BFA Dance Virtual Performance

BFA in Dance students complete a Capstone Project working with a professional choreographer.

Follow the links below to watch the performance videos of their BFA solos.

5 dancers, 3 on cement blocks and 2 on ground, in different artistic poses. A view of the bay behind them.

Photo by Clinton James

The Process - Kelsey Lampe

Dancer Kelsey Lampe was born and raised in Washington and... Kelsey has received two scholarships...

Choreographer Oliver Steele is Romanian by birth and a citizen of Germany...

Read about Kelsey and Oliver

A Distant Echo - Gabriella Ross

Dancer Gabriella Ross grew up dancing in Puyallup, WA. She was a competition dancer... honored to receive many scholarships...

Yoshito Sakuraba is founding artistic director of Abarukas and an award-winning Choreographer...

Read about Gabriella and Yoshito

BFA Capstone Solo - Hannah Goebel

Dancer Hannah Goebel, originally from Des Moines, WA... Her grant described her interest in communicating and investigating society’s constructs around partial and full nudity through art and live performance...

Choreographer Wesley Ensminger, originally from Santa Cruz, CA... currently on faculty at the Joffrey Ballet School in NYC...

Read about Hannah and Wesley

Prophecy - Valerie Goliff

Dancer Valerie Goliff was on the WWU Hip Hop Dance Team... She has combined her social psychological research in stereotyping and bias with her dancing...

Choreographer Anya Cloud is a dance maker, teacher, performer, and activist currently based in San Diego, CA...

Read about Valerie and Anya

This is for you - Cierra Johnson

Dancer Cierra Johnson, originally from Kodiak, Alaska... received two undergraduate research grants, one in collaboration with the Psychology department and one in collaboration with the Dance department...

Ella Mahler is a Choreographer working at the intersections of experimental dance and visual performance...

Read about Cierra and Ella

Five dancers leaping in the sky above a rocky terrain, each in a different artistic pose

Photo by Clinton James