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Alumni Dance Celebration

Dear Colorado State University Dance Alumni and Friends, Greetings from Fort Collins, Colorado! The faculty, staff, and students of the School of Music, Theatre and Dance invite you to be a part of our upcoming Colorado State University Dance Alumni Celebration taking place at the University Center for the Arts on April 27-30, 2016. These […]


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Dance Integration in K-12 Classrooms: CSU Dance Majors are making it happen!

By Lisa Morgan, CSU Dance Instructor The 1st graders of Ms. Stacy Hoban’s classroom at Laurel Elementary School of Arts and Technology are learning about soils in their science unit. Katie McClendon, CSU Dance Major and Early Childhood Education major is helping them to explore the lesson through movement. “Getting so small is hard! I […]


Fall Dance Capstone 2015 Promotional Photo

Dance Majors Want Their Audience to Speak, Thrive, and Be Alive

Colorado State University Dance presents the Dance Major Capstone Concert: Speak, Thrive, Be Alive on Friday, Dec. 11 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 12 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in the University Dance Theatre. This end of semester concert provides graduating dance majors a chance to showcase their choreography, performance, and production talents […]


Fall Dance Concert 2015 Performance Photo

Fall 2015 Dance Concert Preview

The Colorado State University Dance Program rehearses for the Fall Dance Concert, November 12, 2015. Take a break from mid-terms and get swept away by the innovative and creative stories that will unfold through movement as the School of Music, Theatre and Dance presents the annual Fall Dance Concert on Nov.13 and 14 at 7:30 […]


Jane Slusarski-Harris dancing

Dance director named one of Colorado’s ‘Living Legends of Dance’

Colorado State University Director of Dance, Jane Slusarski-Harris. Jane Slusarki-Harris, director of dance at Colorado State University, was one of five people recently honored for their contributions to dance in Colo. Since 2004, the annual “Legends of Dance in Colorado” honors individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to dance. Starting with the untimely death of […]


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Energy From Above

Do you know that energy is not only being created within the University Center for the Arts, but is being created above the venue as well? Six different solar installation sites at Colorado State University are now complete, including installs at the University Center for the Arts, Colorado State University Campus Rec, Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital, and three […]


Brittany Adams pictured for Take Back the Tutu Campaign

October 2015 Class Notes

Grady Soapes Grady Soapes, ’09, B.A. Dance, is artistic coordinator and dance educator at the Denver Center for Performing Arts, where he works on casting; helps manage the Colorado New Play Summit; coordinates the theatre testing initiative, Off-Center at the Jones; and hosts and manages the Playwright Fellow. He also serves as New Works Festival […]


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Dan Goble and the School of Music, Theatre and Dance

Dan Goble, who arrived on campus in mid-July, grew up in Casper, Wyo., and spent most of his career at Western Connecticut State University where he was dean of the School of Visual and Performing Arts for the past four years. It became apparent after just a few interactions with Dr. Goble that he is […]


Henry Mallory

June 2015 Class Notes

Mallory Buffer Henry, ’09, B.A. Performing Arts: Dance has been dancing with a small traveling show titled “The Silver Screen Salon Show as a Can-Can Dancer with the alias, ‘Sophie Darling.’ Mallory has also been teaching dance for years, and in Aug. 2014 opened the Henry Stashak Academy of Dance and Innovation in Fort Collins. […]