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| | CDE Presents: Finger In Your Eye
Artistic Director, Kenneth Balint
Finger In Your Eye is a bold and visceral contemporary dance concert performed by California State University, Fresno’s Contemporary Dance Ensemble under the artistic direction of Kenneth Balint. Featuring dynamic choreography by Balint, CDE Student Choreographer-in-Residence Juana Cardenas, and guest artist Waeli Wang, the program presents six repertory-length works driven by athleticism, precision, and emotional intensity. Through striking physicality and evocative movement, the dancers explore themes of growth and transformation, power and injustice, resistance and resilience, and deeply personal narratives, moving fluidly between chaos and control, dreamlike worlds, and moments of joy and celebration. The result is an immersive, thought-provoking experience that challenges, energizes, and lingers long after the final bow.
February 13 - 21, 2026
John Wright Theatre Speech Arts Building Fresno State
PARKING: Parking is free for shows on Friday through Sunday night. For shows on Tuesday through Thursday night, parking permits are required and can be obtained from permit dispensers. | Buy Tickets |
| | Fade
Written by Tanya Saracho
Directed by Gina Sandí-Díaz
When Lucia, a Mexican-born novelist, gets her first TV writing job, she feels a bit out of place on the white male-dominated set. Lucia quickly becomes friends with the only other Latino around, a janitor named Abel. As Abel shares his stories with Lucia, similar plots begin to find their way into the TV scripts that Lucia writes. Fade is a play about class and race within the Latinx community, as well as at large, and how status does not change who you are at your core.
A Fresno Premiere!
March 13 - 21, 2026
Dennis and Cheryl Woods Theatre, Speech Arts Building, Fresno State
PARKING: Parking is free for shows on Friday through Sunday night. For shows on Tuesday through Thursday night, parking permits are required and can be obtained from permit dispensers. | Buy Tickets |
| | Twelfth Night
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Michelle Bellaver
Shipwrecked and separated from her twin brother, Viola washes ashore in the land of Illyria and disguises herself as a man to work for the Duke Orsino. But things quickly spiral into romantic chaos when Viola falls for Orsino—who’s in love with the Countess Olivia—who then falls for Viola in disguise! Full of mistaken identities, unrequited love, and hilarious twists, "Twelfth Night" is Shakespeare’s witty, heartwarming celebration of love in all its beautiful confusion.
May 1 - 9, 2026
John Wright Theatre Speech Arts Building Fresno State
PARKING: Parking is free for shows on Friday through Sunday night. For shows on Tuesday through Thursday night, parking permits are required and can be obtained from permit dispensers. | Buy Tickets |