The University of Michigan Department of Dance presents Vulture, an MFA thesis performance directed by Scott Crandall. When a world ends, does it leave behind a corpse? Vulture is an experimental, partially improvised dance work that collapses and reforms. Dancers work their way through a detailed score to rupture through frames of performance, togetherness, and expectation. The production’s expansive design teeters between the surreal and the practical, and the scenes onstage cycle between impersonal care, disorientation, and compulsion.

Choreographer: Scott Crandall. Cast: Amelie Vidrio, Kaitlyn Wilson, Mia Brooks, Kate Tsuruharatani, Ladina Schaller, and Anna Bodescu. Lighting Design: Jess Fialko. Set Design: Jenna Kirk. Costume Design: Maddy Rager. Scott Crandall (they/he) is a member of Thank You So Much For Coming, a Detroit-based performance duo that creates hilarious and thoughtful performances about horrible beloved crumbling America with collaborator Maddy Rager. Scott also is a member of Play House Laboratories, a nonprofit organization that manages Play House, a studio, rehearsal space, and small-scale performance venue bringing high-quality, experimental, and family-friendly programming to Banglatown, Detroit residents at little-to-no cost.