"Double Octet," by Doug Varone
Ohio State Dance Presents Spring Concert: Together, We Move
April 10-12, 2025
Tickets-> https://dance.osu.edu/events/spring-concert-together-we-move
Featuring: "Double Octet," by Doug Varone
Staged by: Courtney Barth and Ryan Yamauchi
Faculty Rehearsal Director: Eddie Taketa
Music: Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar: Violin Concerto No. 2, Movt. 4, Violin Sonata, Movt. 2, Meetings Along the Edge
Original Lighting design by: Burke Wilmore
Adapted by: Jonathon Hunter and Doug Varone
Original Costumes Design by: Gail Beldoni
Adapted by: Lindsay Simon
Dancers -
Section 1: Full Cast
Section 2: Mariana Bais, Lindsay Beatty, Eleanor Buehler, Evelyn Couch, Lauren Jimenez, Sydney Ligon, Amelia Otte, Terrian Stevens
Section 3: Hailey Eversole, Kennedy Gordon, Gianna Handlen, Sean Johnson, Jenna Naik, Gaetan O'Brien, Hattie Plinke, Khamille Randall, Tess Scearbo, Bella Seitz, Ava Torok, Alex Vanzant
Notes on the piece: "Double Octet" was commissioned by the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, along with the Conservatory of Dance. It premiered on April 7, 2021.
Sonata for Violin and Piano - Movement 2 by Philip Glass, Meetings Along The Edge by Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar, Concerto No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra - Movement IV by Philip Glass
© 2008, 1990, 2008 Dunvagen Music Publishers Inc. Used by Permission.
College Day 2025
Thanks to all the high school students and guests for coming to College Day last Friday, March 28, 2025! We hope you all had as much fun as we did and look forward to seeing you again at one of our BFA Auditions! #GoBuckeyes #TheOhioStateUniversity #OhioStateDance
Ohio State Dance students and faculty on their research trip to Ghana
Dr. Nyama McCarthy-Brown, the fifth faculty member in the Department of Dance to win a Ratner Award in April 2023, aims to grow and strengthen connections between Ohio State and students in Ghana in collaboration with Associate Professor Crystal Michelle Perkins. Bolstered by Perkins’ work on the the Archiving Black Performance project, they are creating a sequential dance curriculum that will further help the department develop African diasporic dance skills and equip students with meaningful experiences of curricular development. In her Ratner proposal, McCarthy-Brown said she will work to be a “change agent – changing the way people think about dance through disrupting historically privileged canons of teaching dance technique, unlocking new pathways of learning and creative processing for movement, and embodying and demonstrating a value for other culturally-informed movement practices.” In May of 2023, McCarthy-Brown and Perkins led a group of students on a creative research trip to Brazil and made numerous intersections of their respective research trajectories, many of which were explored on this research trip to Ghana. In June 2024, they brought Ohio State dance education students to the University of Ghana to work with Professor David Quaye and dance students there to support a process of dance preservation through codification of the Agbekor dance.
“In 2021, the Ohio State University Department of Dance joined a small number of dance programs (less than ten out of over 600) across the country that have expanded the primary curriculum to be inclusive of African diasporic dance forms,” says McCarthy-Brown. “Thus, projects that bring students into deeper study of dances of the African diaspora are essential in providing a solid foundation for a new and developing part of the Ohio State Dance curriculum. This research project signals to students, faculty, and the field, that dance research in-country is an integral part of working with dances of
PALIMPSEST by Alisha Jihn
MFA Concert: Unstable Footing
February 20-22, 2025
Tickets: https://dance.osu.edu/events/mfa-concert-unstable-footing
Featuring PALIMPSEST by Alisha Jihn
Drawing from personal and collective intercultural encounters, PALIMPSEST meditates upon ideas of hybridity. Evoking images of what is found within and betwixt culture, human and creature, physical and digital, each dancer's movements and pathways layer and create meaning. Thus, the choreography mimics a manuscript where each layer of embodied text cannot exist without the others and insistently communicates that new understanding lives within this integration.
soft belly/steel by Lucy Dillon
MFA Concert: Unstable Footing
February 20-22, 2025
Tickets: https://dance.osu.edu/events/mfa-concert-unstable-footing
Featuring soft belly/steel by Lucy Dillon
soft belly/steel is a group work in which six dancers work collaboratively through a structure of games and competitive tasks, playing within an invisible, kinetic logic. Moving through states of power, precarity, delicacy, and brutishness – the collective performing body exposes the precarious tendrils of support that connect bodies together to create structures of survival.
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! #BuckeyeNation #GoBuckeyes #ohiostatedance
Eating Flowers Eating, by Isa Bowser
Unstable Footing is a mixed-bill dance concert that dreams and reimagines next steps in embodied movement. It showcases the culminating dance MFA projects of Isa Bowser, Lucy Dillon, and Alisha Jihn
When: February 20-22, 2025 at 7:30pm
Where: Barnett Theatre at The Ohio State University
Tickets: dance.osu.edu/events
Eating Flowers Eating is a duet between Isa Bowser and Ben Roach as they morph into and out of life and death, singularity and multiplicity. Immersed in a subterranean world, the dancers migrate through visceral physicalities of plants, animals, and webs of energy, propelled by an urgent desire to sense the tangled aliveness within which we are all enmeshed.
“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'" - Martin Luther King, Jr.
College Day Open House
College Day Open House for High School Students
March 28, 2025
9:45AM - 4:15PM
Sullivant Hall, 1813 N. High Street, Columbus, OH 43210
Sign up: https://dance.osu.edu/events/college-day-2025
High school students interested in pursuing dance in college are invited to spend a day in the life of an Ohio State Dance major! Visiting students will take and observe classes, see student work, attend an information session about our major and minor programs, and mingle with our current BFA students. Students will also have the opportunity to take a guided tour of our state-of-the-art facilities.
Autumn 2024 Informance
Tech Practicum: ISADORA
Project by Kiki Williams
Instructor: Lexi Clark-Stilianos
Autumn 2024 Informance
Tech Practicum: ISADORA
Project by Lucy Dillon
Instructor: Lexi Clark-Stilianos
Videography by Brianna Rosato
Autumn 2024 Informance
Tech Practicum: ISADORA
"Internal Landscapes" by Lale Madenoglu
Instructor: Lexi Clark-Stilianos
Videography by Alex Vanzant
Department of Dance, The Ohio State University
