Events

CSU Dance Lab

2026 Spring Dance Experience: Visit and Audition Day

February 13, 2026 @ 8:00 am – 6:00 pm –

During the Dance Experience visit, you’ll take classes in modern, hip-hop, and ballet taught by CSU dance faculty. You’ll take classes alongside CSU dance majors. You’ll get to talk to current students and faculty, and you’ll see a live performance of choreography in progress for our upcoming concerts. You’ll have the chance to perform the solo portion of your dance major audition in person, and you’ll also complete the audition interview during the event.



2026 Body/Speak Promotional poster

Body/Speak

February 20, 2026 – February 21, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Co-directed by Susie Garifi and Julia Cooper Body/Speak is a community dance concert featuring guest artists from colleges, universities and dance companies from across the Colorado and Wyoming region in a shared performance of diverse dance. CSU Dance encourages participants to use our dance space as a way to celebrate who we are as performance […]


Dr. Kim TallBear speaks at CSU on March 30, 2026

Distinguished Lecture Series on Race, Gender, and Ethnic Studies: A Public Talk by Kim TallBear

03/30/2026 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm –

Dr. Kim TallBear, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, will speak on The Indian’s Death to Make Settler “Indigenous” Life: Genetics, Ancestry, and Self-Indigenization in the USA and Canada


Distinguished Lecture Series with Dr. Kim TallBear on March 30, 2026.

Distinguished Lecture Series: A public talk with Dr. Kim TallBear

03/30/2026 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm –

As part of the Mellon-grant funded distinguished lecture series, Kim TallBear (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate citizen) will give a public talk entitled “The Indian’s Death to Make Settler “Indigenous” Life: Genetics, Ancestry, and Self-lndigenization in the USA and Canada.”


Book Talk: “Will Work for Food: Labor Across the Food Chain”

04/08/2026 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm – Join us for a book talk with Dr. Teresa Mares, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Vermont and ’02 alum of the CSU anthropology department.


2026 Spring Dance Concert Promotional Poster

Spring Dance Concert

April 17, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – CSU Dance keeps innovation alive! This diverse concert features works by faculty members, as well as selected student choreographers. Featuring a range of dance forms, you’re sure to be inspired by our performers’ versatility and artistry.


Humanities Research Day

04/22/2026 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Please join the Blake Center in April 2026 for our first Humanities Research Day! This event builds on our past end of the year events celebrating our Faculty Research Fellows by creating a space to highlight even more of the fantastic research done by humanists at CSU. The event will include research talks by our […]


CSU Dance Majors

Spring Dance Capstone Concert

May 8, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – The spring capstone concert represents the culmination of four years of hard work, creativity and artistic growth for students at CSU Dance. This spring, we invite you to celebrate the accomplishments of senior dance majors; Claire Forden, Madison Hard, Kim Mayorga-Escalante, Micaela Oar, and Irie Green.