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  • 2024 Minnesota Dance Summit

    Participants and presenters for the 2024 Minnesota Dance Summit

    February 13, 2024

    The 2024 Minnesota Dance Summit brought dance instructors and dancers together at Perpich Center on February 9 & 10, 2024. The summit’s theme was Implicit Bias: Challenges and Gifts in…

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  • Perpich Arts High School Dance Program Moves Audience with “Sense of Place” – December, 2023

    December 12, 2023

    From all corners of the state, the dancers of the Perpich Arts High School Dance Program moved their audiences with “Sense of Place”. The fall concert was the culmination of a semester of work. The dancers demonstrated their creativity, choreographic skills, and…

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  • Darrius Strong Visits Perpich as a Guest Artist in Dance

    Guest choreographer, Darrius Strong (left), with Mary Harding, Dance Instructor

    October 25, 2023

    Guest choreographer, Darrius Strong, worked with Perpich Dance students over several days in October to set a dance on them for their December dance concert.

    Darrius Strong is a highly accomplished…

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  • Mary Harding, Dance Instructor, Presents at National Dance Education Organization Conference

    Harding (right) is pictured with Cleo Mack (Dance 1994) (left), Director of Dance at Middlesex County (NJ) Magnet School

    October 12, 2023

    Mary Harding, Perpich Dance Instructor and Dance Education Specialist, was a presenter at the national conference of National Dance Education…

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  • University of Minnesota Duluth Professors Workshop with Dance, Theater, and Musical Theater Students

    September 20, 2023

    Matthew Wagner works with the Dance students in the Studio.

    On Tuesday, September 19th, Perpich students in Dance, Theater, and Musical Theater welcomed Lauren Roth and Matthew Wagner to their arts classrooms. Both Roth and Wagner are assistant professors…

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  • Harding Hosts “Teachers Teaching Teachers” for Dance Educators

    July 18, 2023

    Attendees of the “Teachers Teaching Teachers” workshop on July 17, 2023

    Mary Harding, Perpich Dance Instructor and Dance Education Specialist, hosted a group of dance teachers for the July 17th workshop “Teachers Teaching Teachers”. The presenters covered a wide…

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  • Perpich Arts High School Dance Program presents “Threshold”

    May 15, 2023

    Perpich Arts High School Dance Program presented “Threshold” on May 11 and May 12, 2023. The spring concert was the culmination of a semester of work. The dancers demonstrated their creativity, choreographic skills, and performance expertise in 22 student choreographed works, and…

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  • Harding and Lein Walseth Present Workshop at Art and Science Academy

    April 10, 2023

    Mary Harding, Perpich Dance Instructor and Dance Education Specialist, and Dr. Stephanie Lein Walseth, Theater Education Specialist, presented “Using the Tools of Theater and Dance to Build Arts Literacy” to faculty and staff at Art and Science Academy, a K-8 arts and…

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  • Perpich Dance Students Workshop with TU Dance

    Perpich Dance students with members of TU Dance and their CUL·TI·VATE program

    April 6, 2023

    On Friday, April 6, 2023, the Perpich dancers had a workshop experience with TU Dance, a leading voice for contemporary dance. The professional company is acclaimed for…

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