Dance Past Performances

U-M student dancers enjoy a variety of opportunities to perform both within and beyond the Department of Dance, developing their own unique performance and choreography portfolio over the course of their time at U-M. Students perform faculty and guest artist choreography in a major annual production held in 1,400-seat Power Center theater, presented by the Department of Dance in collaboration with University Productions.

Below is a list of the annual dance productions that have been previously performed at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

Recent Productions

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Dancing in Memory Burning

Department of Dance
February 1 – 4, 2024
Power Center for the Performing Arts

Sleek Disturbances

Department of Dance
February 2–5, 2023
Power Center for the Performing Arts

Forward Facing

Department of Dance
February 3–6, 2022
Power Center for the Performing Arts

Past Productions List

2023-24 Season: Dancing in Memory Burning
2022-23 Season: Sleek Disturbances
2021-22 Season: Forward Facing
2020-21 Season: Dance Despite COVID (online)
2019-20 Season: Latin Xpressions
2018-19 Season: Complex Rhythms
2017-18 Season: Dancing Globally
2016-17 Season: Glancing Back, Dancing Forward
2015-16 Season: Momentum
2014-15 Season: Currents & Crossings
2013-14 Season: Moving Pictures
2012-13 Season: Translation
2011-12 Season: Dancelucent 2012
2010-11 Season: Dancing Americas
2009-10 Season: (Re)Visionary Dances
2008-09 Season: Arcs in Time
2007-08 Season: Stravinsky Revisited
2006-07 Season: Rituals & Reveries
2005-06 Season: Dance to the Music: A Celebration of UM Composers
2004-05 Season: Jazzin’ – with U-M Jazz Ensemble
2003-04 Season: Dances for Petersburg
2002-03 Season: Resonant Rhythms
2001-02 Season: Ancient Steps, Forward Glances
2000-01 Season: Dances of Passion

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