U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Founded in 1880, the @UMich School of Music, Theatre & Dance is one of the finest performing arts schools in the United States.

[Michigan Kinesiology @UMKines]

Concussion care shouldn’t stop at the sidelines. It’s relevant for student performers who may experience an injury on stage too.

A team from @umichconcussion + @umichsmtd has created the first discipline-specific protocol, with six steps for returning to dance and theatre.

[Michigan News @UMichiganNews]

Justin Urso, BFA '13, made a life-changing decision to put his program on pause after his sophomore year at @umichsmtd. He left the competitive program to pursue a professional career in ballet. More than a decade later, Urso made an equally life-changing decision to return. #MichiganToday

🔗 Read more: https://t.co/rLCzJEZfFs

[Marvel Studios @MarvelStudios]

The X-Men are coming to the MCU:

Sadie Sink is Jean Grey
Kit Connor is Cyclops
Christopher Abbott is Professor Charles Xavier
Samara Weaving is Emma Frost
Inde Navarrette is Rogue
Maya Boyd is Storm
Adam Driver is Nathaniel Milbury

Only in theaters May 5, 2028.

[Michigan Medicine @umichmedicine]

They make music together every Sunday, and share their talents with the community through free concerts in winter and spring.

The @UMich Life Sciences Orchestra is holding auditions soon!
Learn more about how members of the #umich community can take part: https://t.co/jEuX0jSD4m

[Michigan Research @UMichResearch]

A team of @UMichSMTD and @UMKines researchers has created the Progressive Return-to-Performance Protocol, the first standardized, discipline-specific framework for concussion management among university performing arts students. https://t.co/VEIILRR5Ma

[University of Michigan @UMich]

President Grasso and other university leaders gathered on the Diag to read aloud the Declaration of Independence on July 8 at 6 p.m., marking the exact date and time of the document’s first public reading in 1776. https://t.co/IGnmUZLUby

[Michigan News @UMichiganNews]

Acclaimed composer Gabriela Lena Frank, DMA '01, credits @umichsmtd mentors William Bolcom, Logan Skelton, and Leslie Bassett with cultivating a passion for music inspired by her mother's Peruvian heritage. Frank's winning work, "Picaflor: A Future Myth," tells the story of a heroic hummingbird on a mission to save Mother Earth. #MichiganToday

🔗 Read more: https://t.co/SGrn84egZX

[Michigan News @UMichiganNews]

In the extra-musical world of U-M alum Julia Wolfe, members of the orchestra snap their fingers. Stomp their feet. And play their instruments, of course. During a weeklong residency hosted by UMS, the Pulitzer-winning composer joined musicians from Germany’s Karajan-Akademie of the Berliner Philharmoniker and the @umichsmtd eas they became a cohesive — and active — international ensemble. #MichiganToday

🔗 Read more: https://t.co/h6o0ZiwTWG

[CEW+ at U-M @CEWatUM]

Catherine Goode is a professional soprano and 3rd-year Doctor of Musical Arts student at @umichsmtd. CEW+ applauds Catherine’s commitment to women in music and names her a Riecker Graduate Student Research Fellow. https://t.co/v4INA94Uui

[Michigan News @UMichiganNews]

Shavonne Coleman, assistant professor @umichsmtd, is directing a play at the Detroit Repertory Theatre about the lives of five women during the Second Liberian Civil War. She speaks with @BridgeDet313 about her directorial debut.

🔗 Read more: https://t.co/7mpNgI0GVc

[University of Michigan @UMich]

As part of @UMichSMTD’s BFA in Design & Production, students present work in an annual portfolio review, which showcases coursework and production experience across theatre, opera, and dance, from designs to stage management. https://t.co/qAGjIoSXbd

[annyhanny @annyhanny]

Excellent @jazzdotorg + @UMich event all around at #HillAuditorium. Enjoyed Wynton’s jovial relationships w/all musicians esp Obed 🥁 & first oboe, plus all @umichsmtd symphony musicians. #GoBlue

[University of Michigan @UMich]

Ballet & Books, a national nonprofit founded by U-M medical student Talia Bailes, is partnering with @UMichSMTD to redefine arts education for children by merging dance and literacy in a community-based setting. https://t.co/zPevQKZ4W8

[CEW+ at U-M @CEWatUM]

Join us on Wednesday, February 11, for the CEW+ Inspire Awards honoring Dr. Vanessa K. Dalton from @UMichMedSchool, Dr. Shanna K. Kattari from @UMSocialWork, Professor Ellen Rowe from @umichsmtd, and Professor Michelle Bellino from the @UMichEducation. https://t.co/jSph7nmTqM

[Alumni Association of the University of Michigan @michiganalumni]

Tony Award-nominated actress Lorna Courtney, a 2019 @umichsmtd grad, shares her favorite place on campus, top U-M memory, and more in a new round of #MaizeOrBlue.

[Michigan Research @UMichResearch]

Matt Albert, Associate Professor of Music at @UMichSMTD, is exploring how the methods of creative practice relate to more traditional concepts of research and how performers and researchers can better link the two. https://t.co/wOrss49rja

[Chad Smith Foundation @ChadSFoundation]

Launched in style. 🥁

Chad surprised @UMich's Band-O-Rama to announce the Curtis & Joan Smith Scholarship in partnership with @umichsmtd.

He then took the stage with the Michigan Marching Band to perform "Can't Stop" and the Michigan Fight Song “The Victors” at Hill Auditorium.

[University of Michigan @UMich]

Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith announced a partnership between the @ChadSFoundation and @UmichSMTD at U-M's Band-O-Rama on Nov. 2, marking the launch of the Curtis & Joan Smith Scholarship to provide support for an incoming music student. https://t.co/J0D4C1ewAu

[Alumni Association of the University of Michigan @michiganalumni]

.@umichsmtd alum Helen J Shen, who stars in the Tony Award-winning musical "Maybe Happy Ending," has been named to the TIME100 Next list, a collection of the world's most influential rising stars. https://t.co/EH9CRlksYC

[Illinois Press @IllinoisPress]

In American Music 42.1, Christi-Anne Castro's (@umichsmtd) article considers the interconnectedness of war-making and gendered race-making in popular sheet music and soldier songs of the Philippine-American War. Read on @ProjectMUSE: https://t.co/X4ZDpxuRrf