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  • Resident Music Director | Theatre & Dance | aboers@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Amy Boers is well known as a collaborative pianist, music director, singer, and church musician. As pianist and collaborator, she currently holds positions at Pacific Lutheran University (staff pianist), Symphony Tacoma (principal keyboard), and Symphony Tacoma Voices (pianist and assistant rehearsal conductor).

    recent session “The Power of Two” focused on collaborative rehearsal techniques to develop between conductor and pianist. Presented at the 2024 Northwest American Choral Directors Association regional convention, she received rave reviews and requests for repeated presentations. As a church musician, she has been a long-time voice in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. She has been contributing editor for both the keyboard and choral divisions of the Sundays and Seasons resource published by

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  • Staff Pianist | School of Music, Theatre & Dance | aboers@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Amy Boers is well known as a collaborative pianist, music director, singer, and church musician. As pianist and collaborator, she currently holds positions at Pacific Lutheran University (staff pianist), Symphony Tacoma (principal keyboard), and Symphony Tacoma Voices (pianist and assistant rehearsal conductor).

    session “The Power of Two” focused on collaborative rehearsal techniques to develop between conductor and pianist. Presented at the 2024 Northwest American Choral Directors Association regional convention, she received rave reviews and requests for repeated presentations. As a church musician, she has been a long-time voice in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. She has been contributing editor for both the keyboard and choral divisions of the Sundays and Seasons resource published by Augsburg

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  • See  Dance 2014  this Friday, April 11 and Saturday, April 12. The annual show is a repertory concert comprised of dances created by eight PLU student choreographers, PLU’s Dance Team, and two works choreographed by Dance 2014 Director Paula J. Peters, and Guest Choreographer Mary Reardon.…

    movement. Some works are inspired by books, an experience in the choreographer’s life, or social issues. “Creating choreography takes great courage on the part of the choreographer, because it is a publication of their ideas for all to critique,” Peters said. “Dancing in front of an audience requires personal fortitude, because dance is an ephemeral art form. You only get the moment. There is no ‘delete’ or ‘revise’ during live performance.” Peters says her rehearsal process is eclectic and

  • See  Dance 2014  this Friday, April 11 and Saturday, April 12. The annual show is a repertory concert comprised of dances created by eight PLU student choreographers, PLU’s Dance Team, and two works choreographed by Dance 2014 Director Paula J. Peters, and Guest Choreographer Mary Reardon.…

    movement. Some works are inspired by books, an experience in the choreographer’s life, or social issues. “Creating choreography takes great courage on the part of the choreographer, because it is a publication of their ideas for all to critique,” Peters said. “Dancing in front of an audience requires personal fortitude, because dance is an ephemeral art form. You only get the moment. There is no ‘delete’ or ‘revise’ during live performance.” Peters says her rehearsal process is eclectic and

  • The Mary Baker Russell Music Center includes: choral and instrumental rehearsal spaces; faculty studios, practice rooms; a music library; electronic music labs; classrooms; and the acoustically

    Mary Baker Russell Music CenterThe Mary Baker Russell Music Center includes: choral and instrumental rehearsal spaces; faculty studios, practice rooms; a music library; electronic music labs; classrooms; and the acoustically impressive Lagerquist Concert Hall, which houses the Gottfried and Mary Fuchs Organ. This building also features the magnificent Chihuly Glass Roses installation in the lobby, and the Amphitheater, the perfect location for outside concerts. Lagerquist Concert HallPacific

  • Major in Theatre 44 semester hours, plus a minor THEA 160: Introduction to Theatre (4) or THEA 102: FYEP 102: DJS Seminar (4) THEA 225: Running Crew I (4) THEA 250: Acting I - Fundamentals (4) THEA

    History: Origins (4) THEA 362: Musical Theatre History (4) THEA 365: Theatre History: Modernism (4) 4 semester hours from: THEA 252: Fundamentals of Scenic Design (4) THEA 254: Fundamentals of Lighting Design (4) THEA 275: Scenic Painting: Techniques (2) THEA 276 Scenic Painting: Textures (2) THEA 285: Costume Crafts and Construction (4) THEA 351: Stage Makeup (4) THEA 355: Lighting Design (4) THEA 380: Directing I (4) THEA 390: Visual History: Period Costume and Décor (4) THEA 453: Costume Design (4

  • Dance 2017: Innovation features PLU dancers working with guest and student choreographers exploring inventive themes through dance. The performances are on Friday, April 7 and Saturday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m. in Eastvold Auditorium of Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. This year’s…

    vulnerability, feral instincts, and athleticism in a dance choreography. Zoller set the nine minute piece in one week. Dancers spent a total of 15 rehearsal hours together. “Most of the dances I have choreographed in the past were composed over a one to three month period. I would often have time to think about the work, make changes, and let the dancers play a bigger role in movement generation. Knowing I only had a week to work with the six dancers at PLU I arrived with much of the dance planned out

  • Dance 2017: Innovation features PLU dancers working with guest and student choreographers exploring inventive themes through dance. The performances are on Friday, April 7 and Saturday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m. in Eastvold Auditorium of Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. This year’s…

    vulnerability, feral instincts, and athleticism in a dance choreography. Zoller set the nine minute piece in one week. Dancers spent a total of 15 rehearsal hours together. “Most of the dances I have choreographed in the past were composed over a one to three month period. I would often have time to think about the work, make changes, and let the dancers play a bigger role in movement generation. Knowing I only had a week to work with the six dancers at PLU I arrived with much of the dance planned out

  • Mental skills coach remembers Olympics For the last month, PLU Professor of Movement Studies and Wellness Education Colleen Hacker has worked as the mental skills coach for the U.S. women’s field hockey team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, as well as working with individual players…

    September 1, 2008 Mental skills coach remembers Olympics For the last month, PLU Professor of Movement Studies and Wellness Education Colleen Hacker has worked as the mental skills coach for the U.S. women’s field hockey team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, as well as working with individual players on the now-gold medal winning U.S. women’s soccer team. The event has been beyond description, Hacker said in an e-mail interview from Beijing this week. But she gave a go at it anyway, in an

  • No courses in music (MUSI) may be taken for credit by examination. First-Year Students Students intending to major in music should begin the major music sequences in the first year.

    : University Jazz Ensemble - CX Study of selected big band literature through rehearsal and performance. Membership by audition. (1) MUSI 380 : University Symphony Orchestra - CX Study of selected orchestral literature through rehearsal and performance. Membership by audition. (1) MUSI 381 : Chamber Ensemble - CX Reading, rehearsal, and performance of selected music for smaller ensembles. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (1) MUSI 383 : Piano Ensemble - CX Techniques and practice in the performance of