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Program director: Dance department
adding faculty, improving curriculum
By Gretchen Boehr
Senior Reporter
The dance department at the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln has pro
gressed dramatically within the last
five years, said Laura Milan,assistant
dance professor and temporary pro
gram director.
By adding three more faculty
members within the next two years,
the program and its curriculum will
continue to progress, Milan said.
Like many colleges across the
United Stales, the UNL dance pro
gram started in the physical educa
tion department, she said.
According to Dec Hughes, assis
tant professor of dance, the dance
program began in 1968 as part ol the
women’s physical education depart
ment in the Teachers College.
Eventually Dudley Ashton, the
chair of the women’s physical educa
tion department, combined the men’s
and women’s dance programs and
moved them to the department of arts
and sciences, she said.
Milan said about four years ago
•c dance program joined with the
theater department and became
known as the Theatre Arts and Dance
Department.
“In theearly^history of the univer
sity, dance was part of the physical
education department nccausc u nau
the facilities the dancers needed,”
Milan said.
“The focus was on dance as an
activity,” Milan said.
The focus now is on dance as an art
form, she said, and this is why the V
program was moved.
“The university realized dance
belonged with theater and music,”
Milan said. ,
At some universities dance has its
own department separate from music
and theater, but the combined theater
arts department at UNL has its advan
tages, Milan said.
“We’re lucky because we can
draw on experts of the faculty in all
performance areas,” she said.
Professors knowledgeable in cos
tuming, lighting, choreography and
stage design together in one depart
ment help each other, she said.
“If the dance department were by
itself it would have to find additional
faculty to help with these elements of
production,” Milan said.
“The other departments can draw
on our expertise, too.”
If the theater department is putting
on a historical play, they can ask the
dance faculty whether certain dance
movements are correct, Milan said.
“This makes all the performing
arts stronger.”
Though the dance department is
small, it’s very active, Milan said.
The dance department puts on two
dance performances a year and a
number of outside projects with the
community, Milan said.
Thd Prairie Winds Quintet in the
spring plus the Lincoln Contempo
rary Dance Theatre arc examples of
additional dance opportunities open
to students.
The LCDT is a repertory touring
company that gives performances
throughout the year in the Lincoln
area. The company is composed of
university dancers and the choreogra
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Both dancers said they received
excellent instruction at UNL’s
theatre arts and dance department,
although the dance department in
particular is understaffed.
Mapcs-Raasch said her dance
experience at UNL has trained her
well for professional dancing.
“Laura Milan is incredible,”
she said, “but the dance program is
very understaffed and it makes it
difficult to be a dancer.”
As a result of being under
staffed, she saicj, some classes are
offered only every two years,
which makes it difficult to gradu
ate on time.
But, she said, UNL has helped
her become a more than competent
performer.
“I was invited to perform in
New York this summer,” she said.
“And 1 thought the other dancers
would blow me away.”
But instead, she said, she found
'she could hold her own and was
trained just as well, if not better, in
technique and classroom etiquette.
Mapcs-Raasch and Ellingson
said less competition exists be
tween dancers in the Midwest
compared to dancers in New York.
“I think there might be a better
environment lor learning dance
here,” Ellingson said.
Mapcs-Raasch said her New
York experience taught her to •
budget her money and survive in a
big city.
“Another thing 1 learned was
' that people need to have an altitude
to live in New York,” she said. “I
learned to be gqtsy.”
She said she also learned what
dedication to dance was all about.
A dancer in the company
Mapcs-Raasch danced with had a
terrible back condition, she said,
resulting in a visit to the chiroprac
tor after each performance and
extreme pain, yet she danced any
way.
“This made me realize how
much people will do for their art,’ ’
she said.
