Dance Repertory Theatre

Dance Repertory Theatre, the award-winning student resident dance company at The University of Texas at Austin, is made up of B.F.A. in Dance candidates at the Department of Theatre and Dance. It represents an important professional performing component of the Dance program at the department and works to envelop students in both the artistic process of art-making and the art-making itself, with opportunities to perform, choreograph and support productions for the Texas Theatre and Dance subscription season. 


Dance Repertory Theatre Through the Years

With over a decade of performances, Dance Repertory Theatre continues to push the limits of innovative choreography and contemporary dance. 

In the News 

Dance Repertory Theatre's 2019 Fall For Dance - The Austin Chronicle (2019)

"Beauty. Hope. Love. Spirit. These young dancers showed us again and again: Anything is possible and they can do anything" 

UT Dance Repertory Theatre's Fall For Dance - The Austin Chronicle (2017)

"Again and again, works in this program stated, emphatically, insistently, with purpose, that they were focused on this time, the present moment, now....This school and its students belong to the now."

Dance Repertory Theatre's Momentum - The Austin Chronicle (2017)

"Sometimes universities feel like the most insular of places....but other times, as with Dance Repertory Theatre's program of dance works informed by African-American experiences and culture, the university feels like a watchtower, a vital refuge for truly considering, from myriad angles, some of the most serious issues of our time...Perhaps, Momentum suggests, it is in continued remembrance of personal tragedies that we may find the strength to reach out in a broader scope, to continue where others falter." 

Gallery

two dancers, one in front of the other, balance on one leg, holding their other legs up and reaching their arms out beside them

Photo by: Thomas Allison; Dance Repertory Theatre's PIVOT (2022)

four dancers pose with their hands on their hips, tilting their shoulders backwards

Photo by: Thomas Allison; Dance Repertory Theatre's PIVOT (2022)

eight dancers stand on stage with their right arms raised, washed in warm, golden stage lighting

Photo by: Essentials Creative; Dance Repertory Theatre's Fall For Dance (2021)

2019 Fall For Dance performance

Photo by: Lawrence Peart; Dance Repertory Theatre's Fall For Dance (2015)

woman leaping

Photo by: Lawrence Peart; Dance Repertory Theatre's Bodies and Souls (2016)

Transcendence 2018 performance

Photo by: Lawrence Peart; Dance Repertory Theatre's Transcendence (2018)

Three dancers pose on colourful chairs

Photo by: Thomas Allison; Dance Repertory Theatre's EMERGE (2023)

Photo by Lawrence Peart; FORTITUDE 2019

Photo by: Lawrence Peart; Dance Repertory Theatre's Fortitude (2019)

person in black draped over another person

Photo by: Lawrence Peart; Dance Repertory Theatre's Momentum (2017)

2018 Fall For Dance production of Student Bodies

Photo by Lawrence Peart; Dance Repertory Theatre's Bodies and Souls (2016)