Upcoming Events
Great Works Open Rehearsal
Friday, October 8, 5:00 p.m.
With Tsai Hsi Hung in Dalton Center MMR
Tsai Hsi Hung was selected as the 2020 WMU National Choreography Competition Winner. Hung will be in Kalamazoo for an exciting 8-day residency where she will create a new work on WMU dancers, teach master classes in ballet and modern dance, and meet with dance students to share her professional experiences in dance. This open rehearsal is an opportunity for the public to see her work with students in advance of the premiere performance at the Winter Gala Dance Concert
Tsai Hsi Hung graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2010. She has worked with the Australian Dance Theater, Tasdance, Expressions Dance Company, and Chunky Move Dance Company Dancers. In 2020, Hung received a Choreography Fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts. Shortly after, Hung’s work was selected by the Joffrey Academy of Dance for their Spring 2020 Winning Works performance in Chicago. Hung was also invited to Taipei National Dance Theater to perform in July 2020. Hung teaches at the Peridance Capezio Dance Center and is the director of the Queens Ballet Center/QBC Company in New York.
In-site/Outside
Sunday, October 10, 2:00 and 2:30 p.m.
Starting in Miller Fountain Plaza, and then in and around main campus
A collaborative project between two dance courses: DANC3800 The Choreographer in the Community and DANC1000 First-Year Performance. This project challenges choreography students to explore how dance can be created within a specific environment. Choreographers worked with first-year students to explore movement in relationship to specific sites they selected throughout campus to create short dance studies performed live.
Dancing with the WMU/Kazoo Stars Scholarship Fundraiser
Saturday, October 30, 7:30 p.m.
Dalton Recital Hall
Dancing with the WMU/Kazoo Stars Scholarship Fundraiser pairs local “Stars” with one or more WMU dance students to perform for a panel of celebrity judges and a very supportive audience for a very good cause - WMU Dance students.
While the event has featured only ballroom-style dances in the past, things are being shaken up this year and will feature new dance genres (think dance battle, or Star with backup dancers, musical theatre, etc). This will allow more social distancing between dancers and explore the FUN in more dance styles!
This year's celebrity contestants are:
Grace K. Gheen, Director of Communications, OutFront Kalamazoo
Ed Martini, Associate Provost and Dean, WMUx and Merze Tate College
Dr. Rita Raichoudhuri, Superintendent, Kalamazoo Public Schools
Petey Stephanak, Partner, Southwest Michigan First
Jessica Thompson, Founder/Owner, Bee Joyful Zero Waste & Refill Shop
Celebrity Judges:
Lori Moore, local media personality and Kalamazoo STAR
Kia Smith, Artistic Director of South Chicago Dance Theatre, and alumna of WMU Dance
David Curwen, Professor Emeritus, WMU Department of Dance
Winter Gala Dance Concert
February 17-20, 2022
Thursday-Saturday at 8:00 p.m., Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
Shaw Theatre
BFA Junior Jury Presentations
Saturday, March 26, 2022, 3:00 p.m.
Dalton Center Studio B
BFA Student Graduating Presentations
April 8-10, 2022
Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m., Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
Dalton Center Studio B
BA Student Capstone Presentations/Western Dance Project Showing
Monday, April 11, 2022, 8:00 p.m.
Dalton Center Studio B
