[soft rhythmic music. Picture with a Shadow of a dancer in front of Gates Tower with "Grinnell College Department of Theatre and Dance Fall 2020 Trailer Fall 2020"] 

[cute puppy looking sad and confined behind a gate, and a person wrapped in a comforter kicking legs and trying to get unwrapped and comfortable] 
Voice 1: Are you tired of confinement? 

[Joyce Bergen, academic associate, surrounded by a cornfield] 
Bergen: Of being “sheltered in”? 

[black background with white lettering: Are you tired of your bedroom, your kitchen, the fort made of blankets?]

[Irma Mayorga, Ph.D., visiting assistant professor] 
Mayorga: Are you so done with social distancing? 

[big, bold, letters appearing on the screen: We are living in unprecedented times.] 

[clips from past dance and theatre productions rotate on screen, beeping noise of a news alert. 
Lettering scrolling across bottom of screen to go with news alert: We, the Dept of Theatre and Dance, see this time as a portal to new modalities, fierce innovation, ] 

[Kathleen Hurley, lecturer, stretched out on floor doing a yoga pose then standing to do another yoga pose followed by a dance glide]
Hurley: ... and commitment to looking out for the health and well-being of all our fellow humans; including you our current and newly arriving Grinnell College students. 

[person cutting and pasting words on a computer screen: We do what theatre and dance do best. What drives our profession and our field. We tell stories, shape stories, expose stories.] 

[Erin Howell-Gritsch, M.F.A., costume designer, standing with face to the wall, moves to a bench and sits down, looking up and around, with road sounds and birds songs in the background] 
Howell-Gritsch: We learn and express through narrative, and non-narrative, through context, empathy, dialogue, anger, love, and shared embodied experience. 

[a tall metal gate opens slowly] 
Voice 6: Step through the portal with us. The Dept of Theatre and Dance will be fully online this fall. 

[Erik Sanning '89, technical director, sitting in front of audio/visual screens] 
Sanning: We honor the old adage, “the show must go on;” while at the same time challenging “business as usual.”

[room is dark; hand very slowly inches toward a curtain, moving it to let the sun shine through] 
Craig Quintero, Ph.D., associate professor: We may be sheltering in place but that doesn't mean stories stop: Stories continue - our work continues. Stories told in words and images, through bodies and voices. 

[dancers standing along a wall, side by side] 
Voice 9: Especially now, in the midst of a pandemic, and a national reckoning with racial injustice; the world needs storytellers. 
 
Mayorga: We are proceeding forward with classes and productions in virtual space, in both synchronous and asynchronous formats. 

We will imaginatively explore innovations in livestreaming and recorded performance formats. In our uncertain present, we will imagine the future. 

[dancer in green dance jumpsuit, sitting and looking behind her, back wall is black and red blended colors, electronic music in the background.] 
Justin Thomas, M.F.A., associate professor, department chair: We are peaceful warriors in the face of challenges. We are embracing this unprecedented time to explore all the essential “what ifs." 

[music continues, hand opening with words “dance we must” written on it in pen] 
Celeste Miller, M.F.A. associate professor: We stand united with theatre and dance innovators around the world, and in the words of dance: “Dance we must!” 

[Conner Stanfield '21, standing in front of mural of lighted candle and flowing candle light] 
Stanfield: And like Justin always reminds us: “It’s never too late to major in theatre and dance!” 

[Credits 
Contact us at: theatre1@grinnell.edu 
Music Clips: Chip Epsten, Vzen Department of Theatre and Dance 
Justin Thomas, Department Chair 
Elaigwu Ameh, Visiting Assistant Professor 
Kathleen Hurley, Lecturer 
Irma Mayorga, Visiting Assistant Professor 
Celeste Miller, Associate Professor 
Craig Quintero, Associate Professor 
Kate Baumgartner ’15, Assistant Technical Director 
Joyce Bergan, Academic Associate 
Erin Howell-Gritsch, Costume Designer 
Erik Sanning ’89, Technical Director]