8, 6:30 pm, Wetherill Visual Arts Center, Room 119, followed by book signing in lobby. Sponsored by the graduate programs in children’s literature. Online: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/9154582283?omn=84139553380

Playwright’s Lab Monday Night Guest Speaker: Ruth Margraff
2024-07-08 19:30 - 20:30 | Mill Mountain Theatre, 1 Market Square SE, Roanoke, VA, 24011, United States
Each Monday night on the Waldron Stage of Mill Mountain Theatre, the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins presents a talk by a prominent working professional theatre artist. This week’s guest is:

RUTH MARGRAFF – FACULTY, GUEST SPEAKER, AND FESTIVAL RESPONDENT

Margraff has been called a leader in the American avant-garde for her “audaciously original” (Moscow Times) use of language that provides “layer after layer of richly textured emotion…and imminent danger” (Dallas Morning News). Critically acclaimed for writing martial arts operas Deadly She-Wolf… and a Voice of the Dragon trilogy with the late composer Fred Ho for the Apollo, Guggenheim Museum, LaMama, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and a commercially successful tour with Columbia Arts Management, Inc., to 33 cities in 2003 with support from ICM Artists and the World Music Institute. Margraff’s “Night Wind from Afghanistan” for the play Seven, began touring the world in 2008 introduced by designer Diane von Furstenberg, and in 2010 by Hillary Clinton with Meryl Streep at the Broadway Hudson Theater. Seven has been translated into more than 20 languages and performed in 32 countries.

Margraff has received awards from Rockefeller, McKnight, Jerome, NEA, TCG, TMUNY, NYSCA, IAC, Fulbright foundations, and is also published by Innova Records, Dramatists Play Service, American Theatre, Theater Forum, Performing Arts Journal, Playscripts, Inc., Backstage Books, Autonomedia, New Village Press, NoPassport Press, and Lexington Books/Roman & Littlefield. She is a member of Theater Without Borders, League of Professional Theater Women, Red Tape Theater, a New Dramatist and Playwrights’ Center alumna, a Chicago Dramatist playwright emeritus, and professor of playwriting/writing as art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, represented by the Samara Harris Literary Agency (NYC).

Mill Mountain Theatre, Waldron Stage

Lesa Cline Ransome, Award-winning Author Talk
2024-07-10 18:30 - 19:30 | Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center, Room 119
Cline Ransome is the acclaimed author of numerous award-winning picture books, including a verse biography of Harriet Tubman, Before She Was Harriet, and her debut middle-grade novel, Finding Langston, winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction and a Coretta Scott King Award Author Honor. Cline Ransome’s debut Young Adult novel, For Lamb, is based in Jim Crow Mississippi. A MacDowell Fellow and 2022 NAIBA Legacy recipient, she has received numerous honors and awards including the NAACP Award, Kirkus Best Book, New York Public Library Best Book, SLJ Best Book, ALA Notable, CBC Choice Awards, two Top 10 Sports Books for Youth, and an Orbis Pictus Recommended Book. She is currently an SCBWI Advisory Council member and host of KidLitTV’s Past Present: Giving Past Stories New Life.

Lecture, Wednesday, July 10, 6:30 pm, Wetherill Visual Arts Center, Room 119, followed by a book signing in the lobby. Sponsored by the graduate programs in children’s literature. Online: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/9154582283?omn=84139553380

Lab Reading: "Survivor's Guilt-A Coward's Tale" by Michael Joseph Barber
2024-07-10 19:00 - 20:30 | Hollins Theatre
Each Wednesday evening, as part of the course Playwright’s Lab, an early draft of a student written play is presented in an orchestra style reading. July 17, 24

#3: Survivor’s Guilt: A Coward’s Tale by Michael Joseph Barber

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Ashley Belote, Author/Illustrator Talk
2024-07-15 18:30 - 19:30 | Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center, Room 119
Belote is the illustrator of Frankenslime and Valenslime. She is the author-illustrator of her debut early reader The Me Tree and her picture book Listen Up, Louella. She studied traditional animation under the direction of Don Bluth. Belote is a West Virginia native and earned her B.A. from Alderson Broaddus University. She earned her M.A. in arts administration from the University of Kentucky. Her graduate study included a children’s literature and illustration course, The Whole Book Approach, through Simmons College at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. She also serves as the illustrator coordinator for the Carolinas chapter of SCBWI. Belote is represented by Moe Ferrara of BookEnds Literary Agency.

