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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.

The annual fall “Ballet Showcase” at Brigham Young University will take place Friday and Saturday, Nov. 9-10, in the Dance Studio Theatre of the Richards Building.

Charis Dexter stands on a platform in the middle of the lake to capture the perfect image for BYU Theatre Ballet' performance of "Swan Lake." (Photo courtesy Jaren Wilkey.)

When Graham Brown, co-founder of Salt Lake' dance improvisation company Movement Forum, left town in 2010 to pursue a master' 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' evening-length work titled "You."

The Brigham Young University Theatre Ballet will present "Swan Lake" during "Ballet in Concert" Thursday through Saturday, Jan. 30-Feb. 1, at 7:30 p.m. at the de Jong Concert Hall. A matinee will be performed Saturday, Feb. 1, at 2 p.m.

The annual fall "Ballet Showcase" at Brigham Young University will take place Friday and Saturday, Nov. 9-10, in the Dance Studio Theatre of the Richards Building.