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Each year students gain new insights into the professional world of dance by engaging in an intense period of study with a nationally known dance professional. Maggie Allesee Artists In Residence conduct classes during regular class time, offer master classes and create new choreography specifically for the WSU Dance Company's Annual Spring Dance Concert.
Past Artists-In-Residence include Urban Bush Women, Doug Elkins, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Zz'eva Cohen, Jim Coleman and Terese Freedman, Alvin Mayes, Gloria Newman, Maggie Patton, Claire Porter, Ann Weaver Warren, Erica Wison-Perkins (founder of CounterGroove Dance Company), Leni Wylliams, Ronnie Marshall and Garth Fagan (Tony Award winner).