On Nov 11 through the 14, the WTAMU Dance department will be hosting their annual show called “Falling into Dance” at the Happy State Bank Auditorium.

“Falling into Dance” is the program’s first concert of the fall semester each year and is produced, choreographed and performed by WTAMU dance seniors and students who are already working and preparing for this event.

“Our fall show is our senior cap show for our senior dance majors, which means it’s a course they take to get to know the productions of a concert,” Leslie Williams, director of the Dance program, said. “So they have to go through a whole ordeal with coming up with their own group piece and solo to do. They do everything from running their own audition for their piece as well as their casting, scheduling, costumes, and lighting. They really take the reins so they can understand how to run and produce a concert on their own.”

Not only did the planning and preparation for the show start at the beginning of the fall semester, but the students actually started getting ready for everything over the course of the summer as well.

“Well over the summer we start thinking about the concept of what we want to say with our dance,” Allison Malone, Senior Dance Major, said. “We think of topics that can be something serious and relatable or it could be just for fun as well, but we have to come up with something we want to say with our dance. Then after that we pick music that we think best fits our topic. After that everything gets more serious with us holding auditions for the dances so we can choose who we want to be in our piece. Our facility then really leaves us to our own devises and is only there for guidance, so everything is really up to us.”

And this year is going to be very interesting with one piece adding glass to their dance.

“This year is really interesting with the fact that we have 3 dancers pairing up with 3 grad students that make their concepts work with using glass,” Williams said. “One is the implosion of a star and the explosion and implosions of that within the universe. And her glass artists are looking at how glass explodes and what causes it to explode. So this is a really unique show because we’ve never done anything like this and those glass pieces are going to be on stage with those dances in the form of costume or sculptures on stage.”

Not only are the seniors and directors excited about this new show but as are the cast members in the pieces as well.

“As a student and getting to be apart of this show, it really is an honor,” Kristin Kruger, Sophomore dance major, said. “We get to be apart of the senior’s creation and really the best part is we get to tell their story that they want to share through dance which we all have a deep passion for. It’s really going to be something amazing that everyone should go out and see and I’m really grateful to be apart of it.”

Leslie Williams really encourages everyone to go out and see the show. Tickets can be bought from the box office located inside Sybil B . Harrington Fine Arts Complex or you can reserve a ticket by calling 8066512804.