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tap dancer LeVaughan Robinson, hip hop dance artist Rennie Harris, and Next?: Future Possibilities for Collaborating in College Settings” Faculty News tap historian Sally Sommer. In July, Constance conducted a series of pre- moderated by Suzanne Callahan, the National College Choreography performance talks with choreographers of the New York City Ballet’s tenth Initiative representative, with panelists Douglas Sonntag, Director of Paul Arslanian(UMass Amherst) was featured in the September issue of anniversary Diamond Project at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Dance for the National Endowment for the Arts, Tere O’Connor, ON TAP, a monthly publication of the International Tap Association, along performed in the dance opera Mother of Three Sons directed by Bill T. Saratoga, New York; and had the pleasure of interviewing New York City the Artistic Director for University Dancers’ December concert series. choreographer, and Linda Shapiro from the University of Minnesota. Peggy She is also involved in helping to create a benefit concert in celebration of with Drika Overton, in an interview entitled “Cracking the Collaborative Jones. Mr. Davis formed his own company Les Danses Dansk in Munich in Ballet Principal dancer Albert Evans about his new choreography, Haiku Daphne Lowell (Hampshire College) has 2 articles (and several photos) returns to the University as Coordinator of the UMass Dance Program after the 25th anniversary of the performance space in Thorne’s Market, by a Nut,” the making of “Clara’s Dream: A Jazz Nutcracker”. The interview is 1989 and mounted seven full evening productions. Since returning to the and Christopher Wheeldon about his new work, Morphoses. Constance also in the Contact Quarterly special issue on Authentic Movement serving as Chair of the FCDD for the past three years. revival of an old solo, “Journey,” which she set on community dancer part of a National Endowment funded program called “Closing the Gap.” United States he has toured the world with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Co., in participated in the second annual New York City Tap Festival at the Duke on (Summer/Fall 2002). She wrote the “Introduction to Authentic Movement” Augusto Soledade (Smith College) received a faculty grant from Smith to Christina Gabriel, and a new duet for herself and one of her yoga teachers. In addition, Paul will be directing and performing the music for a tap dance such noted works as Still/Here, Ursonata and Ballade. He also performed 42nd Street in New York City by curating the first eight inductees into the and “Three Layers” a piece about using Authentic Movement as develop a summer research project in Brazil. The Project involves collecting She had an article published in Contact Quarterly on Authentic Movement concert at the new Northampton High Scool auditorium on Sat. night, Oct. with Lawrence Goldhuber at Danspace at St. Mark’s Church. Mr. Davis is an Tap City Hall of Fame (which included Fred Astaire, Bill Robinson, Jeni performance. With colleagues Alton Wasson and Mary Ramsay she taught the data to be used as part of a choreographic work to be performed on the and Choreography. After 12 years, she is relearning the ropes of being chair 26th for a show called “Feelin’ the Beat,” involving performers from Boston, original cast member of the Broadway production of The Lion King directed LeGon, Eleanor Powell, Nicholas Brothers, John Bubbles, Steve Condos, and the first Year II program in Contemplative Dance this past year as well as ‘Off Center Series”, a performance venue in Amherst, MA in February 2003. of the FCDD and is as always, inspired by her extraordinary colleagues, and Germany, and New Hampshire. Also performing are Marilyn Middleton and by Julie Taymore, where he performed for four and a half years. His recent Baby Laurence); and introducing the Tap Talk Tap Films series in the the Year I program and the 14th annual summer workshops at Hampshire The researched data will consist of recorded interviews of Candomble the complex but human way the Department collectively manages to Sekou Sylla with the Bamidele Dancers and Drummers. Broadway credits include Nothing Like a Dame, Broadway Bared, Gypsy of festival. Finally, toward the end of summer in August, she began organizing College. She was invited to teach Contemplative Dance on the faculty of practitioners and non-practitioners on their