Music Theatre/Dance

For more information about the Music Theatre/Dance Focus Group, click here to send an e-mail to the Focus Group Leadership.

The Music Theatre/Dance Focus Group supports and produces collaborations of performance practice and scholarship in the field of Music Theatre. The Music Theatre/Dance Focus Group encompasses such art forms as: operas, operettas, musicals, dance theatre and performance art. It encourages new research in the field, helps with the curriculum development of new programs, and supports the performative and scholarly development of these disciplines in academia. The Music Theatre/Dance Focus Group also provides a place where teaching techniques can be shared, networking strategies can be reinforced, and connections between the professional world and various institutions can be established and solidified.

Find out more about the Music Theatre/Dance focus group and their activities.

• Click here to view the mid-year report (2009-2010).
• Click here to view the annual report (2009-2010).

Officers
Focus Group Representative
Ron Gingerich (Dickinson State University)
ronald.gingerich@dickinsonstate.edu

Focus Group Conference Planner
John Staniunas (University of Kansas)
stanj@ku.edu

Focus Group Coordinator
Rene Pulliam (University of Mississippi)
rjpulliam@olemiss.edu

Graduate Student Representatives
Ron Zank - rjzc46@mizzou.edu

Jason Fitzgerald - jfitz@post.harvard.edu

Focus Group Treasurer
Barbara Parisi - ryanrep@juno.com

Focus Group Webmaster
Stephen Farrow - stephen.farrow@gmail.com

The 2010 MTD Call for Papers will be posted on the focus group's website: http://www.athe.org/mtd/index.html.  E-mail the focus group at musictheatredance@athe.org. To subscribe to the Music Theatre/Dance focus group's listserv, email Stephen Farrow at stephen.farrow@gmail.com.