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Rumya Putcha, associate professor of music and women's studies

Associate Professor Rumya Putcha Receives 2024 Dance Studies Association’s de la Torre Bueno® First Book Award

Photo by Chamberlain Smith, University of Georgia.

Rumya Putcha, associate professor of music and women's studies

Dance and music move in concert for joint faculty member’s research

August 23, 2024 by Shaun Baer
From Left: Taya Tenacity Taylor (BMUS ‘26), Garrett McCord (AB ‘25), Kennedi Nichols (AB ‘25), and Bella Smith (AB /BS ‘25)perform in “Little Shop of Horrors” directed by Daniel Ellis April 12, 2024.

Hearing New Voices: Vocal Studies, Opera, and Musical Theatre at UGA

From Left: Taya Tenacity Taylor (BMUS ‘26), Garrett McCord (AB ‘25), Kennedi Nichols (AB  ‘25), and Bella Smith (AB /BS ‘25)perform in “Little Shop of Horrors” directed by Daniel Ellis April 12, 2024. Photo by Clay Chastain.

Spring break is known for being a pause in the semester for most students and faculty to recharge their batteries. But for 22 students and faculty from the Hugh Hodgson School of Music and the UGA Department of Dance, spring break 2024 gave them an inspirational opportunity of a lifetime. Led by HHSOM director Peter Jutras, this group embarked on a cultural and musical exchange to Kenya. For that week, lessons in western instruments were taught by UGA students and faculty at the Moi Girls School in Nairobi

Cultural exchange with Kenyan school

All but one of the complete group of students and faculty from UGA at the equator line in Nairobi, Kenya.

From left: UGA assistant professor of horn James Naigus, guest artists Richard Deane and Victoria Knudtson, and Meigs professor of horn and associate dean in the Franklin College Jean Martin-Williams before a performance at the Southeast Horn Workshop February 23-25, 2024.

Southeast Horn Workshop hosted at UGA

From left: UGA assistant professor of horn James Naigus, guest artists Richard Deane and Victoria Knudtson, and Meigs professor of horn and associate dean in the Franklin College  Jean Martin-Williams before a performance at the Southeast Horn Workshop February 23-25, 2024.

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