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UNLV Dance Takes the National Stage for America's 250th Celebration UNLV Dance performed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on June 25 as part of the National Endowment for the Arts Legacy Stage at the Great American State Fair, celebrating America’s 250th anniversary. Below are remarks from Louis Kavouras, chair of UNLV Dance. Dear friends, We’re back fr...

We are officially preparing for our 50th Anniversary Season—the Golden Anniversary! 

A central part of this celebration is welcoming our alumni back to campus to share their artistry with our community.

Submit your choreographic proposal. Before applying, please review the following logistics and policies:

Where: Alta Ham Fine Arts Studio One
When: January 29–30, 2027
Deadline for Applications: September 18, 2026
Finalists Announced: October 16, 2026

Submission Requirements:
Submit a link to a video of the proposed work, a promotional reel, or a compilation of your choreography.

Professional recordings are not required, but submissions should be clear, well-framed, and unedited. A single, continuous camera angle is preferred.

Links must remain active until finalists are announced.

Please also have a headshot and bio ready for submission. Bio must be in a Word doc, PDF, or image file.

Works may be new or pre-existing.

Maximum length: 10 minutes.

No limit on cast size; however, current UNLV Dance majors and minors may not perform.

Rehearsal space will be provided for technical and dress rehearsals only.

Clearly indicate any props or set needs; fire, confetti, and glitter are not permitted.

Artists are responsible for their own travel, lodging, and related expenses.

Submit all applications through the link in our bio.

We are thrilled to see your work and celebrate 50 years of UNLV Dance together. Go Rebels!

Questions? Please contact Cathy Allen at [email protected]

📸: Josh Hawkins
Choreography: (De)tached by Hayley Meier

One performance down. Eight more to go.

Today, UNLV Dance stepped onto the National Mall in Washington, D.C., performing for wonderful crowds at the Great American State Fair on the National Endowment for the Arts Legacy Stage as part of America’s 250th celebration. It was an honor to share works by Erick Hawkins alongside choreography by our remarkable UNLV Dance faculty, celebrating joy, perseverance, possibility, connection, and the enduring spirit of dance. Happy 250 America! Let’s party like it’s 1776!!

Keep an eye on your national news over the next four days—you just might catch a glimpse of UNLV Dance performing in the heart of our nation’s capital.

This is who we are.
This is what we do.

We are UNLV Dance.
Louis Kavouras Hayley Meier Jason Hortin Michael Jarett Cathy Allen UNLV College Of Fine Arts Louis Kavouras Hawkins•Dlugoszewski Foundation

First-world travel solutions.

When you need the perfect small analog writing journal to document choreography notes, artistic revelations, and the occasional curatorial existential crisis—but it absolutely must match your Louis Vuitton Monogram Eclipse canvas in black and grey tones—there is, thankfully, a solution.

Introducing the new UNLV Dance A6 Journal.

Forty-eight pages of portable brilliance, conveniently color-coordinated with the important luxury decisions in your life.

Get yours today.

And if you don’t have the Louis Vuitton luggage…☹️…….Well, life goes on. Technically.

Life is choreography. Let the transitions happen with style.
Some people travel. Some people flow through aesthetic journeys.
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✨ New Fine Art in UNLV Dance ✨

Art inspires art.

A stunning new painting by Dance Professor Vikki Baltimore-Dale now welcomes students, faculty, and visitors into Ham Fine Arts.

Titled “Extravaganza,” the work radiates color, energy, movement, and joy—qualities that sit at the heart of dance itself. Now installed outside HFA 111, it brightens the hall and reminds us that creativity doesn’t live in a single discipline. It spills across stages, canvases, studios, and lives.

Stop by, take a look, and let a little extravaganza into your day.

🎨✨💃 Victoria Dale

UNLV ArtsEducation ArtistFaculty Painting DanceLife HamFineArts

We are officially preparing for our 50th Anniversary Season—the Golden Anniversary! 

A central part of this celebration is welcoming our alumni back to campus to share their artistry with our community.

Submit your choreographic proposal. Before applying, please review the following logistics and policies:

Where: Alta Ham Fine Arts Studio One
When: January 29–30, 2027
Deadline for Applications: September 18, 2026
Finalists Announced: October 16, 2026

Submission Requirements:
Submit a link to a video of the proposed work, a promotional reel, or a compilation of your choreography.

Professional recordings are not required, but submissions should be clear, well-framed, and unedited. A single, continuous camera angle is preferred.

Links must remain active until finalists are announced.

Please also have a headshot and bio ready for submission. Bio must be in a Word doc, PDF, or image file.

Works may be new or pre-existing.

Maximum length: 10 minutes.

No limit on cast size; however, current UNLV Dance majors and minors may not perform.

Rehearsal space will be provided for technical and dress rehearsals only.

Clearly indicate any props or set needs; fire, confetti, and glitter are not permitted.

Artists are responsible for their own travel, lodging, and related expenses.

Submit all applications through the link in our bio.

We are thrilled to see your work and celebrate 50 years of UNLV Dance together. Go Rebels!

Questions? Please contact Cathy Allen at [email protected]

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Please join us in welcoming Thang Dao to the UNLV Department of Dance as our newest Assistant Professor of Dance!

We are incredibly fortunate to welcome an artist of Thang’s caliber to our faculty. An internationally recognized choreographer, educator, and artistic director, his work has been celebrated across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Thang earned his BFA from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and trained at The Juilliard School, later earning both an MA in Dance and Digital Technology from New York University and an MFA in Dance from Hollins University.

As founder of the Thang Dao Dance Company, he has choreographed for leading companies including Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Ballet Austin, BalletX, Ailey II, Philadanco, and Sacramento Ballet. His choreography has been presented at renowned venues including Jacob’s Pillow and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Thang’s many honors include being named a Princess Grace Choreography Fellow, receiving the Princess Grace Special Project Grant, and being recognized as a Vilcek Prize Finalist for Creative Promise in Choreography. His work, deeply informed by his Vietnamese American heritage, brings together precision, emotional clarity, and cultural depth while expanding the visibility of Asian American voices in concert dance.

“We are honored to welcome an artist as imaginative and creative as Thang Dao into the UNLV Dance family. We look forward to this bold new era of motion.” — Louis Kavouras, Chair, UNLV Dance

Welcome to UNLV Dance, Thang. ❤️

Headshots courtesy of Joffrey Ballet School. Dance shots credit: Thomas Dang Vu.