understanding of Iemanja and maintain its stature as one of the best dance departments in the country. Rodger Blum (Smith College) premiered a new one-act original ballet, the Year, Easter Bonnet, A Few Good Men Dancing and performed at materials (and even wrote some of the early chapters) for a new book, a the National Sacred Dance Festival in Rindge NH this past summer. the concept of her consciousness; videotaped images of spontaneous Andrea Watkins (UMass Amherst/ret.) From ‘retirement’ Andrea reports: “Barbara Allen” in the fall 2001 semester. In the spring he created a new Carnegie Hall with Sting. Also an accomplished figure skater, having history of tap dance in America. Rebecca Nordstrom (Hampshire College) and Billbob Brown will cultural manifestations pertinent to the investigation; and recordings of Right now I’m working very hard to keep up with a whole new life that is solo, “Moon Rise” on Mary Ann DeLisle (SCMFA). He is in his first semester received a United States Figure Skating Gold Medal in Ice Dancing, Mr. Peter Jones (Mount Holyoke College) performed/composed for collaborate with London based musicians Maggie Cole (piano) and Miranda songs used in the religious Candomble traditions that evoke Iemanja, which opening up faster than I ever dreamed! Yikes! Here’s what’s up: I’m team as chair of the Smith College Dance Department. Davis is a member of the Professional Skaters Association. choreographer, Martha Bowers, in “The Dream Life of Bricks” at Mass Moca Fullylove (violin) in a concert entitled “Hands and Feet Across the Water” have not yet been commercially explored. In late summer he performed at teaching a Sci Found course for the grad students at American University. Billbob Brown (UMass Amherst) presented three new works at Jacob’s Rose and Charles Flachs (Mount Holyoke College) attended the CORPS in June. He will be performing with Philip Hamilton January 4th and 5th as at Bush Hall, a venue in Shepherd’s Bush, West London in November. the Jacob’s Pillow with Brazz Dance Theater in the “Inside Out” Series. This I’m certifying to teach the Pilates Mat Work. I’m teaching ballet and modern Pillow’s Inside Out Series this August. In May, Billbob was the de Ballet Conference hosted at Western Michigan University where Charles part of the “Alltogether Different” series at the Joyce Theater and in March, Nordstrom and Brown have also been invited to perform a concert of their fall he will continue to perform and choreograph for Brazz Dance Theater dance fundamentals at the Dance Center, and teaching Stretch, Pilates choreographer/director/co-animator for “Transformations” a multi- and Professor Patricia Graham, from Columbia College, presented a lecture will perform the score to “The Metal Garden,” live with Tigger Benford, at solos and duets at Roger Williams University in January 2003. and on a new work to be premiered on the Smith Faculty Concert. Ball, Therapeutic Ballet, and Maximum Turnout at Body Dynamics (a media collaboration with composers Carl Weins, Greg Snedeker, and the on team teaching dance history via the Internet. At the Conference Finis the New Victory Theater for the Sean Curran Dance Company. He has also Fritha Pengelly (Visiting Faculty at Hampshire College, Visiting Artist at Marilyn Middleton Sylla (Guest Lecturer in Dance) The Sixth Annual physical therapy facility). I’ve taken 83 hours of Pilates classes this summer, Computer Sciences Department at UMass. Jung taught an inspirational, informative workshop for teachers of ballet. released “Skeletons”, a new CD for solo piano. Music from his recording Mount Holyoke and the University of Massachusetts Amherst) is currently African/Caribbean Dance and Drum Celebration sponsored by the Bamidele and have a good 100 or so more to go before I take my exam next May. Yvonne Daniel (Smith College) has a best selling first video, Cuban Dance The Flachs enjoyed teaching this summer for the Pennsylvania Academy of “Three Characters” is featured in a new interactive CD-rom “Rhythmic working on a project with Wire Monkey Dance to be performed at the Dancers & Drummers, directed by Marilyn Middleton Sylla was held I was part of the Body Dynamics crew that went to the Kirov Ballet Examples (1989/90.) Details can be seen in the Insight Media catalogue. She Ballet and at the Pioneer Valley Ballet. They serve on the advisory board Training for Dancers” by Robert Kaplan. Northampton Center for the Arts October 25, 26 and November 1,2 and 