The UL Department of Performing Arts offers professional training within the context of a comprehensive liberal arts education garnering a broad field of study while grounded in core training. The program’s goal is to develop disciplined and versatile artists through balanced study within their chosen major, complemented and reinforced by a diverse range of theoretical studies and performance opportunities. The graduating student will be socially aware, entrepreneurial in spirit and able to successfully navigate an artist’s life.
The Department of Performing Arts at UL is a highly regarded program where exceptional faculty bridge academic and professional work. The faculty is comprised of a team of artists and scholars who have extensive professional performing experience and academic credentials. Working as an ensemble with aligned sensibilities and a collaborative approach, the faculty offers students an atmosphere where they are nurtured and stimulated in their quest for artistic achievement, technical mastery and scholarly excellence.
During four years as an undergraduate in the UL Department of Performing Arts, students have the opportunity to develop and refine their skills as actors, dancers, directors, choreographers or designers and continue wherever their inspiration and abilities lead them. The study of the performing arts at UL is intensive and the emphasis on liberal arts within a laboratory context is unique.
MISSION STATEMENT
As a vibrant community of artists/scholars, the Department of Performing Arts exists to provide rigorous pre-professional training within the context of a comprehensive liberal arts education. Focused on engaged and active training in discipline specific techniques, academic scholarship, and high personal and professional standards, the program empowers students with the skills and dispositions needed to succeed in advanced training, enter the professional arena, and navigate the life of an artist in service to their world community.
VISION STATEMENT
To be known as “The Center for Disciplined Training in the Performing Arts’ and a leading provider of high quality cultural enrichment of the university and its greater Acadiana region.
CORE VALUES:
Rigor
Scholarship
Civility (Diversity)
Professionalism
Collaboration
Community Service
OCTOBER 8-11, 2009 STATE OF LA DANSE
Choreographed by PFAR Faculty & Guest Artists
Angelle Hall
7:30 p.m. Thurs.-Sat.; 2 p.m. Sun
NOVEMBER 11-15, 2009
NOISES OFFBy: Michael Frayn
Directed by Nyalls Hartman
Location: TBA
7:30 p.m. Wed.-Sat.; 2p.m. Sun.
DECEMBER 3-4, 2009
END OF SEMESTER STUDENT SHOWCASE
By UL Department of Performing Arts
Directed by Appointed students and Faculty
Fletcher Hall
7:00 p.m Thurs.-Fri.
