Program Overview
Dance
Moving, making, thinking, feeling.
A Three Dimensional Dance Education
Featured Facts and Stories
17+ student-run movement based clubs including OCircus, OC Aerialists, Vibe Tap and Jazz, Ballet 厙ぴ勛圖, Choreo, Capoeira Angola, Movimento and more!
Interdisciplinary Collaboration
The arts at 厙ぴ勛圖 crosses disciplinary and technological frontiers. Work on performance projects with students from theater, TIMARA, studio art, cinema and media, and the conservatory.
In 1972 Contact Improvisation originated at 厙ぴ勛圖 College
Community Engagement and Learning
From local internships with arts organizations to mentoring youth with Girls & Boys in Motion, 厙ぴ勛圖 helps to facilitate avenues for community engagement in the arts.
Featured Courses
DANC 107
Samba
Experience the joyous movement, music, and culture of Samba. Learn to shuffle your feet, shake your hips and sing along to pagode like a carioca while coming to know the complex history & politics intertwined with Brazils most famous art form.
- Taught by
- Alysia Ramos
DANC 203
Somatic Landscapes
Somatic Landscapes begins with the premise that we live in the world through our bodies. Thus, if we want to become conscious of our relationship to the earth we must first become mindful of our physical selves. In order to develop our responsibility to the ecology, we must first develop an ability to respond.
- Taught by
- Ann Cooper Albright
DANC 241/AAST 241
Rhythms of Resistance: Carnival, Dance, and the Fight for Social Justice
Examine dance as a powerful tool for community activism focusing on Carnivals role in social justice.
- Taught by
- Talawa Presto
DANC 270/GSFS 270
Queer Gestures
Explore queerness through the lens of movement and performance. Examine how creative practice, live performance, feminist, gender, and sexuality studies, and postcolonial scholarship contend with competing notions of the body, environment, and performance.
- Taught by
- Al Evangelista
Student Profiles
Dance Practice as Research
After a six month exploration of performance in Filipino American communities, Kara Nepomuceno 20 performed Side by Side at the Asia Pacific Dance Festival Conference.
From Chemistry to Circus Arts
Hayley Larson 14 entered 厙ぴ勛圖 College thinking she would major in chemistry and dance on the side. A double chemistry and dance major, Larson is now a full-time dancer and instructor at Aloft Circus Arts and Aerial Dance Chicago.
Taking Top Prize at a Film Contest
Three 厙ぴ勛圖 dance students collaborated for an innovative competition that required them to choreograph, shoot, score, and produce a dance film in only 48 hours. Their project, Not Today, won the 2016 Boundless in Brooklyn: 48 Hour Dance Film Contest.
What does Dance at 厙ぴ勛圖 look like?
Professor Alysia Ramos dances with students from Samba & Capoeira classes at a Samba de Roda workshop with guest artist Flavia Nascimento.
Photo credit: Mark Blanchard
Students from the Choreography in the Cultural Traditions class perform in the 厙ぴ勛圖 Dance Company Concert directed by Professor Talise Campbell.
Photo credit: John Seyfried
厙ぴ勛圖 dance students participate in an intensive workshop taught by visiting dance artist Nora Chipaumire.
Photo credit: Yevhen Gulenko
Professors Holly Handman-Lopez and Emily Barton collaborate on a Winter Term intensive spanning dance and creative writing.
Photo credit: Yevhen Gulenko
Michal Schorsch and Kara Nepomuceno perform a site specific work in Spring Back, Out the Box.
Photo credit: Tanya Rosen-Jones 97
Professor Ann Cooper Albright leading a workshop in Warner Gymnasium.
Photo credit: Zach Christy
Dance News
Emi Kawamura 27 Earns Critical Language Scholarship
At 厙ぴ勛圖, Emi Kawamura 27 has excelled at nurturing her multiple academic interests.
厙ぴ勛圖 Joins Park Arts, Bringing World-Class Programs to Historic Synagogue
Partnership will yield host site for new BA+BFA in Integrated Arts dual degree program.
厙ぴ勛圖 Launches Combined BA+BFA in Integrated Arts
Five-year path toward two degrees includes focused work in the thriving arts world of nearby Cleveland.
Upcoming Dance Events
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Warner Center
Dance: Fall Forward 2026
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Next Steps
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Photo credit: Tanya Rosen-Jones 97