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Home › News & Events › News › UArizona dual major dancers take center stage, help arts and humanities colleges receive number 11 ranking

UArizona dual major dancers take center stage, help arts and humanities colleges receive number 11 ranking

December 26, 2019

By: Veronika Vernachio | KGUN9

TUCSON, Ariz. — The University of Arizona ranked Number 11 among all U.S. public institutions in the Arts and Humanities category in the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

The rankings are based on five areas:

  • Teaching (the learning environment): 30%
  • Research (volume, income and reputation): 30%
  • Citations (research influence): 30%
  • International outlook (staff, students and research) 7.5%
  • Industry income (knowledge transfer): 2.5%

The UArizona College of Fine Arts and College of Humanities has many students majoring in all ranges, from foreign languages to theatre and music. Many of these students are double majoring within the colleges, as well as across campus.

One of those students in Noah Huang. He’s a Biology, Dance double major with a minor in Japanese.

“For me, coming into college meant exploring everything I was passionate about,” Huang said.

Huang has been dancing ballet since he was seven years old. He didn’t want to give that up for his dreams to be a doctor, so he combined his two passions at the University of Arizona.

Huang’s Advance Ballet Professor Autumn Eckman thinks dance and medicine can actually compliment each other.

“I think he’s going to have a great understanding of how the physical body works,” Eckman said. “There is definitely a connection between the medicine and science and physical aspect that helps us understand the body in dance.”

Full article and video feature on KGUN News

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But how does such a physical artform survive in a pandemic when your stage, your canvass shuts down and your workspace becomes your living room via Zoom?
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So inspiring!

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Grateful.

Way to go, UA Dance!

Candidato a MFA, Eduardo Zambrana, comparte la inspiración detrás de su nueva pieza de baile, “Está Hecho de Pensamientos.”

Agradecimientos especiales a los colaboradores Erina Ueda, John Dahlstrand, y Carlos y Charlie en Terrazas Video.

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MFA candidate, Eduardo Zambrana, shares the inspiration behind his newest piece, "It's Made of Thoughts."

Special shout out to collaborators Erina Ueda, John Dahlstrand, and Carlos and Charlie at Terrazas Video!
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Junito muchas bendiciones para ti

Today the University of Arizona Office of the Provost issued a statement condemning the violence in Georgia earlier this week that left eight dead, most of the victims women and Asian American. This is only the most visible and latest example in the sharp and deplorable rise in discrimination, violence and hate against individuals in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community over the past year.

>> azart.fyi/ProvostsStatement

Anti-Asian and gender-based violence and discrimination are intolerable and must stop.

The Arizona Arts family stands in solidarity with our University in condemning violence of any kind, and we stand in solidarity with the Asian American Pacific Islander community.

The University is committed to providing resources to address anti-Asian violence, xenophobia, and gender-based violence on our campus. The Provost’s message includes valuable resources to support our Asian American and Pacific Islander community and our entire campus community. I urge you to review these resources, and if you are a faculty member, to share them with your students.

>> azart.fyi/UnivCoreValues

As we continue to find ways to live the university’s core values of compassion and inclusion, please take time to extend your solidarity to our Asian, Pacific Islander, and Asian American students, staff, faculty, and other community members.

Sincerely,

Andrew Schulz
Vice President for the Arts
Dean, College of Fine Arts
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Today the University of Arizona Office of the Provost issued a statement condemning the violence in Georgia earlier this week that left eight dead, most of the victims women and Asian American. This is only the most visible and latest example in the sharp and deplorable rise in discrimination, violence and hate against individuals in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community over the past year.

>> azart.fyi/ProvostsStatement

Anti-Asian and gender-based violence and discrimination are intolerable and must stop.

The Arizona Arts family stands in solidarity with our University in condemning violence of any kind, and we stand in solidarity with the Asian American Pacific Islander community.

The University is committed to providing resources to address anti-Asian violence, xenophobia, and gender-based violence on our campus. The Provost’s message includes valuable resources to support our Asian American and Pacific Islander community and our entire campus community. I urge you to review these resources, and if you are a faculty member, to share them with your students.

>> azart.fyi/UnivCoreValues

As we continue to find ways to live the university’s core values of compassion and inclusion, please take time to extend your solidarity to our Asian, Pacific Islander, and Asian American students, staff, faculty, and other community members.

Sincerely,

Andrew Schulz
Vice President for the Arts
Dean, College of Fine Arts
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Now Showing!
UA Dance IN/OUT/SIDE THE BOX: March 18-21, 2021
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Free Admission
To register and watch: watch.dance.arizona.edu/

The Box, a constant in our pandemic-era lives, has become something of a catalyst for creativity. We dance in boxes demarcated on the studio floor, we come together through grids on our computer screens, and the frames of our TVs or tablets have become our new proscenium. The Box, in its many iterations, gives new meaning to what lies beyond its boundaries, and the outdoors. IN/OUT/SIDE THE BOX features seven new dance films created by faculty and students—each work a unique variation on this invariable theme.

Featured Choreographers:
Tamara Dyke-Compton
Autumn Eckman
Chloe Erlandson and Hannah Weinmaster
Ilana Giardina
Sasha Reist
Caitlin Rose
Eduardo Zambrana
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Now Showing!
UA Dance IN/OUT/SIDE THE BOX: March 18-21, 2021
Online/On-Demand
Free Admission
To register and watch: https://watch.dance.arizona.edu/

The Box, a constant in our pandemic-era lives, has become something of a catalyst for creativity. We dance in boxes demarcated on the studio floor, we come together through grids on our computer screens, and the frames of our TVs or tablets have become our new proscenium. The Box, in its many iterations, gives new meaning to what lies beyond its boundaries, and the outdoors. IN/OUT/SIDE THE BOX features seven new dance films created by faculty and students—each work a unique variation on this invariable theme.

Featured Choreographers:
Tamara Dyke-Compton
Autumn Eckman
Chloe Erlandson and Hannah Weinmaster
Ilana Giardina
Sasha Reist
Caitlin Rose
Eduardo Zambrana
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The show was creative & a joy to watch! Thank you for sharing.

As part of the University of Arizona Museum of Art's online exhibition, Picturing 2020: A Community Reflects, UArizona Dance assistant professor Autumn Eckman is giving a virtual artist talk with collaborator Jonathan Marquis. Join us! ... See MoreSee Less

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Our own Kristin Miller, AT, ATC is presenting tomorrow, Tues. Jan 26 at 5 PM MST as part of the Performing Arts Athletic Trainers' Society Facebook Live series "Getting The Show Back on the Road." Kristin will talk about how UA Dance has been able to operate in-person, and getting dancers back to performing post COVID. All are welcome to tune in to learn about this important topic! ... See MoreSee Less

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