tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44279966463366174772024-03-05T21:33:44.036-08:00University of Utah Department of Modern Dance BlogModern Dance Departmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00914097284910394179noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427996646336617477.post-36934413935284189392015-03-04T16:30:00.000-08:002015-03-04T17:12:28.751-08:00New Faculty Spotlight Interview: Daniel Clifton <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">This interview was conducted by Marissa Mooney </span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Marissa is a senior in the Modern Dance Department and is a dancer in Daniel's PDC piece.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">What
drew you to the University of Utah?</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I
had been to many festivals and the students from the U of U stood out. I knew
it had a good reputation. I didn’t really know anyone from here, but knew that
the school had a reputation as being a place of research among the students and
for the teachers and artists that were here. That was really exciting to me. I
also knew about some of the faculty and that was a big draw to me. I wanted to
be able to work with the amazing faculty here and hopefully learn something
from them as well. </span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">When coming to the U of U was there a clear
aesthetic within the department’s movement vocabulary or choreography that you
recognized? If so, do you believe you have strived to meld that with your own
aesthetic or have you, rather, tried to give the U of U a taste of
your own choreographic and movement aesthetic?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I haven’t been able to see much
of the other faculty’s aesthetic while I have been here, but have been able to
see a lot of the students. I haven’t seen a clear aesthetic among the students,
which is exciting because it means that everyone is getting well-rounded
training. They are able to make their own choices and find ways into work that
isn’t just about fitting into one specific aesthetic. I am also seeing this in
the creative work coming from the students. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">By being in your technique class I have felt
a demand for movement versatility and a demand to be open to different ideas.
How important do you think versatility or change is for training? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Versatility is something that I very much
focus on and think about. I try not to impart one aesthetic or my own movement
“style” onto my students. I avoid this because even in my own performance I
have had to be able to access many different aesthetics at a time. In teaching
that has been very important to me to not impart one particular aesthetic onto
my students, but to instead give them the ability to interpret many different
aesthetics. This seems much more beneficial for the work place now because it
is much more common to work for a variety of choreographers at one time rather
than working with just one. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">As
a dancer in your piece for the upcoming PDC performance, it has been made clear
to me that music and sound is integral in your choreographic process. Has this
always been an important part of your choreography? How did this come to be
important for you?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Music
has always been very important. Getting into art I really started with painting
(I’m an awful painter), I did sculpture (I’m really awful with clay), but what
did connect with me was photography and music. So I have always been into
images and sound and I thought I would be a musician until I found dance (I was
in bands out of high school and college), but then I decided to be a dancer and
planned to always continue to play music. I have continued to do that and it
has been important for me to do that for my own projects. For me, incorporating
not only music but also text, and the sounds coming from people’s voices has
been important for me too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I often feel
like the negotiation of these things is where the choreography ends up being-
it’s not always in the steps but in the moving from one thing to another. Sound
has always been very important to me and I feel like in this particular piece
(“Someone Drew a Cat” for PDC) I have been very lucky to have so many talented
musicians and people who are good with sound…so we have really been able to do
something interesting with it. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">On
that same note, you also have quite a few dancers in your piece with varying
backgrounds and specialties. However, a sense of community was developed within
the large cast of your piece. Do you like working with large groups? What do
you think has made it possible to create a unified cast?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I
really do like working with large groups but don’t typically get opportunities
to do it. Doing something like that is usually expensive (especially in a big
city) and difficult to coordinate with all of the dancers’ schedules. Usually
when I make things outside of a university setting I work with smaller casts. Being
able to work with a larger cast here has been something I have really liked
being able to do. I don’t know that I would always want to work with larger
casts because that can often make it difficult to see each dancer in the piece.
But, because the cast has had to work together in so many things I really feel
like I’ve been able to see the whole group together and also as individuals, which is important for the work itself. Everyone has specialized
talents and personalities and it is a mixture of these things that has made
this process really enjoyable.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">What are some inspiring things you have seen thus
far here in Salt Lake City? Is there anything you are looking forward to within
or outside of the Department?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Since I have been here most of what I have done has been within
the U. So far, I feel like I have just been adjusting to being here and
enjoying being here. The two most inspiring things about being here has been 1)
working with a group of people that are really excited about what they are
doing (the rest of the faculty) and 2) working with the students because they
are all really invested, want to be invested, and are very excited about dance.
I’m looking forward to working with these people more. Something completely
opposite of all that but also inspiring is being out to the west. I have never
been around mountains and have always been near the ocean. It is very beautiful
and I’m looking forward to seeing more of that. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Modern Dance Departmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00914097284910394179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427996646336617477.post-76113073763873330032015-03-02T10:09:00.000-08:002015-03-02T10:11:10.092-08:00Faculty Spotlight :: Pamela Geber Handman<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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the other.” Associate Professor Pamela Geber Handman is telling me about her
research. “Dance Science, Choreography/Performance,
and Community Involvement are the three categories that I use to describe my
work.” I asked some more questions to find out what is new in these areas and -
wow! Summary: a lot. Check it out. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I am co-authoring a chapter
for a new book on Dancer Wellness, to be published via the International
Association for Dance Medicine & Science Membership. My co-author is Emma
Redding, faculty at Trinity Laban in the UK. The chapter we will be
working on is focused on conditioning for dancers. We'll be discussing an
overview of physical conditioning, effective warm-ups and cool downs, strength
and flexibility training, and an overview of bodywork techniques, cross-training,
and a few dance specific systems.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pamela continues to coordinate meetings for the Dance Kinesiology Teachers Group (recently renamed Dance Science and Somatics Educators). In 2002 she co-founded the group with colleagues across the US to share teaching strategies and resources as well as host conferences for in-depth workshops and discussions. Pamela has hosted these conferences at the U three times (2003, 2007, & 2013). She co-organized the most recent gathering in 2014 at Linwood University in Missouri, featuring honored guest, Karen Clippinger. Pamela's recent presentations include "<i>Designing a Contemporary Post Modern Dance Technique Class: A Teacher's Approach to Infusing Science" </i>at the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science 2013 conference in Seattle. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pamela’s choreography was part of the Department's Fall 2014 Performing Dance Company concert. Her piece, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Regarding Last Night, </i>was an ironic take on Elvis Presley, Paul McCartney, Talking Heads, Lawrence Welk,
polka and Yma Sumac. Together with her cast of 10 dancers she challenged
herself to ask – Where does sincere tip to funny and how? (My answer: sincere
