Category Archives: Dance

CSU Dance Faculty Lisa Morgan dances with Moving Through Parkinson's

Moving Through Parkinson’s Dances Across Europe with CSU Dance Faculty Lisa Morgan

The Center for Healthy Aging featured CSU Dance Faculty Lisa Morgan in a recent article on Moving Through Parkinson’s tour through Austria and Poland. Read more about the CSU dance program that inspired the development of similar programming at some of the European sites here: Moving Through Parkinson’s dances across Europe- Center for Healthy Aging


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Alumni News: Class Notes from September 2023

Colorado State University School of Music, Theatre, and Dance is proud to share the latest news and achievements from our Alumni. Erin Warner Prange ’06 Dancer and Executive Director of Big Muddy Dance Company Erica Bow-Gottschalk (Jurgens-Bow) ’06 Performed with Diavolo Dance Theatre Dance Company, Los Angeles, California Jessica Riggs (Olin) ’07 Artistic Director of Life/Art Dance Ensemble, […]


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Alumni News: Class Notes from August 2023

Colorado State University School of Music, Theatre, and Dance is proud to share the latest news and achievements from our Alumni. Becky Kendall ’04 Artistic Director of Momentum Dance Collective, Anchorage, Alaska, a non-profit corporation; momentumdance.org Carrie Demo ’04 Teaching artist at New York City Ballet Education Center, 2015-present Kristin Howe (LeLoup) ’05 Owner/Teacher at Creative Kids Movement; Co-Founder/Artistic […]


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Moving Through Parkinson’s program featured on “living healthy longer” podcast

CSU Dance Instructor Lisa Morgan recently appeared on the Living Healthy Longer podcast, produced by the Columbine Health Systems Center for Healthy Aging. According to the site, the podcast description, living healthy longer covers the latest in the biological, cognitive, psychological, social, and behavioral aspects of getting older—from research happening at Colorado State University to […]


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Dancing in a New Light: CSU Offers New BFA in Dance

Story by Grace Cooper, CSU Dance Major; originally printed on Dec. 16, 2020 in College Avenue Magazine Tucked away in the Southeast corner of Colorado State University’s campus, the University Center of the Arts is home to the School of Music, Theater, and Dance — not often the programs that draw students to CSU. A […]


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CSU Dance alum Denna Thomsen in the new movie, The Turning

CSU Dance alum, Denna Thomsen (’07), attended the premiere of the new movie, The Turning, on Tuesday, January 21, 2020. Thomsen plays the role of Jessel. In the new horror drama, directed by Floria Sigismondi, a young governess is hired to look after an orphaned girl, but the return of the girl’s problematic brother uncovers […]



2019 Spring Dance Concert shows growth and diversity of CSU dance

Innovative, diverse, and relevant new works by CSU dance faculty and student choreographers are featured throughout the 2019 Spring Dance Concert, directed by dance professor Chung-Fu Chang and showing at the University Center for the Arts April 26-27. The in-house showcase of student-performed solo, duet, and group pieces represents a wide range of topics from […]


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Testimony: 5 Stories in Motion

—By Emily Kaiser, UCA Publicity Intern The Colorado State University Dance presents this semester’s Senior Dance Capstone Concert, Testimony: 5 Stories in Motion. Graduating dance majors Katelyn Doyle, Cassie Eron, Madison Martinek, Jenny Trenchard, and Mohammed York are preparing their final dance performance before completing their undergraduate dance education at CSU. The concert takes place […]


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Eventide: Senior dance majors dance their way to graduation

By Emily Kaiser, SMTD Publicity Intern Colorado State University Dance presents this semester’s Senior Dance Capstone Concert, Eventide. Senior dance majors Tiana Farnsworth, Hannah Finnegan, and Emily LaCourse prepare their final dance concert before walking across the graduation stage in May. The concert takes place in the University Dance Theater at the University Center for […]