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OSU Dance Department of Dance, The Ohio State University

Contact us by email at [email protected]. We are Dance at the Ohio State University.

The Department of Dance at the Ohio State University is a community of diverse individuals trained on a common nexus of inquiry, the rich and complex phenomenon of dance. At the heart of the Ohio State Dance experience is the notion of embodied scholarship, embracing the intertwining areas of physical practice, creative activity and theoretical inquiry. We invest our time, energy, expertise and re

sources in studies of performance and composition, history, production, Laban studies, dance and technology, dance documentation, theory and analysis; and we extend ourselves into collaborations with other disciplines, from music and theatre to women's studies and creative writing, as well as into the larger communities around us. We view and continually seek to renew our place as an active forefront in the field, nurturing links to the professional world and fostering those connections for ourselves and our students. We are writers of books and makers of dances; passionate learners and dedicated teachers; we are performers and leaders; advocates and innovators; nurturers and creators and investigators. Come and see what we have to offer!

Check out Richard Sanford's preview of our upcoming Autumn Concert: Impulse and Reverb 🔥
11/05/2025

Check out Richard Sanford's preview of our upcoming Autumn Concert: Impulse and Reverb 🔥

Goings On in Columbus, OH: Aaron Quinn Feature Interview - Concerto World Premiere | OSU Department of Dance Autumn Concert | Poet Laura Da' | Unorthodocs | Durand Jones

Only two more sleeps until opening night! 🤩
11/04/2025

Only two more sleeps until opening night! 🤩

✨"As part of the Ohio State University Department of Dance’s Holistic Approaches to Transformative Choreography (HATCH) ...
11/04/2025

✨"As part of the Ohio State University Department of Dance’s Holistic Approaches to Transformative Choreography (HATCH) initiative, Doug Varone and Dancers will be joined onstage by eight Ohio State students for Double Octet." Arts and Sciences at Ohio State, Wexner Center for the Arts, Doug Varone and Dancers

“A blending of movement and music so seamless there are times you might swear the dancers are singing.” —Fjord

Award-winning Doug Varone and Dancers take to Mershon Auditorium stage for an evening of powerful dance performance. Enjoy a night of four performances, including a new Wex-commissioned piece set to music by Radiohead.

🗓️ Nov 21 | 7 PM
📍Mershon Auditorium
🎟️ Get tickets at WexArts.info/DougVaroneAndDancers

Copresented by The Ohio State University Department of Dance

It’s that time of year again! Dance 5211: Dance Film I went swimming with 360 cameras at Ohio State's Recreation and Phy...
11/03/2025

It’s that time of year again! Dance 5211: Dance Film I went swimming with 360 cameras at Ohio State's Recreation and Physical Activity Center (RPAC)! The class will use Insta360 Studio to animate the 360 video for their next video project. Special thanks to the Department of Dance, RPAC, and Ohio State's Emerging Tech Center! Stills include undergrad dance majors and minors Maya Regule and Malaika Burke, Mia Curran and Brianna Rosato, Mary Alex Noftsinger, and MFA dance candidates Yinqi Wang and Omar Humphrey. Arts and Sciences at Ohio State

10/31/2025

Ohio State's Department of Dance Presents -
Autumn Concert: Impulse and Reverb
🗓️November 6-8, 2025
🎟️ https://dance.osu.edu/.../autumn-concert-impulse-and-reverb
✨Featuring✨
SWASH, by Eddie Taketa
Choreographer: Eddie Taketa in collaboration with the performers
Music: “Kyoto,” by John Psathas
Performed by:
The Ohio State University Percussion Ensemble:
Susan Powell & Joseph Krygier, Directors;
Jacob Cauley, Brody Fogle, Noah Landrum, Nathan Smith, Haydn Veith
Dancers: Malaika Burke, Mia Curran, Josie Farley, Ava Hunt, Keagan McCarty, Masha Moiseytseva, Maya Regule, Brianna Rosato, Katie Sabatino, Tess Scearbo
Promo reel edited by Brianna Rosato

Arts and Sciences at Ohio State, School of Music at The Ohio State University

10/29/2025

Ohio State's Department of Dance Presents -
Autumn Concert: Impulse and Reverb
🗓️November 6-8, 2025
🎟️--> https://dance.osu.edu/.../autumn-concert-impulse-and-reverb
✨Featuring✨
nowhere, by Abby Zbikowski
Choreography and Direction: Abby Zbikowski in collaboration with performers
Assistant Choreographer: Benjamin Roach
Dramaturg: Momar Ndiaye
Sound: “Demeures aquatiques,” by Beatriz Ferreyra, “You Got Me.” by the Theoretical Girls, “Foil,” by Autechre, “Tokyo Times Ten,” by Merzbow
Dancers: Aïda de Souza- Nianduillet, Omar Humphrey, Emma Morrow, Isabella Seitz, Yinqi Wang
NOTES ON THE PIECE: Thank you to this amazing team of graduate and undergraduate students for their collaboration on this project. The concepts we have researched together while creating “nowhere” are the beginning inklings for an evening length work with my dance company. Throughout the process we experimented with how forces act on and in the body, and honed techniques for negotiating them when they are unruly and unpredictable. The process for “nowhere” kept forcing us back to the following question: Where do we pull the impetus to keep going from when everything in our immediate environment is telling us to stop?
Promo reel edited by Brianna Rosato

Arts and Sciences at Ohio State

10/24/2025

Ohio State's Department of Dance Presents -
Autumn Concert: Impulse and Reverb
🗓️November 6-8, 2025
🎟️--> https://dance.osu.edu/events/autumn-concert-impulse-and-reverb
✨Featuring✨
Title: does your heart pound in your chest like mine
Direction: Kym McDaniel
Choreography: Kym McDaniel, Hope Bodley, Malaika Burke, Ava Hunt, Keagan McCarty, Mariya Moiseytseva, Maya Regule, Brianna Rosato, Katie Sabatino
Dancers: Hope Bodley, Keagan McCarty, Malaika Burke, Ava Hunt, Masha Moiseytseva, Maya Regule, Brianna Rosato, Katie Sabatino

Promo reel edited by Brianna Rosato

Arts and Sciences at Ohio State

10/24/2025

Future Buckeyes are tearing up the dance floor with us at our BFA Auditions today! 🔥 Enjoy this phrase from Contemporary Movement Practice with Eddie Taketa. Arts and Sciences at Ohio State

10/24/2025

💃 Buckeye Nation, please join us in giving your warmest Scarlet and Gray welcome to all the dancers auditioning for our BFA in Dance program today and tomorrow! O-H! 🕺🏾

Tomorrow, Friday, October 24, 2025 is your last day to order your Ohio State Department of Dance apparel this semester.....
10/23/2025

Tomorrow, Friday, October 24, 2025 is your last day to order your Ohio State Department of Dance apparel this semester...

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