A past Andreas Guest Artist, fancy dancer Larry Yazzie
The Department of Theatre & Dance will host its second High School Dance Workshop from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7, in the Performing Arts Center studios. Registration is open now by clicking here; more communication and finalized schedule to follow based on enrollment numbers.
For more information, contact the Department.
• Zenon Dance Company
• Flying Foot
Forum
• Zorongo Flamenco Company
March 1: Flying Foot Forum Dance Company; clogging and hambone, and some jazz roots.
March 30: Classical Javanese dance artist Tri Sutrisno
April 12: Brazilian dance artist Marciano Silva dos Santos
April 24: Tango dance artist Gretchen Larson
Classes meet from 12:30-1:55 p.m. in PA 126. Please contact Dr. Julie Kerr-Berry for information.
The Department will participate in the American College Dance Festival at theUniversity of WI, Madison; March 28-April 1, 2012. In March 2013, the Minnesota State Mankato Department of Theatre & Dance will host the regional festival.
Another past Andreas Guest Artist, Francis Kofi
The Minnesota State University, Mankato Department of Theatre & Dance presented one of its dance pieces, “Politics Religion Sex,” at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, in May 2010. Choreographed by faculty member Daniel Stark, it was selected following its performance at the Regional Gala Concert of the American College Dance Festival Association March 17-21 at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Thirty-two dances from 24 colleges and universities from around the country, as far away as New Mexico and Washington, competed in the festival (schools are not limited to competing in their own region). Adjudicators were made up of a panel of three nationally recognized artists in the field of dance.
From those 32, seven were selected for the Regional Gala (including “Stay,” a student-choreographed work by Katie Drietz from Mankato), and two, including “Politics Religion Sex,” earned performances at nationals.
For 22 years, Minnesota State Mankato has been involved with the American College Dance Festival Association and on several past occasions (2006, 2007 and 2009) has had dances adjudicated and invited to the regional conference’s esteemed Regional Gala Concert.
Dance became an academic major at Minnesota State Mankato in 2005 and is the only one of its kind in MnSCU. The Department of Theatre and Dance offers the only Dance Education major in the state of Minnesota. Director of Dance, Dr. Julie Kerr-Berry, currently serves as the Regional Director of the North Central Region of ACDFA.
