An Evening of Dance Opens March 30th

This March the Newcomb Dance Company stages their annual An Evening of Dance concert, with original choreography from the Newcomb Dance Faculty. This year will feature a performance from Lusher Charter School, and special guest choreographer Stevan Novakovich, who will be staging a ballet.

Among the faculty presenting new choreography are Jeffrey Gunshol, Diogo de Lima, and Michaela Cannon.

An Evening of Dance
March 30-31 at 8 PM
April 1 at 2 PM

Ticket Prices:
$12 - General Admission
$9 - Tulane Community
$8 - Students & Seniors

Buy tickets online or through the Lupin Theater Box Office at 865-5106.

"Two Gentlemen" Photo Gallery Featured on the Tulane New Wave

Ofir Caspi as the Host, Stephen M. Eckert as Proteus, Gabriella Cerqueira as Sylvia, and Erin McCluskey and Maddie Dean as Sylvia's Posse.

Last night Two Gentlemen of Verona opened to standing ovation, and this morning the New Wave ran a photogallery featuring images from the production.

Two Gentlemen of Verona focuses on the fraternal friendship between Proteus and Valentine, two foolish young men with their hearts set on equally lovelorn young women, Julia and Sylvia. The loyalty of their friendship is sworn off as Proteus pursues Valentine’s love interest, Sylvia, and forsakes his relationship with Julia.

This production will feature festival actor Martin Covert, directed under festival actor and director Gary Rucker, and actor Jim Wright, who appeared in The NOLA Project's Romeo and Juliet.

NDC and Guest Choreographer, Stevan Novakovich, featured in the New Wave

Guest choreographer Stevan Novakovich rehearses with the Newcomb Dance Company on a piece for An Evening of Dance.

Yugoslavian-born Novakovich explores the core of the human experience through the essence of its freedoms and constraints. Novakovich combines high technical prowess and attention to details to choreograph pieces that are offer intense complexity and mesmerizing simplicity. He believes in the accessibility of the art form and stages pieces that engage audiences through ballet and minimalist movement to Contemporary, Modern, and Butoh. Novakovich was educated at California State University, University of Utah, and the Ballet Academy in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, and has trained at Martha Graham School, Brigham Young University, and the Alvin Ailey School of American Dance. His has performed with Joffrey Ballet, Alwin Nikolais, Battery Dance Company, the New York City Opera, and the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.

See more images from the rehearsal at the New Wave.

SFT & TUTD Present: Two Gentlemen of Verona

Tulane University Department of Theatre & Dance and The New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane announced their first ever coproduction, this February's Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Two Gentlemen of Verona focuses on the fraternal friendship between Proteus and Valentine, two foolish young men with their hearts set on equally lovelorn young women, Julia and Sylvia. The loyalty of their friendship is sworn off as Proteus pursues Valentine’s love interest, Sylvia, and forsakes his relationship with Julia.

This production will feature festival actor Martin Covert, directed under festival actor and director Gary Rucker, and actor Jim Wright, who appeared in The NOLA Project's Romeo and Juliet.

Performance Dates:
February 28-March 3 at 8 PM
March 4 at 2 PM

Ticket Prices:
$12 General Admission
$9 Tulane Faculty, Staff, Alumni
$8 Students & Seniors

Buy tickets through the Lupin Theater Box Office at 504-865-5106 or online:

Caryl Churchill's feminist piece, The Skriker Opens November 29th

Combining theater and dance, along with mask work and puppetry, Frank directs Churchill's desperate fairy tale of love and revenge. The Skriker, an ancient fairy and shapeshifter surrounded by creatures of the underworld, haunts, seduces, and entraps two teenage mothers.

Featuring a live, original score by Ratty Scurvics.

November 29 - December 3 at 8 pm, December 4 at 2 pm in Lupin Theater.

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Above the Oaks Opens November 1st

This fall, the intimate space of the McWilliams Room 300 dance studio is transformed in to a performance space, providing audiences the opportunity to experience the energy and passion of the Newcomb Dance Company up close.

Guest artist Adrienne Clancy, Artistic Director of ClancyWorks, has a choreographic residency in October, and will set the piece, “Back to the Wall,” for the Newcomb Dance Company. Clancy’s work focuses on partnering, which blends contact improvisational techniques and structural ideas based on architecture.

Above the Oaks features choreography by Newcomb Dance Faculty Alice Pascal Escher, Barbara Hayley, Jeffrey Gunshol, and John Allen, along with guest artist Adrienne Clancy.

Above the Oaks
November 1-5, 8 pm
November 6, 2 pm

Tickets are available at the Lupin Theater Box Office at 865-5106 or box@tulane.edu

The Assembly Women Opens October 18th

Set in ancient Athens, a group of women disguise themselves as men to vote in favor of giving women control over the government. Once they gain control, the women create a totalitarian-esque government that provides shelter, food, and basic care for every Athenian citizen. Sexual freedom also is granted to the citizens, and in the name of equality, every man may sleep with every woman—provided he sleeps with the ugly women before sleeping with a beautiful one.

Though the show is rooted and set in Ancient Greece, the audience can expect a few modern touches woven in to the production.

Aristophanes' The Assembly Women
Ocotber 18-22 at 8 pm
October 23 at 2 pm.

Tickets are available at the Lupin Theater Box Office at 865-5106 or box@tulane.edu