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Young Choreographers Series "Untethered"

Senior Exit and Emerging Choreographers Showcase The UGA Department of Dance and Young Choreographers Series is proud to present, “Untethered”, a Senior Exit and Emerging Choreographers Showcase including senior, junior, sophomore, and freshmen dance majors. As part of the 2021 Spotlight on the Arts Festival, these performances will be held in the New Dance Theatre from November 11th through 14th. Each day will alternate between a program A or…


Stairs, Chairs & Squares

Excerpts from “Stairs, Chairs & Squares” a new work created virtually entirely on Zoom and performed by a selected group of dance majors in fall 2020 at the Performing and Visual Arts Complex quad outside the Georgia Museum of Art. Created by NYC choreographer Ellen Cornfield, this project was a collaboration between the Georgia Museum of Art, UGA’s Department of Dance and Cornfield Dance Company, and was performed in conjunction with the…


Young Choreographers Series Video Highlights

The senior dance majors at UGA were very busy this year choreographing their 2020-21 Senior Exit works as dance films, using creative means and collaborating with talented students from Entertainment and Media Studies. This video contains highlights of their works:   And nine third-year students choreographed for the 2020-21 YCS Emerging Choreographers Showcase, creating their own dance films from start to…


"Stairs, Chairs, and Squares"

*NOVEMBER 8 CANCELLED* “Stairs, Chairs & Squares” is a playful site-specific dance piece created for performance on the Performing and Visual Arts Complex quad outside the Georgia Museum of Art. Created entirely over Zoom, this project is a collaboration between the Georgia Museum of Art, UGA’s Department of Dance and Cornfield Dance Company, presented in conjunction with the exhibition “The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design.” New…


Saturday Morning Club

UGA Dance presents an exciting interactive program for children for PAC's Saturday Morning Club.  The event is free and open to children of all ages!


Dance Major Audition

Dance major audition for senior high school students and transfers pursuing a degree in Dance.  See our Dance Major Audition page for more information.


UGA Dance Day

UGA DANCE DAY offers high school dance students an opportunity to come to the UGA Athens Campus to dance all day.  Students will take classes with faculty and guest artists in contemporary dance, ballet, jazz, tap, and aerial yoga/dance trapeze, and eat lunch at the UGA Snelling Dining Hall. They will also have the opportunity to talk to UGA faculty and dance majors, and attend the evening concert by CORE Contemporary and Aerial Dance.…


Spring Dance Concert (CANCELED)

In keeping with directives from the state and federal government to suspend large events and promote social distancing, we have been instructed by the University System of Georgia that regrettably, all public events for the remainder of the Spring semester have been canceled. Tickets will be automatically refunded if purchased with a credit card. Patrons who used cash or check to purchase tickets should contact the PAC box office directly by…


CORE Contemporary and Aerial Dance

CORE Contemporary & Aerial Dance, artistic director Bala Sarasvati and fourteen performers, will premiere Soul Searching for the 2020 UGA Department of Dance annual season. The evening’s nonstop multimedia show explores personal, cultural, political and environmental perceptions about current and immanent global issues. The aerial and contemporary dance performance is enhanced through a visual landscape incorporating…


Ballroom Magic 2020

The UGA Ballroom Performance Group presents their 29th annual showcase on January 23-24 at 8:00 p.m. and January 25 at 2:00 and 8:00 p.m.  The concert will be held in the New Dance Theatre at the Dance Building on Green Street off of Sanford Drive. In addition to the Ballroom Performance Group, there will be guest performances by Athens and Atlanta based dancers. With numerous performances split between two acts, they'll be bringing the…
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