{"id":193,"date":"2017-10-23T18:32:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T18:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theatreanddance\/departmentnews\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T19:39:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T19:39:38","slug":"departmentnews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/about\/departmentnews\/","title":{"rendered":"Department Values"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">THDA Faculty and Alumni on BIPOC Theater Today<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Theater and Dance faculty and alumni have contributed some significant statements and articles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The petition \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weseeyouwat.com\/\">we see you white theater<\/a>\u201d is signed by alumni James A Williams, Mandi Madsen, and Danai Gurira, and Macalester faculty Harrison David Rivers, among many others.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The New York Times article \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/10\/theater\/systemic-racism-theater.html?smid=em-share\">Four Black Artists on How Racism Corrodes the Theater World<\/a>\u201d has an entire section on\/by Sarah Bellamy, Penumbra Theatre\u2019s artistic director and visiting assistant professor in the Theater and Dance Department.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sarah Bellamy published in the Paris Review the story \u201c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/08\/the-performance-of-white-bodies\/?fbclid=IwAR2cl-zla9tCYorVjcIcJ-a_wicUZzGkAPJSBm-wXVnEjEdqFxszmnEg9Ss#.Xt8BjY_f7mY.facebook\">Performing Whiteness.<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The American Theater Magazine\u2019s story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americantheatre.org\/2020\/06\/01\/tired-but-not-daunted-in-the-twin-cities\/\">Tired But Not Daunted in the Twin Cities<\/a>\u201d features Sarah Bellamy, and alumni Faye Price and James A Williams.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/about\/departmentnews\/statement-regarding-the-death-of-george-floyd\/\">THDA Statement on the Murder of George Floyd<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:45px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:21% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"675\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/595\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-23-at-7.32.17-PM-675x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3803 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/13304\/\">St. Paul Storyteller | Macalester News<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Dance minor Mai Moua Thao &#8217;22 spent her summer interning at St. Paul Neighborhood Network (SPNN), assisting filmmakers in creating documentaries focused on a variety of issues affecting the local community.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:45px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"730\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/595\/2020\/04\/BigQuestionsClaudia.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3598 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/595\/2020\/04\/BigQuestionsClaudia.jpg 730w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/595\/2020\/04\/BigQuestionsClaudia-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/2019\/02\/big-questions-st-paul-how-do-we-create-a-stage-that-helps-audiences-imagine-a-world-guided-by-social-equity\/8\/#\/0\">Big Questions | Theater and Social Equity<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Chair and professor of Theater and Dance Cl\u00e1udia Tatinge Nascimento joined artistic director for Penumbra Theatre Company and visiting assistant professor Sarah Bellamy and President Brian Rosenberg in February 2019 to discuss the question: How do we create a stage that helps audiences imagine a world guided by social equity? This event was part of <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/bigquestions\/\">Macalester&#8217;s Big Questions<\/a> series.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:45px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/595\/2020\/04\/BigQuestionsPatricia.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3600 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/595\/2020\/04\/BigQuestionsPatricia.jpg 1024w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/595\/2020\/04\/BigQuestionsPatricia-300x200.jpg 300w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/595\/2020\/04\/BigQuestionsPatricia-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/2020\/01\/big-questions-los-angeles-can-embracing-the-arts-reconnect-our-common-humanity\/#\/3\">Big Questions | Arts and Humanity<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>President Brian Rosenberg sat down with NTT Instructor of Dance Patricia Brown and Music Professor Michael McGaghie in January 2020 to answer the question: Can embracing the arts reconnect our common humanity? This event was part of <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/bigquestions\/\">Macalester&#8217;s Big Questions<\/a> series.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THDA Faculty and Alumni on BIPOC Theater Today Theater and Dance faculty and alumni have contributed some significant statements and articles: THDA Statement on the Murder of George Floyd St. Paul Storyteller | Macalester News Dance minor Mai Moua Thao &#8217;22 spent her summer interning at St. Paul Neighborhood Network (SPNN), assisting filmmakers in creating [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":182,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-193","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":108,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9305,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/193\/revisions\/9305"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}