Graduate Dance Alumni News

Graduate Alum Elle Hong (MFA in Dance) has a pop-up gallery exhibit opening this weekend, October 9th, in Denver! The exhibit titled “Visceral Vicinities: Altars, Ritual, The In-Between” and curated by Cherish Marquez and Cal Duran, will be hosted at the BRDG Project, 1553 Platte St., starting at 6:00 PM...

Dance MFA Alum (2015) Erinn Liebhard recently received an excellent review for her company Rhythmically Speaking's reimagined annual production featuring choreographers creating work inspired by jazz and American social dance ideas! Check out the review here and learn more about Rhythmically Speaking and her other work in education and performance here .

Bonnie Cox received her MFA in Dance at The University of Colorado Boulder in Spring 2018. She was nominated for an Austin Chronicle critic’s choice award for her production Silence to Power: Dance as a response to trauma, through which she encouraged dance artists to transform trauma and societal pressures...

Lara Branen (BA, 1977; MFA, 1987) continues to direct the Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop with another alumni, Chris Harris.

Marsha (Tardy) Barsky- MFA, University of Colorado Boulder (2003), Marsha Barsky, Assistant Professor, teaches courses in contemporary dance, choreography, the Alexander Technique, and dance studies. Barsky serves as the Director of Dance at MTSU, and as the artistic director for the MTSU Dance Theatre. Barsky developed MTSU's Bachelor’s of Science...

Joy French is the founding member of Bare Bait Dance Company and is an instructor in the University of Montana dance department.

Angie Simmons is a Visting Artist at The University of Southern Mississippi for AY 15-16. She holds an M.F.A. in dance choreography from the University of Colorado-Boulder, with an emphasis in the Alexander Technique, and a B.S. in secondary dance education from Illinois State University. Simmons is former modern faculty...

Thank you to Nancy Smith for sharing the following: Terry Ann Sendgraff, dance pioneer, matriarch of aerial dance, visionary artist, and deeply influential teacher transitioned peacefully in her home in Oakland California on September 6, 2019. She was 85 years old. An icon in the San Francisco Bay Area, Terry...