Tomas Tamayo

Welcome Incoming Students!I hope that your transition to our campus is both safe and joyful.
There are so many wonderful opportunities to grow within a culture of respect and support.
For over ten years, I’ve had the pleasure of developing a course (DANC 353- Dance in World Cultures: Spirituality, Sexuality, Gender, Race, Social Class & Activism within World Dance) at Chapman that embodies the idea for seeking self-growth, in addition to the academic challenge.
Our mission at Chapman includes the awareness of the four essential pilars in our lives that define our dreams, intentions and our very being. We dance for balance as we negotiate our intellectual, physical, social and spiritual selves. That relationship, is artistically, and brilliantly executed in the Stone and Water sculpture found at the center of the Attalah Piazza. The goal of our course is to experience dance in the spiritual, social and artistic areas, and to help each student experience an expression of the many selves through dance. I hope that you will find yourself in the dance of discovery at Chapman!

Professor Tomas Tamayo
College of Performing Arts