LMU Dance Major Audition (24-25)
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Introduction
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Video Responses
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Dance Proficiency
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Written Responses
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Wrap-Up
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LMU offers a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Dance. Students have the opportunity to take a wide range of classes in dance technique, choreography, history, theory, and pedagogy, allowing them to explore different aspects of dance within the context of a liberal arts education.
Meet The Chair of LMU Dance
Rosalynde “Roz” LeBlanc
Rosalynde LeBlanc is a professor and the current Chair
of the Dance Program at Loyola Marymount University. A Bessie-nominated performer
and a Peabody Award-winning producer, as well as a choreographer, she has spent over thirty years in dance.
Prior to her academic career, Rosalynde was a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project, and the Liz Gerring Dance Company. As a guest artist, Rosalynde has danced with Summation Dance, Colleen Thomas Dance, Keith Johnson and Dancers, Charles Moulton, Keigwin + Company, and in productions with Janessa Clark, the New York City’s Metropolitan Opera, and the 250th Mozart Celebration in Salzburg, Austria. Her writing has been published in Dance Magazine, Ballettanz, and Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies, and her choreography has been licensed and commissioned by professional and student companies around the country. She continues her work with Bill T. Jones in the preservation of his legacy and pedagogy, directing the Educational Partnership between the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and LMU’s Dance Program.
Rosalynde produced and co-directed the critically acclaimed documentary film, “Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters.” Featuring LMU students, and earning grants from the Graves Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Ford Foundation, the film won the 2023 Peabody Award and was a 2022 Chita Rivera Award nominee, a N.Y. Times Critic’s Choice for 2021, and was on the ‘Year’s Best Films’ lists of Vulture, Esquire, IndieWire and Ebert Voices. In 2020, Rosalynde’s work in dance and service to education earned her an honorary induction into the Jesuit Honor Society, Alpha Sigma Nu. She holds a BFA from SUNY Purchase and an MFA from Hollins University.
Prior to her academic career, Rosalynde was a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project, and the Liz Gerring Dance Company. As a guest artist, Rosalynde has danced with Summation Dance, Colleen Thomas Dance, Keith Johnson and Dancers, Charles Moulton, Keigwin + Company, and in productions with Janessa Clark, the New York City’s Metropolitan Opera, and the 250th Mozart Celebration in Salzburg, Austria. Her writing has been published in Dance Magazine, Ballettanz, and Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies, and her choreography has been licensed and commissioned by professional and student companies around the country. She continues her work with Bill T. Jones in the preservation of his legacy and pedagogy, directing the Educational Partnership between the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and LMU’s Dance Program.
Rosalynde produced and co-directed the critically acclaimed documentary film, “Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters.” Featuring LMU students, and earning grants from the Graves Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Ford Foundation, the film won the 2023 Peabody Award and was a 2022 Chita Rivera Award nominee, a N.Y. Times Critic’s Choice for 2021, and was on the ‘Year’s Best Films’ lists of Vulture, Esquire, IndieWire and Ebert Voices. In 2020, Rosalynde’s work in dance and service to education earned her an honorary induction into the Jesuit Honor Society, Alpha Sigma Nu. She holds a BFA from SUNY Purchase and an MFA from Hollins University.
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