OU School of Dance Summer Intensive Collaboration

Each year, the Summer Intensive program at OU’s School of Dance provides students ages 14 to 20 a unique opportunity for high-level training in ballet and modern dance alongside university students, OU instructors, and guest choreographers, teachers, and dancers from around the globe. This June participants brought dance and visual art together using the special exhibition Un/Natural Selections: Wildlife in Contemporary Art as the backdrop. Raúl Tamez, Director of La Infinita Compañía in Mexico City, created a new piece inspired by and choreographed especially for Un/Natural Selections. During the four-week program, Tamez worked with over twenty students in the school’s rehearsal spaces and the museum’s galleries. Red Sky/Cielo Rojo premiered at the Summer Intensive’s final showing, which started on stage in historic Holmberg Hall at the Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center before audience members followed the dancers next door to the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art for an immersive performance in the gallery.
Excerpt from "Red Sky/Cielo Rojo." A BOLD Multimedia production.