tipped to laugh-out-loud funny pretty early on in the piece.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>“Jump Start </i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(2013) was a c</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">reative community project
for individuals with Down Syndrome and their families, designed to explore
dance and word play. I co-taught it with writer & poet Melissa
Bond. Melissa and I worked with siblings, parents/children, cousins and
caregiver/child, all ranging in age from 8 to adulthood and from diverse
backgrounds.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were 8 modern dance
majors who served as teaching assistants in the studio and one Screendance Certificate student who assisted Alex Lee and his team of filmmakers from Twig
Media Lab.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a means of soliciting for
community involvement, I advertised and connected through the Utah Down
Syndrome Foundation, Utah’s Early Intervention Program (DDI Vantage), Tanner
Dance, Imagination Place (Music Together), online parent newsletters focused on
families with children with special needs, special education teachers in the
Salt Lake valley, Utah Valley University and the Department of Special
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rewards and further developments simply through new personal connections among
participants and the various organizations involved. As I’ve connected with
many special education teachers in public schools, my next step is to take a
similar workshop into some of these schools next year and guide university
students to do most of the lead teaching. Just recently, I was selected to
develop this idea further in collaboration with a Professor in Special
Education at the U, Kristen Paul. We received generous funding through the Utah
State Office of Education to bring dance students together with Special
Education students and to go to several off-campus sites for a larger scale
community involved project. The documentary film of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jump Start </i>will serve as an advocacy tool, promoting arts education
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week we're spotlighting alum Graham Brown, just in time for the premiere of <a href="http://youbygrahambrown.weebly.com/" target="_blank">YOU</a>, January 29 - 31 at the Rose Wagner Black Box Theatre. </span></h2>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 18px;">Check out </span><a href="http://www.sltrib.com/entertainment/2085617-155/immersive-dance-piece-coming-to-salt#sthash.7DefLJW9.uxfs" style="line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">this article</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 18px;"> on YOU by Kathy Adams for the SL Tribune. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span data-reactid=".1w.1.0.0.0.0.1:$mid=11410212724618=2675f5a9d23fa236800.0.1.0.$right.0.0.1.0.$end:0:$6:0" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://gramlit.wix.com/grahambrown" target="_blank">Graham Brown</a> (BFA: U of UT; MFA: U of MD) has spent the past four years invested in creating choreography that engages various theatrical modalities to convey deeply emotional narratives within a highly athletic and rhythmically specific physicality. His work has been presented by Queen’s College (NY), The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (MD), and The Sugar Space (SLC). Next January his evening-length work You will be presented at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center through RDT’s Link Series. Graham founded the SLC based improv company Movement Forum in 2004 and and co-directed it until 2010. He has freelanced with many choreographers and currently tours with PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER (NY/DC). Graham is on faculty in the Department of Dance at BYU. </span></span><br />
<br />Modern Dance Departmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00914097284910394179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427996646336617477.post-29569400263245764232014-12-12T09:17:00.005-08:002014-12-12T09:30:10.358-08:00Michael Crotty on dance in the academy. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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graduate student with the Department of Modern Dance. He studied dance and
choreography at the Ohio State University and the Rotterdamse Dansacademie
(NL), where he received his diploma. He has performed and shown his own work throughout
the U.S., The Netherlands, and Belgium. His choreography has been featured on
the Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company, including the opening of the BROAD
Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA (LA County Museum of Art) and NowNext Capri In
Las Vegas, NV. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #272727; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">In addition, Michael
has been developing movement research in improvisation, and choreography by
exploring how a heightened sense of awareness can allow movement vocabulary to
be shaped by the environments performed in. He is inspired by the instant
dynamics that are built with other dance artists and how these relationships
influence the approaches to decision-making and performance styles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>Tell me more about your pre-professional training and dance
career prior to coming here to study at the U.</i></div>
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I was at Ohio State University as a dancer, but not for very
long. This was because the graduate coordinator of Rotterdam Conservatory came
to Ohio State and she showed videos to introduce some of the dance students
there to Western European contemporary dance. I saw a video of Netherlands
Dance Theater and I completely fell in love with it. I fell in love with the
form and the aesthetic. Two months later, I had gotten in. I then transferred
to Codarts. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I started working as a stagiaire (which is an apprentice)
with Jerome Meyer and Isabelle Chaffeuad who had a company that they ran as
co-artistic directors, called “MCDance”. That really also changed my approach
to training significantly. They were both from Netherlands Dance Theater and
Batsheva Dance Company, so their style was a fusion and interpretation of those
contrasts of classical sensibility and contemporary sensibility. I had to find
a middle ground within their vocabulary. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I worked in Europe for a while with choreographers Vaclav
Kunes, Machteld Van Bronkhorst (both in the Netherlands). I then reconnected
with a choreographer, Kate Hutter, that I had met in 2001. I had become very
interested in the work that she was creating in the States and she
coincidentally was starting a company called the Los Angeles Contemporary Dance
Company. When I was home visiting for the holidays, I went to LA to watch one
of the rehearsals, which I really liked. I auditioned and was offered a
fulltime position in the company from 2007 – 2014. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>What drew you to this department at the University of
Utah?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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I was drawn to this department initially because of the
geographical location. Ultimately, I wanted to be in an environment that was
stimulating while offering me what I need creatively. I was drawn to Salt Lake
City because it is beautiful. I wanted to be in an environment that inspired me
outside of dance because I feel that it feeds my work in a very positive way. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>What are some inspiring things you have seen thus far
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I think the volume of dance here is very inspiring, as well
as the diversity of the type of work that is being created. When I was in LA
there were all these dancers from Salt Lake City who were so emotive and powerful.
There is something about Salt Lake City that produces wonderful dancers. Salt
Lake City feels up and coming. There is a lot of dance and a lot of things to
see here. Just the fact that you can pick and choose each week what to see is a
luxury. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>What do you look forward to doing in these three years in
the graduate dance program?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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I would like to focus on creating theatrical and dynamic
work. I am also interested in creating work that makes use of the interpersonal
relationships that develop in the process. I am interested in how dancers
grapple with material and how they interpret the material, which in turn shapes
the final work. I looked at graduate school as some sort of test kitchen to
play with the ideas relating to my work.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Interview by Allison Shir for the College of Fine Arts, edited by Jennie Nicholls-Smith.</div>
Modern Dance Departmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00914097284910394179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427996646336617477.post-24065722383566457542014-11-20T16:55:00.001-08:002014-11-20T17:00:05.881-08:00If a Snake Should Bite<div class="MsoNormal">
This Friday and Saturday graduate students Molly Heller and
Sara Parker will be presenting If a Snake Should Bite”<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>at the Ladies Literary Club. In an alternate space, both Molly and
Sara will have an opportunity to have their thesis work seen somewhere new.
