Colorado College Theatre & Dance Alumni

08/28/2025

Get excited. Lena’s residency begins in just a few days, and she’ll be bringing her expressive and dynamic talent to the Dept. for ten days only. You don’t want to miss this.

Join us at her welcome lunch, attend the movement workshop, see her performance, and experience experimental creative energy up close and personal.

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LENA ENGELSTEIN is a NYC-based dancer, choreographer, and director. Her work has been dubbed “The High Weird” by critics. Recent work includes: American Idle Concept and Dir. by Maia Chao, commissioned by Times Square Arts (choreographer), Friday Night Rat Catchers (world premiere March 2025 at New York Live Arts, w/Lisa Fagan), Deepe Darknesse (Jan 2024 in New York Live Arts’ Live Artery and June 2023 at The Collapsable Hole w/Lisa Fagan), all i want is what you want (Mar 2022 in Exponential Festival w/Jo Warren). She and Lisa Fagan are recipients of the 2025 Artists Grant in Dance from Foundation for Contemporary Art. Recent performance credits include: this is the beginning, this is the end by Joanna Kotze, Oceanic Feeling by Faye Driscoll, They All Lived There by Isa Spector, 1-800-3592-113592 (March, 2024 at MITU580 with performance collective CHILD, Then She Fell by Third Rail Company (2019-2020). Lena holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Colorado College.

05/07/2025

The Department of Theatre & Dance is excited to announce that Lena Englestein will be joining us as our first ever alumni resident! While on campus in block 1 of the 25-26 school year, Lena will...

* CONNECT with current students to create a dialogue about her creative process, artistic journey, and experiences beyond the college
* GENERATE new material and develop work related to her proposed project
* TEACH a workshop inviting students into the perspective from which she creates
* PRESENT the work developed over the course of the residency to our T&D community

Please join us in congratulating Lena!

Thank you to everyone who applied! It was a joy to read your proposals and reconnect with some of our incredible alumni!

03/05/2025

It is your lucky day! The deadline for submissions has been extended! Click the link in bio for details and to apply!

12/09/2024

TODAY is the day applications open for the Theatre and Dance Department's inaugural Alumni Residency Program at Colorado College. This pilot initiative celebrates the vibrant community of artists, thinkers, and creators, who once called CC home. For info and application, visit the CC Theatre & Dance website and click on Alumi or follow this link: https://www.coloradocollege.edu/.../alumni-residency.html

11/02/2024

What a joy to see alums Soren, Natalie, Emily, Maggie, Ivaly, Al*, and Elena* at our Homecoming T&D Open House! Welcome back to CC! ❤️❤️❤️

*not pictured

10/28/2024

07/12/2024

Welcome to our newest members:
Justice Miles
Sylvie Scowcroft
Patricia Drace

07/08/2024

Welcome to the much anticipated, seriously overdue, first-ever Theatre & Dance Alumni group. Made by and for CC alums.

Let’s create a space to connect (majors/minors or otherwise) close to home and around the world. Here we can forge community & collaborations, share our creative endeavors, and connect the dots between us. Stay tuned also for the launch of our upcoming Theatre and Dance Department Alumni Residency.

Get connected by joining the group through this link: https://www.facebook.com/share/6SDuBL7nrsmTetkX/