Music & Dance Librarian, Sarah Dorsey, Receives Linda Arnold Carlisle Research Grant

Sarah B. Dorsey, Music and Dance Librarian has been Head of the Harold Schiffman Music Library for twenty years. She is writing a biography of Louise Talma. This award will support research in New York and New Haven. More info to come ...
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BFA Dance Student Selected for National Choreography Intensive

BFA Dance and Lloyd Honors College student Kaylynne Leggett has been selected as a choreographer for the National Choreography Intensive. NCI has provided a multi-faceted approach to shaping choreographers and dancers since 1961. This summer, she will travel to the campus of Florida State University to participate in a one-of-a-kind experience, working ...
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Professor B.J. Sullivan receives “Faculty Excellence” Award

Associate professor B.J. Sullivan was recently awarded the "Faculty Excellence in Research and Creative Activity" award on April 7, 2015 for her work with the American Dance Legacy Initiative (ADLI.) B.J. performs with ADLI’s Dancing Legacy Company and teaches workshops connecting these etudes through her Safety Release Technique.  ADLI ...
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Inaugural Distinguished Alumni Event!

The School of Music, Theatre and Dance welcomed five of its most accomplished alumni back to campus Thursday and Friday to recognize their achievements in the school’s first Distinguished Alumni awards. “We’re honored to have these five alumni return to campus so our students and faculty can learn from their accomplishments ...
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Professor Janet Lilly’s “Requiem” remembers life

Professor Lilly was in residency at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, January 5 through 11, re-setting her work  Requiem (2012) on the Milwaukee-based Danceworks Performance Company. Below, Lilly shares her thoughts about the work; Ed--her colleague and mentor; and making dances--something she does with students every semester in ...
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