Molly Heller also collaborated with Netta Yerushalmy to create a duet that will
also be presented in the performance.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Below is an interview
with Sara Parker explaining her research process. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Can you tell me a
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I’m really interested yoga philosophy as well as the
mysticism of Carl Young, storytelling, imagery, and ritual. Specifically what I
am really interested in is “tapas”, which is the heat or resistance required
for transformation. In yoga philosophy doing the physical practice would be a
really heated practice that is used to burn impurities from your body. It isn’t
used in a way to create self-harm, but more of going through struggle to
realize the depth of possibility.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How have you explored
this with your dancers?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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At the beginning of our rehearsals we did a lot of work with
the chakras. Some of which was inspired by a workshop that I did with a yoga master,
Rod Stryker, and he talked a lot about how our insecurities and fears are held
in the bottom three chakras; I was weirdly inspired by that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Kundalini yoga it is all about reversing
energy lines in your body so you actually create a fire pit in your core that
then opens up everything. This inspired me to create movement that was
initiated from the bottom three chakras to generate heat within the body…from
there we would allow everything to move outward. Doing this created movement
that seemed formless. The challenge then became creating formless initiated
movement that had a sense of form to it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How did you and Molly
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Molly had initially pictured her thesis being presented
somewhere off of the University of Utah campus. I was also very interested in
showing my work in a space that wasn’t a traditional performance space. I wanted
something more intimate with a sense of closeness. Molly was also very interested
in the history of the space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For me, I
find that incredibly interesting too because my work (and most everyone’s work)
has to do with creating some sort of world and I think that is what is so
beautiful about using a space that has such a rich history…that so many
worlds have existed there. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Molly and I
loved the aged look of the Ladies literary club, the history, and the intimacy
of the space. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Alberge:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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B: I started working with Molly in the fall of 2013 on a
salon piece that she was choreographing. Now I have been working with Molly for
over a year.<o:p></o:p></div>
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F: Well I haven’t worked with Molly as a choreographer
before but I worked with her my first year [in the Modern Dance Department]. We
were both dancing in a trio together. <o:p></o:p></div>
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B: Molly’s process is very rewarding because she asks a lot
of you, which I find is something I want in a process…to be a collaborator not
just a dancer. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a lot of investigation
that is inspired by imagery and emotional states that is then kind of mashed
and sewn together. We start with a bunch of different images and ideas and ways
of relating as people and then as we dig deeper into what that sensation is and
what those sates can be and they develop into something. All of the states we
go through create a journey. Molly doesn’t start with a narrative, but for me,
a narrative absolutely emerges through the process. <o:p></o:p></div>
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F:I really enjoyed the collaborative process with Molly. She
brings things out of you that you didn’t imagine were there. It’s tedious; it’s
a lot of tuning in and out with each other. It’s also never the same, which is
the best and also most difficult part of it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How does it feel to
perform “This is Your Paradise”?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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F: It is draining. It’s funny actually, when people approach
me after a run of the piece I am in a place where I absolutely don’t know what
happened. I don’t understand how to formulate what happened or how it felt. It
is one of the only pieces that I have been working on that I have such a hard
time wrapping my mind around…about what states I traversed. I always feel like
there needs to be time to process what happened. It’s very draining, but in a
good way. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know that it didn’t happen
when we don’t feel that way. <o:p></o:p></div>
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B: It feels like a task of surrendering into the unknown. If
I try to control the situation too much or try to manifest something, then I
stop anything from coming out of myself. I feel like Molly taps into all of
these deep-seeded experiences or sensations through these movement exercises.
It’s like a practice every time to go through the piece or to go through the
different postures. They have been so carefully thought about and developed to
create this emotional state. But, if you try to create the emotional state
without going through the practice, it won’t happen…it is a full
body/mind/spirit/rollercoaster journey.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What value do you see
in working with graduate students?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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B: Molly is one of the most incredible examples of how to be
a functioning, working artist/human in the world, so to be able to work this intimately
with her has been, I think, the most valuable collaboration I have had here [at
the University of Utah]. She is so closely aware of the field I am about to try
to navigate. The way she works is relevant to what I am interested in. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What value do you see
in performing outside of the University of Utah at the Ladies literary Club?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
F: I feel very lucky to be a part of this concert. I think
it is going to be very personal and I’m very glad to have an opportunity to
perform outside of the Marriott Center for Dance…not just because it is a
beautiful space, but also because it needs more crafting. Molly and Sara
brought an entire evening of dance together and it feels a lot more personal.
It is very fitting for the piece and it makes everything whole. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lucky part for us is the opportunity to
perform in something that feels much bigger than a “thesis concert”. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What is something you
have gained from this experience thus far that you want to take away with you? <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
B: Molly’s work ethic and the intensity with which we are
committed to this work. Not only her work ethic, but also the process that we
go through in her work is very inspiring and motivating to me. To create a very
refined, specific, well-crafted piece of dance performance requires a lot of
effort, but also a lot of personal research outside of the studio. When you go
home and the piece is still lingering, that for me, shows that I am a part of
something that is meaningful and that is valuable…something that I’m glad to be
a part of. Molly has given me that in a lot of ways.<o:p></o:p></div>
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F: Work ethic, some of the things we talked about earlier in
regard to the space, being able to put an event like this together…but a more
personal take-away would be the struggle, the healthy struggle, that I have had
throughout the process. It is not going to leave me soon after. Molly has
challenged me in a very healthy way. It is an honesty that she [Molly] knows
how to communicate. It is very transparent. That is something I want to try and
aim for in my own work and in my relationships with people. Every time a
process like this unfolds under the umbrella of honesty something deep can come
out of it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What do you hope the
audience will take away from “This is your paradise”?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
B: I feel like there is dynamic opposition throughout the
piece and it creates an out of body experience for me. It takes me to a place
of reflection. I hope that the audience will access some point of
reflection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
F: Any kind of experience. I Want them to feel something. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Interviews conducted by Marissa Mooney</div>
