With the same great dancing groups, but with a different twist and a new name, the opening BYU dance show, Evidance, will amaze and inspire audiences September 12-17.

The Deseret News featured an article today about the upcoming performance, “Mandy Patinkin: Dress Casual, with Paul Ford on Piano.” The show will take place at the HFAC in the de Jong Concert Hall on August 31 at 7:30 p.m. and on September 1 at 2:00 p.m. View the full article here.

A limited number of spaces are available for free piano lessons for children ages six to 10 for fall semester. The lessons will be taught by seniors and graduate students who are piano performance majors in the BYU School of Music as part of a supervised teaching pedagogy course.

As part of Westminster College's 42nd annual Classical Greek Theatre Festival, Sophocles’ “Antigone” will be performed at Brigham Young University’s de Jong Concert Hall Monday, Sept. 17, at 5 p.m. A free pre-performance lecture will start at 4 p.m.

At the 2012 Annual University Conference, Jeremy N. Grimshaw, professor in the School of Music, was honored with the Young Scholar Award. The Young Scholar Award encourages and acknowledges outstanding promise and contributions by faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers.

The new 2012-2013 BYU Arts Season Brochure is currently being printed for the new school year. Flip through the pages of the pdf online to find out what is happening in the arts over the next year. Open publication

Theatre and Media Arts professor Megan S. Jones was honored at the 2012 Annual University Conference with the Alcuin Fellowship. The Alcuin Fellowship award recognizes teacher-scholars who have gone beyond the regular limits of their disciplines and made significant contributions to the general education and honors curriculum.

by Marissa Ballantyne

Jeff Martin and Rebecca Ott were honored this morning for their service to the College of Fine Arts and Communications. Dr. Stephen Jones, dean of the college, presented the awards at an impromptu meeting at the dean's office in the Harris Fine Arts Center. Martin, head of BYU Arts Production, was given a five-year service award. Ott works in the dean's office as an administrative assistant. She was presented with a 20-year award. We are thankful for their superb service!

Starting Monday, Aug. 20, the Museum of Art at Brigham Young University will offer a 45-minute tour of the exhibition “Beauty and Belief: Crossing Bridges with the Arts of Islamic Culture” at 1 p.m. each day, Monday through Friday. The tours will run throughout the remainder of the free exhibition, which is scheduled to end Saturday, Sept. 29.

Mandy Patinkin, Emmy Award-winning TV star and Tony Award-winning Broadway legend, will perform “Mandy Patinkin: Dress Casual with Paul Ford on Piano” in a program of popular songs, old favorites and Broadway classics at the de Jong Concert Hall on the Brigham Young University campus Friday, Aug. 31, at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, Sept. 1, at 2 p.m.

The second week of the Contemporary Dance Theatre's tour in India began with a special treat. The group was able to give one of the first firesides for the Hyderabad Stake, the first stake in India.The second night in Hyderabad included an interactive family home evening with the BYU group and the young single adults from the stake. It was an exciting privilege for the BYU students to help celebrate the new stake in India, and many of the members later attended the performance of 'The Rhythm of Life'.