3. Fritha September 22-23 in Amherst at the Wildwood Elementary School. Over 150 Academy in Washington, DC. We did the “pre-season” screening for their has been invited to present at the Ford Fellows Conference in Albuquerque, for both of these ballet academies. Currently they are in the midst of Ken Lipitz (UMass Amherst) during the spring semester, as Visiting Artist will be creating a piece for the FCDD Faculty Concert at the end of February. dance and drum enthusiasts from as far as Canada and the United States students…strength, flexibility, posture/alignment, some functional evals. New Mexico Oct. 4-6 on “Balancing the Personal and Professional in Academic rehearsals for a new pas de deux , choreographed by Charles Flachs, for the in Dance at Amherst College, taught a course in ballet technique. He also Julius Robinson (Smith College) performed works of Schubert, Norman attended the event. She will be a guest artist teaching a workshop in I did posture and some of the functional work. It made me think of all Life.” In addition, Yvonne has been invited to Cuba by the Ministry of Culture, MHC Faculty Dance Concert. taught master classes and set a ballet on the student dance ensemble at Dello Joio and Schumann during his concert performance Friday, October African Dance at New York University in October, and with her husband, those UM auditions…looking at all the dancers at the barre and evaluating October 8-15, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Los Munequitos, one of Terese Freedman and Jim Coleman (Mount Holyoke College) won one of Deerfield Academy. In June, 2002, Ken along with his wife and co-director, 25, 2002 at Smith’s Sweeney Concert Hall in the Sage Hall Music Building . Sekou, will teach at Bates College July 2003. their alignment and technique. The Body Dynamics bunch was ever-so- two groups on which she did original fieldwork in the late 1980s. In addition three Massachusett’s Cultural Council Choreography Fellowships ($12,500) Shelley Ziebel, produced, directed, conceived and choreographed a four Peggy Schwartz (UMass Amherst) spent the first part of the summer Susan Waltner (Smith College) took a course on ligaments at the School amazed at how fast I was with the posture analysis. I said this Kirov eval During April 9-11, she has been invited to the University of Wisconsin, from a pool of 59 applicants. They performed ‘Family Pictures’ a piece concert series at CityStage Theater in Springfield, for the New England bringing to completion work on the FCDD / NCCI Project, “Zollar on Primus: for Body-Mind Centering, providing her with new information to share in her was a piece of cake. At the Kirov, I had only one dancer to watch at a time, Madison as Minority Scholar in Education. Yvonne will present a paper and featuring their two children, Evan and Zoe, in Port Townsend WA in August. Dance Conservatory, using students, members of the Pre-Professional Riffing on the Legacy.” In May, she lectured and presented workshops on Mindful Body and Graduate Dance Science courses. (The ligaments turn out and the dancer was standing in front of a posture grid…no problem! I lead a workshop during a November 10th Festival Cubano symposium in They will also perform the piece in Rochester NY in October. Plans are in the Programs and dancers from the outreach rep company, New England Dance Primus’s life and work at Brooklyn and Hunter Colleges. She coordinated to be very important in the dialogue between bones and muscles!) She figure I have done this type of eval 3,000 times at least in the past 30 Philadelphia with the theme of Artists working in Traditional Materials. works to get dancers with families to create dance works with their Theater. Summer activities included a week in June teaching as a guest travel and rehearsed the cast of “Walking with Pearl” to prepare for their attended the NDEO conference in Providence, RI. and gave a workshop on years! Practice definitely helps increase speed! Mark Davis (Guest Artist in Residence, Smith College) has worked children, which would then be performed in Boston and NY later this year. artist for the summer dance program at Stoneleigh-Burnham School – performance on June 28th at Jacob’s Pillow, and she gave a workshop and Ritual Rhythm Circles, a structured session on working in a circle with both Wendy Woodson (Amherst College) in March 2002, at the Ninth Annual extensively as a dancer, choreographer, director, writer, actor and teacher. Constance