Performing Arts

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Department Chair:  Jacquelyn Pualani Johnson, M.A. (Drama) (jpjohnso@hawaii.edu)

Performing Arts Department Office:  Performing Arts Center, Room 135, 974–7304

Web: hilo.hawaii.edu/academics/perfarts/ and artscenter.uhh.hawaii.edu

Professors:

Jacquelyn Pualani Johnson, M.A. (Drama)

Associate Professors:

Richard A. Lee, Ph.D. (Music)

Assistant Professors:

Matthew Howell, D.M.A. (Music)

Instructors:

Patrick M. Kelly, M.F.A (Drama)
Celeste Anderson Staton (Dance)

Performing Arts Center Manager:

Lee B. Dombroski, M.F.A.

Associate Performing Arts Center Manager:

Heidi Veilleux, B.A.

Performing Arts Center Technical Director:

Robert Abe, B.A.

The Performing Arts Department offers a degree program comprised of four specialty concentrations: Dance, Drama Performance, Music, and Technical Theatre. The Dance concentration offers courses in ballet, modern and jazz dance, choreography, and dance in education. The Drama Performance and Technical Theatre concentrations offer courses in acting, directing, costuming, stage makeup, stagecraft, musical theatre, and drama education. The Music concentration offers courses in the areas of musicology (history and literature), music theory and composition, applied music instruction (vocal and instrumental), and performing ensembles open to all qualified students, regardless of major. All Performing Arts majors complete a culminating senior project.

The UH Hilo Performing Arts Major has a three-fold mission:

To serve the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo with general education and service courses;
To provide an academic major in the Performing Arts, with four individual specialty concentrations in dance, drama performance, technical theatre, and music; and
To contribute to the cultural life of the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo and Hawaiʻi Island through artistic performances and offerings in music, drama, and dance, through public lectures, and through related professional activities.

Curricula

The Performing Arts Department offers four specialty concentrations of study leading to the Bachelor of Arts in Performing Arts: Dance, Drama Performance, Music, and Technical Theatre.