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At Ana Prada’s home on Costa Rica’s lush, sunny Nicoya Peninsula, the doors and windows are flung open to let in the ocean breeze and the sounds of chirping tropical birds. She spends hours each day suspended from fabric above the ground, practicing the craft of aerial dance.

‘Stand Up for Climate Change’ event on March 17 to fuse the sober topic of climate change with the unifying power of humor.

Ana Prada’s career has been up in the air for nearly two decades, and that’s just the way she wants it. She will be in residence at CU �鶹ӰԺ April 3-14.

Arneshia Williams, an MFA candidate in dance at CU �鶹ӰԺ, didn’t get any formal training in her craft until adulthood. Before that, she learned everything she knew about dance from services on Sunday mornings.

Dance pieces tackling both timeless and timely themes will be on display in "Catapult," a showcase of brand new works choreographed by graduating CU �鶹ӰԺ students. The show runs Feb. 10-12 in CU’s Charlotte York Irey Theatre.

CU �鶹ӰԺ’s 2016-17 theatre season continues with “Unspoken,” a 2016 work by New Play Festival winner and PhD candidate Kevin Crowe. The intimate portrait of six friends living in New York City runs Feb. 15-19 in CU’s Loft Theatre.

More than two decades after she had almost single-handedly established the first degree program in dance at the �鶹ӰԺ, Charlotte York Irey attended the dedication of the new theater named in her honor.

CU �鶹ӰԺ’s 2016-17 theatre season continues with a highly anticipated all-female production of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.” Directed by renowned Los Angeles actor, director, teacher and producer Lisa Wolpe, the production runs Nov. 4-13 in the University Theatre.

Continuing the exciting 2016-17 dance season at CU �鶹ӰԺ is “Boneless,” a showcase of two works by MFA students intent on uncovering who we really are underneath our society’s thick layers of commercialism and social standards.

CU �鶹ӰԺ’s 2016-17 theatre season continues with a heartwarming, hilarious production of “The Servant of Two Masters,” a classic Italian commedia dell’arte by 18th-century playwright Carlo Goldoni. Performances of the play, directed by CU Associate Professor Tamara Meneghini, take place Oct. 19-23 in CU’s Loft Theatre.