Unbound: 2026-2027 Production Season

In collaboration with Opening Nights, the School of Dance’s Nancy Smith Fichter Dance Theatre will serve as the venue for the Tallahassee premiere of Adele Myers and Dancers: a world gone FABULOUS. For this season opener, the School of Dance joins Opening Nights in presenting a dynamic program that opens with the School of Dance Senior Cohort performing an original guest artist commissioned work. 

This vibrant mainstage production brings together faculty works and an adjudicated selection of pieces by students and staff, performed by School of Dance students. Presented over two weekends, it offers a rich cross-section of choreographic approaches, movement languages, and artistic perspectives.

This brand-new scaled down dance production foregrounds experimentation, breadth, and student driven perspectives. Featuring a dynamic range of styles and approaches, the program highlights original works created by undergraduate and graduate dance students, offering audiences a fresh lens on the creative process, artistic range, and the diverse movement languages shaping the work being explored. 

This debut showcase presents new works by graduate students in the School of Dance. The evening highlights developing ideas and choreographic investigations, inviting audiences into the questions, processes, and possibilities shaping current graduate student work.

This annual festival celebrates interdisciplinary collaboration across campus, bringing together faculty and students from a wide range of artistic and academic disciplines. Showcasing innovative work at the intersection of forms and ideas, the School of Dance will present as part of the 2027 festival—marking its fifth year at FSU. This collaborative performance features Oceanography, Dance, Music, Poetry, and more, with a primary emphasis on student-created work.

This premiere adjudicated dance film festival showcases an outstanding selection of works chosen from submissions by filmmakers around the globe. Dedicated to celebrating excellence in dance on screen, the festival highlights the unique artistic possibilities that emerge when movement and cinema converge. Audiences will experience diverse and compelling visions of dance that extend beyond the boundaries of the stage. 

This is the School of Dance’s annual mainstage production, featuring student performers in works created by School of Dance faculty and distinguished guest artists. Showcasing a range of choreographic voices, aesthetics, and movement practices, the program offers audiences a dynamic evening that reflects both the depth of our training and the creative exchanges that emerge through mentorship, collaboration, and artistic practice within the School of Dance.