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Behind the movement

  • One of the oldest and largest dance programs in the country

  • Robust guest artist program and renowned faculty with global experience in the profession

  • Ample performance opportunities including a series of 6 professionally produced concerts annually alongside various other performance opportunities

  • Research intensive university located in beautiful Salt Lake City, which boasts a vibrant arts community

  • Innovative curricula offering breadth and depth in performance, choreography, screendance, pedagogy, theory, and music

  • State-of-the art facilities - fully staffed professional theatre designed for dance, black box theatre, fully staffed costume shop, 8 dance studios, locker rooms, and dance clinic and pilates space

  • Opportunities to pursue minors and second majors

  • 87% of UofU students receive institutional financial aid, and 1/3 of dance majors receive additional departmental scholarships

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Join @uofuour for a special event featuring SOD Professor Joselli Deans! As a former professional Black ballet dancer who rarely saw representation of artists like herself in ballet documentation, Professor Deans wanted more details about the legacy
Last semester, 16 School of Dance students performed in To Be a God, choreographed by SOD alum @roxannegray.co . The immersive, magical event featured live music performed by @little.moon.music , and gave these students the amazing chance to work wit
The Workroom // Process to Performance is excited to invite you to its first performance for this year, Touchstone I, at West Main Studio on Saturday, January 31st, at 7:30 pm. The club is pleased to share that this is their fourth year receiving FA
Howdy dance alums!   2026 is going full steam and we want to check in on how you are using your dance education this year. Whether you are working in the arts, applying what you learned in other fields, or making art for the sheer pleasure of it
Next week: celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by attending BLACK DANCERS: CONTINUING THE DREAM, a panel featuring local black dancers, moderated by Professor Joselli Audain Deans. This panel will be bringing together Salt Lake City
University of Utah School of Dance alum, and adjunct assistant professor, Kellie St. Pierre, won the Grand Prize Award at the Palm Desert Choreography Festival last month for her work “The Rate We Change.” We caught up with Kellie to ask
Two more chances to see PORTRAITS IN MOTION, this year’s Ballet Showcase! See original choreographic works from Ballet BFA seniors. Tonight, Fri. Dec. 5 @ 7:30pm Tomorrow, Sat. Dec. 6 @ 7:30pm Admission is free. Performances will be live-str
The School of Dance & the Department of Film & Media Arts invites applicants for a full-time, tenure-line Assistant/Associate Professor position to begin July 1, 2026. This faculty line holds a teaching and research focus in the interplay of