Spring 2024 – Sneak-Peek!
We welcome you to join the Dance and Performance Studies program for the following events!

January 31, 6 – 8pm: Dance Theatre Company Auditions, Performing Arts Center Dance Studio
Dance Theatre Company is a requirement for Dance majors – but all ɫ dancers are welcome! Dance in works by internationally renowned guest artists, faculty, and student choreographers – all while getting credit for your passion and training with your dance family!
This semester, we are excited to welcome back ɫ dance alum as our Alive! Arts Dance Artist in Residence! Filmmaker will be working with Willis. The two are co-founders of the LA-based dance and film company – known for work that “blends domestic and pedestrian behaviors with experimental dance…creating a movement language digestible to vast audiences through accessible platforms.” Check out their impressive bios!
Three faculty – Michael Bolger, Meryl "Mez" Gendreau, and Kathleen Nasti – will also be choreographing original work for Dance Theatre Company this semester. A special welcome to Kathleen – who is teaching for us for the first time! We are happy to have her expansive range of technical styles – as well as her expertise in Women’s Studies within the field of Dance!
Four student choreographers will also be choreographing this spring: Sophia Mallico (Dance / Psych '25), Sydney Mello (Dance / Public Health '24), Maddie Huntington (Dance / Visual Arts '24), and Elish Flynn (Dance / Psych '24). These fabulous up-and-coming artists will lead their own cast of peers in a semester-long creative process ending in a week of capstone performances. We are very proud of our students!
Please join us for Dance Theatre Company in Concert May 2 – 5!
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If you have questions about ɫ’s Dance and Performance Studies Program, Dance Theatre Company, or our audition process – please contact Professor Cathy Nicoli at cnicoli@rwu.edu.
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