‘Big Chocolate’ Brings Hip Hop to BYU Classrooms
Walking around campus in a durag and snapback, with tattoos peeking out from under his sleeves, Marc Cameron doesn’t look like a typical BYU instructor. Cameron is proficient in most hip-hop [...]
BYU Dance Faculty Collaborate to Create Documentary on Ageism Within the Dance Community
As she got older, Pam Musil, BYU’s associate dance department chair, had gradually removed herself from the performative and technical aspects of dance. And though she felt self-conscious about [...]
New Contemporary Dance Study Abroad Helps Students Broaden Their Experiences and Network With Members of the International Community
For the first time, BYU’s Department of Dance is taking students to Europe to study Contemporary Dance. BYU’s Department of Dance has a storied history of taking its students abroad to [...]
BYU International Folk Dance Ensemble Celebrates Ukrainian Culture in New Video
Brigham Young University’s highly acclaimed Folk Dance ensemble is gearing up for another holiday showing of Christmas Around the World, set for Nov. 30-Dec. 1 at the Marriott Center in Provo. [...]
By Mason Graham
Posted “AIR TRANSIT” COLLABORATION UNITES STAFF, STUDENTS AND UTA PERSONNEL
BYU students, alumni, faculty and UTA personnel cooperate to create raised awareness of Utah’s air pollution situation through dance. BYU students and alumni dance in “The Last [...]
New video series uses dance to show dangers of air pollution
When Keely Song moved to Utah in 2016, she was jarred by what she called the “apocalyptic” talk about air quality during the state’s notorious inversions. So when BYU announced in November it [...]
By Leslie Owusu
Posted Noelani Schraedel: Insights from my NYC Experience Will Help Launch My Dance Career
I had no idea how a weeklong experience in New York City with the BYU Contemporary Dance Theatre (CDT) could help me decide this was where I will pursue an MFA after graduating from BYU. While we [...]
By Amanda Shrum
In College of Fine Arts and Communications, Contemporary Dance Theatre, Dance, Department of Design, Department of Theatre and Media Arts, Kinnect, Music, Theatre and Media Arts
Posted Department of Dance, School of Music, Department of Theatre and Media Arts and Music Dance Theatre Program Convocation Highlights
Speakers focused on the transformative power of collaboration in the arts The 2018 convocation for the Department of Dance, School of Music, Department of Theatre and Media Arts and the Music [...]
BYU Folk Dance Legend Mary Bee Jensen Passes Away
BYU alumna and founder of the International Folk Dance Ensemble Mary Bee Jensen passed away April 13, 2018. She was 100 years old. Mary Bee, as she was known to her family, friends and dancers, [...]
