Friday, Sept. 20, 1985
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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Prof predicts dominance of dance
By Jill White Of the Kansan staff
A vision unveiled this week by dance faculty predicts soaring regional dominance by KU's dance department within the next five years and national prominence in the future.
Scott Douglas Morrow
The predictor and expansion catalyst, Scott Douglas Morrow, a new professor of dance this fall, brings more than 40 years of experience in this dramatic change.
He brings experience, ideas, and a process to reach a goal.
"It is like Kennedy's New Frontier," Morrow said. "Right now, KU is looking at the new frontier, and it is not a place before any other school in the region.
"We can do it, but it will cost nothing less than everything. I require as much of my students as I do of myself — to be everything that I can be, to compete with myself, to work with humility and critical awareness, and to have that vitality and excitement that makes life real and fulfilling."
An experienced dancer, choreographer and educator, Morrow's career encompasses all aspects of dance including works for musical theatre-opera, film, television, music-video, industrial presentations, night clubs and the concert stage.
He returned to the academic field this year, after having worked with troupes in the United States, Europe and Asia.
"I have always had a great passion for teaching — for developing young emerging artists," Morrow said. "I came back to university teaching because I feel such a strong commitment to future generations."
Morrow said a solid educational program would ignite KU's expansion process. The program should teach dancers the principles of the craft, expose them to the best that's gone on before and that exists around them and give them a place to work, grow and experiment without fear of failure.
"My classroom and programs stand for what I call integration of academic idealism with professional
realism," Morrow said. "It includes not only technical training in dance performance, but an education of the whole individual to give students an inner excitement that drives them to create and perform something individual and special."
Morrow's own education includes many academic credits. An honors graduate of New York's High School of Performing Arts, he received his B.F.A. degree in dance from SUNY, School of the Arts at Purchase; his M.A. degree in dance from UCLA and was awarded scholarships to the Alvin Alley School, School of American ballet and Harkness House for Ballet Arts.
"Education," he said. "must be broad, bold, adventurous, understanding tradition, building on it, and looking for new ways to serve and embrace the present and future reality.
"It's an invitation, a responsibility and a challenge."
KU offered him the best opportunity to practice these beliefs because the program is not stagnant, he said.
When the dance program was founded, the few classes offered were restricted to women and met for an hour twice a week.
Janet Hamburg, dance department director, advanced the program from it's early stages as general course work in the department of health, physical education and recreation to a new level this fall.
Dance will officially become the department of music and dance in the School of Fine Arts when the Board of Regents approves the name change in its council meeting Sept. 27.
Scott is an outstanding individual," Hamburg said. "He brings a higher level of dance performance and the ability. We need his enthusiasm to build."
Both Hamburg and Morrow expect dramatic changes in the department.
Morrow said,"From where we stand now, with our quality faculty and the commitment of the administration. I believe that KU can position itself to become the top school in the Midwest. That top
position will be the springboard to achieve national prominence in the future."
Morrow's dance expansion plans include the addition of Bachelor of Fine Arts and master's degrees to the Bachelor of Arts degree that is already offered. And he would like to establish an in-residence professional dance company.
Hamburg said Morrow was hired because his ideas for expanding the dance program correlated so closely with her own and also because he established a similar program during his two years as a professor at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Ill.
Like the NIU program, KU's B.A. program would allow students to take a higher concentration of classes in the scholarly areas of dance history and theory, whereas students in the B.F.A. degree program would concentrate classes in performance and choreography.
"We want to go beyond just being competitive," Morrow said.
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