Jay Bolotin was an ambitious and exacting artist who regularly crossed disciplines including visual art, literature, theatre, music, and film. Weaving together personal musings and universal myths, he formed epic narratives requiring years of labor-intensive studio activity and the mastering of both traditional and state-of-the-art techniques. A gifted storyteller, he was informed by children’s bedtime reading, Biblical tales (and their…
Events
Fri, Jan 17 2025, 7:30pm
Windborne Productions presents The Music of Pink Floyd with the Lexington Philharmonic. Experience the kaleidoscopic fusion of live orchestra and progressive rock with the Music of Pink Floyd featuring the Dark Side of the Moon album and other highlights.
Mélisse Brunet, conductor
Singletary Center for the Arts
Mélisse Brunet, conductor
Singletary Center for the Arts
Singletary Concert Hall
$28-$78 adults; $11 youth & students
Fri, Jan 24 2025, 8am - 2pm
In addition to being admitted to UK, a successful audition is required to be declared a dance major. Applications for admission to the University of Kentucky, as well as application deadline and materials information, are available on the UK Admissions site. To learn more about what to expect and wear please see the BA in Dance page.
AuditionsFall BA in Dance Audition Date: Friday, November 8, 2024Spring BA in…Fine Arts Building
Fine Arts Building, Room 117
Audition Registration Required
Fri, Jan 24 2025, 12 - 1pm
Available for new incoming freshman to apply. The Department of Theatre and Dance is committed to making scholarship opportunities available to our incredible incoming students. This is also a great opportunity to meet UK faculty and participate in a theatre or dance class.
Theatre performance
Please prepare a 1 to 2-minute monologue of your choice to perform.
Design and/or Tech focused
Examples of…
Fine Arts Building
Fine Arts Building, Room 102
Audition Registration Required
Sat, Jan 25 2025, 1 - 2:30pm
Join Stuart Horodner, Michael Solway, and several of Jay Bolotin’s friends for a discussion of his creative legacy.
UK Art Museum
Free
Fri, Jan 31 - Sun, Feb 2 2025, All day
George R. Boulden Honor Band Weekend features two fantastic bands and lots of opportunities to learn, grow, and share in a once-in-a-lifetime experience with giants of the wind band world and other band students.
Entrance into the Honors Concert Band is based on high school director recommendation and all names must be submitted by director and not by student.
Entrance into the Honors Wind Ensemble will be based on a personal…
Singletary Center
Audition/Nomination Required, $75 per selected performer
Sat, Feb 1 2025, 7:30 - 9:30pm
Dr. John Cody Birdwell, conductor
Dr. Frank Ticheli, guest conductor
Dr. Scott Wright, clarinet
Singletary Concert Hall
$14 Adults / $7 Students (additional fees may apply online)
Fri, Feb 7 - Sun, Feb 9 2025, All day
Dance Concert: Dancing With the Environment
February 7-9, 2025 | Guignol Theatre
Dancing with the Environment features five contemporary dances each focusing on one of five elements: earth, water, air, fire, and space. The concert bridges dance and the environment with new ways of understanding environmental issues, insight into how resources are used, and, hopefully, a way of promoting change. The choreography is…
February 7-9, 2025 | Guignol Theatre
Dancing with the Environment features five contemporary dances each focusing on one of five elements: earth, water, air, fire, and space. The concert bridges dance and the environment with new ways of understanding environmental issues, insight into how resources are used, and, hopefully, a way of promoting change. The choreography is…
Guignol Theatre
ADULT: $20.59, STUDENT: $14.40
Fri, Feb 7 2025, 9:30am - 9pm
If you are a high school dancer and interested in our program, we would love for you to attend our High School Dance Day on February 7, 2025. During your visit, you will tour the facilities on the University of Kentucky’s beautiful campus, gain insight into what it is like to be a dance major at UK, take dance classes from our professional faculty, and attend Q&As with current dance students. All participants will be provided lunch…
Fine Arts Building
$10, Registration Required
Fri, Feb 7 2025, 4 - 5pm
Davis earned his BA from Bard College in 1991 and currently teaches there as Associate Professor of Photography. His work has been exhibited widely and his photographs are in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, and the Walker Art Center, to name a few. His art writing has appeared in publications including Aperture, Blind Spot, Bomb, and Cabinet. Exhibiting artist…
Gatton Student Center Cinema
Free
Sat, Feb 8 2025, 10am
The Singletary Center presents the inaugural Visual Music Festival in the SCFA Recital Hall. Join us for a day of dynamic expressions of abstract art featuring a curated program of multimedia works from an international collection of contemporary artists. Experience the harmonies of light and sound as we explore what goes on in the mind while listening to music!
The Visual Music Festival program begins at 10:00am and will play…
Singletary Center
FREE ADMISSION
Sat, Feb 8 2025, 7pm
"Koyaanisqatsi" is a groundbreaking 1982 American non-narrative documentary film directed and produced by Godfrey Reggio, features a score composed by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke.
The title, derived from the Hopi word meaning "life out of balance," encapsulates the film's central theme: the growing disconnect between humanity and the natural world. Through a powerful juxtaposition of breathtaking natural…
Singletary Recital Hall
FREE, but ticket required for entry
Fri, Feb 14 2025, 7:30 - 9pm
University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, John Nardolillo, conductorCaleb Weber, BA & BM’25, piano Pre-concert lecture presented by the UK School of Music on the Concert Hall stage at 7:00 PM
Lecturer, Mary Margaret Zrull
· Debussy: Prélude à “L’après-midi d’un faune”
· Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
· Prokofiev: Suite from Cinderella
· R. Strauss: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier
Singletary Concert Hall
$20 Adults/ $10 Students