STUDIO & PRODUCTION FACILITIES

Studio Classrooms • Production Facilities • The Pilates Studio

Students majoring in theatre and dance take classes in classrooms across the campus, with primary performance classes offered in The Trexler Pavilion for Theatre & Dance. In addition, the Brown Dance Studio (Brown Hall), the Tap Dance Studio (Baker Center for the Arts), and the Pilates Center (Sports Life Center) are major resources for class, ensemble and individual study in the program.

Well-equipped scene and costume shops, dressing rooms, and rehearsal rooms in the Trexler Pavilion for Theatre & Dance support the professional level of production work that is a trademark of Muhlenberg College.

THE PAVILION REHEARSAL HALL
In addition to serving as an acting studio for academic courses, this open full stage-sized studio adjacent to the Scene Shop in the Trexler Pavilion for Theatre & Dance is used regularly for rehearsing productions bound for the Empie, Baker and Studio theatres throughout the year. The studio is also used extensively by acting and directing students as they prepare projects for their academic classes.

THE UPPER LEVEL DANCE STUDIO
While not intended for public performances, this studio classroom has all of the professionally designed elements of our Dance Studio Theatre - professional dance floor, mirrors and bars. In addition to being an academic classroom, the studio serves the Muhlenberg College Community Dance Program.

THE TAP DANCE STUDIO
This specially designed dance studio is located on the second floor of the Baker Center for the Arts and serves as home to the tap dance instruction offered for academic credit, rehearsals for dance concerts, and for classes of the Muhlenberg College Community Dance Program.

BROWN DANCE STUDIO
A former campus gymnasium, this expansive studio continues to be shared by a variety of campus dance and athletic activities, as well as a facility for concert rehearsals and informal campus performances. The studio is frequently utilized by Six Meters, the improvisational dance troupe, and for masterclasses with visitng performers and choreographers.

The diverse production program of the Department of Theatre & Dance offers design and technical theatre majors the essential production opportunities to practice their art and craft. The combined resources of the Baker Center for the Arts and the Trexler Pavilion for Theatre & Dance support an extensive laboratory experience in scenic, lighting, sound, and costume design and technology. The Department of Theatre & Dance schedules nine diverse classical and contemporary productions in a wide range of genres each academic year, providing many design and construction opportunities in all areas.

Professional faculty artists design in the mainstage production program, and select students are also given the opportunity to design mainstage, studio and student projects in scenic, lighting, sound and costume design. All theatre and dance majors are introduced to Stagecraft and encouraged to assume technical and production responsibilities as well as performance roles in the course of their educations.