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Modern Dance Departmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00914097284910394179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427996646336617477.post-71126673610757727252014-10-26T14:33:00.001-07:002014-10-26T14:37:02.327-07:00Faculty Spotlight on A'Keitha Carey<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: #fafafa; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 20px;">A’Keitha Carey is an artist and scholar who hails from the Bahamas. In addition to her degrees in dance, she also currently working to complete her PhD and a Certificate in Woman’s Studies from Texas Woman’s University. She has published the article “CaribFunk Technique: Afro Caribbean Dance, Caribbean Feminism and Popular Culture” in the Journal of Pan-African Studies and has a forth coming publication in the Association of Dance of the African Diaspora’s book</span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Re: Generations. </span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 20px;">A’Keitha created CaribFunk technique, a genre fusing Afro-Caribbean, ballet, modern, and fitness principles. The technique addresses the politics of “identity” and “becoming” through the exploration of the </span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hip wine</span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 20px;"> (circular rotation of the hip). Focusing on Black feminist writer, Audre Lorde’s use of the term erotic, in the sense that women achieve empowerment and knowledge through an energy—a creative energy that provides an awareness of self, history, and our bodies, A’Keitha argues that the hip wine is a practice of erotic power. The technique is rooted in an Africanist aesthetic and Euro-American expression coalescing the vertical and horizontal. It embodies Caribbean performance and politics, Caribbean popular culture as a methodological and pedagogical practice and explores Jamaican Dancehall and Trinidadian Carnival as a reservoir of knowledge that investigates the sensual and spiritual. Her research attempts to redefine Black femininity, establishing the relationship between the technique and Caribbean popular culture, addressing why it is important to Women of Color in academia, and reinforcing the marriage between Caribbean dance, sensuality, strength, and the erotic as power. This futuristic philosophy and technique attempts to rupture “tradition and history—breaking the aesthetic of the institution—exhibiting a hybridized pedagogy and technology of (re) imagination through a Diasporic consciousness. Critical Race Theory, Black Feminism/Womanism, Popular Culture, Critical Pedagogy, Cultural Studies and Curriculum Studies are her areas of interest.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Why did you choose
the U?<br />
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</i></b>I chose the U because it demonstrated many of the ideas and interests
that I have as far as creativity and scholarship. It is a research one
institution which is highly of interest to me as a
researcher/scholar/ethnographer. I also saw how my research interest and praxis
could serve both programs (BFA and MFA). <b><i><br />
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<b><i>What are your strengths as a teacher, artist and art-maker and how do you
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My strengths as a teacher, artist, and art-maker are in the areas of
research, ethnography and interdisciplinary approaches to performance, pedagogy
and choreography. I am interested in providing tools for the dancer/scholar and
in that tool box I am interested in having the students query “who they are” in
the process of investigation and how they bring their own voice to the
articulation to the manifestation of these discoveries. Identity is primary and
essential to me. I hope to help students find the agency and empowerment of
knowing who they are as (whomever/whatever) . . . <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tell me more about the "hip wine."<br />
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The hip wine is the circular rotation of the hip that finds its way all over
the Afro/Latin diaspora—finding roots in Congolese dance and various cultures
throughout the African continent. I am particularly interested in how this often-sexualized
dance movement can be used to liberate those that are oppressed. I often
discuss this idea and practice of “speaking through the pelvis.” The pelvis
gives live—it is a life force. There is an immense power in the pelvis; it
supports and centers our body. For me, in the technique, the hip wine connects
all of the movement genres together that I am exploring. The circle—the circle
of life and the pelvis is of essence. The curvi-linear movement which is
certainly a characteristic of Afro-Diasporic, is central to the philosophy of
CaribFunk. I am interested in how the body is engaged (the sensory/sensual),
how the body performs, and also the experiential. The hip wine is a moniker of
Jamaican Dancehall and Carnival performance in Trinidad, I am interested in how
to transport and translate these Caribbean cultural performances in the
classroom/studio. These are the two (dominant) cultures that I am exploring
when discussing the hip wine as praxis.<br />
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<b><i>How do you combine your choreographic technique of CaribFunk and your
research in excavating the repressed, curious and awkward sentiments towards
issues of love, death, success, disease, and sex? What does that look like in
the studio in your creative process?</i></b><br />
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</i></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">CaribFunk
was created out of my own experiences with oppression, body and identity
politics, colonialism, and the politics of respectability. As with most
activists, our movements are birthed out of conflict. CaribFunk is my approach
towards addressing the sentiments that you mentioned. I see CaribFunk as a
physicalized expression of finding voice and agency, particularly for those
that have been shamed and policed because of how they engage with their bodies.
In the studio, I ask my dancers to allow their senses to be a part of the
experience. Carnival and Dancehall culture is used as a metaphor in the
technique class. I remind the students that I have given them the blue print
(the phrase/sequence). From the next moment on, I am interested in how they are
going to accomplish the task of traveling through space, life etc. I ask them
several questions: where are they in the process; where are they on the journey
and who are they? The hips and torso are free! CaribFunk is the language for
them to express themselves—not only their pains but also their pleasures.<b><i><br /><br />
Are there any non-dance practices important to you as an artist for your
emotional, physical and spiritual well-being?</i></b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</i></b>As far as non-dance practices, I am an avid gym junkie, which is why
the movement takes on elements of cardio, fitness, and kick boxing-esque type
expressions. I am also very spiritual. I pray and read my bible and really try
to connect with my higher power. I am very thankful to my God who has blessed
me with tremendous talent. My prayer is that I see my vision come to fruition.
Like the verse says in Habakkuk 2: 2-4, essentially write down your vision,
pray and meditate on it, though it tarry, wait for it, and it will surely come.
I believe that! I am woman of faith. I am walking this journey often times not
seeing where I am going but I know that God has given me a gift and purpose
that needs to be shared. I believe He will provide all that I need for that to
manifest.<b><i><br />
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I see in your bio that you're still performing and I'm amazed and impressed!
How do you do all that you do?<br />
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</i></b>Ha! I’m impressed too! I performed a solo “Corporeal Discourse”
choreographed by Carlos Jones and myself last year (2013). One venue was at the
Association for Blacks in Dance Conference in Washington, DC and at the <cite><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Black Existentialisms:
Situating Black Existential Philosophy Conference in Pittsburg, PA</span></cite>. I do
miss performing! I am only doing solo projects these days and the purpose
behind the performances are to really present the technique to diverse
communities. I am just trying to get the world to know about CaribFunk in
whatever way possible!!<b><i><br />
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Is CaribDanco here at the U with you or is it still located at SUNY Potsdam?
What is new with CaribDanco?<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">CaribDanco goes wherever mama goes! The company is on hiatus currently
so, no it is not at SUNY Potsdam. The company was developed as a research and
performance based company. I essentially wanted to provide students with the
opportunity to engage in my process as an artist/scholar. I really wanted to
provide training for those dancers who were interested in cultural anthropology
and ethnography. The model was built for college students because that’s where
I am situated at the moment. I also wanted to provide them with as much professional
experience as possible as well. When the company was with me in New York, we
performed all through the state performing. Every year I took them to Manhattan
to study dances of the Diaspora. We researched and study these dances
throughout the year and then we had an opportunity to take class in as many
forms and styles as our body would allow. They students took classes in
Haitian, Samba, Afro-Cuban, West African, Sabar, Afro-Caribbean, and Congolese!
It was amazing. I do miss providing these experiences and opportunities to the
students. I am also interested in taking the students on a research trip with
me at some point. Finger, toes, and eyes crossed. I really need to secure
funding! The work that I am interested in pursing is not cheap…I am hopeful
that I will get what I/we need!!!</span><!--EndFragment-->Modern Dance Departmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00914097284910394179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427996646336617477.post-2716450888020842462014-09-07T20:07:00.000-07:002014-09-07T20:07:42.781-07:00Alumni Profile :: Michael O'Connor<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo: Georg Scheu</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"><b>Michael O'Connor </b>is a choreographer, performer,
improviser and teacher. Since 2007 he has been based in Vienna, Austria. He
worked with cie. Willi Dorner from 2003-2010 and performed and assisted in
creating the work 'Bodies in Urban Spaces' worldwide in over 30 cities.
