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A photo of the Spring Dance Concert flyer sits on a table. The NIU School of Theatre and Dance impressed the audience during its Spring Dance Concert Friday evening. (Kahlil Kambui | Northern Star)

Themes of community sparked during Spring Dance Concert

By Kahlil Kambui, Opinion Editor | April 27, 2025

At first there was darkness, but as the lights slowly brightened the music grew to reveal dancers dressed in white dawning a star on their back representing the city of Chicago. The dancers were prepared to give the audiences a great show. From 7:30...

Members of NIU's School of Theatre and Dance pose across a stage. The Spring Dance Concert is the last show of the SOTD's 2023-2024 production season. (Sean Reed | Northern Star)

Spring Dance Concert leaps into action

By Brynn Krug, Managing Editor | April 25, 2024

As audience members flipped through their playbills, soft orchestral music played while a crimson curtain shielded the dancers awaiting behind it. Thursday was the first night of the School of Theatre and Dance’s Spring Dance Concert, the last production...

People wait in the O’Connell Theater in NIU’s Stevens building for The Spring Dance Concert. The concert concluded NIU’s School of Theater and Dance’s 2022-23 production lineup. (Sarah Rose | Northern Star)

NIU’s spring dance concert exhibits the mundane experience

By Sarah Rose, Copy Editor | April 30, 2023

DeKALB – Soft blue lights glimmered on the O’Connell theater stage as five dancers took their places, bodies bent over in poses they’re all too familiar with. As the music started out as a fantasia melody, The Rite of Spring begun. April 27 through...

Students dance through Spain

By Amy Geldean | April 19, 2018

DeKALB — Dance students across campus invite audience members to their spring showcase where they hope to take viewers deep into Spain to experience Spanish culture and dance traditions, all achieved through their art.The Spring 2018 Dance Concert will...

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