Division and Alumni News

"This is what it's like to be a professional"

4/17/23

Dancer, choreographer, teacher and mentor Abdel Salaam spent a week at the TWU Division of Dance, speaking with students and helping a group of student dancers prepare for the 2023 Spring DanceMakers.

Now playing: screen dance

4/4/23

The Division of Dance is leading the way in the development of screen dance in curriculum, and TWU students have produced two screen dance festivals, one of which will have a showing on April 6 on campus.

TWU Dance headed to ACDA conference

3/8/23

This week, 16 students and three faculty and staff members from the Texas Woman's University department of dance will participate in the American College Dance Association's conferences, celebrating the organization's 50th year supporting dance in higher education.

DanceMakers ready to take stage

11/16/22

The seven works that will take the stage in the Fall 2022 edition of DanceMakers combine themes of technology, relationships and emerging from difficult times to push conventional concepts of dance beginning Thursday at Margo Jones Performance Hall.

DanceMakers meets India

11/9/22

Experimentation is not unknown to DanceMakers, the Texas Woman's University division of Dance's fall concert. This year's show, however, is going cross-culture and cross-campus.

It's as complicated a recipe as it sounds. Start with the south Indian dance Bharatanatyam, sprinkle with ballet and Sanskrit drama, add a little genetic sequencing, mix with a dancer from Tacoma, Washington, and you have Shakuntala's Plea.