Many students have a safe place or person they can talk to when they need to escape. For 21 University of Alabama women, Alta Marea fills that role. Although it may sound like a religious group, Alta Marea is actually the University’s winter guard. Translated from Italian, the name Alta Marea means “high tide,” Steve Simpson, director of Alta Marea, [...]

Six months worth of long hours of rehearsal, costume fittings, critiques and technique classes will finally culminate for the Tuscaloosa Community Dancers April 12-14 when they put on their spring production, “Coppelia.” “Coppelia is a light-hearted and fun comedy that appeals to all audiences,” Amy Cole Ahmed, interim artistic director for TCD, said. “It’s not a heavy show, and it’s [...]

As diversity on campus grows, so do organizations designed to inspire and expose students to different global backgrounds. The South Asian Society is one of them. Okha Patel, a senior majoring in international studies, founded TSAS organization last spring. The group is open to students as well as Tuscaloosa residents, meets weekly and strives to celebrate the cultural, religious and [...]

Before she came to The University of Alabama, alumna Lauren Ault took dance classes for 12 years. On campus, though, she found she didn’t have the time to take lessons and realized that outside of changing her major to dance, opportunities in the area for adults were few and far between. “I have been wanting to get back into a [...]

Twenty years ago, the founders of the UA dance department couldn’t have dreamed that their department’s inaugural class, made of 13 dance majors, would in two decades grow into a modernized, critically acclaimed program boasting approximately 150 students. Although the department has had to jump its fair share of hurdles, including the addition of male dancers to the program and [...]