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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6FfDKby6HI Trailer for But Where There’s Hope, There’s Life.  Originally premiering in 2020, But Where There’s Hope, There’s Life focuses on the Holocaust and communicates the impact and importance of this…

Interested in how But Where There’s Hope, There’s Life came to be? Here’s a video from our collaborators diving into the project’s background. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vi7Mfl9bm8

But Where There’s Hope, There’s Life begins their educational outreach at a local private school, Allen Academy.  On April 30th the “HopeLife” cast will present the full performance using numerous locations throughout…

The Academy for Visual and Performing Arts hosted But Where There’s Hope, There’s Life at Rudder Auditorium on March 13, 2021. This sponsorship allowed the students in this project to finally perform…

On November 2-5 and December 6-9, 2020 But Where There’s Hope, There’s Life presented 8 days of performances in downtown Bryan. Each night consists of nine performances for a total of 72…

Due to the overwhelming copyright fees with the original music by Ezio Bosso, project coordinators sought out a new composer for the project. In October 2020, a section of But Where…

Todesmärsche, an excerpt from But Where There’s Hope, There’s Life, has been invited to perform at Texas State’s Opening Door Dance Theatre concert in October. Due to COVID, the performance is…

Over the Winter Break, the TAMU Dance Faculty was awarded the Presidential Transformational Teaching Grant (PTTG) from the President of the University. The PTTG program is a seed-grant program that…

During the spring semester of 2020, the Department of Performance Studies collaborated with the Department of Dance and the History Department to produce an original, site-specific, performance in downtown Bryan.…

In preparation for the final show, the visual team has been storyboarding and creating assets for three different aesthetic phases of the opening act, Hitler’s Speech. By using a software…

Choreographers, Carisa Armstrong and Christine Bergeron, visited sites in Downtown Bryan this summer to look for potential performance locations. Many of these sites will provide a different perspective and help…

Graduate Student, Eman Al-Zubeidi, is working with a team of undergraduates under the supervision of Dr. Jinsil Hwaryoung Seo, Associate Professor, and Caleb Kicklighter, Lecturer and Research Advisor, from the…

Carisa and I traveled to Washington DC on July 15-18, 2019 to visit the United States Holocaust Museum.  While there, we also took a train to New York to visit…

We premiered, Todesmärsche, an excerpt of But Where There’s Hope, There’s Life, on March 8, 2019 at the 1st Adjudicated Concert held at the American College Dance Association’s South-Central Regional Conference. Todesmärsche…

In 2018, Choreographer, Carisa Armstrong, traveled to Budapest, Hungary. During this trip she was able to visit the memorial to the vicitims who were shot in the Danube. Shoes on the…

In 2016, Choreographer, Carisa Armstrong, traveled to Krakow, Poland during Christmas Break. Just outside of this beautiful ancient town is the concentration camp and the largest extermination center, Auschwitz-Birkenau. These…