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Behind the Photo: A Look at BYU Dance Photoshoot

December 18, 2019 12:00 AM
Creativity, hard work and a couple of miracles result in a unique dance poster
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BYU’S DEPARTMENT OF DANCE LAUNCHES NEW SEASON WITH ‘WORLD OF DANCE’

September 10, 2019 12:00 AM
Audience will enjoy Dance’s top companies perform a professionally diverse showcase
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Dance Professor Pam Musil to Speak at Devotional

July 17, 2019 12:00 AM
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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76-year-old Custodian to Attend First Cougar Football Game in Over 25 Years – Compliments of BYU Ballroom Dancers

November 19, 2018 12:00 AM
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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Tessa Homer Reflects on the Power of Dance Education

April 12, 2018 12:00 AM
Convocation for the Department of Dance, the School of Music and the Department of Theatre and Media Arts will take place at 11 a.m. on April 27
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Curt Holman selected as new BYU Department of Dance Chair

July 01, 2017 12:00 AM
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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Dance student opens windows to the world

April 21, 2017 12:00 AM
Dance Education Major Kelli Briggs began her college career at Dixie State University. Briggs attended DSU on scholarship as a dancer, but took a break from school when she realized she wanted to study dance education and that wasn’t available at Dixie.
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Senior Dance Showcase

November 18, 2016 12:00 AM
Student dance works to be featured in showcase Nov. 18
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BYU Department of Dance presents the Fall Children DanceWorks Concert Nov. 18

November 09, 2016 12:00 AM
The BYU Department of Dance presents the Fall DanceWorks Concert Friday, Nov. 18, at 4:00 p.m. and 5:15 p.m., in the theater of the Richards Building.
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Department of Dance presents April graduates

May 03, 2016 12:00 AM
The Department of Dance, School of Music, Music Dance Theatre Program and Department of Theatre and Media Arts celebrated graduates during a combined convocation in the de Jong Concert Hall on April 22, 2016. The gathering commenced with Dean Ed Adam’s welcome followed by a trombone and piano duet by Lyman Keil McBride and Alissa Marie Freeman. Elizabeth Lloyd Lowe will give her speech on “The Power of Communication” before a musical performance by MDT students and a dance number by dance students. Jeremy Grimshaw presented the master’s degrees and Shayla Bott, Jeffrey Shumway and Stephanie Breinholt presented the graduates.
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BYU to host “Faculty Dance Works” concerts Feb. 26-27

February 22, 2016 12:00 AM
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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Nine Graduates and One Convocation Speaker

August 20, 2015 12:00 AM
Dance faculty pose with Aubry, left to right: Nathan Balser, Ed Austin, Jiamin Huang, Pam Musil, Aubry Dalley, Marilyn Berrett (Dance Department Chair), Rodger Sorensen (TMA), Kori Wakamatsu, and Carolyn Prohosky. Nine students from the Dance Department graduated during summer commencement with bachelor of arts degrees. June graduates in Dance included Hannah Hope Brown, Charis Dexter and Logan Matthew McGill. August graduates were Julia Diane Heffner, Colin Tate Holbrook and Kaley Claire Johnson. Dance Education graduates for August included Aubry Dalley and Amelia Jean Wells. Alicia Jean Pann graduated with a degree in Music Dance Theatre.
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Joint Convocation Highlights Exceptional Talent and Points Graduates Toward the Future

May 01, 2015 12:00 AM
Quinn Boyack and Abraham Wilson perform “Sonata for Cello and Piano, Mvt. 3, Andante” by Sergei Rachmaninoff. The Department of Dance, School of Music, Department of Theatre and Media Arts, and Music Dance Theatre Program held a joint convocation ceremony for their combined 172 graduates at the annual spring convocation last Friday, April 26.
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HILL CUMORAH CHOREOGRAPHER TO KEYNOTE DEE R. WINTERTON MEMORIAL LECTURE

February 17, 2015 12:00 AM
Click the image to view the full flyer Brigham Young University’s (BYU) Department of Dance will host Lisa Ford Moulton as the annual Dee R. Winterton Lecture speaker on Friday, February 20, 2015.
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BYU’s Young DanceMakers take audience ‘Around the World and Back Again’

May 11, 2014 12:00 AM
BYU’s Young DanceMakers took audience members “Around the World and Back Again” on Sat., May 10 in the de Jong Concert Hall.
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Marilyn Berrett featured at BYU Faculty Center lecture Nov. 20

November 11, 2013 12:00 AM
The Brigham Young University Faculty Center is hosting a new lecture in its “My Journey as a Scholar of Faith” series Wednesday, Nov. 20, from 3 to 4 p.m. in B192 Joseph F. Smith Building. Marilyn Berrett, Dance Department chair at BYU, will speak at the session.
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“Tell Me a Story” to be performed by BYU Young DanceMakers May 17-18

May 01, 2013 12:00 AM
The Young DanceMakers of Brigham Young University will present “Tell Me a Story” during their annual “Evening of Dance” Friday and Saturday, May 17-18, at 7:30 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall, Harris Fine Arts Center.
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Chinese Education Administrators Join BYU for Two-Week Workshop

September 21, 2012 12:00 AM
We are excited to announce that the Department of Dance and the School of Music at BYU will co-host educational administrators from all over China for a two-week arts leadership workshop. The workshop, entitled Exploring our Differences: The Nature of Education and Leadership in the Arts, will begin Monday, September 24. The Beijing Dance Academy will arrive on campus on Saturday, September 29 to participate and perform in the second week of the workshop.
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