The Dance Student Assembly (DSA) at the University of Michigan Department of Dance presents the Winter 2026 Student Choreography Showcase. This free performance features new choreographic works created by student artists across disciplines.

The Student Choreography Showcase is a student-led and student-produced performance platform designed to provide emerging choreographers opportunities to develop and present original dance work in front of an audience each term.

Burke Brickner (junior musical theatre major) presents a work grounded in theatrical sensibility and compositional craft, drawing from his training in performance-driven storytelling.

Charlotte Blanc (senior philosophy & mathematics major) explores the emotional tensions within romantic relationships through contemporary and lyrical movement.

Angelica White (junior dance major, PAME minor) investigates personal passion and artistic expansion, using movement as a vehicle to stretch expressive and performative range.

Grace Su (PhD candidate in chemical biology) draws inspiration from Chiharu Shiota’s Silent Emptiness and the Chinese myth of the red thread of fate. Her solo examines entanglement, connection, and embodied relationship through a synthesis of contemporary and classical Chinese dance influences.

Amanda Chizuk (junior dance & education major) presents a solo exploring grief in its varied emotional forms – anger, depression, bargaining, and acceptance – through contemporary movement language.

Drew Brown (senior communication major, dance minor) examines internal tension and personal resilience in a contemporary work reflecting on the challenges of navigating complex social and political climates.

Sofia D’Agostino (sophomore chemical engineering major) presents a contemporary piece centered on the metaphor of mirages in friendship, tracing the evolution of perception, disillusionment, and growth.

Maura Puro (senior biomedical engineering major, dance minor) offers an intimate, bedroom-inspired contemporary solo that captures emotional processing and vulnerability within a casual, personal atmosphere.

Kennedy Marshall (junior dance major) presents a dance film originally developed in composition class. The work explores the early conceptual themes of her thesis research around Black joy and community.

Alyssa Hernandez (senior dance major, PAME minor) shows a contemporary piece that explores the collaborative relationship between the dancer and saxophonist Lauren Troutman.

Alex Hackbardt (junior elementary education major, dance minor) presents a solo choreographed for a composition course and set to the song “Cast the Bronze" by Raynes.