Valis Hill (Hampshire College / FCDD) in June, completed ballet technique and pointe technique; in July and August, directing and lecture on the life and work of Pearl Primus at the National Dance group and personal rhythms. She ran into FCDD alums Heidi Henderson, Kim Multicultural Film Festival, presented an evening of her award winning He has performed the works of Alvin Ailey, Jose Limon, Paul Taylor, Randy compiling a dossier, commissioned by the Balanchine Foundation for its teaching ballet, pointe and modern techniques for the New England Dance Education Organization conference in Providence, Rhode Island. Greenberg, Lynne Fredrikson, Marc Strauss, and Maria Simpson, most of videos that she has made over the past 10 years. She is currently working Warsaw, Talley Beatty and danced with Peter Goss Company in Paris, Jose Popular Balanchine project, on Babes in Arms, the 1937 Broadway musical Conservatory’s four week Summer School. This fall, Ken will teach master Additionally, she taught “Bushasche” at the New York State Summer whom were also presenting! Susan has a grant for Peter Schmitz to create a on a new multi-media project entitled CROSS CONTINENTAL which will be Limon Dance Company, Remy Charlip and Impulse Dance of Boston. He also directed by George Balanchine which featured the Nicholas Brothers. She classes in ballet at the Springfield College Dance Department and serve as School of the Arts for dance teachers from magnet high schools and solo for her which will be shown on the fall Smith Faculty Dance Concert. performed at several different international locations. In this regard, she also attended the Society of Dance History Scholars’ Conference at Temple universities around the country. She also continued consultation with the was invited to the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy for a University in Philadelphia where she was a plenary speaker on a panel American Dance Legacy Institute on the documentary / teaching video month’s residency in March 2003. She also has been invited to create new entitled ‘Dancing Devils and Speed Demons: The Aesthetic of Speed in which is underway. In June, she represented the FCDD at the Dance/USA works for the George Washington University and the University of Auckland Philadelphia Dance (or, They Do It Phaster in Philly!).’ Panelists included Roundtable in Miami, Florida and served on a panel entitled, “What’s in New Zealand during her sabbatical this coming spring.

October. Rain Ross MHC ‘00 is dancing with Arc Dance Company in Seattle imaginative response to the horror that helped to shape it.” Erik Kaiel HC Alumni News and is teaching at Bainbridge Dance Center with director/choreographer ‘95 is now dancing with her company. Cheri Soule SC MFA ‘02 is setting a new Susan Thompson MHC ‘78. She created Lehua Production Company and work on students in the dance program at Trinity College, Connecticut. Marc Amherst College presented her own work Always Times Three in February 2002 and will Strauss SC MFA ‘91 was recently appointed to the rank of Associate Yaniera Castro AC’93 and Company continue to perform regularly in New York four towns in Western Massachusetts flooded in 1937 to make way for the present another evening of work Beyond Blue in January 2003. Joanna Mendl the University of Washington. Kitty Clark SC MFA’97 set a dance piece on Professor of Dance at Southeast Missouri State University. Debbie Williams continues to work with her company. Margaret Prindle (Albertson) UM ‘83, City. Lisa Biggs AC’94 and Christina Septien AC’01 were invited to present Quabbin Reservoir, Rabidoux and her company, hoi polloi, explored themes Shaw’s MHC ’69 company Dancing with Horses recently performed her work students in Frederick, MD, and is working part time for the Ice Theatre of New SC ‘99 is working energetically in the dance education field. She has been has 4 kids, ages 10, 8, 5 and 3 and has moved to Gainsville Florida. She new work at the New York International Fringe Festival this past August. of premeditated loss, the isolation of history, and what it means to be Kalliope at the Ethel Walker School in Connecticut. This piece was York. Mary Ann Delisle UM alum and SC MFA’96 is now a lecturer in Dance at working in Baltimore, but is interested in moving on and would love to hear remembers her dancing days at Umass with great affection. Angelique Christina’s original full-length movement theater piece included other forgotten. Rabidoux is