News

Improvisation Festival returns to its roots

The Texas Dance Improvisation Festival, born at Texas Woman's University 15 years ago, returns this week to Denton for the first time in five years. The TWU campus will host the TDIF Oct. 5-7. It's an annual event to teach and inspire artists in the improvisational dance community, and features classes, jams and performances.

TWU Dance opens 2023-24 season

The annual Jordan Fuchs Company Concert will examine dancer agency, the development of the TWU dance curriculum, and the evolution of the head of the division. The show takes place Sept. 8-9 at 7 p.m. in the Dance Studio Theater, room 208.

TWU Theatre announces 2023-24 season

Texas Woman's University Theatre's 2023-24 lineup features a classic by Moliere, the return to the Red Bud stage by a TWU alumna and a modern take on a Greek myth, all wrapped around one of history's most famous and greatest plays.

Petersen featured by Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators

The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators selected TWU Visual Arts professor Sheli Petersen as its featured illustrator in July.

"It feels like freedom"

TWU's Ilana Morgan has been awarded a $35,000 grant to continue her outreach and research working with justice-involved girls ages 15-17 in a Denton County post-adjudication program called Courage to Change. The program takes place in a gym that is part of the Denton ISD Sparks campus, which operates as part of the Denton County Juvenile Detention Center.