Orchesis’ winter dance production, Vitality, will bring variety to Alex and Faye Spanos Theatre starting this weekend, exploring contemporary, jazz, ballet, modern and hip-hop dance styles.
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From chair to center stage
In the weeks leading up to their annual show, the dancers of Cal Poly’s dance company, Orchesis, spent 16 to 18 hours a week in Alex and Faye Spanos Theatre polishing their choreography. Orchesis dancer and biological sciences senior Misty Moyle spent these weeks watching her fellow dancers from the wings of the stage in […]
Variable Velocity brings experimental dance to the PAC
Variable Velocity is prepared to open its tenth anniversary show, “Extraordinary Mysteries,” this Friday in the Christopher Cohan Performing Arts Center.
Cal Poly Orchesis ‘Shifts’ into motion in upcoming dance performances
This time last year Director of Cal Poly’s dance company Orchesis Diana Stanton had begun planning this year’s big show — “Shift.”
Orchesis director turns passion into career
Like many college-aged students, Diana Stanton wasn’t sure what type of career she wanted to pursue in her early twenties. A competitive gymnast early on, Stanton didn’t know that her brush with modern dance at a community college was her ticket to eventual success in the academic world.

