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OSU Dance Staff and Students Featured in TEDxOhioStateUniversity Event
Dr. Susan Chess (Music Supervisor in OSU Dance) and MFA students Kristina D’Onofrio and Joshua Manculich will be featured performers in the TEDxOhioStateUniversity event on March 5 at…

Hadley Leads Student Tour to Brazil
In March 2016 Susan Hadley, Chair of the OSU Department of Dance, will lead a group of eleven dance majors to Salvador, Brazil to perform, study and engage in cultural exchange activities. Hadley…

Kind words for Vera Maletic
Many have expressed condolences and shared their appreciation for Professor Emeritus Dr Vera Maletic. The collection of kind words follows:
“I was just talking about her with my dance…

Katie Vickers to teach and perform in January 2016
The Ohio State University Department of Dance is pleased to welcome back BFA alum Katie Vickers to teach and perform. One of our guest artists for January of 2016, Katie will share her work…

Teena Marie Custer, Guest Artist Residency
Teena Marie Custer, a street dance artist and practitioner based in Pittsburgh, PA, has been commissioned to set her original work, The Shadow Walk on a select ensemble of OSU Dance students.…

Chien-Ying Wang sets work on OSU Dancers
Choreographer and MFA Alum Chien-Ying Wang returns to set a piece on nine OSU dancers for the upcoming winter concert. Benevolence examines the power and strength of communal bonding and…

New Dance Film by Mitchell Rose
Associate Professor Mitchell Rose has just released his latest work online; a sci-fi comedy drone short film entitled Targeted Advertising. This dance-film was shot by the…OSU mourns loss of Alum Jessica Wilt
OSU Dance is sad to share the news of the passing of Jessica L Wilt,(MFA ’02). She began her career as a dancer and musician, eventually realizing she wanted to contribute to…

In Memorium: Helen P. Alkire
With heavy hearts, we share the news that Helen Alkire passed away early Saturday morning, November 14, 2015, in her home on the Alkire farm in Orient, Ohio.
Helen Alkire got Ohio…