Lecture, Monday, July 15, 6:30 pm, Wetherill Visual Arts Center, Room 119, followed by a book signing in the lobby. Sponsored by the graduate programs in children’s literature. Online: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/9154582283?omn=84139553380

Playwright’s Lab Monday Night Guest Speaker: Bonnie Metzgar
2024-07-15 19:30 - 20:30 | Mill Mountain Theatre, 1 Market Square SE, Roanoke, VA, 24011, United States
Each Monday night on the Waldron Stage of Mill Mountain Theatre, the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins presents a talk by a prominent working professional theatre artist. This week’s guest is:

BONNIE METZGAR – GUEST SPEAKER

Metzgar is a playwright, screenwriter, director, producer, and core visiting faculty with The Playwright’s Lab at Hollins. In January 2020, her play You Lost Me had its world premiere at Denver Center Theater and was the recipient of an Edgerton New Play Award. Recently, she served as staff writer for Genius: Aretha, a limited television series with showrunner Suzan-Lori Parks. A fighter for artists from marginalized communities, Metzgar is passionate about making systemic change in the nonprofit theatre, and served as artistic director of About Face Theatre, one of the largest theatres in the U.S. dedicated to producing queer artists and advancing the cultural dialogue on sexuality and gender identity. Previously, Metzgar served as associate producer at the Public Theater where she founded Joe’s Pub.

Mill Mountain Theatre, Waldron Stage

Lab Reading: "Back Porch Play" by Adrian Lee Bush
2024-07-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Hollins Theatre
Each Wednesday evening, as part of the course Playwright’s Lab, an early draft of a student written play is presented in an orchestra style reading. July 24

#4: Back Porch Play by Adrian Lee Bush

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2024 Playwrights Festival
2024-07-19 00:00 - 2024-07-21 23:59 | Mill Mountain Theatre, 1 Market Square SE, Roanoke, VA, 24011, United States
Each summer at the end of July, we present a three-day event showcasing readings of student work from the Playwright’s Lab. Normally, these eight readings are minimally staged at Mill Mountain Theatre for the general public and close to a dozen guest professional responders from all over the globe. As part of the festival, there will be a panel discussion when our guest respondents will introduce themselves, talk briefly about their own background, and then give a moderated response to the festival as a whole. Get acquainted with these plays and playwrights before they are famous and engage in a conversation about theatre with our students, faculty, and some established theatre professionals.

Friday, July 19

8 pm; The Greenhouse by J. Harvey Stone

Saturday, July 20

11 am; Astroturf by Kolin Lawler

2 pm; Lil’ Troopers by Richie Cannaday

4 pm; The Caregiver by Stephanie Goldman

8 pm; The Names Have Been Changed to Protect the [GUILTY] by Ami Trowell

Sunday, July 21

11 am; Hamlet’s Ghost by Emily Fleischhuer

2 pm; Freida by ArLynn Parker

4 pm; Nuptial Mass by Ben Abbott

8 pm; Festival Guest Respondent Panel

Seating is limited. To reserve tickets, email Gwyneth Strope at stropegm1@hollins.edu.

"Illustration Faculty Exhibition" Lecture and Book Signing
2024-07-19 18:30 - 19:30 | Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center
Faculty Exhibition Opening: Illustration Faculty Exhibition Lecture and Book Signing

In conjunction with Illustration Faculty Exhibition, on view July 11 – September 22, 2024, at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, please join us for a lecture and reception with book signing by faculty in the Hollins University M.F.A. Program in Children’s Book Writing and Illustration.

