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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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Scott Cook: Meet the Videographer Behind Department of Dance Films
Videographer and media arts alum Scott Cook shares his experience with dance film, collaboration and mentoring
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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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BYU Folk Dance Legend Mary Bee Jensen Passes Away
BYU alumna and founder of the International Folk Dance Ensemble Mary Bee Jensen passed away April 13, 2018. She was 100 years old.
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Giving Back to Community Through Dance Education
BYU Alumnus Shaun Parry not only gives back to the community, but shows students how they can as well. Dance Education student, Kyla Threlfall, had the opportunity to work with Shaun Parry in India as she volunteered for Promethean Spark International, the organization Parry founded. She spent the winter semester of 2014 teaching dance, using methodology Parry taught her.
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Shaun Parry, CFAC Alumnus, to Receive BYU Alumni Achievement Award
Shaun Parry will be presented with a BYU Alumni Achievement Award on Thursday, Oct. 8. Prior to the award reception, Parry will give a lecture entitled “Impossible Dreams I Didn’t Know Enough To Dream.” The lecture will be held in the Madsen Recital Hall at 11 a.m. Admission is free and the lecture is open to the public.
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Brigham Young University Ballroom Dance Company Tour Team Reunion
The BYU Ballroom Dance Tour team is holding a reunion to commemorate the 55th anniversary of it’s founding and the 35-year legacy of Lee and Linda Wakefield. Join us on April 11 for this celebration!
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BYU Department of Dance presents “Dance In Concert 40th Anniversary”
The Brigham Young University Department of Dance presents the Contemporary Dance Theatre in “Dance In Concert 40th Anniversary” Friday through Saturday, Feb. 20-21, at 7:30 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall, with an additional 2 p.m. matinee Saturday.
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Duane Done visits timeless dance gallery
Duane and Cindy Done pose in front of the framed photos taken by his father William 90 years ago. The Dones visited the BYU Department of Dance in May 2014.
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Newly restored dance photographs to be exhibited
In 1928, two-dozen women attending BYU stood on the banks of the Provo River. Together, they carefully choreographed for their interpretive dance class as the photographer, William Done, scrupulously captured their movements.
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Disney dancer returns to BYU
“Want to dance?” she asked a shy boy who was sitting in the corner chair of the stake center.
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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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BYU Department of Dance presents "Dance In Concert 40th Anniversary"
The Brigham Young University Department of Dance presents the Contemporary Dance Theatre in "Dance In Concert 40th Anniversary" Friday through Saturday, Feb. 20-21, at 7:30 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall, with an additional 2 p.m. matinee Saturday.
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