Take a Peek at Dance Production

As is always the case with Dance Production, creativity and joy filled Cox Auditorium as 43 students from many different majors showcased various dance styles—ballet, jazz, tap, modern, Baroque, Latin, and traditional Caribbean.

The dancers can’t say enough good about their experience, as you’ll learn from the slide show below. The same is true for Hilary Harper-Wilcoxen, the College’s dance professor and the production’s artistic director. “They have been a wonderful cast to work with,” she notes,  “. . . caring, funny, motivated, and highly teachable.”

Of the show’s 15 dances, 12 were choreographed by current students. An impressive statistic for a dance conservatory, it’s all the more remarkable at a college that offers only a minor in dance. As Harper-Wilcoxen explains, “These student choreographers’ dances didn’t get chosen because they took lots of composition classes to learn how to choreograph (they haven’t), or by having lots of past experience in making dances (very few have), but by the simple act of being willing to try—and by the not-so-simple act of giving all their available love, receptivity, originality, patience, and vision to their dances and dancers. [Dance Production] is an astonishing act of leadership, care, and hope each and every year. I applaud all of the dancers who were involved in the show this year.”