This summer, faculty member Amy Wilkinson will be taking ten dance majors to Rome as a part of the My Life Closed Twice project. The dancers will spend one week exploring the city, learning choreography, performing with a professional company and conducting movement-based research. Crowdfunding Research Experiences for Undergraduates (CREU) recently approved the My Life
March 12-15, 13 dance majors attended dance classes, presentations and performances at the American College Dance Association (ACDA). Each year, ACDA holds regional conferences around the United States for university and college dance programs. Dancers at these conferences spend 8am-10:30pm taking classes from professionals, performing and getting professional feedback, and watching other dance programs perform.
March 18, Loyola Dance Theatre participated in the Loyola University Climate Change Conference. LDT performed a moving piece to “Earth Song,” sung by our very own University Chorale. Collaborating with the choir made the auditorium come alive, and the performance received one of the two standing ovations of the conference (the other being for the
Tim Eidman, senior dance and theatre double major, has devoted part of his final semester at Loyola choreographing and acting in the theatre program’s mainstage musical, She Loves Me. Daryn Robinson, sophomore marketing major and theatre minor, interviewed Eidman on his experience choreographing and performing in the musical for a post on Loyola’s Arts Alive Blog. If
With Loyola University Chicago’s Weekend of Excellence behind us, it is with great pride and joy that I write that all of Loyola’s full-time faculty members have won excellence awards, along with senior dance major, Kelsee Simons, and student organization, The Dance Company. Further details on the awards can be found towards the bottom of