DIRECTIONS/
PARKING

Need directions? Parking information? Please view our parking and directions information page.


RESERVATIONS

To view or search the schedule of events in the Gymnasium, please use EMS.


ON-LINE
SUGGESTION
BOX

We want to make your experience at the Recreation Center the best it can be. If you have a comment or suggestion, you can submit them using our On-Line Suggestion Box.


REC CENTER
LIST-SERVS

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ROPE
Aquatics
Fitness


DANCE PROGRAMS

The Dance Program offers theatre dance and social dance classes through the Lifetime Physical Activity Program and master classes as well as, supports the interest and needs of the various student dance groups on campus.


Dance Programs

Keep on Dancing opens new sessions!

May 31, 2007

The Dance program is once again offering it's extremely popular "Keep on Dancing" specialty class to any and everyone interested in re-kindling their dancing roots.


Jazz/Hip-Hop Dancing class


FEE
For 8 classes: $30 students, $40 faculty/staff, $50 non-Rice


REGISTRATION
Register and pay at the Operations Desk located at the entrance of the Recreation Center (Gymnasium). Registration begins two weeks prior to the start of the first class. For more information: Rebecca Valls, rvalls@rice.edu, 713-348-5773


For information contact:


RICE DANCE THEATRE

Rice Dance Theatre, a modern dance company, is an integral part of the Dance Program. The club is dedicated to providing students opportunities to train, perform, choreograph, and learn production. RDT is a student organization governed by elected student officers and directed by Dance Program Staff.


Auditions for new members are held twice a year in Harjo Dance Studio.


Please see our home page as well.


DANCE ORGANIZATIONS

Student organizations with an emphasis on dance:


YOUR DANCE INSTRUCTORS

BECKY VALLS

Assistant Director for Dance Programs


Becky Valls

Rebecca Valls is the Assistant Director for Dance in the Recreation Center and is the director of Rice Dance Theatre. She is on the dance faculty at the University of Houston where she teaches dance theory/aesthetics classes and is a choreographer for the UH Dance Ensemble.


In Louisiana, Valls served as Company Director for Moving South Dance Company, a modern dance company (1981-1990). Since residing in Houston, Valls' choreography has been presented by Chrysalis Dance Company, Dance Month-Choreographers X 6, Diverse Works, Big Range Dance Festival, Houston Dance Coalition, Weekend of Contemporary Dance at Miller Outdoor Theatre, San Jacinto College, and the H.S. for the Performing and Visual Arts.


Valls is a Teaching Artist in elementary schools and facilitates the design of movement lessons with cross-curricular links for classroom teachers in her professional development workshops and residencies. She is the director and choreographer of Becky Valls and Company, a performing group with Young Audiences of Houston that integrates dance and science through performance.


In recent years, Valls has studied 18th Century Baroque Dance with internationally-acclaimed Baroque dancers Paige Whitley-Bauguess, Thomas Baird, and Catherine Turocy.


Valls holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Choreography from Sarah Lawrence College in New York where her choreography was selected by the American College Dance Festival Association for the national performance in Washington D.C.


Chris Lidvall

Dance Theatre Coordinator


Chris Lidvall

Christine Lidvall has been on the dance faculty at Rice University since 1988 where she teaches ballet, modern dance, and the Alexander Technique. She is also a teacher and choreographer for Rice Dance Theatre. During the 2004-05 school year, she helped to develop a collaborative project with members of the Shepherd School of Music and Rice Dance Theatre with a culminating performance held at Stude Concert Hall. Founder and Artistic Director of Chryalis Dance Company from 1983 to 1997, she also taught modern dance for eight years at the Houston Ballet Academy. Her work has been presented by many companies and schools in the Southwest including Chrysalis, Dancers Unlimited Repertory Company (Dallas), City Ballet of Houston, and Lake Charles Ballet.


She has taught for many organizations including North Carolina School of the Arts and Regional Dance, Inc. In 1992, Lidvall received the Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Texas Institute for Arts in Education. She received the Buff Orpington Houston Contemporary Dance Achievement Award in June 2005.


Lidvall is certified as a teacher of the Alexander Technique through Alexander Technique International. In addition to offering Alexander Technique classes at Rice, she teaches privately at Affiliates in Physical Therapy and has taught workshops for Actors Source, the C.G. Jung Educational Center of Houston, Ebony Opera Guild and Shepherd School Opera Workshops among others. Lidvall graduated with a B.S. in communications from Northwestern University and with a Masters in Dance from the University of Houston at Clear Lake.


Tracy King Perry

Social Dance Coordinator


Tracy King Perry

Tracy coordinates the Social Dance program and is staff liaison to all student dance organizations at Rice. She studied jazz, ballet and tap with The Rubio Company in San Antonio, Texas for more than ten years, eventually teaching for the organization. After working in other industries for many years, Tracy returned to teaching dance in her spare time in 1997, and made it her fulltime job in 2001 when she started teaching at Rice. Tracy's Social Dance specialties include American style Ballroom, Swing, and Latin, as well as Country Western. She has a B.A. in English from The University of Texas at San Antonio, and a M.B.A. from the University of Houston Bauer School of Business. She has a varied professional background that includes social work, accounting, and management.