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Perpich Students Attend Performance of “The Mood Room” at Walker Art Center, Meet Annie-B Parson, Choreographer and Director
Annie-B Parson, Choreographer and Director, met with Perpich students before the February 8th performance.February 12, 2024
Perpich students and Tory Peterson, Theater Instructor, attended the February 8th performance of Big Dance Theater’s “The Mood Room” at the Walker Art Center’s McGuire…
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Perpich Theater and Musical Theater Students Visit Chicago for 2024 National Unified Auditions
February 8, 2024
The group at the Palmer House, where they stayedEvery 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 Students Attend Theater Performance of Aya Ogawa’s “The Nosebleed”at Walker Art Center
Following the performance, students met with Aya Ogawa, playwright and director; Philip Bither, Walker Art Center’s Senior Curator of Performing Arts; and members of the cast.January 26, 2024
Perpich students and Tory Peterson, Theater Instructor, attended the January 25th performance of Aya Ogawa’s “The…
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Perpich Theater Goes to Camp with “The Bloody Chamber”
December 18, 2023
On December 14th and 15th, 2023, the Perpich Theater and Musical Theater students brought a very camp version of “The Bloody Chamber” to life in the Black Box Theater. Using Angela Carter’s story, the group devised a piece influenced by camp theater…
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Students Present “Sketches & Observations” in the Neo-Futurist Tradition
October 18, 2023
Perpich Arts High School presented “Sketches & Observations” on October 16 and October 17, 2023. In the Neo-Futurist tradition, the sketches & observations from Feiffer’s People by Jules Feiffer and The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe were presented in random order….
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Tory Peterson, Theater Instructor, Accepted for U of M’s Global Perspectives of Civics Fellowship
Tory Peterson, Theater InstructorOctober 16, 2023
Congratulations to Tory Peterson, Theater Instructor, who was accepted for the University of Minnesota’s Global Perspectives of Civics Fellowship this past summer. The multi-year selective fellowship brings together six high school educators from Minnesota and…
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Carla Steen, Dramaturg at Guthrie Theater, Visits with Theater and Musical Theater Students
September 12, 2023
Carla Steen, Dramaturg at Guthrie Theater, meets with Perpich Arts High School Theater and Musical Theater studentsOn Tuesday, September 12th, Theater and Musical Theater students welcomed Carla Steen, Dramaturg at Guthrie Theater, to their classroom. A dramaturge or dramaturg…
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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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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,…