one of four choreographers commissioned by World commissioned by the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in 2001. It traces Dean College in Massachusetts. Last spring she performed in Moon Rise, an of job possibilities. Rodriguez UM ‘97 continues to apply her dance training to Olympic training alums from AC in the cast and as collaborators. Lisa Biggs was in residence Music/Crash Arts for Dance Straight Up! which will be performed December a young girl’s interaction with a cast of horses and dancers, including original solo work from Smith professor, Rodger Blum. Brenda Divelbliss SC in diving. She graduated with a Masters degree in Sports Administration at Amherst this fall with her collaborator, Tanisha Brady Christie, where they 6-7 at the Blackman Theatre in Boston. In May, Yasuko Yokoshi HC’86 Layard Thompson UM ’00, who spill from the pages of her book. Joanna MFA ‘99 is one of four choreographers commissioned by World Music/Crash UMASS from the University of Arizona, May 2002. Ambere Rogers UM ‘98 is in the performed their new Piece, Memory is a Body of Water to glowing reviews. presented her work, Shuffle, at the Whitney Museum of American Art at began her exploration of dancers and horses as a guest artist at MHC in l998 Arts for Dance Straight Up! which will be performed December 6-7 at the Melissa Bemis UM works as an Assistant Broadcast Producer creating TV national touring company of Mama Mia. Stacey Sipowicz UM’ 95 toured Philip Morris in New York. She melded the oldest of the Japanese creation and has continued this investigation for the past five years. Nicole Tessen Blackman Theatre in Boston. In Mixed Company presented the premiere of and radio ads. Kimberly Lass Cohen UM ‘98 is the Senior Program Director with Fame in Europe and with the 1st national tour of Cabaret. She is Hampshire College myths (the “Kojiki”) with stories of family members who drowned at sea, MHC ‘02 completed an arts internship at Jacob’s Pillow. She now works with Maura Donohue’s SC’92 Rip It Open an exhaustive and athletic examination of for Recreation and Community Relations in Newton, MA. Alyssa Cohen currently with the Broadway production of Caberet and recently returned Pele Bauch HC’96 performed in New York at University Settlement as part of their bodies never recovered, in a contemporary performance that involved the Center of Contemporary Arts Urban Arts Program teaching creative each performer’s relationship to violence. Dancing in the company for Maura Coughlin UM ‘96 directed two dance programs in Burlington and Bedford MA to Boston to perform in Impulse Dance Company’s 30th Reunion concert. the Movement Research’s open performance. Fran Clairmont HC’99 is dance, storytelling and video. movement and jazz at Jefferson Elementary School and Adams School. Abby is Nancy Ellis SC ’93. Maura taught at Dance Space Center as part of the after graduating. She currently works in business and is considering Tony Silva UM’94 continues as the Artistic Director of the New York-based performing in collaborative video works at the Green Street Studios in Yager MHC ‘92 continues to tour with the Trisha Brown Dance Co. Elizabeth Modern Guest Artist Series. Smith College honored Sharonjean Moser Leeds SC returning to school for an MA in dance. Shaun Curtin UM ‘96 writes that he company, Tony Silva Dance and Music. He is an active choreographer, Cambridge. Sarah Eley HC’02 is working with the Hawley Martin Dance Mount Holyoke College Young MHC ’87 is living in Paris, dancing with Joel Borges, a Brazilian ‘67 with the naming of “The Sharonjean Moser Leeds ‘67 Dance Studio” in the is still “Dancing Longer and Dancing Stronger!” Michele Chrisbacher UM producer, teacher and promoter of many dance activities. Robert Smith Company in Northampton and recently performed with the company in Lucy Albert Bermingham MHC ‘74 donated 23 pairs of Grishko Pointe Shoes choreographer and Felix Ruckert, a former dancer for Pina Bausch. Last Mendenhall Center for the Arts. Sharonjean is on the Dance faculty at the ‘02, Melissa Ham-Ellis UM ‘02, Arlene Steiner UM ‘02, and Molly Oulette UM UM’83 recently moved to Tacoma, Washington. He sends warm greetings to Wyoming. Jill Esterson HC’77, PT, CMPT has been working at Westside Dance to the MHC dance department. Alison Bory MHC 97’ finished her MA in dance year she toured to South America with Felix , performing his work Ring which University of San Francisco and was recently awarded a