overhead, a skylark called

Department of

Theatre and Dance

$Bird silhouetted on a fractured rainbow background with text overhead, a skylark called$
Frank Sinatra Chair in the Performing Arts logo

Collaboratively created by Frank Sinatra Chair in the Performing Arts Brian Thorstenson, Visiting Artists-in-Residence Detour Productions, and the Ensemble

Directed by Eric Garcia & Kat Gorospe Cole (Artistic Co-Directors of Detour) and Brian Thorstenson

Mayer Theatre and across campus

May 9-18, 2025

A group of travelers separated, now stuck in three locations..
One is walking in circles…Two waiting for a train…Three for a plague to end…
A message: stop the circles, find a river, follow the skylark…

A new devised piece of dance-theater collaboratively created with Sinatra Visiting Artists-in-Residence poses the question “what do you call home?” Choose from three experiences at locations across campus (Vari Hall, de Saisset Museum, Edward M. Dowd Art and Art History Building). This not-to-be-missed immersive and unique theatrical event culminates at the Louis B. Mayer Theatre.

CONTENT ADVISORY for the De Saisset Museum: The Plague Archives includes explicit images of disease, suffering, and death, and deals directly with human behaviors in events of mass illness, including histories of scapegoating, racism, sexism, anti Semitism, genocide, disease and science denialism, and class, financial, and scientific exploitation.

Detour Dance

Learn more about the Sinatra Chair in the Performing Arts and this collaborative project

Students on the Fess Parker Stage reading text for overhead, a skylark called, the Sinatra Project 2025

Study Guide:

5 photos showing faculty and students during the creation and rehearsal process of the new devised work overhead, a skylark called

Collage of 7 photos from rehearsals of the new devised piece, overheard, a skylark called

Onstage a woman in a long red dress with a train and a woman in a pale blue dress with a train stand in front of a lit outline of a flying bird; on the right, a woman in a plage green floral ballgown crouches behind a kooky bird house

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