Variable Velocity brings experimental dance to the PAC

Variable Velocity is prepared to open its tenth anniversary show, “Extraordinary Mysteries,” this Friday in the Christopher Cohan Performing Arts Center.

Cal Poly Orchesis ‘Shifts’ into motion in upcoming dance performances

This time last year Director of Cal Poly’s dance company Orchesis Diana Stanton had begun planning this year’s big show — “Shift.”

Orchesis director turns passion into career

Like many college-aged students, Diana Stanton wasn’t sure what type of career she wanted to pursue in her early twenties. A competitive gymnast early on, Stanton didn’t know that her brush with modern dance at a community college was her ticket to eventual success in the academic world.