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Southern Union State Community College is one of a select few
community colleges to offer a comprehensive program of fine arts. Our
music, dance, and theatre programs have a rich history of accomplishments.
Our faculty are highly qualified professionals who are dedicated to providing
effective instruction and performance opportunities for our students.
Students take courses in their respective field, participate in the productions
of the Fine Arts department, and culminate their experience with a trip to New
York City for a Carnegie Hall performance, classes, workshops, and fun.
Two year tuition scholarships are available for students in the fine arts
programs. At Southern Union, you can have it all!
In conjunction with the Language Arts program, the Fine Arts
program hosts a tournament each year which provides opportunities for high
school students to perform and compete in nine areas: poetry, art,
theatre, music, dance, literature, extemporaneous speaking, cultural literacy,
and composition.
If you have any questions about the fine arts programs, please
contact Dean Steve Spratlin
sspratlin@suscc.edu
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The Southern Union Sound - accompanied by the
Southern Union Singers and Dancers- have performed before
standing-room only audiences for their annual Christmas and Spring Shows.
The winner of the "Nashville Star" 2005 competition was a SUSCC
graduate and former member of the Southern Union Sound. Additionally, the choir
has enjoyed multiple Memorial Day weekend invitations to perform John
Rutter's REQUIEM under the composer's baton. Southern Union Sound hopes To
once again return to New York's famed Carnegie Hall in May, 2011. SU offers 38 students a music
scholarship. For more information about the music department at Southern Union,
contact Dean Steve Spratlin (phone 256-395-2211 or email
sspratlin@suscc.edu). .....more details |
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Dean Steve Spratlin |
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Michael Williams heads the Theatre Department of Southern Union
which currently produces two shows each year and gives students the opportunity
to take part in every area of production. Southern Union offers a variety
of courses in the theatre program which provide practical experience in
production and performance, including acting, sound, lighting, choreography, set
design and construction, costuming, and make-up. Our growing department offers
seventeen theatre scholarships each year, and our students have been very
successful in earning scholarships to four year schools. A recent
Southern Union theatre student was awarded one of only three Alabama Conference
of Theatre scholarships offered each year. Southern Union also places
students professionally, with one graduate having recently finished her
first season with The Georgia Renaissance Festival and another having signed his
first major contract with MGM studios. SUSCC continues its strong
record of placing its graduates on scholarships in university theatre programs
with recent graduates attending Auburn University, Auburn Montgomery,
Jacksonville State University, Troy University, and The University of
Alabama on theatre scholarships. For more information about the theatre
program at Southern Union, contact Michael Williams at the Wadley Campus (phone
256-395-2211 or email mwilliams@suscc.edu
). .....more details
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Michael Williams,
Director of Theatre |
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Our award winning Dance program is under the direction of
Sonja Fincher. The Dance program offers instruction in jazz, ballet,
modern dance, and dance for the theatre. Classes are taught from beginner
to advanced levels with emphasis on technique and performance. Students in the
dance program perform at various college functions, including a spring dance
concert, musical theatre productions, ball games, and music concerts.
Current and former Southern Union dancers have been finalists on The Wade
Robson Dance Project on MTV, the runner up on Star Search and so You can Think you can Dance,
feature dancer on the New York and National Tour of Radio City’s “Christmas
Spectacular,” singer/dancer for Disney and Six Flags, scholarship recipients to
the University of Alabama, American Ballet Theatre, Joffrey Ballet, Retter
Studios, Debbie Reynolds Studios, Alabama School of Fine Arts, and Dance
Educators of America. A former Southern Union dancer Performed with
Complexions Contemporary Ballet Company in New York, and another has appeared as
a dancer in the movie “Hairspray.” SU offers 17 dance
scholarships. For more information about the dance program, contact
Sonja McCord Fincher at the Wadley Campus (phone 256-395-2211 or email
sfincher@suscc.edu).
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Sonja Fincher,
Director of Dance |
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If you would like tickets for our evening performances
or if you would like to bring a student group to one of our morning
performances, contact Alecia Lockwood, email
alockwood@suscc.edu or 256-395-2211.
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Southern
Union State Community College is an Equal Education Employment/Opportunity
Institution.
Click
here for official
policy of non-discrimination. |
750 Roberts Street
Wadley, AL 36276
(256) 395-2211
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1701 LaFayette Parkway
Opelika, AL 36801
(334) 745-6437
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321 Fob James Drive
Valley, AL 36854
(334) 756-4151
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