Dance – The Buchtelite

‘The Snow Maiden’ Dances into EJ Thomas Hall

By Amanda Piekarz, Arts & Entertainment Editor

February 13, 2019

The University of Akron Dance Institute hosted the production of “The Snow Maiden” on Feb. 2, at EJ Thomas Hall. "The Snow Maiden" is an opera composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1881 and has since been adapted into new formats as time went on. UA performed a ballet adaptation of the original opera,...

UADC Fall Dance Concert: A Mixture of Individual Styles

By Megan Parker, Copy Editor

November 14, 2018

Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Dance, Showcase

The University of Akron Dance Company will be performing its Fall 2018 Dance Concert at 7:30 p.m. in the Kolbe Hall Daum Theatre on Nov. 15,16 and 17. Tickets for this event can be purchased by calling 330-972-7895. General admission is $12, student admission is $6 and seniors, UA alumni, faculty and st...

Calling All Professors

By Erika Newcome, Sports, Arts and Entertainment Editor

February 22, 2018

Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Dance, Showcase

Forget Dancing with the Stars, The University of Akron’s Ballroom Dance team is hosting Dancing with the Professor’s on Monday, Apr. 9. Eight professors with the most amount of nominations will be given a lesson by UA’s Ballroom Dance Club at the University! “Our club has been talking about...

GroundWorks spring show

By Elizabeth Zumbach, Arts & Life Writer

March 9, 2015

Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Dance

The northeast Ohio dance company GroundWorks performed their annual spring show on Thursday, March 5 and Friday, March 6. Now, in it’s 16th season, the inaugural show was performed in E.J. Thomas Hall’s Stage Door theater. GroundWorks featured dancers Felise Bagley, Noelle Cotler, Annika Sheaff,...

Tags: dance, E.J. Thomas Hall, Groundworks, performance

Choreographer’s Workshop wows

By Hillary Martter

November 12, 2013

Filed under Dance

This past weekend, The University of Akron Dance Program hosted their Choreographer’s Workshop at Daum Theater. The performance, which happens twice a year (once in the fall semester and again in the spring), is “a chance for choreography students to articulate their artistic vision into a fully...