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American College Dance Festival Association
The American College Dance Festival Association's
primary focus is to support and promote the wealth of
talent and creativity that is prominent throughout
college and university dance departments. ACDFA's
sponsorship of regional conferences and the national
dance festival provides the venue for students and
faculty to engage in three days of performances,
workshops, panels, and master classes taught by
instructors from around the region and country. The
conferences also provide the unique opportunity for
students and faculty to have their dance works
adjudicated by a panel of nationally recognized dance
professionals in an open and constructive forum.
Culminating with the presentation of pieces selected for
their exemplary artistic quality, the conferences are
the primary means for college and university dance
programs to perform outside their own academic setting
and be exposed to the diversity of the national college
dance world.
ACDFA also sponsors the National College Dance Festival.
A biennial event, the National Festival showcases works
selected from each regional conference for presentation
on gala concerts at the Kennedy Center's Terrace
Theater.
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Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival
Started in 1969 by Roger L. Stevens, the Kennedy Center's
founding chairman, the Kennedy Center American College
Theater Festival (KCACTF) is a national theater program
involving 18,000 students from colleges and universities
nationwide, which has served as a catalyst in improving the
quality of college theater in the United States. The KCACTF
has grown into a network of more than 600 academic
institutions throughout the country, where theater
departments and student artists showcase their work and
receive outside assessment by KCACTF respondents.
The goals of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival are:
- To encourage, recognize, and celebrate the finest and most diverse work produced in university and college theater programs;
- To provide opportunities for participants to develop their theater skills and insight; and achieve professionalism;
- To improve the quality of college and university theater in America;
- To encourage colleges and universities to give distinguished productions of new plays, especially those written by students; the classics, revitalized or newly conceived; and experimental works.
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University/Resident Theatre Association
The University/Resident Theatre Association is the
country's oldest and largest consortium of professional
theatre training graduate programs and associated
professional theatre companies. Founded in 1969, U/RTA
provides a variety of service, management and
informational programs to its members, and to non-member
students, theatre professionals and producing companies,
while serving as the primary liaison between the
professional and educational theatres. U/RTA encourages
the professional training of artists, and of future
teachers in the performing arts for all levels of
education.
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