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Leslie Harper (Class of 1991) Named 2023 Bush Foundation Fellowship Recipient
Leslie Harper (Class of 1991)August 17, 2023
Congratulations to Leslie Harper (Class of 1991) on being named a 2023 Bush Foundation Fellowship recipient! Harper (Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe) is determined to help Tribal communities create their own futures. Raised by…
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Backstage Center Stage Workshop Focuses on Theater Tech & Design
June 28, 2023
Perpich Center for Arts Education hosted an in-person one-day tech/design workshop for theater educators and directors in Brainerd, MN at the beautiful Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts on June 27, 2023. The target audience for the workshop was K-12 and College/University Theater…
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Perpich Arts High Theater Department presents “TMORA, and TMORA, and TMORA”
April 18, 2023
Perpich theater students screened Anton Chekhov’s short story film adaptations and performed selected vignettes of Luigi Jannuzzi’s “Museum Plays” at The Museum of Russian Art (TMORA) on April 14, 2023. The selected vignettes were recontextualized to fit specific works in The Museum…
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Harding and Lein Walseth Present Workshop at Art and Science Academy
April 10, 2023
Mary Harding, Perpich Dance Instructor and Dance Education Specialist, and Dr. Stephanie Lein Walseth, Theater Education Specialist, presented “Using the Tools of Theater and Dance to Build Arts Literacy” to faculty and staff at Art and Science Academy, a K-8 arts and…
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Perpich Theater and Musical Theater Students Visit Chicago for National Unified Auditions
February 15, 2023
The group outside of Palmer House Hotel in ChicagoEvery February, inside the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago, the theater departments of several dozen colleges converge to hold the National Unified Auditions, a make-or-break, do-or-die audition week for anxious,…
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Perpich Arts High School Theater Department Presents “Queen Bull”
December 19, 2022
Perpich Arts High School Theater Department presented “Queen Bull” over a three-show run on December 15 & 16, 2022.
Using middle school interviews, found elements on Quora, text and study of Eugene Ionesco’s play “Rhinoceros”, along with the tween/teen archetypes defined in psychologist…
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Students Present “The Wolves” by Sarah DeLappe with Guest Director, Christian Bardin
The cast of “The Wolves” by Sarah DeLappe – Perpich Arts High School – November, 2022November 16, 2022
The .5 Production Class at Perpich Arts High School presented “The Wolves” by Sarah DeLappe during a two-show run on November 14 and…
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Joetta Wright (Theater 2005) Speaks for Dedication 2022
September 20, 2022
Joetta Wright (Theater 2005)Dedication Day 2022 was September 19. Dedication is a Perpich tradition where new students and faculty/staff are welcomed into the Perpich community. The faculty speaker, Tory Peterson (Theater Instructor), spoke about our interconnectedness and how…
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Perpich Arts High School Theater Ensemble presents “Weird Nightmares”
December 10, 2021
Perpich Theater Ensemble presented Weird Nightmares, a dramatic presentation of four Hans Christian Andersen stories (The Deep Bell, Most Incredible Thing, The Red Shoes, and Little Match Girl) and the lyrics to Charles Mingus’ song Weird Nightmares on Thursday, December 9, 2021. The students played…
