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Retiring Dance Professor Pam Musil Reflects on 27 Years at BYU
After serving the Department of Dance for 27 years, professor Pam Musil retired at the end of Winter semester 2020. The following are her own words.
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Dance Professor Rachel Barker to Compete for RDT Choreography Commission
Barker’s choreography will be featured in Repertory Dance Theatre’s competition and concert March 7
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Students and Faculty Present Research at National Dance Education Conference
11 Department of Dance students and nine faculty members attended the National Dance Education Organization’s annual conference in Miami
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BYU Dance Professor’s Work Recognized by National Leadership Organization
BYU’s Theatre Ballet performs Shayla Bott’s work in Philadelphia
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New Living Legends Director Relocates from NYC to BYU – Just in Time for Auditions
Jamie Kalama Wood is honored to accept the new role and hopes the community knows how much the group has affected her life for good
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Dance Professor Highlights Relationship Between Physical Movement and Nature in Film
Rachel Barker and dance students McCall McClellan, Jared McClure and Abby Roush traveled to Moab in southern Utah for a site-specific dance film. (Harrison Trinca)
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Dance Professor Encourages Transformative Change
BYU dance professor Pam Musil spoke to students about change through the Savior in Tuesday’s devotional. (Madeline Mortensen/BYU Photo)
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Claiming Confidence
Being pregnant felt like a door closing on a big part of her life and identity, says dance professor Keely Song Glenn (BA ’08). She remembers not knowing how to “navigate moving from a dance identity to then a dance-and-a-mother identity.”
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Dance Professor Pam Musil to Speak at Devotional
The devotional will take place at 11 a.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall of the Harris Fine Arts Center.
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Seven Pregnant Dancers Take the Stage at BYU Show
At the beginning of her pregnancy, Heather Francis described herself as fearful and in denial. She wasn’t necessarily scared of pregnancy or delivery, but of becoming invisible in her career as a dancer. Keely Song Glenn, BYU professor of dance, calmed her co-worker’s fears when she invited Francis to participate in an all-pregnant cast of dancers she was putting together. Read more in this Deseret News article.
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76-year-old Custodian to Attend First Cougar Football Game in Over 25 Years – Compliments of BYU Ballroom Dancers
A 76-year-old BYU custodian will be the most excited fan in LaVell Edwards Stadium at BYU’s last home game Saturday night against New Mexico State. Val Christiansen, of Orem, Utah, hasn’t seen a live BYU football game in over 2 decades. Yet he’s been cheerfully cleaning and waxing the very floors that are walked on by Cougar football players, coaches and cheerleaders in the physical education building on campus for the last four years.
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Curt Holman selected as new BYU Department of Dance Chair
Associate Dance Department Chair Curt Holman has been selected as the new BYU Department of Dance chair, effective July 1, 2017.
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BYU to host “Faculty Dance Works” concerts Feb. 26-27
The Brigham Young University’s Department of Dance will present “Faculty Dance Works,” a program of choreographic works and performances by faculty, Friday and Saturday, Feb. 26-27, at 7:30 p.m. in the Dance Studio Theatre of the Richards Building.
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BYU to host “Faculty Dance Works” concerts Feb. 28, March 1
The Brigham Young University Department of Dance will present “Faculty Dance Works,” a program of choreographic works and performances by faculty, Friday and Saturday, Feb. 28 and March. 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the Dance Studio Theatre, 169 Richards Building.
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Dance and theater combine in BYU prof’s innovative ‘You’
When Graham Brown, co-founder of Salt Lake’s dance improvisation company Movement Forum, left town in 2010 to pursue a master’s degree in dance at the University of Maryland, few would have guessed his return three years later would be as an assistant professor of dance at Brigham Young University. Perhaps more surprising is that his hire puts BYU in the spotlight as a cultural innovator with Brown’s evening-length work titled “You.”
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BYU dance instructor Janalyn Memmott featured in Mormon Artist
When did you decide to become a dancer and then later a choreographer? Like many little girls, I started dancing around age three. My mother was a concert pianist but always wanted to be a dancer, thus I became a dancer. My early years were filled with ballet, jazz, tap, and baton. At age thirteen I was a state champion twirler and had performed for a San Francisco 49ers half-time. I also did children’s parts with Ballet West’s Nutcracker. I switched my focus primarily to ballet and trained with Jacqueline Colledge and became a charter member of the Utah Youth Ballet (predecessor to Utah Regional Ballet).
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