THE COLLEGE SHOWCASE IS DCF’S LATEST VENTURE STARTED IN 2021 IN HOPES OF ATTRACTING MORE COLLEGE LEVEL DANCERS AND PROFESSORS TO PARTICIPATE. HELD IN CONJUNCTION WITH OUR SUMMER STAGE + COLLEGE FAIR, THIS IS A CHANCE FOR STUDENT CHOREOGRAPHERS, PROFESSORS AND GUESTS ARTISTS TO PRESENT THEIR NEWEST WORK.
Read about our 2025 College Showcase Artists!
Noelle Kayser - Western Dance Project
Andi Salazar- Alma College
Andi is a Chilean Choreographer, Dance Educator, Performer, and Sociologist. She got her BA degree in Sociology at UC of Chile, the same place where she founded Kazé Dance, a Contemporary dance company where she was the Artistic Director and Choreographer for eight years. In 2017, Andi relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area, California, and obtained her MFA in Dance and Choreography from Mills College. There, she also had the opportunity to perform for choreographers such as Joe Landini and Molissa Fenley and showed her work with her Dance Company “A Pulso Dance Project" at many festivals around the State. During her years in the Bay, Andi also worked as a faculty member at the Bay Area Ballet Conservatory, Shawl Anderson Dance Center, and as a Teaching Artist at Alonzo King Lines Ballet Dance Center. In 2023, she relocated to New York to keep her studies and joined the Master’s degree “Teaching Dance in the Profession: ABT Ballet Pedagogy” at New York University while working as a Teaching Artist for ABT and as an assistant at the ABT JKO School. During her time in NYC, she also did an internship at Peridance Contemporary Dance Company with Igal Perry as an administrative assistant and worked as a Contemporary faculty member for Maria Kowroski’s New Jersey Ballet Summer Intensive. In 2024, she moved to Michigan where she has taught at UofM Dance Department, Western Michigan University, Alma College, and Grand Rapids Ballet, as well as choreographed for Eastern Michigan University and Grand Valley State University.
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