Watch: UNM Dance students perform in Hannibal

“Hannibal” 2019

Professor Donna Jewell, guest choreographer and actress with the Austrian based theater company Lawine Torren, took four dance students from UNM to perform on April 12 in the largest contemporary theater piece in the world, entitled Hannibal.

The performance takes place on a glacier south of Innsbruck and involves helicopters, skiers, BASE jumpers, dancers, actors, snowmobiles, motorcycles, snow cats and airplanes. Hannibal attracted 7,000 audience members as well as journalists from around the globe.

Watch the Hannibal video to meet the director and performers

Spotlight on Art Studio & Art History Faculty: Featured Exhibitions

Spotlight on Art Studio & Art History Faculty: Featured Exhibitions

Art History Professor Ray Hernández-Durán was recently featured in two articles and interviewed by the Latin American and Iberian Institute. UNM News published “UNM Professors Create Exhibition, First-Ever Scholarship of Local Chicano Artists’ Work” by Anna Padilla, highlighting an exhibition curated by Hernández-Durán and Dr. Irene Vásquez. The show, now on view at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, features six talented New Mexican Chicano artists whose work has been historically underrepresented in academic scholarship.

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