special “30 Year” pin ‘03 produced a concert, Conspicuously Marked Wings, at the Flynn Space in all in the dance department. John Wrzos UM ’00 presented his choreography Physical Therapy in New York City for seven and a half years specializing in studies at the University of Surrey in the UK, is applying for her PhD, working incorporates the audience into the performance, physically and verbally, for her long dedication to teaching dance. Last May she established a dance Burlington, VT. Kristen Duffy UM ‘00 danced with “Upward Spiral Dance in New York City this past year where he is an MFA candidate at NYU’s Tisch dance medicine. Jane Jerardi HC’97 performed at the Kennedy Center’s at Dance in America, and doing research and production on a number of creating a simple ritual to initiate the dance. She has also begun scholarship and accompanying financial award at San Francisco’s High Company” in Boston. Katherine Hooper UM ‘98 was commissioned to create School of the Arts on a $20,000 annual scholarship. Millennium Stage in a work, Mono: Singular, one. Erik Kaiel HC’95 documentaries. Amy Cox MHC ‘91 is working with French choreographer choreographing her own work. School of the Arts in the interest of promoting pursuit of the arts at the high new work for PKDC and Amy Zarlengo MacDermot UM ‘91 serves as the performed site specific work in Montreal’s Metro Station and was the Daria Fain, building a physical language for the Helen Keller project, to be school level. Kristen Mangione SC’94 is now the artistic director of her own Executive Director. Patricia Kenny UM‘91 produced a concert in New York featured performer at Pearson College in British Columbia. He is also performed at the Kitchen (NYC) in Dec 2002. Amy is also developing a new Smith College company, KM&Co. The company has performed at venues throughout New last spring and taught at the Peridance Center in New York. Fiona Marcotty teaching various week-long workshops for young kids in inner city schools. work, Angles of Incidence, for March 2003 at the Kitchen with six performers Christine Bennett SC MFA ‘96, artistic director of Bennett Dance Company in York. Most recently the company premiered the evening-length SKIN DEEP UM ’84 and her company Beat Upon Beat performed in the Five College His company, Archeopteryx 8 performed in the Five College Alumni Dance including Marya Wethers MHC ‘97 and Nicky Marshall MHC ‘’00. Erica Boston, held an annual fund raiser in October in the Loft Space in Davis during its 2001 New York City Season at University Settlement. Upcoming Dance Alumni Festival in October. Her work draws on sources such as A study of the Five College Dance Department Graduates has recently been Concert in October. Mollie McClelland HC’01 is teaching ballet classes in Florrence MHC ‘01 performed in HOT and Bothered, with choreography by Square. Proceeds will benefit the company and Silent Spring Institute for appearances include the SWEAT Series at Stevens Institute of Technology’s classical sculpture, flamenco and blues, and choreography of the 1930’s. completed by Sarah Montgomery and Michael Robinson of the Mount Pittsburgh and working with children in elementary schools. Steven Mary Ann Wall and Zenobia Taylor, at CHASHAMA Theatre in New York. breast cancer research. Bennett Dance Company is also part of the DeBaun Auditorium and Dancers’ Responding to AIDS The Remember Project Geniene Maybruch UM ‘98 performed with Patricia Kenny Dance Collection Holyoke College Economics Department. The report, “What Becomes of Petronio HC’78 was sponsored by CRASHarts in Boston to perform the work Elizabeth Hallmark MHC ‘83 formed a company, Hallmark Danceworks in Residential Arts season this fall, in a performance with the Dance Alum at ST. Mark’s Church. Natalie Neckyfarrow SC ‘00 is performing with Notes in Julie Ladouceur UM ‘98, Kate Brennan UM ‘98, Amy Steverman UM’98, and Undergraduate Dance Majors? A Study of the Five College Dance Strange Attractors to a commissioned score by British composer Michael Rochester, NY. Katie Krokey MHC ‘01 received a full scholarship to the PhD Festival in October. A June evening of works from Symphony Space of New Motion, a New York based company. She both choreographed and performed Colleen Sullivan UM ‘98 completed a year working for Holland American Department Graduates,” summarizes the results of a survey of the Nyman. A new work entitled Poised from Sara Sweet Rabidoux HC ‘93 and program at Riverside. Martha