When she was a little girl growing up in Mexico, Miriam Alarcon Avila loved watching Mexican professional wrestling, known as lucha libre, on TV and playing with her luchador action figures in their distinctive masks. “I saw them as superheroes,” she said.
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Iowa City Press Citizen - Monday, November 18, 2019
The Daily Iowan - Saturday, November 16, 2019
Poised in the shadows both on and offstage, lunging under the stage lights, and speaking stories wherein movement is the teller, the UI Department of Dance’s annual Dance Gala, entitled *In Motion,* transported Hancher Auditorium into a night of magic.
The Daily Iowan - Thursday, November 14, 2019
Robots took over Hancher Auditorium Thursday evening to perform a series of skits and routines as part of the University of Iowa’s Robot Theater Project.
Iowa City Press Citizen - Thursday, November 14, 2019
Dance Gala is returning to Hancher, bringing with it themes of growth and change. The event, which at one point would draw upwards of 2,000 attendees to the venue, has only been held inside the venerable theater once since it had to be rebuilt after the destructive 2008 floods.
The Gazette - Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Dance Gala 2019 celebrates its 38th anniversary with “In Motion,” featuring new work created by University of Iowa Department of Dance faculty and guest artists from Urban Bush Women, a dance company that encourages civic engagement and social accountability through art.
Living Local - Friday, November 8, 2019
Today we are out and about in Iowa City visiting one of the University of Iowa’s gems, Hancher Auditorium. For 47 years, Hancher has been a cultural hub for the University of Iowa… presenting world-class dance, music, and theater. But Hancher’s reach extends far beyond campus.
The Gazette - Thursday, October 31, 2019
In the mood for adventuresome jazz? Cellist Tomeka Reid’s hard-grooving quartet will deliver.
The Little Village Magazine - Thursday, October 24, 2019
Anne Bogart has influenced decades of actors and directors as one of the most formidable minds in American theater. She trained at Bard College and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
The Daily Iowan - Wednesday, October 23, 2019
At the start of her freshman year at the University of Iowa, Paris Sissel attended a job fair not knowing what to expect. She then spent her first two years at the UI as an usher at Hancher Auditorium.
The Daily Iowan - Tuesday, October 22, 2019
In the dimly lit auditorium, audience members filled the seats of the first level, leaving only a few spots open for Sankai Juku’s performance of Utsushi at Hancher.