Student Spotlight 2025
10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Wednesday, November 5
Tate Plaza and Stage
Each year, Student Spotlight features a wide variety of student groups performing on the outdoor stage at Tate Plaza. See the below schedule of performers and vendors:
Vendors’ start times
10 a.m. – Painters Society (selling prints and paintings)
11:30 a.m. – Stillpoint Literary Magazine (distributing past editions of Stillpoint Literary Magazine for free)
Performers’ time slots
10:00 – 10:15 a.m. – UGA Ballroom Performance Group (dancing salsa-style to “Tu Cariñito” by Luisito Ayala Y La Puerto Rican Power)
10:15 – 10:30 a.m. – Cory Borek (singing with acoustic guitar)
10:30 – 10:45 a.m. – Arushi Raza (dancing to a two-minute “jathi” [of pure dance] while conveying the legend of Varaha Deva [or the half-human and half-boar avatar of Lord Vishnu]).
10:45 – 11:00 a.m. – UGA Department of Dance Contemporary Modern Dance Class (demonstrating work from their class)
11:00 – 11:05 a.m. – UGA Department of Dance Ballet II Class (performing a short dance from their class)
11:10 – 11:15 a.m. – UGA Department of Dance, Dance Repertory Project group 1 (performing “Ballet Remix” – a jazzy ballet in sneakers)
11:15 – 11:20 a.m. – UGA Department of Dance, Dance Repertory Project group 2 (performing “Ballet Remix” – a jazzy ballet in sneakers)
11:25 – 11:30 a.m. – UGA Department of Dance Ballet II Class (performing a short dance from their class)
11:30 – 11:45 a.m. – Stillpoint Literary Magazine (reading selections from the past edition of Stillpoint Literary Magazine)
11:45 – 12:00 p.m. – Michael Steitz and Susanna Poston (playing “Thank Goodness” duet from the musical “Wicked” with vocals and trumpet)
12:00 – 12:15 p.m. – Saurabh Anand (reading a South Asian fiction short story)
12:15 – 12:30 p.m. – no performers (15-minute break)
12:30 – 12:45 p.m. – UGA Redcoat Band Derbies (performing pep tunes)
12:45 – 1:00 p.m. – Improv Athens (performing improv, including 2-3 short-form games with suggestions from the audience)
Student Spotlight 2024
Thank you to all the student groups that participated in the 2024 Student Spotlight: Sebastian Paragas, UGA Theatre cast of “9 to 5: The Musical,” UGA Noteworthy, the cast of Empire: The Story of Napoleon and Josephine, Sumadyuti Venkatesh and Arushi Raza, and the UGA Redcoat Band.
Student Spotlight 2023
Thank you to all the student groups that participated in the 2023 Student Spotlight: Young Choreographers Series, Alvaro Henrique, ‘Built by Fire,’ poetry readings by UGA Creative Writing Program students, With Someone Else’s Money, Next Act, Dror Arussi, Sara D’Ippolito Reichert, DINOSAURKILLERSUPREME, The Ecotones, UGA Ballroom Performance Group, Chinese Music Ensemble, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia: Epsilon Lambda Chapter, Sharkwing Sketch Comedy, Ben and Jackie and Dane, Sofia Ruiz and Maurice Chinnery, UGA Noteworthy, UGA Theatre cast of “Mother Courage and Her Children” and the UGA Redcoat Band.
Student Spotlight 2022
Thank you to all the student groups that participated in the 2022 Student Spotlight: Stillpoint Literary Magazine, Creative Writing at UGA, Hodgson School of Music Classical Soloists, Classic City Jazz, DINOSAURKILLERSUPREME (from Musician’s Connection), Improv Athens, Young Choreographer’s Series, Noteworthy, Next Act, MFA Performance Ensemble, UGA Ballroom Performance Group, Women’s Glee Club, Comedy of Errors (UGA Theatre) and Men’s Glee Club.
Student Spotlight 2021
Thank you to all the student groups that participated in the 2021 Student Spotlight: Noteworthy, Ye Rude Mechanicals, UGA Ballroom Performance Group, Improv Athens, Children’s Theatre Troupe, Sharkwing Sketch Comedy, MFA Performance Ensemble, On The Spot, Grace Anderson, The Fearless Family, D-Squad, the musical cast of “Rent”, Next Act, Young Choreographer’s Series, and the Redcoats Marching Band.