Friday, July 19, 6:30 pm, Niederer Auditorium, Wetherill Visual Arts Center; Reception and book signing to follow in the first-floor lobby. Sponsored by the graduate programs in children’s literature. Online: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/9154582283?omn=84139553380

Francelia Butler Conference: Keynote Speaker Chip Sullivan
2024-07-20 09:00 - 16:00 | Frances Niederer Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center
The Francelia Butler Conference is hosted every summer by the Graduate Program in Children’s Literature at Hollins University. Since 1995, this entirely student-run conference has honored critical and creative works by that summer’s graduate students with awards in the following categories: poetry, logo design, critical writing, visual art, narrative art, long form creative writing, and short form creative writing. The keynote speakers are renowned authors and scholars of children’s literature who have authored esteemed books for all ages. The conference culminates with lectures by the current Margaret Wise Brown Book Award winners. This year’s recipients are Lucy Ruth Cummins for the winning title, Our Pool, and Ævar ﬁór Benediktsson for this year’s Honor Title, Stranded! A Mostly True Story from Iceland.

Chip Sullivan, Francelia Butler Conference Keynote Speaker

C.W. Sullivan III, Ph.D., is emeritus distinguished professor of arts and sciences, retired from East Carolina University, and a full member of the Welsh Academy for his contributions to the study of medieval Welsh Celtic myth and legend. He is the author of several books, including Welsh Celtic Myth in Modern Fantasy, The Mabinogi: A Book of Essays, and is a past president of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. His articles on mythology, folklore, fantasy, and science fiction have appeared in various anthologies and journals, and he was a Fulbright scholar at Debrecen University in Hungary.

Lectures and silent auction, Saturday, July 20, 9 am, Niederer Auditorium, Wetherill Visual Arts Center, Auction in first floor lobby. Sponsored by the graduate programs in children’s literature. Online: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/9154582283?omn=84139553380

Playwright’s Lab Monday Night Guest Speaker: Addae Moon
2024-07-22 19:30 - 20:30 | Mill Mountain Theatre, 1 Market Square SE, Roanoke, VA, 24011, United States
Each Monday night on the Waldron Stage of Mill Mountain Theatre, the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins presents a talk by a prominent working professional theatre artist. This week’s guest is:

ADDAE MOON – GUEST SPEAKER

Moon is an Atlanta based playwright, dramaturg, director, and cultural worker. He is the associate artistic director at Theatrical Outfit and the cofounder of the play development and performance collective Hush Harbor Lab.

Moon has served as a resident dramaturg with Working Title Playwright’s Ethel Woolson Lab. He was the recipient of the 2015 International Ibsen Award for his dramaturgical work on the project Master Comic and the 2014 John Lipsky Award from the International Museum Theatre Alliance (IMTAL) for his immersive play Four Days of Fury: Atlanta 1906. Moon was also a member of Alliance Theatre’s 2015-16 Reiser Artists’ Lab as cowriter on the immersive project Third Council of Lyons with Found Stages. As the former literary manager at Horizon Theatre Company, he served as the development dramaturg on the early projects of many nationally renowned playwrights including Marcus Gardley, Lauren Gunderson, Tanya Barfield, and Janece Shaffer.

His recent immersive co-collaborations include Frankenstein’s Ball (2019/2020), Frankenstein’s Funeral (2019) and Cassie’s Ballad (2022) with Found Stages. Moon received his B.A. in theatre arts from Clark Atlanta University and an M.F.A. in playwriting from the Professional Playwright’s Program at Ohio University. He is also a member of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America (LMDA,) Dramatist Guild, and The Fence Network.

Mill Mountain Theatre, Waldron Stage

Lab Reading: "Our Family in the Stars" by Katie Oler
2024-07-24 19:00 - 20:30 | Hollins Theatre
Each Wednesday evening, as part of the course Playwright’s Lab, an early draft of a student written play is presented in an orchestra style reading.

