CSU Dance majors are attending the 2024 National Dance Education Organization conference
CSU Dance majors are attending the 2024 National Dance Education Organization conference.
Category Archives: Research & Creative Scholarship
The Slusarski-Harris Scholarship Encourages Dance Students’ Thirst for Excellence
Jane Slusarski-Harris, Director of CSU Dance, 1988-2018. Rod Harris and Jane Slusarski-Harris continue to support student work in the dance program at Colorado State University with the Rod Harris and Jane Slusarski-Harris Dance Scholarship. “Dance brought much to our lives: discipline, artistic expression, and physical accomplishment,” said the couple. “These are vitally important in a dance […]
Interspecies Journey: A residency with unlikely partners
The Colorado State University Dance and Equine Sciences programs collaborated for a week in the Fall of 2023 to find connections and intersections between dance/arts and work with horses to enhance each other’s practices, learning, and research. These unlikely partners came together to find new ways of listening and discovery across disciplines.
Guest artist JoAnna Mendl Shaw and The Equus Projects were invited to work with students and faculty in residence. In the studio and the arena, they explored a common language, physical dialogue, and ways to honor and give voice to humans and equines.