{"id":52284,"date":"2011-12-15T08:15:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T13:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=52284"},"modified":"2011-12-16T13:43:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T18:43:31","slug":"dancing-and-singing-with-the-uconn-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/12\/dancing-and-singing-with-the-uconn-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing (and Singing) with the UConn Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UConn Dance Company is just as accomplished performing techno hip-hop as it is with performing jazz or ballet or musical theater. At this year&#8217;s Fall Showcase on Dec. 6 at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts, the group showed their impressive repertoire of dance steps, while also sharing center stage with other UConn performance groups.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52264\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52264\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/danceshowcase111206b021.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52264  img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/danceshowcase111206b021-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The UConn Dance Company performs to 'Nowadays' at the Fall 2011 Showcase in the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts on Dec. 6. (Ariel Dowski '14 (CLAS)\/UConn Photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/danceshowcase111206b021-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/danceshowcase111206b021-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/danceshowcase111206b021.jpg 630w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UConn Dance Company performs to &#039;Nowadays&#039; at the Fall 2011 Showcase in the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts on Dec. 6. (Ariel Dowski &#039;14 (CLAS)\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 50-member Dance Company began as DanceWorks in 2008, and has since evolved into a larger group of talented dancers who perform at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts at the end of each semester.<\/p>\n<p>Every aspect of the show is designed by members of the Company, including choreography, staging, music, and lighting.<\/p>\n<p>For more photos of the Fall Showcase, go to the <a title=\"UConn Today flicker \" href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/galleries\/#!\/set\/72157628406739175\">UConn Today Flickr<\/a> site.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52266\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52266\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/danceshowcase111206b091.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52266   img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/danceshowcase111206b091-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The Rolling Tones sing at the Fall 2011 Showcase held in Jorgensen. (Ariel Dowski '14 (CLAS)\/UConn Photo)\" width=\"265\" height=\"185\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 265px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 265\/185;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rolling Tones sing at the Fall 2011 Showcase held in Jorgensen. (Ariel Dowski &#039;14 (CLAS)\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52265\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52265\" style=\"width: 278px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/danceshowcase111206b035.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52265   img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/danceshowcase111206b035-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Premiere made a guest performance at the Fall 2011 Showcase in Jorgensen. (Ariel Dowski '14 (CLAS)\/UConn Photo)\" width=\"278\" height=\"185\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/danceshowcase111206b035-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/danceshowcase111206b035-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/danceshowcase111206b035.jpg 630w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 278px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 278\/185;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Premiere made a guest performance at the Fall 2011 Showcase in Jorgensen. (Ariel Dowski &#039;14 (CLAS)\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn performers dance and sing at this year&#8217;s Fall Showcase at the Jorgensen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":52210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[56],"class_list":["post-52284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gallery","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 06:36:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52284"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52497,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52284\/revisions\/52497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/52210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52284"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=52284"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=52284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}