A Chorus Line Coming to Sangamon Auditorium November 2!

"Step-kick-kick-leap-kick-touch! AGAIN!"

A Chorus Line, a Tony Award winning Broadway show, is coming to Sangamon Auditorium on Tuesday, November 2nd at 7:30 p.m.

Click HERE to view a clip from the Chorus Line cast opening the 2007 Tony Awards to give you a little taste...

So, step-kick-kick-leap-kick-touch your way to our website for more information and tickets:
A Chorus Line at Sangamon Auditorium, UIS

Tickets On Sale for Legally Blonde on October 25!

Omigod, you guys!

Legally Blonde: The Musical is coming to Sangamon Auditorium, UIS on Monday, December 6th at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets for the performance go on sale on Monday, October 25th!

For tickets and other information, CLICK HERE.

Humorist and Author, David Sedaris, at Sangamon Auditorium

NPR humorist and bestselling author, David Sedaris, is coming to Sangamon Auditorium, UIS on Friday, October 22, 2010 at 8 p.m.

Did you know Sedaris' newest book, a collection of fables entitled Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary is being published this month? In fact, the UIS Bookstore will have books available!

One more interesting note: Sedaris has agreed to stay after the show to sign anything and everything you could ever want signed! He literally will stay until he's met with and signed anything audience members would want autographed.

Check out this hilarious clip of Sedaris on Letterman:
CLICK HERE!

So, do you have your ticket yet?

Check out more information and buy your tickets at our website: Sangamon Auditorium

Bayanihan Philippine National Dance Company Coming to Sangamon Auditorium October 13th

Bayanihan Philippine National Dance Company coming next week to Sangamon Auditorium, UIS Bayanihan Philippine National Dance Company Wednesday, October 13, 7:30 p.m. Ticket Prices: $40, 35, 20 One of the national treasures of the Philippines, the story of the Bayanihan Philippine National Dance Company spans 43 years of performances all over the world. With its early roots in the Filipiniana Folk Music and Dance Committee of the Philippine Women’s University (PWU), it was not until 1957 that the PWU Bayanihan Folk Arts Center and its performing arm, the Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company, were founded to preserve ethnic rites, tribal folklore and regional folk ways, and to collect indigenous art forms. The first Filipino group to perform on Broadway, Bayanihan opened at New York’s Winter Garden Theater on Oct. 13, 1959. They were accorded unanimous critical acclaim for their skill, grace and joie de vivre, and the company’s flawless transference of indigenous dance and music traditions from their ancient origins to the stage without sacrificing authenticity. From that time forward, Bayanihan has mounted 15 international tours and more than one hundred brief tours to international events and festivals covering 55 countries on five continents. WATCH VIDEO: Who is the Bayanihan Philippine National Dance Company? This presentation is supported by the Peforming Arts Fund, a program of Arts Midwest funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts Midwest funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. which believes a great nation deserves great art, with additional contributions from the General Mills Foundation, Land O' Lakes Foundation, and the Illinois Arts Council. Get tickets today! For more information visit www.SangamonAuditorium.org or call the Sangamon Auditorium Ticket Office at 217. 206. 6160 or 800. 207. 6960, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Opportunity for FREE Tickets to Spring Awakening at Sangamon Auditorium

Have you heard of the ‘Guilty Ones?’ They’re the group of fans that love SPRING AWAKENING so much, they felt the need to organize and spread the word on their own. Well Sangamon Auditorium, UIS is looking to create our own group of Guilty Ones! We only have room for the 5 most ambitious SPRING AWAKENING fans out there! If you are interested in becoming a Guilty One for the Sangamon Auditorium, UIS engagement, contact us to let us know why’d you be the best – but hurry – only the first 5 will be allowed in. Did we mention if you complete all the Guilty Ones tasks you can receive free tickets to the performance and more? Join the Sangamon Auditorium, UIS Guilty Ones today and help spread the word that SPRING AWAKENING is coming to Sangamon Auditorium!

Illinois Symphony Orchestra Season Begins!

The Illinois Symphony Orchestra season began last weekend with Boldly Beautiful. The orchestra performed at 8 pm on Saturday, September 25^th.

The orchestra's next performance at Sangamon Auditorium will Fiery Fun on Saturday, November 13, at 8 p.m.

For more information and the schedule for this season with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, visit their website at http://www.ilsymphony.org/index.php

Also, find out more from Sangamon Auditorium, click HERE.

Arts Integration Teacher Workshop

Sangamon Auditorium and Springfield Public Schools are joining forces to provide professional development in the arts for area K-12 teachers.  The two entities recently became members of the Partners in Education program of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Selected because of their demonstrated commitment to the improvement of education in and through the arts, the two entities will work together to create and develop arts programs for the education of teachers. This includes expanding teachers’ abilities to integrate the arts into the curriculum using the best teaching practices and building their confidence, comfort, and enthusiasm in teaching in and about the arts. This will be achieved by providing professional development opportunities, experiences, and performances in the arts.

The first workshop event in the Partners in Education program, “Focusing on Arts Integration,” was held on Friday, September 17, 2010 at the Regional Office of Education’s Staff Development Center.  Led by Karen L. Erickson, a leader in Arts Education who has worked with schools and arts organizations internationally and in nearly all fifty states, the workshop provided a practical, hands-on approach for exploring the characteristics of arts integrated instruction through metaphor, activities, and discussion.  Participants experienced two lessons combining drama and language arts to examine arts integration and the impact of the arts on student learning.  An overview of integrative frameworks was presented along with strategies for meeting learning standards.  The workshop laid the foundation for future workshops that will more deeply explore the integration of an art form with other subject areas. 

Thirty-six K-12 educators participated in the workshop; twenty-eight were from Springfield Public Schools and eight were from outside the district.  Though open to all K-12 teachers, fine arts educators were specifically targeted for this first workshop.

Selected feedback from participants:

• “The compare and contrast of the same lesson was excellent and very helpful in what I can take back to my principal and teachers.”

• “Excellent presentation and presenter wonderful.  Loved learning more drama terms.”

• “Superb.  Workshop leader is so creative – she makes it happen.”

• “Very engaging!”

• ”Amazing opportunities to learn from expert in field.  Real-life examples helped put process into perspective.”

• “This was the best workshop I’ve been to in the district.”

• “Great motivator!”

Attending educators participated in a Needs Assessment survey following the session to indicate their preferences for future workshop events.  Their responses were varied and thoughtful and included adding other arts areas to their curriculum, meeting the needs of special education students through the arts, and creating opportunities for classroom teachers to become inspired by arts teachers’ integration.  These preferences will be considered as future events are planned. 

For more information about Partners in Education, please contact Carly Shank at 217.206.8286 or carmi1@uis.edu or stay tuned to our website.