overhead, a skylark called

$Bird silhouetted on a fractured rainbow background with text$
Frank Sinatra Chair in the Performing Arts logo

Collaboratively created by Frank Sinatra Chair in the Performing Arts Brian Thorstenson, Visiting Artists-in-Residence Detour Productions, and the Ensemble

Directed by Eric Garcia & Kat Gorospe Cole (Artistic Co-Directors of Detour) and Brian Thorstenson

Mayer Theatre and across campus

May 9-18, 2025

A group of travelers separated, now stuck in three locations..
One is walking in circles…Two waiting for a train…Three for a plague to end…
A message: stop the circles, find a river, follow the skylark…

A new devised piece of dance-theater collaboratively created with Sinatra Visiting Artists-in-Residence Detour poses the question “what do you call home?” Choose from three experiences at locations across campus (Vari Hall, de Saisset Museum, Edward M. Dowd Art and Art History Building). This not-to-be-missed immersive and unique theatrical event culminates at the Louis B. Mayer Theatre.

CONTENT ADVISORY for the De Saisset Museum: The Plague Archives includes explicit images of disease, suffering, and death, and deals directly with human behaviors in events of mass illness, including histories of scapegoating, racism, sexism, anti Semitism, genocide, disease and science denialism, and class, financial, and scientific exploitation.

Detour Dance

Learn more about the Sinatra Chair in the Performing Arts and this collaborative project

Students on the Fess Parker Stage reading text for

Study Guide: An introduction to devised theatre and the Jesuit theatrical tradition