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Larissa Rojas and Alex Vanzant are performing at the Wex for Día De Los Mu***os at 6:30pm today. It's a quick five-minute duet in case anyone is around before the Up/rising Concert.

Choreography by Alfonso Abraham Cervera in collab with Larissa and Alex.

Order your official Ohio State Dance apparel before the store closes on November 8.
Individual orders will NOT be directly shipped to you.
After the sale closes, all orders will be shipped in bulk directly to the Department of Dance office for you to pick-up at your convenience.
Orders will be available for pick-up approximately 4-6 weeks after the sale closes. ⤵️

Order your official Ohio State Dance apparel The Ohio State University enjoys the spirit and support from one of the nation’s longest standing alumni associations (now nearly 500,000 strong) and one of the nation’s largest single-campus enrollment. One of the ways that Buckeyes show their pride is through Ohio State merchandise. What they ...

Saturdays in the Studio
Free Dance Classes
Sullivant Hall 390
10:30 am - 12 pm

November 2, 2024 - Hip Hop Class
November 16, 2024 - Jazz Dance Class

Free dance classes for Columbus City middle school and high school students will be from 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.. All Columbus students are welcome to attend, but the program is geared toward those with limited access to dance education. Arts education has numerous positive outcomes for students, including academic achievement, higher standardized test scores, social and emotional benefits and memory retention (Guhn et al. 2019; Bowen et al. 2019). Arts education remains inequitable and underfunded. Institutional barriers that prevent fair treatment and full participation in the arts are especially prominent when considering who has access to arts education and what cultural traditions and art forms are valued through classroom teaching. Through public programming at the intersection of social justice education, artmaking and activism, we welcome middle school and high school children from the inner city of Columbus to join us for free dance classes.

https://dance.osu.edu/prospective-students/community-engagement

We've gone digital! When you order your tickets in person, over the phone, or online, you will now receive them via text or email. Enabled with Ticketmaster SafeTix, the electronic barcode helps keep your seats safe. Box Office Practicum Student Eryn Toppin () models our new ticket scanner after receiving the latest training in Event Management.

Associate Professor Abby Zbikowski's company Abby Z and the New Utility earned a 5 star review from the Guardian for her work "Radioactive Practice" presented in association with Dance Umbrella UK, a cutting-edge dance production house in London at Sadler's Wells Theatre, October 18-19, 2024. The performance featured three Ohio State Dance alumni, Fiona Lundie (MFA 2012), Jennifer Meckley (MFA 2013), Ishmael Konney (MFA 2023) and current second year MFA candidate Ben Roach. In addition, Assistant Professor Momar Ndiaye served as dramaturg on this work, and it featured original music from Ohio State Dance Accompanist Matthew Peyton Dixon.

Please join us in congratulating Zbikowski for this huge milestone in her career as a dance artist/educator and her company for putting Ohio State Dance front and center on a very important international stage. 🔥

Abby Z and the New Utility's "Radioactive Practice" London, UK performance earns 5 star review from the Guardian Associate Professor Abby Zbikowski's company Abby Z and the New Utility earned a 5 star review from the Guardian for her work "Radioactive Practice" presented in association with Dance Umbrella UK, a cutting-edge dance production house in London at Sadler's Wells Theatre, October 18-19, 2024.

Ohio State Associate Professor of Dance Harmony Bench and collaborator Kate Elswit, Professor of Performance and Technology at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (University of London), have been commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art to produce the Radical Accounting series of historical dance data visualizations as part of the Edges of Ailey exhibition, which opened in September 2024 and will run through February 2025. Read more 👇

Radical Accounting Visualizations open at the Whitney Museum of American Art Ohio State Associate Professor of Dance Harmony Bench and collaborator Kate Elswit, Professor of Performance and Technology at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (University of London), have been commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art to produce the Radical Accountingseries of....

Buckeye Nation, please join us in giving your warmest Scarlet and Gray welcome to all the dancers auditioning for our BFA in Dance program today and tomorrow! O-H!

Assistant Professor Kym McDaniel's Dance 5211: Dance Film 1 class went to the Aquatic Center on campus and filmed with 360 underwater cameras. Photos by Kym McDaniel and Yujie Chen and with Alaina Craig, Laila Garland, Fateme Marani, and Zoey November.

