Campus Stories - Dance

Jason Oremus McLeish (right) performs Hammerstep with Garrett Coleman, a dance style he co-created blending Irish dance, hip-hop, tap, breakdancing, the Brazilian martial art capoeira, and other contemporary forms of movement. | Billy Bustamente
Campus Stories

From ‘Riverdance’ to Stanford

amara tabor-smith, Photo by Jean Melesaine, Courtesy tabor-smith.
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At Stanford, amara tabor-smith Explores a More Expansive Vision of Dance Education

Amara Tabor Smith and Ioanida Costache
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Faculty Seed Grants Bloom into Artistic Breakthroughs

For the third round of these seed grants in 2025, the OVPA announces two recipients: Ioanida Costache and amara tabor-smith

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Wacky Walk
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Stanford’s 2025 Commencement Wacky Walk

Stanford Heritage Dance Series explores transformative power of dance in health
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Stanford Heritage Dance Series explores transformative power of dance in health

A dance series from Stanford’s Medicine, Movement and Dance Program encourages movement as a way to promote cognition and help prevent dementia and other diseases.

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On stage, actors depict a sword-fight scene while an AI mimics their movements. | Birgit Hupfeld
Art + Tech

AI brings new potential to the art of theater

a group of students standing in front of a yellow table with zines and artwork.
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artsCatalyst Grants 2022-23

During the 2022-23 academic year, the Office of the Vice President for the Arts awarded 58 artsCatalyst Grants to faculty members from across the University. These grants foster arts experiences that enhance classroom experiences for undergraduate students. Activities included field trips to Bay Area arts venues, guest speakers (in-person and virtual), and workshops with guest artists. The grants…

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STANFORD ARTS | 2019-2020
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STANFORD ARTS | 2019-2020

In April 2020, Vice President for the Arts Harry Elam delivered his final presentation to the Stanford Faculty Senate before assuming the presidency of Occidental College. He said that the arts had informed his work, his scholarship and life at Stanford and that in his various roles he sought to make the arts “inescapable” for…

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Visiting Artist Fund in Honor of Roberta Bowman Denning call for proposals: 2020-21 Virtual Visiting Artists
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Visiting Artist Fund in Honor of Roberta Bowman Denning call for proposals: 2020-21 Virtual Visiting Artists

The Office of the Vice President for the Arts invites proposals for the Visiting Artist Fund in Honor of Roberta Bowman Denning, to support virtual visiting artists for the winter, spring, or summer quarters in 2021. All academic departments and programs at Stanford are invited to submit proposals; proposals that include two or more departments…

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Stanford Humanities Center 2020-2021 Fellows
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Stanford Humanities Center 2020-2021 Fellows

The Humanities Center offers residential fellowships for the academic year to Stanford and non-Stanford scholars at different career stages, giving them the opportunity to pursue their work in a supportive intellectual community.

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artsCatalyst Grants 2019-20
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artsCatalyst Grants 2019-20

This past academic year, the Office of the Vice President for the Arts awarded 33 artsCatalyst Grants to faculty members from across the University. These grants foster arts experiences that enhance classroom experiences for undergraduate students. Activities included field trips to Bay Area cultural organizations, workshops with visiting artists, and attending performances. 2019-20 artsCatalyst Grant Recipients Why is Climate Change…

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Winter quarter 2020 guest artists
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Winter quarter 2020 guest artists

The roster of winter quarter guest artists includes talent from around the globe. Melbourne Australia’s Choir of Trinity College performs with the Stanford Chamber Chorale; Chinese dance legend and renowned choreographer Yang Liping presents her reimagined production of Rite of Spring to Memorial Auditorium; Maqueque, a collective of female artists from Cuba led by Canadian Jane Bunnett,…

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artsCatalyst Grants 2018-19
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artsCatalyst Grants 2018-19

This past academic year, the Office of the Vice President for the Arts awarded 27 artsCatalyst Grants to faculty members from across the University. These grants foster arts experiences that enhance classroom experiences for undergraduate students. Activities included field trips to Bay Area cultural organizations, workshops with visiting artists, and attending performances. 2018-19 artsCatalyst Grant Recipients Interpreting Art (ITALIC 92), Karla…

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[wpbb-if post:acf type="image" name="image" size="thumbnail" display="alt"]Chocolate Heads perform Chocolate Ball for Polymaths. A performance of dance, music, and book art created for the opening of "Leonardo
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Leonardo da Vinci is celebrated at Stanford’s Green Library

Chocolate Heads Movement Band, a genre-defying student performing arts group put on an unconventional and unexpected performance in the rotunda of Green Library’s Bing Wing for the opening reception of the exhibition Leonardo’s Library: The World of a Renaissance Reader, on view through Oct. 13, 2019. Under the direction of Aleta Hayes, a lecturer in…

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Ram’s Head brings The Addams Family, living, dead and undecided, to Stanford
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Ram’s Head brings The Addams Family, living, dead and undecided, to Stanford

From casting to set design, Stanford’s Ram’s Head Theatrical Society takes advantage of the diverse talent on campus to present their perennial spring musical. This year’s production is The Addams Family. The Addams Family musical takes the humorously macabre characters drawn by cartoonist Charles Addams and places them in an original story on stage. Wednesday Addams, a…

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Stanford Live’s 2019-20 season will explore the intersection of art and politics
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Stanford Live’s 2019-20 season will explore the intersection of art and politics

Stanford Live’s curators have put together a 2019-20 season of multidisciplinary events that intersect music and performance with politics. “A key role of the artist is to reflect a society back upon itself and that political context and content is a crucial part of this storytelling process,” says Chris Lorway, executive director of Stanford Live….

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