The Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre and Dance provides a number of community outreach opportunities for local communities and schools. For minimal cost, our touring companies will come to your school or community space to perform. Not only are these tours highly entertaining, they're also deeply engaging. Submit a booking request for a Touring Ensemble to visit your school!

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Touring Companies

Company One

Company One provides entertainment and education through exciting dance performances designed for audiences of all ages both on campus and at venues throughout metro-Detroit. Company One dancers are all Dance majors in the Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre and Dance and are selected by audition.

Company One productions use contemporary dance choreography, narration, technology, and music in a format that is lively and enjoyable. Each program features the choreography of company dancers, local artists, and esteemed national guest artists. 

 

Motor City Cabaret

Motor City Cabaret is an exciting musical theatre outreach program brought to you by the theatre students at WSU. Motor City Cabaret aims to create an awareness and appreciation of the art of musical theatre and dance through an energetic and informative 50-minute performance. 

 

 

 

 

Freedom Players

Freedom Players is one of the two ensembles within the Black Theatre and Dance Program. In our efforts to reflect the times of our ever-changing socio-political climate, Freedom Players is committed to performing works centered on illuminating social justice themes. Our productions and outreach programs strive to use the performing arts as a bridge between communities. We tour our current shows or offer workshops to the students in Detroit Public Schools and the Detroit Metro Community, to utilize performance as a means for open conversations about race, status, and social norms. 

To Sangana 

To Sangana(pronounced TOH-san-GAH-nah) is a dynamic dance company that thrills audiences with African-derived dance and drum presentations guaranteed to inspire, invigorate, educate, and entertain. The company celebrates rich cultural traditions from the African heritage, as well as the contemporary African-American experience. African Dance fuses music, theatre, visual art, and movement to form a complete artistic and cultural statement. African dance today reaches a worldwide audience through the rigorous, theme-based, and excitingly joyful dedication of professional dancers and musicians.