His Deborah Hay adaptation of 'NEWS' was presented at ImpulsTanz festival
and he was part of David Zambrano's 'Tierras Enamorades' which was presented in
Bruxelles. He was listed in BalletTanz Magazine as the 'young dancer
to watch' in 2008 for his piece 'a waiting dog dies.' Additionally, his
own work has been supported through residencies at ImpulsTanz with the guidance
of Keith Hennessy and Ivo Dimchev, leading to works 'You are the Subject of my
Seeing' and 'A General Theory of Love.' His work looks at the
intersection of cognitive science and dance, and he is currently furthering
this practice with the support of the MA Choreography program at the Amsterdam
University of the Arts with the mentorship of Guy Cools. Michael has been
guest artist faculty at Arizona State University twice and has taught at
ImpulsTanz, SNDO, SEAD, TanzQuartier Wien and with festivals like
DanceUmbrella: London, Tanz im August: Berlin and Philly Live
Arts:Philadelphia. He is also a Fieldwork facilitator who helps guide artists
in methods of feedback. He has been able to develop Fieldwork in Vienna
as an established program as well as bring this method to Istanbul, Turkey in
2012. Since his time at the University of Utah, Michael has been a proponent of
art as research, and he is currently interested in love-empathy-metaphor as a
triad that when approached from a cognitive science perspective, can possibly
address ontological questions of body, relationship and environment as a
performance practice.</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Modern Dance Departmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00914097284910394179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427996646336617477.post-66736685208460491712014-04-17T22:58:00.003-07:002014-04-17T23:03:19.614-07:00UK Exchange & Ugurt<div class="MsoNormal">
Before moving to Salt Lake City Modern Dance Assistant Professor Shaun
Boyle spent three years in England studying, teaching and making dance. While an
undergraduate student at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts she danced in Austria at the Salzburg Academy of Dance for a semester. These international dance
experiences inspired her to think about dance on the international stage. “I want to create forums for international
collaboration.” Shaun explained to me when we met. "How do we exchange dance across borders and nations?"</div>
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Shaun has collaborated with Janet Smith, Principal of <a href="http://www.nscd.ac.uk/view.aspx?id=3" target="_blank">The Northern School of Contemporary Dance</a> (NSCD) in Leeds, England to build one such forum for dance exchange. The exchange is for 12
undergraduate dancers; six dancers from NSCD and six from the University of
Utah’s Department of Modern Dance. The UK dancers will travel to Salt Lake City
for <a href="http://dance.utah.edu/newsevents/saltdancefest/" target="_blank">Salt Dance Fest</a>, and our dancers will travel to NSCD in the beginning of
July for two weeks. The dancers have already begun connecting via Facebook and are looking forward to meeting in person soon.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Assistant Professor Shaun Boyle (left) & University of Utah dancers</td></tr>
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“The NSCD is a good fit for the U because of their cutting
edge, forward-thinking movement invention.” Shaun told me. She explained that
in England dancers don’t know much about the emerging choreographers we are
interested in at the U and vice versa. “This is a chance to broaden
perspectives for students on our side of the pond and on their side of the
pond.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Modern Dance Departmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00914097284910394179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427996646336617477.post-18685533467993463462014-04-07T08:48:00.000-07:002014-04-07T08:48:25.240-07:00Screendance Pick of the Month<div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">During my recent <a href="http://uumoderndance.blogspot.com/2014/03/frames-of-impact.html" target="_blank">interview</a> of Ellen Bromberg she agreed to launch a new blog series highlighting one of her passions; Screendance. For her inaugural Screendance Pick of the Month </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ellen has selected <a href="http://vimeo.com/15220782" target="_blank">Dom Svobode</a> by Thierry De Mey.</span></div>
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Modern Dance Departmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00914097284910394179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427996646336617477.post-84566523280707654112014-03-30T09:30:00.000-07:002014-03-30T09:30:01.420-07:00Humans of the MCD :: Brian Nelson<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
In the third installment of Humans of the MCD Allison tracked down busy sophomore Brian Nelson; the MCD's one and only double modern and ballet major. Beautiful, interesting interview. Don't miss! </div>
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"My favorite piece to be a part of was Jay Kim's piece for Utah Ballet... he definitely had an idea as a choreographer and he came in every day with material for us but at the same time it felt like a collaboration... My favorite one to watch was honestly, every time I see a show by the Modern Dept I get so jealous that I haven't done any rep like that because it's just so fun to watch how free people move. When I saw Eric's piece for PDC last year [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXDX2PMdAx8" target="_blank">Disappearing Days</a>] I started to cry because I couldn't imagine moving like that ever, and that made me feel very trapped in my body and sad..." </div>
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<br />Modern Dance Departmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00914097284910394179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427996646336617477.post-17615958329463624622014-03-29T20:56:00.001-07:002014-03-29T20:56:16.913-07:00Humans of the MCD :: Glenda Staples<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"I love the students. When I watch them I just feel like 'Wow, look at how successful they are at what they're doing!' I love that feeling." </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">In the second installment of Humans of the MCD Allison Shir </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">interviews Glenda Staples, the MCD's Administrative Officer and mom-away-from-home. </span><br />
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<br />Modern Dance Departmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00914097284910394179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427996646336617477.post-80720260078131176002014-03-29T20:54:00.002-07:002014-03-29T20:55:00.866-07:00Humans of the MCD :: Allison Shir<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The Marriott Center for Dance (MCD) is full of people with interesting stories and unique perspectives on what it means to be a dancer. Inspired by Humans of New York we're beginning our own storytelling project - Humans of the MCD. </span><br />
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a guest artist in the department we have an informal Q&A brown bag lunch in
our triangle lounge. I walked in a few minutes late to this brown bag, just in
time to hear Emily Terndrup say “There is a niche for you in dance.” Emily was
here with <a href="http://www.gallimdance.com/" target="_blank">Gallim Dance</a>, performing in their evening-length work <i><a href="http://www.gallimdance.com/blush/" target="_blank">Blush</a></i>. Gallim Dance, a New York based
contemporary dance company, creates and performs worldwide original work by
artistic director and founder Andrea Miller. Gallim’s performance of <i>Blush</i> was
presented by the Department in partnership with <a href="http://kingsburyhall.utah.edu/" target="_blank">Kingsbury Hall</a>, at the Marriott
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talking about moving from Salt Lake City to build her career in New York.
“Learn to take class for your self, give yourself corrections; ask ‘What am I
going to get out of class today?” The topic turns to auditioning, and immediately the room fills with that tense, deer-in-the-headlights look we all get when thinking about the audition process. (Do you ever stop being
nervous about auditions?) Emily advises coming to an audition as if you are
already employed. “Be the most evolved person you can be,” she says, “You can
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versatile base; beyond technique, I create work, I teach and I know how to
improvise – being able to improvise is huge. And all that stuff that feels like
a support to dance but actually informs your whole career – website, marketing
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Francesca Romo stayed in Salt Lake City for two weeks to teach classes in the department and set
the piece <a href="http://www.gallimdance.com/pupilsuite/" target="_blank">Pupil Suite</a> on nine dancers. I decided to audition, and man was I
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Gallim Dance's "fearless physicality grounded by deep humanity and expressed through the madness and joy of the imagination" is ingrained in Andrea and Fran's process. They are exuberant and deeply engaged with us as individual dancers.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> The rehearsals are more than learning a dance, they are an exploration of the characters that live inside each of us</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">At the beginning of the residency Emily said "There is a niche for you in dance."</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">An ode to the imagination, Pupil Suite is a playful romp that lends itself to finding this niche.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Scale,
spatial and temporal design – it’s about balance,” Ellen crosses one purple
jeaned leg over the other, “I mean, you have to be very careful that the media
doesn’t drown out the choreography.” She makes a little tent with her fingers,
“Media has its own language, with its own internal references. I want to be sure
each section is different but still referencing the same world.” I am sitting
in Ellen’s office opposite a small red couch, next to a tall bookshelf filled
with awards, books, and VHS tapes. She is describing Frames of Impact; a
collaborative work with Doug Varone for <a href="http://www.ririewoodbury.com/" target="_blank">Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company</a> and <a href="http://www.dougvaroneanddancers.org/" target="_blank">Doug Varone and Dancers</a>. Doug is creating the choreography, Ellen the media. Charlotte
Boyd-Christensen, former Artistic Director of Ririe-Woodbury, co-commissioned
the two art makers together to celebrate the company’s 50<sup>th</sup>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Doug
has been choreographing on his company, sending rehearsal footage and music
selections to Ellen. Ellen takes inspiration from music and choreography to shoot
footage and create video, which she sends back to Doug. In February Doug and
Ellen met in Salt Lake City for a week of work in person. “Ririe-Woodbury has
been fabulous, we had a whole week on the Rose Theatre main stage, a crew, projectors,
and dancers to test the media and timing with the choreography.” They focused
on bringing the two elements together, Ellen editing the video and Doug making
changes to the choreography, changes which will be brought back to his company
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Her
eyes light up as she talks about the process of making the work. “As a choreographer as well as a media designer it's been interesting for me to gain insights into how Doug both creates and articulates his work...” She pauses, “Image, choreography, it's a balance; these things something greater than the individual elements has the potential to emerges. The experience is augmented. Something else is unlocked.”
