Performances
SHOWCASE PERFORMANCES
The Southeast Center annually presents music concerts and
theatre productions during the summer institutes. Performances
have included:
African-American Storytelling with Adora Dupree and Vida Werner
Baring Fruit, play with Heidi Robbins and Elizabeth Rainer
Carpetbag Theatre
Chattanooga Choral Society for the Preservation of African American Song
Danny Sample Trio
David Burgess, guitar
Dorothy Kittaka, soprano
Drums of West Africa
Georgia Sea Island Singers
Jeffery Celestine, Alabama Coushatta dancer
John C. Campbell Folk School
Kids on the Block
Larry Crawford, Blackfoot dancer
Lee Johnson, composer
Marilyn Thompson, soprano
Mawre & Company
Mountain Opry
Princely Players
Rhythmic Union
Roland Carter, pianist
RonLin Foreman, clown
Senior Neighbors Ripe & Ready Players
Shaking Rai Levi Society
Sparky Rucker, musician and storyteller
Tennessee Stage Company
Tomaoki Kudoh, tenor
SUMMER THEATRE PRODUCTIONS
Artists from the community and students from city high schools
have been involved with theatre productions annually produced by
the Southeast Center and presented for elementary and secondary
school students and the community at the UTC Fine Arts Center.
Past productions include:
This is Not a Pipe Dream
The Code Breaker
Amber Waves
Antigone
Mowgli: A Coming-of-Age Ritual
The Nightingale
Our Town
The Tempest
Trudi and the Minstrel
Troubled Waters
African-American Poetry: Dreams of Freedom
Tales of Trickery
Step on a Crack
The Adding Machine
What I Did Last Summer
