Virtual Dance Collaboratory (VDC) is an undergraduate, student-lead dance collective where students learn how to collaborate on digital media art and design for virtual and live dance productions. As a student-led company, the structure, form, and theme of each VDC production is determined by students and reflects the collective's desires and interests. VDC students have many opportunities for leadership, agency, and decision-making power. At the same time, VDC works from the presumption that it's possible to create digital media within a profoundly human, critically feminist ethics of care, where well-being cultivates mutual trust and transparency, creates work that is generative for all members, and acknowledges everyone has the right to work within their own capacity. Through an ethic of care, students learn and create mobile phone screendances and projected media for live performance. They also learn how to document live events and their own creative process for personal reflection, marketing, and promotion. At the end of the semester, students design and produce their own student showcase, which is promoted to the public.

Masks are optional but strongly recommended. Visitors no longer need to complete the Wayne State Daily Screener and masks are now optional. Theatre and Dance at Wayne abides by Wayne State Covid protocols to ensure the safest environment for you and our community. Our commitment to your health and safety includes timely updates to University protocols.