University of Calgary School of Creative and Performing Arts, Dance, Drama, Music

School of Creative and Performing Arts


Why Creative and Performing Arts?

Our aim is to reimagine artistry for the 21st century through a careful balance of tradition and innovation. We explore both disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives on dance, drama and music. We engage with history and the contemporary world in order to become rigorously trained and intellectually agile.

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Dance at night 2019

Dance

Combine intensive studio training and rigour with experimentation. Inspire intellectual inquiry. Nurture your passion and share your love of dance with others.

Baby birds performance

Drama

Design your own program of study. Combine rigorous artistic creation with advanced academic inquiry.

UCalgary music students

Music

Unleash your creativity and explore how ideas and emotions are communicated through sound. Experience focus, discipline, collaboration and independence.


Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall

University Theatre Services

See a show. Book a venue. Organize a conference. Get production assistance.

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News and Announcements

Landscape in Motion project celebrates Calgary landscapes through dance and landscape architecture

Collaboration between School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape and School of Creative and Performing Arts explores landscapes through lens of human body

Bold arts production brings activist movement to life

Lights Out challenges the climate crisis narrative using resilience and hope instead of despair

Appointments - Office of the Dean

The Faculty of Arts announces interim Associate Dean, Research roles

School of Creative and Performing Arts hosts immersive dance experience on climate chaos

Just Breathe, Okâwîmâwaskiy features a decolonized perspective on taking action, runs Jan. 25-26

Happy Holidays from the Faculty of Arts

Undergraduate student designs the faculty’s 2023 holiday card

Be part of the change on National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women

UCalgary holds ceremony Dec. 6 honouring victims of Montreal Massacre

In the media

In the News arch magazine

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI

In the News Melanie Kloetzel, SCPA, in CBC Homestretch

Dance Research Conference

In the News Marie France Forcier, SCPA, in CBC Radio-Canada

Quand les traumatismes psychologiques s'invitent dans la danse

In the News Rod T. Squance, SCPA (Music), in The Daily Courier

The skill and communication of musicians gives audience a thrill

In the News Christine Brubaker, SCPA, in Yahoo! News Canada

The theatre we want in 2040? We used 'strategic foresight' to plan on the Prairies

Peter D. Hershock from the East West Center in Honolulu

Consciousness: Where Science and Ethics Converge

The Annual Leslie. S. Kawamura Memorial Lecture, presented by the Numata Chair in Buddhist Studies and classics and religion.

Join Peter Hershock from the East West Center in Honolulu to examine consciousness and its ethics.

March 22
7 - 9 p.m.
TFDL

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