She holds a BFA in Dance from Columbia College, Columbia, South Carolina and an MFA from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. Professor Wilson-Perkins is a certified instructor in authentic Pilate's and this year she will serve as Assistant Director of the WSU Dance Company. The company employs a technique that combines classic jazz dance with funk and hip-hop over a traditional modern technique base. Students in the Maggie Allesee Department of Dance enjoy spacious new studio, performance, choreography and body training spaces. Click here and check out all of the great spaces that the College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts has to offer.
Students take master classes and perform.
Some of the professional groups that have held auditions in the Maggie Allesee Department of Dance include The Dance Theatre of Harlem, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Walt Disney Productions, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Harlem Nutcracker and Radio City Music Hall Rockettes. Dance majors observe and participate in these auditions. To cap off the educational experience, senior dance majors may choose to spend a semester in London, England, at the Laban Center for Movement or the London Contemporary School of Dance. On a regular basis a physical therapist will conduct an assessment of each dance major's strengths and weaknesses and suggest exercises that the student can do on the department's body lab equipment. This part of each dancer's program is crucial to improvement in the art.