Dance Alliance

Directors- Gary Larsen & Shawn Fisher 2008-2009 Tour

Dance Alliance will be a distinctive dance company representing BYU-Idaho.  This company will be made up of 36 dancers dedicated to sharing their technical strenghts and taking the opportunity to experience and/or learn other genres of dance.  Dancers who are invited to participate in Dance Alliance and who come with strong backgrounds in various areas of dance will have every opportunity to work with several different choreographers from various professional backgrounds.

As we create dances for performances we will be bound by the 13th Article of Faith in our choice of music, costumes, and choreography which will be "virtuous, lovely or of good report or praisworthy.

M. Russell Ballard has challenged artists to create works of art that "not only need to be uplifting, they must be excellent, to set it apart from the mediocre of the worldly."  He goes on to say, "People deserve quality alternatives, the kind that invite the Holy Spirit. Few things bring joy more fully to the world than the arts."  Our purpose as dancers and artists should be to lift and inspire, changing the hearts of those who experience the performance. It is this alternative in dance that Dance Alliance will seek out.

The Dance Department faculty will be working together to establish the specific details pertaining to each show dependant upon performance venue and audience.  Students will take on greater responsability as they assist in the teaching, choreography, and the development of testimonies.

Boyd K. Packer has challenged us, "Go to, then, you who are gifted; cultivate your gift. Develop in any of the arts and in every worthy example of them."  It is our desire as a department within higher education to take this challenge, along with the blessings that have been promised to us, "that revelation and inspiration may pour into our minds" if we strive to create a performance that will testify of Christ, and the joy of living the restored gosple can bring.