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”
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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”
BYU Department of Dance ~PRACTICES AND PROTOCOLS~ Fall Semester 2020
BYU DEPARTMENT OF DANCE ~ PRACTICES AND PROTOCOLS ~ FOR FALL SEMESTER 2020 Dear Department of Dance faculty, We are busily preparing for the upcoming fall semester and have thoughtfully evaluated how to best operate in this new and very unusual environment. These evaluations have resulted in new practices, policies and protocols which will allowContinue reading “BYU Department of Dance ~PRACTICES AND PROTOCOLS~ Fall Semester 2020”
BYU Dance Alumni Spotlight: Julie Ahlander, Class of ’93/’96
Julie Ahlander has had an illustrious career in the arts! From being Artistic Director, and then Co-Artistic Director with Nick Cendese, for the Dance Company at South Valley Creative Dance for 13 years to traveling with a rising star boy band for 18 months, she has taught and choreographed all sorts of interesting projects inContinue reading “BYU Dance Alumni Spotlight: Julie Ahlander, Class of ’93/’96”
A Look Back: Marin Leggat Roper’s Faith and Works Lecture, March 2019
By Marin Leggat Roper, Assistant Professor of Dance, Brigham Young University. Originally presented at the BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications monthly lectures series: Faith and Works, on Thursday March 7, 2019. Reprinted with permission and edited by author. 08/06/2020 ~ A Special Excerpt for the BYU Department of Dance’s Blog, A Time ToContinue reading “A Look Back: Marin Leggat Roper’s Faith and Works Lecture, March 2019”
BYU Dance Alumni Spotlight: Raquelle Madsen Morse, Class of 1996
Raquelle Madsen Morse is the owner of the Tallahassee School of Dance (a small private studio in Florida) which focuses on inclusiveness and outreach (below). Above: Then and now, (L-R) Morse as a student at BYU in 1995, her family now, and with her husband, Jon, still dancing every chance she gets. “Everyone deserves aContinue reading “BYU Dance Alumni Spotlight: Raquelle Madsen Morse, Class of 1996”
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