#5: Our Family in the Stars by Katie Oler

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Helen Phillips Reading and Lecture
2024-09-19 20:15 - 21:30 | Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library, 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, 24020, United States
Helen Phillips is the author of six books, including the novel The Need (Simon & Schuster, 2019; Chatto & Windus, 2019), which was long-listed for the National Book Award and named a New York Times Notable Book of 2019. Her latest novel, HUM, was published in August 2024 by Simon & Schuster/Marysue Rucci Books.

Phillips’ short story collection Some Possible Solutions (Henry Holt, 2016) received the 2017 John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Her novel The Beautiful Bureaucrat (Henry Holt, 2015), a New York Times Notable Book of 2015, was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her collection And Yet They Were Happy (Leapfrog Press, 2011) was named a notable collection by The Story Prize and was re-released in 2023. She is also the author of the children’s eco-adventure book Here Where the Sunbeams Are Green (Delacorte Press, 2012).

Sponsored by the Department of English and Creative Writing and the Dee Hull Everist Visiting Speaker Fund.

Sarah Juliet Lauro Reading and Lecture
2024-10-03 19:30 - 21:00 | Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library, 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, 24020, United States
Sarah Juliet Lauro, Ph.D., is assistant professor of hemispheric literature at the University of Tampa. She has written widely on zombies in literature and film, but her new work focuses on commemorations of slave rebellion in various forms.

Lauro’s first book, The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death (2015) showcases her expertise in both postcolonial literature of the Western hemisphere and horror film. She followed this with the publication of an edited volume, Zombie Theory: A Reader (2018), and the slim book Kill the Overseer! The Gamification of Slave Revolt (2020). Lauro enjoys collaborative scholarship and has edited collections both for book publication and for special issues of journals. She has also done some writing for magazines and online outlets, most recently for Art Papers and Monument Lab Bulletin.

Lauro received the 2015 Tyler Rigg award for the year’s best essay in the international journal Disability Studies Quarterly.

Sponsored by the Department of English and Creative Writing and the Dee Hull Everist Visiting Speaker Fund.

Nathan Osorio Reading and Lecture
2024-10-24 19:30 - 21:00 | VA
Nathan Xavier Osorio won the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for his collection Querida. Selected by poet Shara McCallum, his debut collection will be published by The University of Pittsburgh Press in September 2024.

Osorio’s chapbook, The Last Town Before the Mojave, was selected by Oliver de la Paz for the Poetry Society of America’s 2021 Chapbook Fellowship. His poetry, translations, and essays have been featured or are forthcoming in BOMB, The Offing, Boston Review, Public Books, Notre Dame Review, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, the Kenyon Review, and Poetry Foundation.

Osorio is currently a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Irvine. He conducts critical and creative research that explores the work of contemporary Latinx poets and artists who use multimodal decolonial poetics to unsettle western forms and illuminate the complexities of life within coloniality.

Sponsored by the Department of English and Creative Writing, the Department of Modern Languages, and the Dee Hull Everist Visiting Speaker Fund.

Distinguished Speaker Series: Ailey School Student Performance Group
2024-11-20 19:00 - 20:30 | Hollins Theatre
THEATRE SEATING IS SOLD OUT! All Tickets will now be for a live video feed.
The Ailey School honors the vision of Alvin Ailey, founder of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, by providing the best professional dance education with a focus on multidisciplinary training.

Dancers from the Ailey School will offer a performance and a keynote address on the history of the Ailey company, their relationship with college campuses and diversity, and the importance of teaching and the arts. The dancers come from all corners of the world to train and perfect their craft in the Ailey style of dance which incorporates multiple techniques including ballet, Horton, Graham-based modern, jazz, West African, Dunham technique, and hip hop. Led by Rehearsal Director Freddie Moore, the dancers are given the opportunity to share Mr. Ailey’s vision through valuable professional performance experience. This special event is part of the Hollins Distinguished Speaker Series.
Admission is free and open to the public, but seating is limited, and tickets are required (click here to reserve your space). Once tickets in the theatre are sold out, we will offer tickets to overflow seating in another location, with a video feed from the event in the theatre.