Mason MHC ‘88, director of Snappy Dance York entitled dance sampler included choreography by Melissa Briggs SC ‘95. in a concert, Threshold, in July. Wendy Osserman SC ‘64 was recently invited to Cruise Line. Layard Thompson UM’00 has worked in Europe with Brice Leroux. graduates conducted in 2000. The income, hours, jobs, work lives and work SC MFA ‘98 premiered at MASSMoCA in October. Inspired by the story of the Theatre, presented her company’s work for two full weekends in October at Last fall, Rebecca Chisman SC ‘94 began the Masters Program in dance at teach a master class series at Marymount Manhattan College. Her company, He performed in August 2002 at Jacobs Pillow with Alexandra Beller and histories of the graduates are explored. Copies of the paper and a summary the Copley Theatre in Boston. The company, now five years old, is preparing Wendy Osserman Dance Company, recently completed a project with are available on the web at http://mhc.mtholyoke.edu/~mirobins/five- to tour nationally by next fall and to pay every dancer a full-time living Wesleyan University and presented six performances of her work In the Light college-dance.doc and http://mhc.mtholyoke.edu/~mirobins/five-college- wage. Rebecca Malcolm-Naib MHC ’87 performed in Elemental, an evening of Loss at the Montreal Fringe Festival. In the New York Times (1/29/02), summary.doc. Many thanks to those of you who participated in the survey. of four of her works at The Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia, PA, in Jennifer Dunning described this work as “blessedly non-literal dance–(an) May O’Donnell

The Five College Dance Department and Mount Holyoke College festivals and summer workshops. Her technique has been taught to be up!” She concluded that everything moves in its own orbit will be re-staging “Suspension,” a dance by May O’Donnell, in Italy, Switzerland, Taiwan, and in colleges across the nation. yet holds its own energy and design. She put that observation during January term. The piece will be performed by an auditioned O’Donnell was unique in being able to balance her choreographic into dance as “Suspension.” It was the first abstract piece in group of seven dancers on the FCDD Faculty Dance Concert and performing career at the same time. As a member of the modern dance and became her signature work. May O’Donnell February 27 and 28 and March 1, 2003 at Mount Holyoke. The Martha Graham Contemporary Dance Company from 1932 to 1938 and her late husband, composer Ray Green, are regarded as work will be staged by Lida Nelson Smith, a former O’Donnell and from 1944 to 1953, she premiered the role of The Pioneer American originals in modern dance and modern music. She is company member, and overseen by Charles and Rose Flachs. Art Woman in Appalachian Spring, the Attendant in Graham’s duo, now 96 years-old, lives in Manhattan and is in the midst of students from MHC are helping build the set. Herodiade, and performed as guest artist in many other roles. writing her biography. On December 2, 2002 May O’Donnell will be the recipient of “Suspension,” created in 1943, occupies a special place in her the Martha Hill award for lifetime achievement. As works and is based on T.S. Eliot’s words “…at the still point of choreographer, she created more than seventy-five works for her the turning world, there the dance is.” It was created during own companies, 1937 to 1988. Her works have appeared on the wartime and she remembers: “One day, alone on a mountain programs of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Houston top, I saw a plane and a ship below me and realized that there is Ballet, The Place in London, the Oakland Ballet and at annual no up or down. I was supposed to be down and they were supposed

Tere O’Connor Dance Press release written by Ryan O’Donnell for UMass Residential Arts Program

