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November 9, 2023 - 9:00am
Read the full Seattle Dances review of the 2023 Chamber Dance Concert here: https://seattledances.com/2023/10/seattle-shines-in-chamber-dance/
November 7, 2023 - 12:31pm
Professor Juliet McMains' dance film is featured in Lights Dance Festival at the NorthWest Film Forum in Seattle, November 9-11, 2023! Her film is in the Resurgence program, viewable in-person or online.
McMains will also have a film... Read more
July 19, 2023 - 9:43am
“What if part of being whole means that we choose to see one another’s memories as sacred?”
Artist Daniel Alexander Jones posed that question to a crowd gathered outside the Henry Art Gallery in May, at the start of a one-day event featuring five temporary altars around the University of Washington campus. A processional guided visitors to the five altars, created by artists from the UW and the Seattle community, and then returned to the... Read more
July 7, 2023 - 12:47pm
Congratulations to the UW Department of Dance undergraduate award recipients for the 2023-2024 school year!
Evelyn H. Green Endowed Scholarship
Recipient: Maisy Neill
Evelyn Green joined the University of Washington faculty in 1967 and taught all levels of ballet. She became head of the Division of Dance in 1976, and in the same year won a Distinguished Teaching Award. Professor Green retired in 1981 and passed away in 1993. Among her most famous students are Mark Morris, artistic director... Read more
June 21, 2023 - 9:17am
This July, articles written by UW Department of Dance Professor Juliet McMains, and UW Department of Dance alumni Abdiel Jacobsen (MFA 2023), Yebel Gallegos (MFA 2021), and Catherine Cabeen (MFA 2009), will be published in an innovative dance textbook, Dance in US Popular Culture.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/... Read more
June 16, 2023 - 7:37am
NWTC (Northwest Tap Connection) plans to share the space with fellow arts nonprofit Union Cultural Center, which teaches Afro-diasporic arts like capoeira Angola, bomba, kizomba and West African dance.
"For a community arts nonprofit like UCC — which has been operating in the Chinatown International District for over a decade — to own its “forever home” is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, said program manager and co-founder... Read more
May 18, 2023 - 8:33am
Congratulations to dance majors Char Hertel for being awarded the Peeler-Horan Scholarship for the Performing and Visual Arts, and Kaitlyn Pitts for being awarded an Irene Dickson McFarlane Tuition Scholarship, for the 2023-24 academic year from the College of Arts & Sciences!
Professor Juliet McMains creates Award-Winning Film starring UW Dance Alum and music by Alex Dugdale
May 15, 2023 - 3:50pm
Rogue Reflection, a film by Juliet McMains starring UW Dance Class of 2022 graduate Rachael Zuraek, with music by part-time faculty Alex Dugdale won the Best Sound and Music award at WILDsound’s Under 5 Minute film festival.
Listen to the WILDsound’s The Film ... Read more
March 15, 2023 - 3:28pm
On March 3rd, the UW Dance Capoeira class (Dance 287) hosted first and second graders from the Seattle Amistad School. UW Dance instructor Silvio Dos Reis, Mestre Silvinho in Brazilian Portuguese, invited the young... Read more