TDAA Presents Warp & Weft: Faculty Dance Concert
Published: October 24, 2025 | Author: Kol Gibson | Read Time: 3 minutes
The SUU Department of Theatre, Dance, and Arts Administration invites audiences to experience Warp & Weft, the 2025 Faculty Dance Concert. Performances will take place on October 31; November 1 & 3, 2025, at 7:30 p.m., with a matinee on November 1 at 2:00 p.m. All performances will be held in the Randall L. Jones Theatre.
Directed by SUU Dance faculty member Joshua Yago Mora, Warp & Weft features original choreographed works by Mora and fellow faculty, Tyler Orcutt, Nancy Dobbs Owen, and Danielle Lydia Sheather, along with a piece by guest artist and internationally renowned choreographer John Mead. Each piece acts as a unique thread, distinct in style and story, woven together to create a concert that celebrates the artistry, resilience, and humanity found in dance.
Mora describes the concert as a reflection of how art and life intertwine through shared experience. “Each dance carries the imprint of every artist who touched it,” they said. “What you’ll see is the joy, risk, and tenderness of being in motion together.”
Throughout Warp & Weft, audiences will be invited to pause between works for moments of reflection designed to deepen the experience and highlight the connective fabric of the performance. The result is a concert that moves beyond the stage, encouraging audience members to engage with one another and recognize their own threads within the collective tapestry of community.
In addition to the concert, the SUU Dance Organization (SUUDO) will host a prize drawing in the Randall L. Jones Theatre lobby throughout the performance weekend. Proceeds will assist with the cost of dance-specific guest artists, provide training equipment, and enhance available resources and programming.
Warp & Weft embodies the essence of SUU Dance: connection through creativity, storytelling through movement, and community built one step, or one thread, at a time.
Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for alumni, and $6 for non-SUU students. As always, SUU students, faculty, and staff are admitted to one performance free of charge. Tickets can be purchased at bard.org/tdaa.
Join SUU Dance for this moving concert full of artistry and reflection. For more information about Dance at SUU, please visit www.suu.edu/pva/tdaa.
About the College of Performing and Visual Arts
The College of Performing and Visual Arts (CPVA) at Southern Utah University comprises 41 academic programs including liberal arts (BA/BS) and professional (BFA, BM, BMEd) degrees in art, design, dance, filmmaking, music, and theatre. It includes graduate programs in the fields of arts administration (MFA, MA), music education (MME), and music technology (MM). More than 60 full-time faculty and staff are engaged in teaching and mentoring over 900 majors in the College. CPVA presents over 100 performances, lectures, presentations, and exhibitions each year which are complemented by the Southern Utah Museum of Art (SUMA) and Shakespeare Studies at SUU, and is affiliated with the Tony award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival (USF). Southern Utah University is an accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Art & Design (NASAD), National Association of Schools of Dance (NASD), National Association of Schools of Music (NASM), and the National Association of Schools of Theatre (NAST) making SUU the first public university in the state of Utah to be accredited by all four associations. For more information about the College of Performing and Visual Arts, visit www.suu.edu/pva.Tags: Theatre and Dance Faculty Dance Theatre Arts and Dance Community College of Performing and Visual Arts Theatre Dance and Arts Administration
Contact Information:
Kol Gibson
435-865-8667
kolgibson@suu.edu