Students’ Kennedy Center Dance Earns Award

Dancers Tayler Riveron and Marsha Pierre perform To Have and To Hold, the dance they performed with Montclair State classmates at the Kennedy Center in June.
Dancers Tayler Riveron and Marsha Pierre perform To Have and To Hold, the dance they performed with Montclair State classmates at the Kennedy Center in June.

Six students from Montclair State’s BFA in Dance program performed the modern dance masterwork, To Have and To Hold, on the Kennedy Center stage at the American College Dance Association (ACDA) National College Dance Festival
in June. Their bravura performance was recognized with the ACDA/Dance Magazine Outstanding Performance Award.

This is the 10th time University dancers have been selected to perform at the prestigious festival. “Our program in Dance has emerged as one of the best in the nation,” says College of the Arts Dean Daniel Gurskis. “Our graduates are on their way to success at dance companies around the country – and around the world.”