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This is Dance/Music: New Works by Collaborative Process and Music Composition Students
Oct 20, 2025

BOONE, N.C. – Students from the Department of Theatre and Dance Collaborative Process class have paired with Hayes School of Music Composition students to create new original dances with new original music to be performed together live. An informal showing of these new collaborative dance+music...

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App State Theatre and Dance Presents the Play, “Orlando" — Sarah Ruhl’s Adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Novel Opens Oct. 29
Oct 15, 2025

“The longest and most charming love letter in literature.”

by Keith Martin
App State at the NCTC Regional Play Festival

The North Carolina Theatre Conference to honor Appalachian with its College/University Award
Feb 10, 2017

Appalachian State University has received the 2016 College/University Award of the North Carolina Theatre Conference (NCTC), a Greensboro-based...

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Appalachian’s Sustainable Development Department to host author Jeff Biggers Feb. 17
Feb 9, 2017

The Goodnight Family Department of Sustainable Development at Appalachian State University welcomes noted author, performer and educator Jeff...

Appalachian alumnus and professor gives back through student scholarships
Feb 8, 2017

Theatre Professor Gordon Hensley ’97 has always been drawn to Appalachian State University. First as a theatre education student, and now as a...

The Netherlands

Appalachian State University students expand horizons with travel scholarship
Feb 8, 2017

By Madalene Smith

Senior graphic design students Alex Amaya and Anna Cantrell will be traveling to the Netherlands this May through the...

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IlaSahai Prouty named associate dean of Appalachian’s College of Fine and Applied Arts
Feb 2, 2017

IlaSahai Prouty, assistant professor in the Department of Art at Appalachian State University, has been named associate dean of the College of...

The winning designs

Appalachian students awarded top honors in product design competition
Jan 30, 2017

Appalachian State University industrial design seniors Rickey Bell of Davie County, Myers Welborn of Lexington and Nathan Haeme of Boone each...

Students perform in "Selkie"