THREE ELECTRIC PERFORMANCES FEATURING UI STUDENTS AND FACULTY. ONE VIBRANT CAMPUS WITH CREATIVITY AT ITS HEART. This semester, join us for brilliant, diverse, eclectic artistry celebrating students, faculty, and staff across the performing arts. Dance students working with Professor Stephanie Miracle and Professor Eloy Barragan will take to the Hancher stage with the iconic Martha Graham Dance Company. Theatre Arts students will bring a beautiful play to life under the direction of Professor Caroline Clay. And School of Music students will perform a new opera at Hancher with music composed by Professor William Menefield, who will also direct. Each performance is emblematic of what's possible on a campus committed to collaborative, transformational arts experiences for artists and audiences alike. MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY GRAHAM100 PRESENTED BY HANCHER AUDITORIUM WITH SUPPORT FROM DEPARTMENT OF DANCE Friday, March 29/7:30p.m. Hancher Auditorium An indispensable dance company celebrates 100 years, bringing is founder's classic works to the stage alongside new work by contemporary choreographers Martha Graham-an icon among 20th century artistic icons-radically expanded the dance vocabulary, and her work has captivated audiences worldwide while influencing generations of TICKETS Students & Youth10 IN THE RED AND BROWN WATER IN THE RED AND BROWN WATER By Tarell Alvin McCraney Directed by Caroline Clay PRESENTED BY DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE ARTS Friday-Sunday, April 12-14 & Wednesday-Saturday, April 17-20 Theatre Building San Pen, Louisiana Oya nuns fast, but her collegiate future is placed on hold to care for her mother Inspired by Federico Garcia Lorca's Yerma and Yoruban cosmology Tare Alvin McCraney's in the Red and Brown Water is a lyrical offering at the intersection of ancestral myth and nual about a young woman's coming of age navigating lovers, community, and her chosen path TICKETS Senior C Youth & Non-U Students "70 FIERCE Music by William Menefield Libretto by Sheila Williams Directed by William Menefield PRESENTED BY HANCHER AUDITORIUM PERFORMING ARTS PRODUCTION UNIT AND SCHOOL OF MUSIC Friday & Saturday, April 26 & 27/7:30p.m. Hancher Auditorium An opera for the 21st Century, Fierce follows four teenage girls finding identity and purpose in the world as they write their college essays in a high school writers workshop The young women face striking internal challenges-the difficulties of high school popularity and social media, the weight of parental expectations personal loss, and unstable lives at home-but come together to find community self empowerment, and the confidence to embrace new chapters TICKETS Youth & Non-U Studen PERFORMING ARTS AT IOWA SCHOOL OF MUC PERFORMING ARTS PRODUCTION MORE INFO AND TICKETS AT PERFORMINGARTS.UIOWA.EDU IOWA THREE ELECTRIC PERFORMANCES FEATURING UI STUDENTS AND FACULTY . ONE VIBRANT CAMPUS WITH CREATIVITY AT ITS HEART . This semester , join us for brilliant , diverse , eclectic artistry celebrating students , faculty , and staff across the performing arts . Dance students working with Professor Stephanie Miracle and Professor Eloy Barragan will take to the Hancher stage with the iconic Martha Graham Dance Company . Theatre Arts students will bring a beautiful play to life under the direction of Professor Caroline Clay . And School of Music students will perform a new opera at Hancher with music composed by Professor William Menefield , who will also direct . Each performance is emblematic of what's possible on a campus committed to collaborative , transformational arts experiences for artists and audiences alike . MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY GRAHAM100 PRESENTED BY HANCHER AUDITORIUM WITH SUPPORT FROM DEPARTMENT OF DANCE Friday , March 29/7 : 30 p.m . Hancher Auditorium An indispensable dance company celebrates 100 years , bringing is founder's classic works to the stage alongside new work by contemporary choreographers Martha Graham - an icon among 20th century artistic icons - radically expanded the dance vocabulary , and her work has captivated audiences worldwide while influencing generations of TICKETS Students & Youth10 IN THE RED AND BROWN WATER IN THE RED AND BROWN WATER By Tarell Alvin McCraney Directed by Caroline Clay PRESENTED BY DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE ARTS Friday - Sunday , April 12-14 & Wednesday - Saturday , April 17-20 Theatre Building San Pen , Louisiana Oya nuns fast , but her collegiate future is placed on hold to care for her mother Inspired by Federico Garcia Lorca's Yerma and Yoruban cosmology Tare Alvin McCraney's in the Red and Brown Water is a lyrical offering at the intersection of ancestral myth and nual about a young woman's coming of age navigating lovers , community , and her chosen path TICKETS Senior C Youth & Non - U Students " 70 FIERCE Music by William Menefield Libretto by Sheila Williams Directed by William Menefield PRESENTED BY HANCHER AUDITORIUM PERFORMING ARTS PRODUCTION UNIT AND SCHOOL OF MUSIC Friday & Saturday , April 26 & 27/7 : 30 p.m . Hancher Auditorium An opera for the 21st Century , Fierce follows four teenage girls finding identity and purpose in the world as they write their college essays in a high school writers workshop The young women face striking internal challenges - the difficulties of high school popularity and social media , the weight of parental expectations personal loss , and unstable lives at home - but come together to find community self empowerment , and the confidence to embrace new chapters TICKETS Youth & Non - U Studen PERFORMING ARTS AT IOWA SCHOOL OF MUC PERFORMING ARTS PRODUCTION MORE INFO AND TICKETS AT PERFORMINGARTS.UIOWA.EDU IOWA