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The Dance Student Assembly (DSA) is committed to a nourishing and supportive learning environment by representing undergraduate and graduate students' learning interests, concerns, and issues relating to policies in the Department of Dance. DSA comprises one volunteer representative from each of the undergraduate and graduate classes, in addition to the President and Vice President. Members report to and collaborate with the Chair of the Department on a regular basis allowing for DSA to act as both a formal and informal liaison between students and the faculty. Moreover, DSA organizes student activities, keeps them informed of events occurring in the Department, provides an open forum for students to voice their opinions and always strives to collaborate with other Departments in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance. DSA strongly encourages active participation in Department activities led by students, faculty and guests.

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Website:
https://maizepages.umich.edu/organization/dancestudentassembly

Email:
kbesser@umich.edu

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Student Choreography Showcase

April 5th 2025
Gabriele Shepheard, The Dance Student Assembly

This grant supported a student-run showcase of student dance. Students across campus were invited to sign up to be a choreographer, dancer, or part of the production team. Dance majors, graduate students, dance minors, and any other students who are interested in creating or dancing in the show were encouraged to participate. The event provided an opportunity for students to continue to explore creations and ideas developed in composition courses and as a venue for any student to create work that is able to be performed with full costume, lighting, and stage.

Spellbinding: An Evening of Eerie Performances

October 22nd 2016
Dance Student Assembly

Dancer's Student Assembly (DSA) created a haunted house event hosted at the Trotter Multicultural Center. This event aimed to be an immersive theater experience, where audience members were be able to walk through the different rooms of trotter, in which there were different interdisciplinary performances presented. All of the performances were centered around themes of intimacy, darkness, fear and pleasure, during the enjoyable time of Halloween and the season of autumn. This event was used as a platform to raise funds for one student in the department of dance to attend the annual American College Dance Association Festival.