The University of Oregon Repertory Dance Company (UO-RDC) strives to forge community partnerships throughout Oregon, emphasizing dance as both a performance art and an educational discipline for audiences and participants alike. Company members are UO students who learn new works and rehearse during Winter Term in preparation for a Spring tour to present free educational lecture demonstrations, movement workshops, and master classes in communities throughout Oregon. Our recent focus has been to provide arts education and movement experiences to rural and coastal communities in Oregon. Recent residencies have occurred in Newport, Astoria, and Cottage Grove Oregon.

In addition to our active commitment to outreach, UO-RDC also serves as a vehicle for our advanced performers to tour with a repertory of work created by faculty and guest artists. Students work intensively throughout Winter term learning and rehearsing concert dance works that are presented in a variety of venues throughout Oregon, from theatres, to high schools, to community colleges.

Founding director Amy Stoddart and co-directors Rita Honka and Jenifer Craig coordinate each event, choreograph for the company, and invite other UO faculty and guests to contribute repertory each year. One of their primary goals is to provide the student dancers with experience similar to that of a professional dance company. This is manifested in individual activities beyond dancing such as collaborative responsibilities for residency activities.