Spring 2025 Senior Student Recognitions
The School of Dance faculty celebrate and award a number of graduating seniors each spring. These seniors work and model what it means to be a student of dance, including tireless effort, patience, tenacity, and maturity. Their hard work and dedication during their academic career has been noticed and celebrated. They have taken every advantage to grow as a dancer and have excelled and the faculty wish them a full and rewarding future in the field.
Students were nominated and voted by faculty to receive these recognitions.
In acknowledging the long traditions and history of past professors in the School of Dance, each recognition is in honor of emeriti professors within the University of Utah School of Dance.
Outstanding Choreography
This acknowledgement is for a student choreographer who skillfully blends experimentation, collaboration, and vision to craft compelling and meaningful dance work.
In acknowledging the long traditions and history of past professors in the School of Dance, this recognition is in honor of emeriti professors Steve Koester, Loabelle Mangelson-Clawson, Shirley Ririe, and Joan Woodbury.
Outstanding Performance
This acknowledgement is for outstanding work in rehearsals and performances, demonstrating an ability to bring expression and nuance to a role, to take risks, and to commit to the process as well as the performances.
In acknowledging the long traditions and history of past professors in the School of Dance, this recognition is in honor of emeriti professors Barbie Hamblin, Conrad Ludlow, and Jon Scoville.
Outstanding Research & Writing
This acknowledgement is for exceptional work in scholarly research and writing, demonstrating curiosity and critical thinking in service of dance scholarship.
In acknowledging the long traditions and history of past professors in the School of Dance, this recognition is in honor of emeritus professor Sally Fitt.
Outstanding Service & Leadership
This acknowledgement is for outstanding service, leadership, and peer mentoring within the School of Dance and University of Utah.
In acknowledging the long traditions and history of past professors in the School of Dance, this recognition is in honor of emeriti professors Bene Arnold, Phyllis Haskel, Linda Smith, and Donna White.
Outstanding Teaching
This acknowledgement is for exhibiting excellence, generosity, and distinction in dance teaching practices.
In acknowledging the long traditions and history of past professors in the School of Dance, this recognition is in honor of emeriti professors Abby Fiat, Sharee Lane, and Brent Schneider.
Dance Media Award
This award is given to a student who demonstrates excellence in Screendance/Dance Media Production in the University of Utah School of Dance and the Screendance Certificate Program. The criteria for this award include possessing:
A vision for the possibilities that exist when the art forms of choreography and cinematography merge in the genre of Screendance
An understanding of camera space, the frame, and how they affect our experience of bodies in motion
An understanding of the dynamic relationship between the moving body and the edit in structuring the experience of time, the creation of temporal form and the development of ideas
A sense of redefining and re-presenting kinesthesia in a cinematic form
A penchant for creative inquiry through a dance media practice
In acknowledging the long traditions and history of past professors in the School of Dance, this recognition is in honor of emeriti professor Ellen Bromberg.