See Frames of Impact performed by Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company on April 24, 25,
26, 2014.</span></div>
Modern Dance Departmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00914097284910394179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427996646336617477.post-76738833774182291252014-02-21T08:30:00.000-08:002014-02-21T14:03:53.737-08:00Struggle, Seniors, and Carl Flink<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each year the
seniors at the U have to make a tough decision. They select a guest artist to create
an original work for the class to perform at the spring Senior Concert. This is,
according to senior Samantha Matsukawa, “an arduous decision making process.”
After much deliberation the class of 2014 invited </span><a href="http://blacklabelmovement.com/company/artistic_staff/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Carl Flink</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of </span><a href="http://blacklabelmovement.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Black Label Movement (BLM)</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to the U. Carl was a good choice for the U because of his diverse
background as athlete, professional dancer, lawyer, and dance department chair. This diverse background challenged the class and gave each person a way to connect with his work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Black Label Movement says that they 'do their own stunts.' This Twin Cities-based dance theater is known for physical movement and a diverse
repertory of collaborations. One such collaboration is called “bodystorming,” a creative research process where human movers act as molecules that diffuse, undergo reactions, and generate/absorb forces. Using bodystorming BLM has collaborated
with scientists around the world, integrating science and dance to find answers to questions for both fields. You
may have seen BLM before, they were featured in the Ted talk entitled
“<a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/john_bohannon_dance_vs_powerpoint_a_modest_proposal.html" target="_blank">A Modest Proposal</a>,” which suggested the use of dancers instead of powerpoint in presentations. The Ted talk choreography has just a hint of irony, highlighting Flink's interest in subtle social critique. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Carl’s residency at the U began with a long weekend of six
hour rehearsals. Carl expects intense physicality, no compromises. Part of his
process involves setting up impossible situations, pushing the dancers to
question what it means to dance. Samantha explained that these situations made
struggle essential to the creation of the piece.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“No one was doing things perfectly, because
you couldn’t, because that was the point – continuing to push and struggle, to
get closer.” This ‘getting closer’ meant getting closer to the edge of possible
movement as well as building community as a class. Carl deftly facilitated this
challenging creative process, struggling with the dancers as they worked
towards the culmination of their four years together. “We talked about tribe a
lot,” Samantha said, “it’s been a long time since we danced all in the same
room, and been a long time since we were all in a piece together, so it was
really nice to have everyone there and all be doing this together - as a
tribe.”</span></div>
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Rogers (David Dorfman Dance Company, SUNY Brockport faculty). The dance was part of an evening of commissioned duets first performed in Ohio this past December. Steve also directed last year's über-successful SaltDanceFest featuring international artists Paul Selwyn Norton, Vicky Cortes, and Marina Mascarell. And, he is currently working with this year's all-star lineup of artists including Miguel Gutierrez, Kyle Abraham, Netta Yerushalmy and Maura Keefe on this summer’s festival.<br />
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In 2011, Pamela Geber presented her original research, “From Science to Art; Experiential Anatomy<br />
to Improvisation and Choreography” at the IADMS’s fall conference in Washington DC and “How Do We Inspire Kinesiological Meaning-Making?” at the summer conference for the Dance Kinesiology Teachers’ Group. She has stepped into the role as Director of Undergraduate Studies at UU and is currently developing a community-based teaching venture involving university students, individuals with Down syndrome and their family members. In addition, Pamela is working with the networking organization, Dance Kinesiology Teachers' Group, on planning the upcoming meetings in summer and fall of 2013. Beyond UU, she has taught professional development at the Teachers’ Workshop for Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, and for the past 2 summers, she has co-lead visual art/dance workshops for children with local artist and educator, Kindra Fehr.<br />
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Cole Adams has been on an upgrading rampage, fundraising and working relentlessly to bring our<br />
art and facilities into the 21st century. The spoils of his quest include grants for energy efficient LED<br />
cyc lights in the MCD theater, new theatrical curtains for entire building, new tempest wireless headset<br />
system, 2 New Lycian Follow spots, new wall of mirrors, ballet studio-floor replacements and he is still<br />
going. The total in dollars of new improvements rings in around $200,000 so far. Not content just raising money for the University; Cole has lent his talents as a board member for SB dance helping them to raise over $20,000. As a teacher, Cole created and taught a new course in production for graduate students in the modern department and is currently developing an introduction to technology course for ballet freshmen to launch next year. Artistically, he serves artists large and small throughout the Salt Lake community and beyond with his technical prowess including concerts with Blood, Sweat and Tears and Olivia Newton-John, a music video for Piano Guys, John Schmidt and Steven Sharp Nelson and a very large production of the musical AIDA at the Sandy Amphitheater (just to name a few).<br />
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Suffering from insomnia? Tossing and turning in bed? Too much nightlife? Jon Scoville has just released his latest cd, A Field Guide to Sleep -- Lullabyes for Adults in collaboration with esteemed jazz pianist Art Lande. In addition he recently completed a score for Juliet Forrest of Goucher College. Jon returns to Salt Lake City in January for his 40th (and final) year. Then it's off to Brazil to work on a music project in Rio.<br />
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Meanwhile Tandy Beal has been to Shanghai, Taipei, Jakarta, Jerusalem, Macau and Seoul<br />
working and performing with Bobby McFerrin. She recently directed a circus/a cappella singing/cuisine<br />
adventure called Mangia del Arte. Additionally she was awarded an NEA grant to tour her production of HereAfterHere about what people think happens after we die. She will be bringing it to the Marriott Center for Dance in May. In January Tandy and Jon will celebrate 50 years of being partners & co conspirators.<br />
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Abby Lou Fiat recently choreographed a women’s trio for Repertory Dance Theatre that will be<br />
performed in spring 2013 in their Women of Valor Concert. She has begun a phased retirement from<br />
UU, in which she will be teaching for the next two spring semesters. Her grandson is two years old and<br />
is continually reminding her why we dance- to fill our lives and hearts with the joy of movement and<br />
the wonder of the imagination. We will sit down with Abby for an interview this spring to reflect on her<br />
extraordinary career at the U.<br />
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Satu Hummasti spent summer 2011 taking workshops in St. Petersburg, Russia and New York City.<br />
While in St. Petersburg, she set a new piece on Kannon Dance Company. She gave birth to little girl Aila on December 20, 2011 and spent Spring 2012 on maternity leave. She returned this fall creating PDC piece "Little Storms," which she hopes to show in France in Spring 2013.<br />
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Eric Handman returned to Berlin for the second time in 2012 to teach and present his newest quintet,<br />
Torch, at the Staatlische Balletschule. He will also return for the second time to Costa Rica this<br />
summer to create a new dance on the company members of the Departamento de Producción Escuela<br />
Danza UNA. His choreography software team, with support from the University of Utah Technology<br />
Commercialization Office, copyrighted and trademarked the code for a new Android app, that after a<br />
