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Western Arts Wednesday: WWU Dance at the Leo

three dancers in angular poses

Dance in Concert 2025

a row of dancers seen from the side. They wear baggy trousers secured at the cuff and fitted halter tops.

Winter Dances 2025

Three dancers perform on a dimly lit stage, with flowing movements and expressive poses. The foreground features a dancer leaning diagonally, supported by one hand, and another leaning back with arms stretched toward the other dancer. A third dancer, slightly blurred, appears in the background leaning forward with a hand stretched back.

Dance Education Matinee 2024

two dancers grip arms and twist around a chair

BFA Dance Showcase 2024

many dancers in black pose in front of a run down house. The sky is clear blue.

Dance in the Gallery: Choreography inspired by the works of Jyoti Duwadi

three dancers in white strike angular poses in a concrete hall

Afro-Cuban Dance Master Class

Afrocuban dancers dance with bloused white trousers and colorful sleeves

Winter Dances 2024

A dancer at the top of a staircase, on their toes, arching back and reaching up high

Dance in Concert 2024

a dancer with a serious expression reaches up with an arm and down with another as if to touch their heel of a lifted foot

BFA Dance Capstone Performance 2023

3 dancers in athletic poses in an evening-lit garden. One squatting, the others stand with a foot pointed outward.

Scholars Week Performance | The Rehearsal is the Performance: Process as Product

a smiling person, Lainie Pennington

Scholars Week Performance | The Rehearsal is the Performance: Process as Product

a dancer improvising in the studio

Workshops and Luncheon with Guest Artist Toni M. Kemehana Pasion

a hula leader makes a broad low gesture with both arms fanning a brightly covered piece of fabric

Skyviewing Sculpture dance performance

Three dancers in matching dresses strike unique poses together in the woods

Dance in the Gallery: Choreography inspired by Isamu Noguchi's skyviewing sculptures

dancers move among modern sculptures and lamps by the artist Isamu Noguchi

Dance Auditions: Winter Dances 2023

a dancer on the beach in a black leotard in a low lunge with arms outstretched

Dance Program Open House

three dancers in the sun leap on a brick plaza

Guest Artist Briana Reed informal showing with Q and A

dancers rehearse in a studio

Dance in Concert 2023

A person wearing a wrap-around skirt in a casual dance position with peaceful expression on a river sandbar

Winter Dances 2023

dancer takes an enormous step with back and arm arched back while passing a row of black and white abstract photos

Electroacoustic Composers of Western Art/Dance/Music collab at Make.Shift

humanoid in smock with maybe the head of bird crouches among enlarged fibers or grass

2022 Dance BFA Capstone Concert

three dancers in white strike low, angular poses in a small space of concrete and wood with modern lighting and details

Light and Shadow Dances

A dancer makes a dramatic movement which matches the shapes of images portrayed on the wall behind

Marcia Meade, Dance Theatre of Harlem

a dancer's headshot

The state of Philippine ballet: A Case Study Analysis

ballet dancers on stage

Dance in Concert 2022

A dancer floats vertically straight above the floor in mid-descent, toes pointed, hands loosely above head.

Winter Dances 2022

3 dancers close together in dramatic poses

Dance BFA Capstone 2021

Four dancers posing in different ways inside a circular paved area in front of a garden

Spring Dances 2021

A dancer mid-leap, arched back, arms and legs curled. Behind a colorful sphere structure glows under a starry sky.

Embodied Intersectionality Workshop with Joe Bowie

A bald, gray-bearded man giving a kind, humble smile

Reneé Robinson: Horton dance technique and history of Black dance in America

Collage: Reneé Robinson's smiling portrait beside two images of Reneé partner dancing

Jonathan Lee and Tweet Boogie present "The Killing Fields"

Star field of American Flag superimposed on Colin kaepernick

Intermedia Art + Dance present Projections Fall 2020

six paneled image, densely layered dancers, digital patterns, someone in a scuba suit seen from below

Dance in Concert

collage of portraits: Noelle's profile with eyes closed and chin up, Cameron rolling up a sleeve, Quilan dancing

Cabaret

six performers wearing suits in saturated light. Some wear blindfolds

Winter Dances 2020

a dancer leaps between tables in an old fashioned library reading room

Dance BFA Capstone Concert 2019

BFA Dance Capstone Performance

Winter Dances 2019

BFA Capstone Dance

Dance BFA Capstone 2018

a dancer swings another dancer around his body

Dance in Concert 2018

two dancers lift another dancer by the arms

Winter Dances 2018

male dancer in suspenders and white shirt holds the arm of a female dancer in a dark dress, kneeling beneath him

Dance in Concert 2017

Six dancers showing progression of leap

Public/Private: Performance

glacier performed at Montclair State University, September, 2013. Photos by Julieta Cervantes. front Adele Nickel, back Claire Westby

Those Who Remain: Concerto for Installation and Improviser: a collaboration with composer Wayne Horvitz, video artist/VJ Yohei Saito and choreographer Yukio Suzuki

Yukio Suzuki

Dance in Concert 2016

Two dancers in black clothing spin just above the floor

Winter Dances 2016

two dancers squat back to back balanced against each other, two other twist, reach and crouch behind

Movement Graffiti: Contemporary Dance in Concert

Auditions for Graffiti Dance Theatre

Rep West Dance performance

A person in a suit stands stiff, looking up as a ghoulish character looks around them from behind and slips an open hand between their elbow and waist