American College Dance Association Northwest Regional Festival: Presentation of “That Time”

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Rachel Kearl, Whitney Ellis, Graham Brown; Dance Department Introduction March 24-25th, 2018, Graham Brown’s choreographic work “That Time,” an excerpt from his professional evening-length work Sonder, was set on a group of BYU students and presented at the American College Dance Association Northwest Regional Festival (ACDA). American College Dance Association exists to foster creative potential, to […]

Body Knows, Spirit Dances: Somatic approaches in cross cultural dance exchange

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Lauren Evans and Marin Roper, Dance In June 2018, I accompanied three other undergraduate Dance major students and my mentor to Bangalore, India where we observed, trained with and learned choreography from five Indian dance artists over a two-week period to learn and teach autobiographical solos reflecting a personal ‘search for the sacred.’ Another student […]

The Littlest Ballerina (Kamilla) An Original Ballet in One Act

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Daniel Fifield and Faculty Mentor: Shayla Bott, Department of Dance At the beginning of Fall semester 2016, I discussed the possibility of composing music for an original ballet with Elise Meiners, an adjunct professor for the BYU Dance Department. She agreed to choreograph the ballet and together we assembled a production team. Daniel Schwicht, a […]

Ethnography of Dance Pedagogy Traditions: Chinese Dance Culture Compared to Eurocentric Dance Culture

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Shill, Caitlin Ethnography of Dance Pedagogy Traditions: Chinese Dance Culture Compared to Eurocentric Dance Culture Faculty Mentor: Marilyn Berrett, Dance This project’s purpose was to analyze the traditions, customs and philosophies of professors at the College of Dance at Beijing Mingzu University during Brigham Young University’s China dance study abroad. Recording and analyzing their pedagogical […]

Ethnographic Observation of Dance Pedagogy at the Minzu University for the China Dance Study Abroad

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Emily Bayles and Marilyn Berrett, Department of Dance Introduction In Asian cultures, a lack of creativity shows a hindering element to the success and progress of the Chinese dancers’ education. Keeping with tradition, the “purpose of the arts was not the making of ‘art’”1. A few methods of dance pedagogy put into action have enhanced […]

A Study of the Variances Between China’s and the United State’s Dance Education Strategies

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Tessa Homer and Kate Monson, Department of Dance Introduction As a dance education major at Brigham Young University (BYU), my constant goal is to improve my teaching strategies by studying methods of effective teaching and observing my professors. Through my dance and education courses at BYU, I have developed a personal teaching style and toolbox […]

Culminating Project

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Logan McGill and Nathan Balser, Contemporary Dance Department During my time as a dance major at BYU I devoted countless hours to refining my technique, artistry, and performance quality in order to be the best dancer I could be. “Culminating Project” took those skills that I have spent so long refining and put them to […]

Summer Dance Intensive Field Study

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Amy Gunter and Professor Nathan Balser, Dance Introduction Gaga, created by Isreal’s Ohad Naharin, is an innovative movement practice focused on enhancing sensations within the body through movement. It is used both as a training method for dancers, and a movement practice for the general public. Because the emphasis of Gaga is to explore sensation […]