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Celebrities, dancers compete for mirrorball trophy

Maddi Pierce October 4, 2024

piercem3@lopers.unk.edu Season 33 of “Dancing With the Stars” is back in action. Viewers' favorite stars and dancers took to the stage on Sept. 17 to show the world their best dance moves. Thirteen...

Lopers dance to La Rebeldia Nortena traditional music. Photo by Emily Trotter / Antelope Staff

Hispanic heritage celebration brings Lopers together

Emily Trotter September 22, 2023

trottere2@lopers.unk.edu The Hispanic Student Association and Office of Intercultural Engagement and Leadership hosted a celebration on Sept. 16 for Hispanic Heritage Month. The event was open for all...

Line dancing was also popular at the event which featured the Mckenzie JaLynn Band.

LPAC swing dancing event gets Lopers on their feet

March 3, 2022

Lopers put on their dancing shoes Friday for the LPAC Swing Dance event. Entertainment was provided by the Mckenzie JaLynn Band, and the event was held in the Ponderosa Room. This was the first event...

Wynn Cannon and Brody Fetters swing dance at Joe’s Honky Tonk on Tuesday nights.

Student-led dances in full swing at Joe’s Honky Tonk

September 30, 2021
ee years ago, two high school friends jumpstarted a group called Sunday Night Loper Swing Dancing. Since then, the UNK students have boot-scootin-boogied off campus to Joe’s Honky Tonk bar at 7 p.m. on Tuesday nights.
Mary Joyce Storm, Rebekah Petersen, Emma Newman and Maria Klingelhoefer reach to the horizon in Hannah Petersen’s “Orthodoxy.”

UNK Dance department presents ‘Reset’ spring dance concert

HANNAH LOFSHULT March 10, 2021
The UNK Dance Department has been hard at work preparing their spring dance concert. The production featured astonishing work by faculty members as well as select students.
Miss Pinkerton (Hannah Peterson) shows Mrs. Todd the criminal’s likeness in the newspaper.

‘Old Maid and the Thief’ marks Fine Arts’ return

MITCHELL LIERMAN November 5, 2020

liermanm2@lopers.unk.edu The Department of Music, Theatre and Dance in conjunction with 91.1 KLPR broadcast a production of Gian Carlo Menotti’s “The Old Maid and the Thief” over the weekend....

Alyssa Hartman points to the crowd as she performs with her group.

Wild west takes over Lip Sync, social distancing style

CHEYANNE DIESSNER October 15, 2020

diessnerc2@lopers.unk.edu UNK held its 32nd annual lip sync and homecoming royalty crowning last Thursday in the Health and Sports Center. Gabriel Amegatcher and Fayth Jackson were crowned UNK’s...

Makenzie Hinrichs, a sophomore theatre and business major, prepares for the dance concert "It’s Essential" March 7-8.  She creates a new movement for the piece during dance rehearsal.
Photo by Suneun Yoo

UNK to hold student dance workshop with restrictions

HANNAH LOFSHULT October 15, 2020

lofshulthj@lopers.unk.edu The UNK Student Dance Workshop will continue on as planned. The workshop, a smaller version of the spring dance concert, is made up of students and alumni from the dance composition...

Video @ The Antelope

Video @ The Antelope, Ep. 3

October 9, 2020

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UNK Dance presents ‘Plucked’ dance concert

Plucked: from human experience

February 5, 2020

MITCHELL LIERMANliermanm2@lopers.unk.edu UNK dancers took the stage in the Miriam-Drake theater last week to present “Plucked,” this year’s spring dance concert. Featuring 14 pieces choreographed...

Socrates (Brenden Zwiebel) lifts Xantippe (Emma Newman) in a dance scene

‘Lysistrata’ gives audience laughs

April 18, 2019

Female characters bring war to a close. Photos by Jiyoon Kim

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