By Mike Greife,
April 17, 2017
WARRENSBURG, MO – The UCM Dance Club will present Dancing with the Professors All-Stars
at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 30, in the James L. Highlander Theatre.
Serving as the club's annual fundraiser, Dancing with the Professors is an evening
of various ballroom and popular dance styles performed by UCM students and faculty.
The event is choreographed by UCM students, danced by some of UCM’s bravest faculty,
and judged by selected UCM faculty and staff, and audience members. This year Dancing
with the Professors All-Stars will bring back some of our most popular contestants
from the past five years and will showcase seven couples of student-faculty dancers.
The competing couples are:
- Star Nance, assistant professor of social studies education, and Isamo Manuel, theatre
major.
- Wendy Geiger, professor and chair of the Department of Sociology, Gerontology, and
Cross-Disciplinary Studies, and Dalton Pittenger, speech communication and theatre
major.
- Dan Schierenbeck, professor and chair of the Department of English and Philosophy,
and Nina Lopez, speech communication and theatre major.
- Lee Hartman, instructor of music, and Hannah Unruh, theatre performance major.
- Mike Makara, assistant professor of political science, and Samantha Davin , theatre
performance major.
- Allison Robbins, assistant professor of music, and Zac McGee, speech communication
major.
- Gregory Streich, professor and chair of the Department of Government, International
Studies, and Languages, and Noelle Ethun, theatre major.
The judging panel includes Ashley Miller-Scully, associate professor of dance; UCM
President Chuck Ambrose; and Chuck Clemons, UCM Mules assistant football coach.
Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the door. The proceeds from the event will
help send dance students to the American College Dance Association conference next
spring. Tax-deductible donations can be made through the UCM Alumni Foundation. For
more information, contact the UCM Department of Theatre and Dance at 660-543-4020.
