Wichita State University School of Performing Arts Dance Program

We are excited to announce that Mina Estrada will join the School of Performing Arts (SPA) next fall as an Assistant Professor of Performing Arts with a focus in Contemporary Dance. Additionally, Mina will serve as the Program Director of Dance. We thank Sabrina Vasquez for her incredible service and leadership over the past two years and honor her desire to focus again on teaching, creating, and supporting a new program leader.

With immense experience as a dance educator, community arts advocate & facilitator, and arts administrator/manager, Mina Estrada will make an immediate and important impact on the dance program and entire SPA. In addition to teaching courses such as contemporary dance, choreography, and improvisation, Mina Estrada will continue to teach the core SPA course, “Professional Practices for the Performing Arts,” and has been asked to create additional courses in arts administration, leadership, and structures to enhance all SPA students’ preparation for arts leadership and portfolio & sustainable careers.

Please join us in welcoming Mina Estrada to the School of Performing Arts! Learn more about Mina - https://www.wichita.edu/academics/fine_arts/spa/in_the_spotlight/mina-estrada.php

Attention all prospective performing arts students. Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to experience life as a WSU student in the School of Performing Arts! Join us on Sept 10, 2022 from 9am-3pm Find out more @ www.wichita.edu/paday

The dance film, She Moved the Prairie by faculty Cheyla Clawson Chandler in collaboration with theatre professor Bret Jones and WSU dance majors, music majors, musical theatre majors, WSU costume shop manager and designer Melissa Penkava Koza, and costume shop student employees, is available to view online as part of the London International Arts Film Festival December 11th.

About to go into post-production of the dance program film, Brave New World! Shout out to Beta Bay Foray dancers! Post any photos you have ♥️

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Check out our school spotlight page! This is alum Hunter Jones

https://www.wichita.edu/academics/fine_arts/spa/in_the_spotlight/hunter_jones.php

Hunter Jones Hunter Jones graduated from Wichita State in 2018 with a BFA in Performing Arts - Dance. After graduation she moved to the Kansas City area where she has been a company dancer for City in Motion Dance Theater. Hunter also was the instructor and choreographer for their children’s dance theater. A ....

She Moved the Prairie, a dance film by dance professor Cheyla Clawson Chandler in collaboration with Shocker Studios and dance program students has been selected to screen at the international Kadoma Film Festival.

Kadoma International Film Festival 2021 Kadoma International Film Festival is a community-based film festival in Kadoma, Osaka, Japan. In 2020 we held the festival in a dual mode as on-ground and o...

Check out this video of WSU dance majors in a presentation of collaborative research between dance, sociology and the Ulrich Museum!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sgp1ZLRu4mQ

Solving for X = Identity | Dance Performance: Matrilineal Memories Students in Sociology, Dance, and Honors College will present research and choreographed performances in response to collected memories as part of the Ulrich...

Solving for X = Identity | Sharing Matrilineal Memories at WSU - Ulrich Museum of Art Solving for X is a series of exhibitions organized by the Ulrich Museum of Art in collaboration with university scholars across campus. The intent of the Museum is to work with WSU scholars in all disciplines to create visualizations of their research. The objective is to explore the potential for t...

Who’s ready for some live dance!

WSU dance is still accepting majors for fall 2021! Please reach out if you have any questions. We have incredible discounted tuition for those in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado and Missouri! We are doing work in community dance, research, diversity, creative practices, professional career preparation, performance and leadership! Create your career in dance and beyond (it is easy to pair dance with a second discipline and even double major in our BA and BFA programs). Go shocks!!!