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Students from the Department of Dance travel internationally to gain real-world experience and share their talents while studying abroad, competing, performing and interning

The BYU Department of Dance presents BYU Theatre Ballet in concert Feb. 2-4. Theatre Ballet will perform excerpts from La Sylphide, Birthday Variations by Gerald Arpino and other assorted works.

Brigham Young University’s Theatre Ballet premieres Alice in Wonderland, an original, full-length ballet that brings Lewis Carroll’s beloved fantasy novel to life with Tchaikovsky’s enduring music in the de Jong Concert Hall on Jan. 28-30 at 7:30 p.m. with a matinee on Saturday, Jan. 30 at 2 p.m.

The BYU Department of Dance presents the annual fall performance of the Ballet Showcase Company on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 6-7, in the Dance Studio Theatre of the Richards Building.

The BYU Department of Dance presents the annual fall performance of the Ballet Showcase Company on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 6-7, in the Dance Studio Theatre of the Richards Building.

The annual fall “Ballet Showcase” at Brigham Young University will take place Friday and Saturday, Nov. 7-8, in the Dance Studio Theatre of the Richards Building.

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.”

BYU Theatre Ballet is excited to present their first full-length production of “Swan Lake” during “Ballet in Concert” this weekend. For the past few years Theatre Ballet has had the tradition of presenting full-length ballets. This year director Shani Robinson chose “Swan Lake” because it is one of her favorite productions. Also, when Robinson performed with Theatre Ballet as a student, she held the roles of both the black and white swan. “I hope the audience will see a really beautiful representation of this classic ballet,” Robinson said. “These students have worked hard to achieve a professional level. They have been coached in their technical abilities but have also been coached in their acting in order to really pull the audience into the production.” Restaged from Marius Petipa’s original choreography and performed to Tchaikovsky’s timeless music, “Swan Lake” performed by the BYU Theatre Ballet tells a fairytale story of forgiveness and love. The audience will enter an enchanted forest where reality fades into fantasy and love overcomes all.

The annual fall “Ballet Showcase” at Brigham Young University will take place Friday and Saturday, Nov. 22-23, in the Dance Studio Theatre of the Richards Building.

At the northwest region’s American College Dance Festival held last week at Southern Utah University, the BYU Theatre Ballet’s two dances were selected for the Gala performance. The pieces that were selected included “Apart” by Shayla Bott, a BYU assistant professor, and “Transition” by Hilary Wolfley, a BYU undergraduate student. BYU was one of 18 schools in attendance at the ACDF, and only six other dances were selected to be in the final Gala performance.