rigorous period of focus group testing in 2013 will be re-coded for Apple’s iOS and downloadable from the app store. He also just finished shooting new footage for a dance film that he’ll begin thinking about editing in his time off.<br />
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Ellen Bromberg’s recent artistic works include: a multi-media performance piece at UC Davis<br />
Department of Theater and Dance, entitled "and the snow fell softly on all the living and the dead…"<br />
in memory of choreographer Della Davidson, her documentary, "Deborah Hay, Not as Deborah Hay,"<br />
premiered at Cinedans Amsterdam in November of '11, (with numerous subsequent screenings in the US and abroad), a collaborative work with Lisa Wymore “The Somnambulist’s Dream” commissioned by the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley, and “Dancing the Green Map,” a video design for a work by Zvi Gottheiner for Repertory Dance Theater. Ellen has also received the 2012 Distinguished Innovation and Impact Award, from the University of Utah Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Vice President for Technology Venture Development, the Granada Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, UC Davis Department of Theater and Dance, Davis, CA 2011, The Townsend Center for the Humanities Fellowship Award, from the UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. She has also been a guest lecturer and panelist at The Leonardo Museum, Mills College, and Townsend Center for the Humanities, CITRIS-Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, and the Berkeley Center for New Media, Arts Research Center.<br />
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Student Exchange Program: Panamá. The exchange was a huge success and as a result the program is receiving national recognition including a featured story in the December issue of <a href="http://www.dancemagazine.com/issues/December-2012/Making-It-Happen-Dancing-to-Change">Dance Magazine</a>. In addition, he continues to perform with <a href="http://www.sbdance.com/">SB</a> <a href="http://www.sbdance.com/">Dance</a> on a regular basis, and co-directs the <a href="http://www.ririewoodbury.com/">Saturday Studio Series</a> for the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. Juan Carlos’ next endeavors are to continue to develop innovative community and service learning programs within the department, as well as to create new projects for the students not only nationally, but globally.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp2jt1-NiAQJAeABKbrBK-21VczUk2tbMSeVBMm7ohDUvJWQrSjvt7436On1MlRPf-g5oeZ_q3b7b5qJwojEIQBLRR7F1qnsXXPlDSiZc8hyphenhyphen-bg5jadp8jTkCo0JHas-vJ8m4EM_DWIkE/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-12-19+at+1.13.04+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp2jt1-NiAQJAeABKbrBK-21VczUk2tbMSeVBMm7ohDUvJWQrSjvt7436On1MlRPf-g5oeZ_q3b7b5qJwojEIQBLRR7F1qnsXXPlDSiZc8hyphenhyphen-bg5jadp8jTkCo0JHas-vJ8m4EM_DWIkE/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-12-19+at+1.13.04+PM.png" height="436" style="cursor: move;" width="640" /></a></div>
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Sharee Lane spent the summer choreographing and teaching at the Snowy River Summer Dance Festival and serving as a guest artist and adjudicator for the Montana Dance Arts Association. In Spring<br />
2012 Sharee lead the second international exchange to Berlin (link to Berlin article) and brought in<br />
distinguished guest artist Elaine Kudo to stage “Sweet Fields” by world renowned choreographer Twyla Tharp for PDC. Since joining the modern dance department, Sharee has worked unceasingly to raise the standard of excellence in ballet among modern students utilizing her connections in the field to provide unparalleled training and networking opportunities for students. In addition she continues to grow in her contemporary choreography creating works for PDC that combine her high level of classical technical prowess with fresh exploration. Outside UU, Sharee has been a guest teacher at Ballet West and the Cincinnati ballet.<br />
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In July and August of 2012, Rob Wood served as Director of Music for the National Choreography<br />
Intensive sponsored by Regional Dance America. A much in demand ballet accompanist, Rob travels<br />
each year to play at national and international workshops and festivals including accompanying UU<br />
students to Berlin last spring. Ron has also begun co-teaching Elements of Music with Jon Scoville and<br />
now directs the graduate thesis concert.Modern Dance Departmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00914097284910394179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427996646336617477.post-51859532743455271372013-02-02T13:35:00.001-08:002013-02-02T13:39:15.463-08:00Fall 2012 Guest Artists<br />
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In addition to a three-week residency with John Beasant at the beginning of fall semester, the Department of Modern Dance continued its guest artist series by hosting choreographers Elena<br />
Demyanenko and Yannis Adoniou for six-week residencies, as well as welcoming distinguished alumni award recipient and independent choreographer, Keith Johnson, and presenting master classes by Royal Ballet School Assistant Director, Jay Jolley, Ririe Woodbury Artistic Director, Charlotte Boye-Christensen, and Dancers from the Trey Mcintyre Project. The throughline of inquiry inspired by this diversity of aesthetics, styles and creative processes was an in-depth investigation into movement quality.<br />
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<a href="http://elenademyanenko.com/projects/about/about/">Elena Demyanenko</a>, a former member of the Trisha Brown dance company, initiated this line of research by bringing a somatic approach to technique classes, based in Body Mind Centering technique. Utilizing anatomical imagery, breath, meditative floor work, repetition with variation, subtle partner and self manipulation, she offered dancers a more nuanced and refined qualitative ability rooted in internal understanding.<br />
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San Francisco based choreographer and dancer <a href="http://www.kunst-stoff.org/">Yannis Adoniou</a> followed. His singular approach to technique class employed vocalization, improvisation, visualization, touch and the natural world combined with rigorous classical technique. Working integrally with class accompanists, he pushed dancers to discover more sensate dancing through the interpretation of vibrations and clear identification of different movement consistencies.<br />
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Both Elena and Yannis also created new choreographic works while in residence. Elena<br />
worked collaboratively with third year graduate students to deconstruct habitual movement<br />
patterns, and investigate their personal narratives in a piece entitled “Becoming,” that<br />
premiered in November at the Bare Bones Graduate Concert. Yannis has choreographed a new<br />
work "Naivete in Minor," for the Spring PDC concert that allows the performers to explore an<br />
inner journey of sensation while sharing the personal and individually felt physicalization of<br />
the work. With a stunning stage design infused with interactive digital technology, the piece<br />
features many vignettes of human experience that range from the vast and chaotic to the<br />
subtlest moments of connection between us.<br />
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Additional masterclasses have been interspersed throughout the term offering students a<br />
glimpse of the multiplicity of voices that constitute the contemporary dance landscape and<br />
providing them fresh opportunities to apply the skills and understandings acquired in their<br />
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Currently <a href="http://danielsquire.com/site/home.html">Daniel Squires </a>former member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company is setting a Cunningham Repertory work for Spring PDC and offering classes in Cunningham technique.<br />
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In March visiting artist <a href="http://sidrabelldanceny.org/artistic_director.html">Sidra Bell</a> will be in residence to create a new work for the<br />
senior class and teach across the curriculum.<br />
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">In
the spring of 2012, the Department of Modern Dance again participated in a
cultural exchange with the Berlin State Ballet School in Germany. This
two-part program brought students, teachers and musicians of both schools to
each others’ institutions to engage in creative inquiry, investigation and
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">For
two weeks in April, members of the Berlin State Ballet School visited the
Department. Berlin faculty members Olaf Hofer (ballet) and Assohoto
Jean-Hughes (modern) taught multiple classes to University of Utah students
with musician Winni Rogel playing accompaniment on piano and djembe.