NEW TIME:
Ayodele Casel Workshop
Tuesday, October 22, 2024 // 5:15 – 6:45 p.m.
Sullivant Hall 390

The workshop will include a conversation/discussion on practice, process, and performance. The participants should be prepared for that as a major focus of our time together.

AYODELE CASEL (Freedom… In Progress, Co-Creator & Soloist) a Doris Duke Artist in the dance category, is an award-winning and critically acclaimed tap dancer and choreographer named one of The New York Times’ “biggest breakout stars of 2019.” Born in The Bronx and raised in Puerto Rico, her practice centers highly narrative works rooted in expressions of selfhood, culture and legacy. Her projects include Bessie Award-winning film “Chasing Magic,” one-woman show “While I Have the Floor,” and theatrical and film series “Diary of a Tap Dancer.” She served as a tap choreographer for the Broadway revival of “Funny Girl,” which garnered a 2022 Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Choreography. A frequent New York City Center collaborator, Casel created an interactive show for the inaugural “On the Move” five-borough tour and was the featured “Artists at the Center” in 2023. Her collaboration with Grammy award-winning Latin jazz composer and pianist Arturo O’Farrill is hailed by The New York Times as “next level” and “thrilling.” Casel was a 2019-2020 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, an artist-in-residence at Harvard University and Little Island and is the recipient of a United States Artist Fellowship, a Herb Alpert Award, and Hoofer and Flo-Bert Award. In 2021, Casel was depicted on a U.S. Postal Service Forever Stamp celebrating tap dance. Casel is an alumna of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and The William Esper Studio. A dance educator for over 25 years, Casel is the co-director of Operation Tap, an online tap dance educational platform, DLNY Tap Dance Project, and serves on the board of New York City Center.

Ohio State Dance seeks Assistant Professor of African American/African Diasporic Percussive Dance Current Employees and Students:If you are currently employed or enrolled as a student at The Ohio State University, please log in to Workday to use the internal application process.Job Title:Assistant Professor of African American/African Diasporic Percussive DanceDepartment:Arts and Sciences | Danc...

Autumn Concert: Up/rising
October 31 - November 2, 2024

This year’s theme, Up/rising, reflects both the trajectory of our department and the dynamic world we inhabit. In a time when the sociopolitical climate challenges us daily, this concert serves as a beacon of hope and resilience, emphasizing the importance of perseverance through our art form.

Tickets and information: https://dance.osu.edu/events/autumn-concert/rising

Up/rising features:

- a new work by Assistant Professor of Practice Eddie Taketa;
- "Behind The Win," for which eleven dancers worked in collaboration with Associate Professor Nya McCarthy-Brown to develop an original dance piece exploring what it takes to win. In the work, dancers highlight the frustration and joy of being an athlete, they explore personal, self-destructive behaviors as well as and the motivations that carry them to achieve;
a new work by Guest Artist Michelle Gibson;
- "Ink," by Guest Artist and MFA in Dance Alumnus Joshua Manculich;
- MFA student works by Shaela Davis and Zoey November.

Our production team has been busy designing lights and media projected on our newly installed white marley floor in the Barnett Theatre for our upcoming Autumn Concert: Up/rising - October 31 - November 2, 2024.

Credit: Media Design by Lexi Clark-Stilianos
Lighting Design by Jonathon Hunter
Photos and videos by Nico Lawson

Tickets and information: https://dance.osu.edu/events/autumn-concert/rising

“I am Cabaret”: Erotic Bodies of Calcutta’s Nightclubs
A lecture by Professor Aishika Chakraborty
October 28, 2024
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Sullivant 225

NAVANRITYA
A contemporary dance technique of India
Led by Professor Aishika Chakraborty
October 29, 2024
9:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Studio 390
Sullivant Hall

Associate Professor Nyama McCarthy-Brown and BFA Students Zoe Canty and Maya Regula reunited with many Ohio State Dance Alumni at the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) Conference last week. Photos courtesy of Dr. McCarthy-Brown.

Welcome future Buckeyes and guests to our first round of BFA in Dance program auditions! We hope you enjoy your time on campus and look forward to being in community and moving with you this weekend!