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Department of Dance 

 Guest Artists 

 

SPOTLIGHT

Dance majors meet and work with guest artists every semester.  Master classes and residencies by a wide variety of professional companies and choreographers provide students with outstanding performing and learning opportunities.  Past guest artists and companies include:

Guest Artist Residencies (the following artists worked with SRU students to set either an historical or new work)

Guest Artist Master Classes and Workshops

Performances (the following companies have performed at SRU upon invitation of the Department of Dance, the Performing Arts Series, Kaleidoscope Arts Festival, and/or the SRU International Arts and Cultures Series)

2012-2013 Weekend Guest Artist Series: Gerard Holt (Contemporary Ballet), Lani Weissbach (Somatics), Lauren Edson (Contemporary), Tara Madsen (Modern), more to be announced.
2011-2012 Weekend Guest Artist Series: Chris Saunders (Musical Theatre), Pam Pietro (Dance Science), Andre Koslowski (German Dance Theatre), Gerard Holt (Contemporary Ballet). 

The Department of Dance is committed to bringing nationally and internationally recognized artists to campus every year to teach and set choreography on students. 

Faculty member Nora Ambrosio received a 2010-2011 National Endowment for the Arts American Masterpiece grant that allowed for a collaboration with internationally known choreographer Doug Varone.  Dance students learned Varone's OF THE EARTH FAR BELOW, restaged by dancer Natalie Desch.  In 2009, Desch staged Varone's masterwork TOMORROW, with live music performed by music department faculty members. 

 

 
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