Dance

My Dance Schedule
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Dance Company 9am-3pm	Dance Company 5pm-7pm	Dance Company 5pm-7pm	Dance Company 5pm-7pm	Dance Company 5pm-7pm	Optional Tap Out Loud 3pm-5pm	Dance Company 9am-5pm
	Tap Out Loud 9pm-11pm	Tap Out Loud 9pm-11pm	Tap Out Loud 7pm-9pm

The Wheaton College Dance Company is an academic-based group. We focus on the styles of ballet, jazz, modern, contemporary, lyrical, and collaborate with other groups to do styles like hip-hop and tap. This year, we have two shows! The first is on November 21st, 22nd, and 23rd at 7:30pm. We will have around 15 numbers to perform including guest performers.

Tap Out Loud is a club-level dance group on campus. Our specialty is all things tap, but there is a wide variety of styles we choose to perform, including musical theater, contemporary, and even some hip-hop based stuff. We perform in Dance Fest with the other club dance groups in February each year!

My Connection to Dance

I have been dancing since I was 3 years old. It started out just with ballet and tap. As the years went on, I was able to add in jazz, then modern, contemporary, lyrical, and so many more. Performing dance was my thing, and everyone that knew me knew that I was a dancer.

I started competitively dancing when I was 8 years old, and the first piece I competed in was a production number about the Titanic. I even died as a 3rd class passenger; I still laugh about this fact often.

Even when the pandemic started, my love for dance never fizzled out, and I continued to take classes over Zoom in my living room. We didn't get to perform that year, but luckily we were able to the next year, which was my senior year. I knew that I wanted to continue to dance in college, and once I saw the plethora of opportunities at Wheaton, I was sold. I told everyone I knew that I was going to double major in Secondary Education and English, and minor in dance.

Want to get involved?

Check out Wheaton's Engage page to see the various groups we have on campus and read about what they do!

The Dance Company has an audition at the beginning of each semester, and Tap Out Loud and other clubs typically only have one audition at the beginning of the Fall semester (right after activities fair).

Performance Photos

This is from a dance called "Hair" that I performed at a national dance competition in the 7th grade. The wig is clearly horrendous, and if you look closely enough, you can see that I have matching orange lipstick too!