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October 18, 2024 - 10:12am
Congratulations to the UW Department of Dance Chair, Christina Sunardi, for the publication of her new book, Fashioning Femininities, Making Masculinities: Gender, Performance, and Lived Experience in Java, Indonesia, which is intended as course reading material.
In Fashioning Femininities, Making Masculinities, Sunardi asks the question, “What can the lived experiences of performing artists in Java, Indonesia tell us about... Read more
October 7, 2024 - 2:16pm
The University of Washington Department of Dance Music Director Paul Moore composed the soundtrack of Suburban Flury, a compelling nonfiction drama that will be premiering at the Lincoln Center at the 62nd Annual New York Film Festival this weekend!
“It’s a poetic, artsy documentary,” Paul shares, “about... Read more
September 11, 2024 - 2:11pm
Two dance films created by Professor Juliet McMains will be featured at the Local Sightings Film Festival at Northwest... Read more
September 10, 2024 - 4:32pm
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Dance Costume Assistant
Are you passionate about costumes and organizing? The Department of Dance is seeking two enthusiastic and detail-oriented students to join our team as Dance Costume Assistants. This position offers the opportunity to work closely... Read more
August 28, 2024 - 10:52am
Congratulations to dance majors Gavin Besteman and Joan Swartwood on receiving prestigious awards for their outstanding academic excellence from the College of Arts and Sciences as well the UW Department of Dance for the 2024-2025 school year!
George & Barbara Akers Scholarship
Recipient: Gavin Besteman
The purpose of the George & Barbara Akers Scholarship fund is to provide financial assistance to deserving undergraduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences... Read more
August 22, 2024 - 2:41pm
Read the Perspectives Newsletter article featuring the UW Department of Dance course, Activating Place, taught by Professor of Dance Jennifer Salk.
From Greig Garden to the Art Building courtyard, students in "Activating Place" — a Department of Dance course — created... Read more
May 28, 2024 - 10:47am
Congratulations to UW Department of Dance Acting Assistant Professor Dr. Christine Sahin, on the recent publication of her new book, ... Read more
April 25, 2024 - 1:21pm
Black Movement in Art & Protest, Imaginative Realms- A Worldbuilding Laboratory, Experiential and Historical Understanding of Chinese Dance: These are the titles of courses that second-year MFA Dance candidates are teaching in the Department of Dance this quarter. This list of courses reflects the increasingly inclusive scope of the MFA in Dance program at the UW, which previously focused on modern and contemporary dance primarily rooted in Euro-American traditions. Now, the program is... Read more
April 8, 2024 - 3:28pm
There is still more work to be done, but it is a big deal that shifts like this are happening at UW, which is one of the institutions in the U.S. where the dance program has begun to incorporate changes in their curriculum to embrace dance styles that fall outside of the Western concert dance styles which are the norm in dance education. Dance majors at UW must now take classes in four different dance forms before selecting what they’ll specialize in, and UW has added progressions of classes in... Read more
March 13, 2024 - 9:42am
The Department of Dance is thrilled to announce that Dr. Monica Rojas will be joining the UW Dance full-time faculty as an Assistant Professor of Dance beginning in July 2024.
Monica Rojas is a Peruvian-born Seattle-based cultural anthropologist and performing artist who devoted the last 15 years to extensive research and artistic work as a pioneer performer and educator of Afro-Peruvian culture and of the Afro-Latine arts movement in the Pacific Northwest. She is the founder of the... Read more