Past Concerts & Events

2025

CSU Dance Lab

2025 Fall Dance Experience: Visit and Audition Day

Date: 8:00 am, Friday, November 7, 2025

November 7, 2025 @ 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.

CSU Dance Lab

2025 Dance Lab: Summer Intensive

Date: 12:00 am, Sunday, August 3, 2025

August 3, 2025 – August 16, 2025 @ 12:00 am –

CSU Dance Lab is a college preparatory summer program offering immersive study in classical and contemporary dance forms, repertory, theory, and composition. In addition to dance classes and rehearsals, students will attend lectures, develop artist statements, choreograph solos, and present a public performance. Mentored by CSU Dance faculty, renowned guest artists, and current dance majors, attendees expand skills and knowledge while contributing to a collaborative creative process. Beginner through pre-professional level dancers ages 14+ are invited to register for our two-week in-person intensive. To ensure individualized attention, registration is limited to 24 dancers admitted on a first-come-first-served basis.

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2025 Education in Motion: A Professional Development Seminar for pK-12 Educators

Date: 12:00 am, Monday, June 9, 2025

June 9, 2025 – June 12, 2025 @ 12:00 am –

Join CSU Dance faculty, regional educators, and guests for four days of interactive workshops and presentations exploring strategies and tools for integrating movement at all levels of learning.

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Spring 2025 Dance Capstone Concert

Ranging: May 9, May 10, and May 10
Starting: 7:30 pm, Saturday, May 10, 2025

May 10, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – CSU School of Music, Theatre and Dance presents Ellipsis, a compelling collection of work that explores the depth of human experience through movement. This concert features senior dance majors Macala Bartucci, Matt Bishop, Kristianne Johnson, Elliotte Schroeder and Liam Teagarden. The program is varied; both entertaining and thought provoking. Bartucci’s Mosaic delves into the challenges […]

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Special Event: Rat, An Opera

Date: 7:30 pm, Friday, April 25, 2025

April 25, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Choreographed and performed by CSU Dance Professor, Chung-Fu Chang Rat, an Opera is a collaborative project directed by Ms. Sarah Zwick-Tapley, created in partnership with two students from the CSU Honors Program. The piece centers on the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and highlights the powerful story of Wong Kim Ark, a Chinese-American citizen who courageously challenged […]

CSU Dance Concert

Spring 2025 Dance Concert

Ranging: April 18, April 19, and April 19
Starting: 7:30 pm, Saturday, April 19, 2025

April 19, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – CSU Dance keeps innovation alive! This diverse concert features new works by faculty members Madeline Harvey, Susie Garifi, and Godwin Abotsi, and selected student choreographers. From ballet to modern to West African dance and everything in between, you’re sure to be inspired by our performers’ versatility and artistry.

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