Category Archives: Latest News

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CSU Theatre’s ON THE BRINK Company amplifies marginalized voices through its reading series

CSU Theatre has curated and hosted a reading series of plays that address hot topic themes – issues that have pushed our culture to the brink and reveal new possibilities. The ON THE BRINK Company is a collaboration between professional theatre artists, faculty, students, and alumni exploring works representing underrepresented voices.





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Kjerstin Thorson named dean of CSU’s College of Liberal Arts

Thorson previously served as the associate dean for strategic initiatives in the College of Communication Arts & Sciences at Michigan State University.


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The Slusarski-Harris Scholarship Encourages Dance Students’ Thirst for Excellence

Rod Harris and Jane Slusarski-Harris continue to support student work in the dance program at Colorado State University with the Rod Harris and Jane Slusarski-Harris Dance Scholarship. “Dance brought much to our lives: discipline, artistic expression, and physical accomplishment,” said the couple. “These are vitally important in a dance career and equally valuable in life itself.” […]


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CSU Theatre Students Win USITT24 Awards

Colorado State University Theatre proudly announces USITT student awards. The United States Institute for Theatre Technology, Inc. (USITT) connects performing arts design and technology communities to ensure a vibrant dialog among practitioners, educators, and students. The USITT24 award winners, Annie Hennen and Dani Ranisate will be celebrated at the “Awards, Awards, Awards” ceremony in Seattle, Washington, on March 21, 2024.



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Interspecies Journey: A residency with unlikely partners

The Colorado State University Dance and Equine Sciences programs collaborated for a week in the Fall of 2023 to find connections and intersections between dance/arts and work with horses to enhance each other’s practices, learning, and research. These unlikely partners came together to find new ways of listening and discovery across disciplines.

Guest artist JoAnna Mendl Shaw and The Equus Projects were invited to work with students and faculty in residence. In the studio and the arena, they explored a common language, physical dialogue, and ways to honor and give voice to humans and equines.


Body/Speak builds an inclusive dance community

Body/Speak is a community concert featuring guests from colleges, universities, and dance companies across the region who join CSU Dance for an evening of diverse dance genres. The aim is to support artists and build networks within the Colorado and Wyoming dance communities.

At the end of the showcase, participants are invited to collaboratively create an ‘Instant Dance’ together as an opportunity to truly dance together, in the same piece instead of simply on the same stage!