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May, faculty members Sharee Lane, Rob Wood, Eric Handman and Donna White along
with nine modern dance students from the Department traveled to Berlin for two weeks.
The University of Utah faculty members taught classes and showed
choreography, while Utah students trained alongside dancers from the Berlin
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musicians and faculty, deepening relationships already established, and
providing a more fertile ground for creative development. Plans for the
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This
fall, the department of modern dance welcomed two new full-time faculty members
to our program, Shaun Boyle and Jessica Pearson. Shaun replaces I-Fen Lin
who returned to Taiwan last spring to have a baby and pursue a career in her
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of the department’s mission; to promote student and faculty growth as
professional dance artists, critical inquirers, and community members, includes
a commitment to diversity. In filling these new positions, the department
not only sought artists and teachers of the highest caliber, but also
individuals who would increase the diversity of the faculty and the course
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and Jessica stood out as exceptional candidates, for their excellence in the
field as professional dancers and scholars, and for the new aesthetics,
perspectives and personal experience they each bring. Jessica comes to
the Department as a College of Fine Arts Morales Fellow. The Raymond C.
Morales Fellowship Program was created to hire Post doctorate/Post MFA fellows
for 2 year positions that serve to bring diversity and additional expertise to
our college.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in Choreography, Trinity Laban Conservatoire, BFA in Dance, NYU Tisch School of
the Arts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Activities:</b> Ballet &
Contemporary Technique classes, Freshman Composition, Co-director of PDC
(Fall), Rehearsal Director for PDC guest artist John Beasant III, Choreographer
for PDC (Spring)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</b>Shaun’s
work mines the overlap between ballet and modern with specific attention to
movement quality. Drawing on her professional experience with companies
such as BalletMet in Columbus, OH and Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet in New
York City and her undergraduate studies at NYU, Shaun emphasizes precision and
clarity in technique class. She feels this brings a different kind of
challenge to University of Utah students, but insists “they’re ready for it.”
Shaun has enjoyed the new challenges of being a new member of such a big
and busy department. She confesses it can be overwhelming at times, but
that the students great energy and interest in growing make each day rewarding.
She values being in an environment where students and faculty all learn
from and support each other, and she looks forward to the opportunity for her
own professional development.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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C. Morales Fellow</i>
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</b>Conditioning
for Dancers, Modern Technique, (Co-teacher) Dance in Culture, Co-Director PDC
(Spring), (Assistant teacher) Kinesiology, Senior Capstone and guest lecturer
for Movement in Culture and Dance History.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</b>The
first recipient of the Morales Fellowship, Jessica was attracted to the
University of Utah by Raymond Tymas-Jones’ mission to bring greater diversity
and inclusion into the college of fine arts. As a former company member
with the Cleo Parker Dance ensemble, Jessica has been a part of the rich
tradition of black dance in America and is excited to bring a different dance
aesthetic to the program. Her approach to technique and dance training
combines her extensive experience in Horton technique with her research in
dance wellness, which includes cross conditioning and somatic practices.
Jessica has also been developing a resource handbook for students looking
for a greater sense of community. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">As the first guest artist of the 2012 school year, John was no stranger to the MCD studios. Like all our modern dance majors and grads, John Beasant III, spent countless hours here honing his craft before completing his MFA in 2009, though he did most of his graduate studies in the Department in the 1990’s. This fall in the midst of his thriving career as an independent artist, he returned to the University of Utah to work with our current students. His 3-week residency included daily technique class, teaching advance improvisation, choreographing for PDC and a brown bag lunch discussion. Grateful for the mentorship he received while in the department, John also carved out time to meet one on one with students to chat, answer questions and offer advice. I took advantage of one of those meeting to ask John a few questions. Here is what he had to say.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(J)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They have met and exceeded my expectations! I enjoy their curiosity and questioning. I prefer thinking bodies and inquisitive minds. And, they’re real responsive to feedback.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(J)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Well, one constant in my work is the human element, relationships and discoveries about the human condition. I am always looking for something true and honest. In this piece each dancer has a unique personal journey traveling through</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">intimate and environmental spaces, to ultimately find a common ground as a community of people. It’s really a celebration of the work and play of artists.</span></span></div>
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The fledgling initiatives of two years ago have become integral parts of the departmental architecture today, helping to set our current course and lay the groundwork for future growth. SaltDance Fest completed its second successful installment last summer bringing international artists Marina Mascarell, Paul Selywn Norton and Vicky Cortes together for an immersive creative experience with participants from the dance dept. and guests from around the globe. The Dance Minor and Screendance Certificate programs are now thoroughly ensconced and Steve Koester has dropped the interim label and officially become Department Chair. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Formerly fresh faces, Sharee Lane and Rob Wood, have become familiar and join us in welcoming the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">new</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> new faculty Shaun Boyle and Jessica Pearson. Jessica comes to us for two years as the recipient of the Raymond C. Morales post graduate Fellowship. Shaun takes over from I-Fen Lin, our fabulous ballet and contemporary dance teacher who left the department back in May. I-Fen returned to her native Taiwan and gave birth to a baby girl in August. We miss her dearly and wish her new family all the best. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The announcement of the impending retirement of Abby Fiat sent shock waves through the department last spring. The beloved faculty member, great spirit and a guiding light of the department will return for two more spring semesters before her official farewell. Needless to say her absence augurs a period of transition for the department. But, Steve Koester, not one to fear change, has embraced this time of ambiguity. Seeing her absence not as a hole to be filled but as open space, he has not rushed to find a replacement. Instead Mr. Koester has taken advantage of the time and space in the schedule to pilot an innovative approach to artistic exchange and staffing. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the 2012-2013 academic year, a series of guest artists will teach through the curriculum for 3-6 weeks at a time. This approach offers a promising alternative to the traditional model of the guest artist, who teaches a few workshops, sets a work on a handful of students and then moves on. Instead over these eight months, guests John Bessant III, Elena Demyanenko, Yannis Adoniou, Sidra Bell and Daniel Squire will teach technique classes and/or creative workshops as well as set choreography benefiting the entire student body. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2012-2013 has gotten off to a rollicking start. We can’t wait to share with you all the adventures, accomplishments and accolades already accrued by our faculty and students. Many thanks to all who have contributed to our program. Your support is invaluable to our students and our future. We hope you will help keep us up to date, let us know about your current work and research. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please join us in two weeks for our next installment: In the Studio with John Beassant!</span></span></b><br />
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