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

Poster for the SMTD Production "U-M Dance Company 2026"

University of Michigan Dance Company 2026

Department of Dance
February 5 – 8, 2026
Power Center for the Performing Arts

A vintage-style postcard that reads "Greetings from Hell" on a bright yellow background witht the text Orpheus in the Underworld and performance details.

University of Michigan Dance Company 2025

Department of Dance
February 6 – 9, 2025
Power Center for the Performing Arts

A vintage-style postcard that reads "Greetings from Hell" on a bright yellow background witht the text Orpheus in the Underworld and performance details.

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

Past Productions Archive

2025-26 Season: University of Michigan Dance Company 2026
2024-25 Season: University of Michigan Dance Company 2025
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