The following scholarships are available to students in the dance program.

You must complete the WSU Scholarship Application form is to qualify for the following scholarships. This application is available at the Scholarship Office, located in the Shepherd Union Building Room 101, or online at www.weber.edu/scholarships. Additional application forms may be required; contact the Department of Performing Arts (801-626-6437) for more information.

Dance Area Scholarship

Patti O'Neal Scholarship
This scholarship is funded in memory of Patti O'Neal, who was a member of the WSU dance faculty. She left this earth after a valiant fight with cancer and will be remembered.
 
Department of Performing Arts Scholarships

John A. & Telitha E . Lindquist Scholarship for Creative Arts
This award was created to enhance and enrich the social, cultural and artistic climate of the university community by funding scholarships and fellowships that support creative and artistic efforts by WSU students and faculty.

Sophie Wetherell Reed Scholarship
Sophie Wetherell Reed was the premier dance teacher in Weber County for many years and taught hundreds of students. She also had a love for drama as well as for music. Her daughter, Sophie Reed Richards, established this scholarship in memory of her mother. Richards passed away in 1997, not long after graduating from WSU at the age of 70.

Anya Kenley Scholarship
This award was established by Julie Kenley in remembrance of her daughter, Anya, who was 16 years old when she died of lymphoma. Anya was an accomplished dancer, musician and writer. She rejoiced in the arts. Had she lived, she would have been both an artist and a patron of the arts. She wished that her opportunity not be lost but passed on to other earnest students.

Tuition Waivers

Activity Tuition Waivers
Full- and half-tuition waivers are available. Auditions for the next academic year, 2008-2009, are to be held on February 9 at 12:00 PM in Val A. Browning Center Room 38 (BC 38). For more information, e-mail Joanne Lawrence.

Audition is at 12:00 noon (No charge for the audition.)
Come a little early to warm up.  Be dressed in dancewear with bare feet.
There’s no need to prepare anything for the audition.
A workshop will be held that morning for high school students.
Registration for the workshop is at 8:30am in BC 38.
Workshop Cost $15 (includes lunch)