Central Program Council

The Central Program Council is the primary source for student programming at the University of Tennessee. As a leader in campus programming, we seek to provide dynamic and purposeful co-curricular programs that promote the educational, cultural, recreational, and personal development of all students. CPC is an important part of campus life and the Knoxville community, drawing thousands of people to our numerous events throughout the year. From politics to ballet, blockbuster films to fine art, CPC brings interesting pundits and performers from around the globe. Also, CPC is responsible for carrying on some of UT's oldest traditions, such as All-Sing and Homecoming.

Film Applications Now Available!

Please click here for an application. Applications are due March 1, 2009 at 5:00 PM in the Student Activities Office.

Posted by Film - Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010

Issues Committee Applications Now Available!

Please click here for an application. Applications are due February 19, 2010 by 5:00 PM in the Student Activities Office. (UC 305)

Posted by Issues - Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010

Cultural Attractions Committee Presents Grupo De Rua

Grupo de Rua, founded in 1996 by artistic director Bruno Beltrao, is a Brazilian hip-hop dance company with a distinctly contemporary sensibility. Beltrao's work combines his life long love for streetdance with his study of the innovative contemporary process. The company has toured throughout Brazil since 2000 and internationally since 2002. Grupo de Rua will make its US debut in the 09-10 season with both a repertory program and the work H2.

Bruno Beltrão was born in Niterói, near Rio de Janeiro, in 1979. In 1993 he began his first street dance lessons, in Niterói, with the Israeli teacher Yoram Szabo. From 1995 on, he engaged in a research to get thoroughly acquainted with this dance style, still quite unheard of in Brazil.

In 1996 he created the company, Grupo de Rua de Niterói, with his partner Rodrigo Bernardi. During its first two years, the company was devoted to competitive dance festivals and special appearances in several events and TV shows. In 2000 GRN participated in the international tour of "Metrópole" with the Midnight Circus, from the French director Pierrot Bidon. This was also the year when Beltrão enrolled in the dance university

In 2001 the duet "Do Popping ao Pop ou Vice-Versa" premiered at the festival "Duos de Dança no SESC", in Rio de Janeiro. With this piece Beltrão made his official début in the contemporary dance scene in Rio. It was also a turning point on the choreographer’s career – the first step to set streetdance free from sheer virtuosity and from the patterned reproduction of choreographic structures that are inherent to this dance form. Since then his research is oriented by the exchange between hip hop and the reflexive and inventive environment of contemporary dance. At the end of the year Beltrão assumed the sole direction of Grupo de Rua when his partner Rodrigo left the company to develop his own projects.

Grupo de Rua started touring internationally in 2002, with presentations at Rencotres Choreographiques de Seine-Saint-Denis, MC93 in Paris and the festival “Danças na Cidade" in Lisbon. In 2003, the company was invited by the French choreographer Jérôme Bel to perform at Klapstuk Festival in Belgium. In the same year, the company performed at Springdance (Utrecht), Ile Danse (Ajaccio), Tanz im August (Berlin) Internationales Tanzfest (Hanover), Yokohama Dance Summit (Japan), Hebbel Theater (Berlin) and Opkomst (Utrecht). The company has also performed at La Ferme du Buisson (Noisiel), Kunsten Festival des Arts (Brussels), Ruhrfestspiele (Recklinghausen), Tanztage (Bern), CSS Theater (Udine), Rencontres de la Villete (Paris), Kampnagel (Hamburg) and at the Festival Breakin’Walls (Amsterdam).

In 2002, Beltrão was selected Upcoming Choreographer of the Year and the company is considered “one of the most creative of the new generation” by O GLOBO (second largest Brazilian newspaper). BATTETANZ YEARBOOK selected him Upcoming Choreographer of the Year in 2005.

February 16, 2010, 7:30 PM, Bijou Theatre,
$5 UT Students/ $20 UT Faculty & Staff/ $25 General Public

Posted by CAC - Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010

Carnicus 2010

Please click here for a copy of the 2010 Carnicus Timeline.

Posted by ACE - Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010

Carnicus Interest Meeting

All Campus Events will hold a Carnicus interest meeting February 9, 2010 at 6:30 PM, UC Room 223-224.

Posted by ACE - Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010

CPC Interest Meeting

Come learn about how to get involved in the seven committees that make up the Central Program Council: All Campus Events, Campus Entertainment Board, Cultural Attractions Committee, Film Committee, Issues Committee, Visual Arts Committee, and the Women's Coordinating Council.

The Central Program Council is the primary source for student programming at the University of Tennessee. As a leader in campus programming, we seek to provide dynamic and purposeful co-curricular programs that promote the educational, cultural, recreational, and personal development of all students. CPC is an important part of campus life and the Knoxville community, drawing thousands of people to our numerous events throughout the year. From politics to ballet, blockbuster films to fine art, CPC brings interesting pundits and performers from around the globe. Also, CPC is responsible for carrying on some of UT's oldest traditions, such as All-Sing and Homecoming.