OSU Dance

12/04/2025

Final project presentations for Dance 7409: Ethnographies of Dance and Performance
🗓️Tuesday, December 9, 2025
⏰2:20 - 5 pm
📍Sullivant Hall 247

Students will be sharing abridged, conference-style presentations highlighting the ethnographic work they have conducted this semester.

12/04/2025

Join Dance 4790/6790 Intermedia Repertory next week for a culminating Work-In-Progress Showing! In this second 7-weeks creative process-based repertory experience students worked collaboratively on a new multidisciplinary choreographic research project based on a mixed reality dance film work. Dancers engaged with embodied research with creature play in markerless Motion Capture, intermedia play, embodied text based making, world building/scenic design, and more.

🗓️When: Thursday, December 11 at 3:00pm
📍Where: Motion Lab, Rm 350
🆓Free and Open to All

12/03/2025

MFA Concert ...__]]../-fringe..fruit[-----------.-

🗓️Fri-Sat December 5 & 6, 2025, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
📍Barnett Theatre, Sullivant Hall, 1813 N. High Street, Columbus, OH 43210
🎟️ https://dance.osu.edu/events/mfa-concert-...../fringe..fruit-.
...o.....hi..you’’re here,..its me or us, your program,.,. or excerpt of ,,, both!, a peddler of context by any name you wish really // either way, I(we) am (are) here with you and & its going to be okay (yay!) all up until it isnt ||-o~ So when that time comes you (us) will be there inside ...__]]../-fringe..fruit[-----------.- She (one) is/was a new-fangled rite,,,yes.. or a blasphemous reverence,-okay\-- and also can be a hallowed profanity.-probably-- So jot that down... it will come into play as soon as it is off the table/.., and said table is –stuck in a pre “thriving” era of her canon- so be ready_\|||-|||| This dance-theater work searches [...hard.]]]] for sacraments hidden in the abnormal__] the abnormally unconventional-, and an unconventional *taboo that has abnormally become normal again... There will be bodies. & they^ will act accordingly to the mis-fact that there are people inside of them.. (us) We: you are not entirely sure what is or isnt’ going on. And that is okay__--- every-body- has given it a proper swing at making and undoing the non (sense) of it all... so I ( i) am gonna take my spot,,, in it & and I ( i/we) will see you on the other side. Okay/. Okay,...[were here-----------,--]..here_.

For his capstone experience, MFA student Benjamin Roach completes and presents a substantial MFA project demonstrating a synthesis of craft, artistic vision and conceptual rigor, as well as professional competence in his selected research area.

This performance contains mature content that should be restricted to viewers 18 and older.

12/03/2025

Join Dance 3202: Composition II for a final showcase of original 4x4 platform works!
Come experience an evening of new choreography created by undergraduate composition students during the Fall 2025 semester. The showing will highlight collaborative movement research, dynamic partnering, and the creative worlds built by our OSU artists.

Featuring new works by:
Kayla Beasanski, Aidan Branham, Eleanor Buehler, Cody Carter, Leah Casiello, Lily Clement, Aida de Souza-Nianduillet, Hailey Eversole, Gianna Handlen, Kaitlin Harriss, GiGi Henley, Cassidy Hluchan, Malina Hull, Alyesha Jones, Olivia Jordan, Adriana Little-Graves, Asya Little-Graves, Jin Liu, Keagan McCarty, Masha Moiseytseva, Jenna Naik, Yana Person, Katie Sabatino, Shyah Sample, Maddy Shindle, Emily Soehl, Ava Torok, Charlotte Turchi, and Alex Vanzant.

Date + Time: Monday, December 8 at 4:00pm
Location: Sullivant Hall, Room 290
Free and Open to All!

Sound Support: Seth Alexander
Tech Support: Huimin Tang, Mia Curran, Zoey November

Special thanks to
Jonathan Hunter for tech support, and to our graduate students, Jacklin Ameyaw, Liv Bryant, Shaela Davis, Emily Glinski, Omar Humphrey Lale Madenoglu, Hannah Rice, and Yinqi Wang, for their continued support and generosity in providing feedback.

12/02/2025

Alumna Bhumi Patel (PhD in Dance Studies, 2025) has a performance coming up in the Bay Area. From December 4th to 7th, her dance company will premiere their new work "wild light" at ODC Theater in San Francisco.

"'wild light' has been my tussling with the present moment and how to imagine into a future where we can both thrive and struggle,” says Dr. Patel. "It’s inspired by Donna Haraway’s speculative fiction 'The Camille Stories' and imagines a world where humans have merged our DNA with endangered animals, and in the case of the Camilles, with monarch butterflies."

Tickets and more information: https://odc.dance/wildlight

12/01/2025

Join Dance 5211: Dance Filmmaking I for a final showcase of projects! The screening will include films by undergraduate and graduate students created during the Fall 2025 semester, including work by Malaika Burke, Mia Curran, Abi Dawson, Graci Jackson, Amanda McCary, Emma Morrow, Mary Alex Noftsinger, Braleena Pickens, Maya Regule, Brianna Rosato, and Mary Storm!

Date + Time: Monday, December 15 from 5:30-6:30pm
Location: Theater, Film, and Media Arts Building, Floor 3 - Room 380A
Free and Open to All!

11/20/2025

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Brianna Rhodes, a 2019 graduate of Ohio State’s dance department, has built a career on her own terms, blending movement, meaning and mission into a vibrant freelance life.

11/20/2025

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11/18/2025

Welcome Future Buckeyes!

11/17/2025

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11/17/2025

The American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) awarded PhD Candidate Alyssa Stover the Selma Jeanne Cohen Conference Presentation Award at the 2025 ASTR Conference in Denver, Colorado November 6-9, 2025, where Stover gave a paper titled "We're All a Little Gay!: Q***r Histories and Futurity in the...

11/17/2025

City Dance Showcase VII features MFA Student Yinqi Wang's work "A Touch of Sin" with other Columbus artists November 22, 2025 at 8 pm and November 23, 2025 at 3 pm.