Tere O’Connor Dance performed as part of the “Off-Center” series on concentrate on choreography. But the new work has brought him back October 4. Mr. O’Connor has been commissioned to create a new dance into the performing arena. “I’m trying to make a dance that comes from at Mt. Holyoke College with Five College dance students. The work will an imagined world where I never had any dance training or studied any premiere in the Mt. Holyoke Faculty Dance Concert on November 7-9. dance thought.” This is a fresh approach that has yielded equally fresh Tere O’Connor Dance has become known for transforming the material, energized with both a new-found vigor and steadfast mundane into the poetic. Comprised of myriad and widely-varied dance elegance. For example, O’Connor has recently taken the interesting step styles including modern, classical ballet, ethnic forms, mime, social of integrating text into his dance, illuminating a whole other dimension dance, and others, his choreography has recently veered off in a bold in which O’Connor’s usual political discourse can run rampant. new direction. As The Village Voice asserts, O’Connor’s dance emerges in Nevertheless, as The New York Times has stated, Tere “now subjects his fragments–it’s all cranky subtext with rage, grief, and loneliness text to the same kind of rhythmic scrutiny he has always applied…” erupting from bouts of stand-up comedy, cliches intoned by Greek …but the last words must belong to IGNY Dance: “For the restless choruses, scenes, songs, dances and quiet soliloquies.” Quite a stew. and unasserted, prepare ye: nothing is sacred.” O’Connor, 43, stopped performing about five years ago to

Merrill Ashley by Meghan Fair On October 25th, Merrill Ashley, former principal dancer with the company for more than 30 years, she retired. Immediately the New York City Ballet, will be speaking at Mount Holyoke following her retirement, she became a teaching associate at College as part of the FCDD Residency program. Following the the New York City Ballet, where she teaches Company class and lecture, she will be teaching a group of intermediate and helps to coach dancers in their roles. Today, she continues to advanced ballet dancers a selection from the ballet Ballo della play an important part in the dance world, appearing as a guest Regina which was originally choreographed for her by George teacher at many schools, and staging Balanchine ballets for Balanchine. companies. Merrill Ashley was one of the last Balanchine Ballerinas, dancers who were members of the New York City Ballet well before Balanchine’s death in 1983. During her time in the company, Ms. Ashley performed principal roles in numerous works by Balanchine. She was known for her stunning allegros and athletic, yet graceful technique. In 1997, after dancing with

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10-12 Mount Holyoke College Senior Thesis Concert December March Kendall Studio Theater • 8 pm • 538-2848 5-7 University Dancers Concert 1 Five College Dance Department Faculty Dance Concert 18 Karinne Keithley Concert: Performers Karinne Keithley, Paul UMass • 8 pm • 545-2511 MHC • (see above) Matteson, Melissa Briggs and members of the rep class 6-8 Amherst College Dance/Theater Performance Project: 1 Grupo Corpo Concert Kirby Theatre, AC • 8 pm original five college student choreography FAC, Concert Hall • 8 pm • 545-2511 24-26 Off-Center Series: Experimental Theater, AC • 8 pm • 542-2411 26 Workshop and Lecture by Nai-Ni Chen and Prof. Zhongwei Emerging Choreographers Series Concert 10 Smith College Grad Event Shen of the School of Science and Technology, Springfield, MA Main Studio, HC • 8 pm • 545-2511 SC • 7:30 pm • 585-3232 Herter Hall, UMass • 3 pm 27 Nai-Ni chen Dance Company In Concert: May January Passage to the Silk River 1 Rhythm in Shoes 2 Alankara: Arts in India Study Tour Bowker, UMass • 8 pm • 545-2511 FAC Concert Hall, UMass • 7:30 pm • 545-2511 6 May O’Donnell Residency • MHC 27-29 Hampshire College Div 3 Concert 1-3 Alive With Dance Concert Main Studio • 8 pm • 559-5889 Bowker, UMass • 8 pm • 545-2511 February 27-29 Mount Holyoke College Student Concert 2 Smith College Grad Event 13-15 Hampshire College Winter Concert Kendall Studio Theatre, MHC • 8 pm • 538-2848 Scott Dance St., SC • 7:30 pm • 585-3232 Main Studio • HC • 8 pm • 559-5889 8 Off-Center Series: Wire Monkey 13-15 Smith College MFA Concert April Bowker, UMass • 8 pm • 545-2511 Theatre 14, SC • 8 pm • 585-3232 3-4 Off-Center Series: Alexandra Beller 9-10 Amherst College Music 18–Final Project. 21-22 Off-Center Series: Kendall Studio Theater, MHC • 8 pm • 545-2511 Kirby Theatre, AC • 8 pm • 545-2411 Brazz Dance Concert: Augusto Soledade 3-5 Smith College Spring Concert 24 Mount Holyoke College Commencement Concert Bowker, UMass • 8 pm • 545-2511 Theatre 14, SC • 8 pm • 585-2787 Kendall Studio Theater • 8 pm • 538-2848 27-1 Five College Dance Department Faculty Dance Concert 10-12 Hampshire College Div 3 Concert Kendall Studio Theater, MHC • 8 pm • 538-2848 Main Studio, HC • 8 pm • 559-5889 design by EDGE studio • www.edge-studio.com