{"id":576,"date":"2013-05-07T20:35:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T20:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lamp1.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=576"},"modified":"2019-06-12T10:22:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:22:17","slug":"dance-dance-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2013\/05\/07\/dance-dance-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance! Dance! Dance!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students who love to dance, want to learn how to dance, or want to teach dance will be happy to know that Missouri Western now offers a dance minor.<\/p>\n

Suzanne Ryan Strati, who has been dancing since she was three years old and continues to teach at the Kansas City Ballet School, was hired as the instructor. She said she was excited to be back in a university classroom where she can integrate academics with dance training.\u00a0 Classes for the first semester this spring included Jazz, Tap, and Beginning Dance.<\/p>\n

Dr. Susan Carter, associate professor of music who helped set up the courses for the minor, said people on campus and in the community have been talking about a need for a dance minor for several years, especially with the resurgence and popularity of the musical theatre program. She said students who tried out for this past season\u2019s musicals, \u201cAnnie\u201d and \u201cSweeney Todd,\u201d realized that it\u2019s not enough to be able to sing; they need to be able to dance, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat sent quite a few students to the dance classes,\u201d Susan said.<\/p>\n

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Suzanne Ryan Strati instructs the new dance classes on campus<\/p><\/div>\n

Suzanne will also choreograph future musicals.<\/p>\n

She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from the University of Mexico and a Master of Fine Arts in Dance Choreography from the University of Iowa. Prior to joining Missouri Western, she had taught modern dance for the Lone Star Ballet\u2019s summer intensive program, and was an instructor at the Culture House Performing Arts Academy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Students who love to dance, want to learn how to dance, or want to teach dance will be happy to know that Missouri Western now offers a dance minor. Suzanne Ryan Strati, who has been dancing since she was three years old and continues to teach at the Kansas City […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4170,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/4170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}