Dance Performances
Take the First Step Toward Your Career as a Performer, Choreographer and Educator
At Webster University’s Department of Dance, our esteemed faculty are student-focused to ensure high-quality learning experiences that transform students for individual excellence. The Webster Dance curriculum combines rigorous and versatile technical training with extensive opportunities for creative exploration to prepare students for 21st-century careers in dance as performers, choreographers, educators and scholars. In addition to our BFA and BA programs, our students have many on-campus performance opportunities throughout the academic year.
Explore below to learn more about our department that promotes, challenges, engages and embraces the uniqueness and wholeness of our developing artists.
Scheduling an Audition
The Department of Dance is always looking for talented and curious students to join our program. Schedule an audition and make the first step to join us on stage.
| BFA Choreographic Concert I | Oct. 6–8 |
| BFA Choreographic Concert II | Nov. 3, 5–6 |
| Creations Concert: A Fall Showcase of Student Works | Nov. 18–19 |
| Creations Concert: A Spring Showcase of Student Works | April 14 |
| Webster University Dance Ensemble | April 28–30 |
BFA Choreographic Concert II
Exhale
Webster University’s Leigh Gerdine College of Fine Arts Department of Dance presents Exhale. The concert showcases the original choreography of senior BFA Dance candidates Demi King, Abbi LeBaube and Haley Rhiney. Read more about the choreographers and dancers.
Runs at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 3, and at 2 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 5-6. The performance takes place in Stage III, the lower level of Webster Hall, 470 E. Lockwood Ave.
Creations Concert: A Fall Showcase of Student Works
Original choreography by Webster University students is presented in the Large Dance Studio of the Jean and Wells Hobler Center for Dance, Loretto-Hilton Center for the Performing Arts, 130 Edgar Road. The performances take place at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 18 and 19.
Admission is free with tickets available at the door.
Creations Concert: A Spring Showcase of Student Works
Original choreography by Webster University students is presented in the Large Dance Studio of the Jean and Wells Hobler Center for Dance, Loretto-Hilton Center for the Performing Arts, 130 Edgar Road. The performance takes place on April 14 at 7:30 p.m.
Admission is free with tickets available at the door.
Webster University Dance Ensemble
The annual Webster University Dance Ensemble Concert features a variety of works performed by our students in a wide range of styles from Contemporary to Ballet to Aerial. This year's concert features the choreography of Abby Z and the New Utility and Prince Lyons, Webster Dance alum, along with works by Webster Dance faculty Maggi Dueker, Dawn Karlovsky, Monica Newsam, and Michael Uthoff.
The Webster University Dance Ensemble Concert is presented in the Loretto-Hilton Center’s Virginia Browning Mainstage Theatre, 130 Edgar Road. The performances take place at 7:30 p.m., April 28 and 29, and at 2 p.m., April 30.
Multi-Day Programs
2023 Summer Dance Intensives
July 24-28 and July 31-Aug. 3
Senior Summer Dance Intensive
For high school- and college-aged dancers
9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., July 24-28, 2023
Housing options available
Junior Summer Dance Intensive
For middle school-aged dancers
9:30 a.m.-4 p.m., July 31-Aug. 3, 2023
Registration open now!
Webster University Department of Dance students
Partnerships and Internship Opportunities
Our Dance students benefit from close partnerships between Webster's Department of Dance and local dance companies and arts organizations. Students often pursue internships and part-time employment with a host of these companies and many alumni work professionally with them upon graduation.
News and Events
Highlights from the Leigh Gerdine College of Fine Arts
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In the News - Commencement, Schuster, Cummings, Flewellen, Kwon, Hayes, Rossi and Risik
June 7, 2023
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Webster University Dance Ensemble 2023 Spring Concert April 28-30
April 21, 2023
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Webster University Students Win St. Louis Chapter of the National Society of Arts and Letters Drama Competition
April 11, 2023