Spring 2024 – Sneak-Peek!

January 31, 6 – 8pm: Dance Theatre Company Auditions, Performing Arts Center Dance Studio

Dance Theatre Company is a requirement for Dance majors – but all RWU 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 RWU dance alum Layne Paradis Willis as our Alive! Arts Dance Artist in Residence!  Filmmaker Anna Tse will be working with Willis.  The two are co-founders of the LA-based dance and film company HEAVY BOOTS – 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!  

Reserve your tickets at rwu.booktix.com

If you have questions about RWU’s Dance and Performance Studies Program, Dance Theatre Company, or our audition process – please contact Professor Cathy Nicoli at cnicoli@rwu.edu.