School of Creative and Performing Arts
Why Creative and Performing Arts?
Our aim is to reimagine artistry for the 21st century through a careful balance of tradition and innovation. We explore both disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives on dance, drama and music. We engage with history and the contemporary world in order to become rigorously trained and intellectually agile.
Explore our programs
Undergraduate programs
Dance
Combine intensive studio training and rigour with experimentation. Inspire intellectual inquiry. Nurture your passion and share your love of dance with others.
Undergraduate programs
Drama
Design your own program of study. Combine rigorous artistic creation with advanced academic inquiry.
Undergraduate programs
Music
Unleash your creativity and explore how ideas and emotions are communicated through sound. Experience focus, discipline, collaboration and independence.
Explore graduate programs in Drama and Music
in the School of Creative and Performing Arts
University Theatre Services
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News and Announcements
First full course in Indigenous dance forms at UCalgary makes Canadian history
Champion hoop dancer and award-winning educator brings embodied and land-based knowledge to UCalgary students
Dr. Penelope Farfan Elected to IFTR Executive Committee
School of Creative and Performing Arts professor joins the leadership of the world’s leading Theatre Studies organization
Bridging Dance and Ecology
SCPA Professor explores dance and ecology in Paris research trip
Remarkable documentary on return of buffalo to Banff National Park makes Calgary International Film Festival debut
Iniskim: Return of the Buffalo, co-directed by UCalgary arts prof Peter Balkwill, blends art, culture, conservation and reconciling narratives
Beakerhead is back! Calgary’s brain-busting science spectacle is bigger and STEAM-ier than ever
Join us for an exciting exploration of STEAM research and innovation at TELUS Spark, Sept. 20-22
Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards Foundation 2024 Emerging Artist Recipient – Nicole Charlton Goodbrand, BA’07
School of Creative and Performing Arts dance alum Nicole Charlton Goodbrand, BA’07, honoured as the 2024 Emerging Artist Recipient (Dance)
In the media
In the News arch magazine
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI
In the News Melanie Kloetzel, SCPA, in CBC Homestretch
Dance Research Conference
In the News Marie France Forcier, SCPA, in CBC Radio-Canada
Quand les traumatismes psychologiques s'invitent dans la danse
In the News The Conversation Canada
The theatre we want in 2040? We used ‘strategic foresight’ to plan on the Prairies
In the News Rod T. Squance, SCPA (Music), in The Daily Courier
The skill and communication of musicians gives audience a thrill
In the News Christine Brubaker, SCPA, in Yahoo! News Canada
The theatre we want in 2040? We used 'strategic foresight' to plan on the Prairies
Black Milk: The Fragility of Childhood in the Shoah
Dr. Sara R. Horowitz (York University) presents the 2025 University of Calgary Holocaust Memorial Lecture, exploring the wartime experiences of four children.
Feb. 2, 1 p.m.
Calgary Central Library
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