Want to Dance? Join Kinnect – An Outreach Dance Program in Local Schools!

Live Auditions: Tues, Nov. 17, 2020. Pre-register on patrack.byu.edu. What is Kinnect?Watch the new video.View the official website. We are an outreach group of artist-educators who love to connect dance to everything and everyone in the world around us. “Kinnect is a lesser-known group of students at BYU that quietly exemplifies the university’s core mission of goingContinue reading “Want to Dance? Join Kinnect – An Outreach Dance Program in Local Schools!”

Ballet Showcase Workshop 2021

CHANGE Due to COVID-19: If you would like to audition for Ballet Showcase as a dancer, please register at patrack.byu.edu on Thursday, Nov. 19th before midnight. More information will be forthcoming. Thank you for your understanding and flexibility. Email Hilary Wolfley at hilary_wolfley@byu.edu with questions or concerns.

Associate Professor Kori Wakamatsu Publishes Scholarly Article

October 2, 2020 BYU’s Associate Professor of Dance Kori Wakamatsu, MA, recently published an article in the Journal of Dance Education, Volume 20, Issue 3, July – September 2020. It is available on Taylor & Francis Online. It’s titled Asian American Perspectives – From Microaggressions to Microprogressions, How Small Choices Can Make a Big DifferenceContinue reading “Associate Professor Kori Wakamatsu Publishes Scholarly Article”

Rachel Barker Awarded Alfred Lambourne Prize

Assistant Professor Rachel Barker won the Alfred Lambourne Prize for movement this year! This is a program connected to the Friends of Great Salt Lake organization and calls for works of art inspired by or utilizing and including the Great Salt Lake. Barker submitted a film entitled “Sand Body Sky”. She is the dancer/choreographer, but the filming andContinue reading “Rachel Barker Awarded Alfred Lambourne Prize”

Get to Know Your New DMSR ’20-’21 Student Officers

Your new Dance Major Student Reps (DMSRs) will be hosting this year’s first Dance Majors Meeting on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. Get to know them here and watch for them on the Zoom meeting next week at 11 a.m.! Tera Taylor – DMSR President  Tera Taylor is a senior from Sacramento, California. She is majoringContinue reading “Get to Know Your New DMSR ’20-’21 Student Officers”

Congratulations to Shayla Bott on the Women’s Faculty Association Mentor Award

Announced at the BYU University Conference, August 25, 2020, in Provo, Utah. Also published in Y News on Sept. 1, 2020. The Faculty Women’s Association can be found at https://fwa.byu.edu/.

“Art For Uncertain Times” Grant Funds Creative Work for Rachel Barker and Her Dance Students

For Assistant Professor of Dance Rachel Barker this was “a fun piece I made over Zoom over the summer with [dance students] McCall McClellan and Maddie Butler. This was the piece for which I got a grant from the LDS Center for the Arts for their Art For Uncertain Times projects.” “It’s not super highContinue reading ““Art For Uncertain Times” Grant Funds Creative Work for Rachel Barker and Her Dance Students”

BYU Folk Dancers Enlightened at Conference

National Folk Organization Conference, March 2020 By: Amy Jex In early March the National Folk Organization held its annual conference in Laguna Hills, California in conjunction with the Laguna Woods Folk Festival’s 50 anniversary. For the first time, the BYU World Dance Area was able to send 14 students to the conference. The 2020 conferenceContinue reading “BYU Folk Dancers Enlightened at Conference”

Dance Ed Majors: Important Updates from Kori Wakamatsu

Hello Dance Education K-12 Majors! I hope you are all well and safe. I have seen a few of you in the halls and am so excited to be back in the Fall. I have a few updates. Please feel free to share this information with others—and reach out to a friend to make sureContinue reading “Dance Ed Majors: Important Updates from Kori Wakamatsu”

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