“Encounters,” a performance of spoken word, dance, and music, opens on Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 8 p.m. and runs through Sunday, March 2, in the Bruce Davis Theater on the St. Mary’s College of Maryland campus (18952 E. Fisher Rd, St. Mary’s City, MD 20686). Ticket prices are $4 or $6, general admission. To make reservations, call the Theater Box Office at 240-895-4243 or email boxoffice@smcm.edu. Free parking is available within walking distance to Montgomery Hall in either the Somerset Gym parking lot or in the adjacent visitor’s parking lot. Both parking lots are located on East Fisher Road, off Mattapany Road.
Produced by the Department of Theater, Film, and Media Studies and directed by faculty member Leonard Cruz, “Encounters” will showcase original collaborative dance-theater work, rooted in the ideas of community, authenticity, and truthful storytelling and expressed through spoken word, dance, and music. The ensemble of 10 dancer-performers and four speaker-singers are all St. Mary’s College students.
