Somerset County Cultural & Heritage Commission
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TTeeeenn AArrttss FFeessttiivvaall At Raritan Valley Community College Wednesday, May 15, 2019 An Annual Arts-in-Education Program of the Somerset County Cultural & Heritage Commission SOMERSET COUNTY BOARD OF CHOSEN FREEHOLDERS Brian D. Levine, Freeholder Director Patricia L. Walsh, Freeholder Deputy Director Brian G. Gallagher, Freeholder Shanel Y. Robinson, Freeholder Sara Sooy, Freeholder SOMERSET COUNTY CULTURAL & HERITAGE COMMISSION Stephanie Moench, President Janice Haggerty, Vice President Rory Britt, Secretary Phyllis Fittipaldi, Treasurer Robert Bouwman Don Esposito Kathy Faulks Dennis Quinlan Ann Osterdale Rosenblum Freeholder Liaison: Brian G. Gallagher Kaitlin Bundy, Manager Thomas R. D’Amico, Historic Sites Coordinator Natalie Zaman, Program Coordinator Robert Meyer, Special Projects Assistant Cathy Bunting, Administrative Assistant This program is made possible in part by funds from the Somerset County Cultural & Heritage Commission, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. 2 WWeellccoommee ttoo tthhee SSoommeerrsseett CCoouunnttyy TTeeeenn AArrttss FFeessttiivvaall CONTENTS Student Performance Schedules and Sites: page 4–15 Workshop Schedules, Descriptions, and Sites: page 20–27 Artists’ Biographies: page 29–38 Acknowledgements: page 39 Maps: page 40–43 IMPORTANT REMINDERS REGISTRATION DESKS All students, teachers, artists, volunteers and guests MUST sign in at a Registration Desk in either the MAIN Building or the ARTS Building per assignment. Main Building (Library/Theater Complex) Registration: First Floor (upstairs) across from the Library Arts Building Registration: Inside entrance from Parking Lot #4 PERFORMING STUDENTS Please try to arrive at your performance site 15 minutes early. Volunteers will assist in ensuring no one enters or leaves a performance that is in progress. You can only enter and leave between performances. VOLUNTEERS In addition to Registration Desks, volunteers are stationed at performance sites and several workshops. They will help in any way they can to make your day a productive one. Please thank them by showing them every courtesy. LUNCH Students and guests may purchase lunch in the college cafeteria on Floor 2 of the COLLEGE CENTER. FOOD AND BEVERAGES ARE NOT PERMITTED IN CLASSROOMS OR PERFORMANCE SITES. DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS Students found in an unauthorized area or leaving the RVCC Campus will not be allowed to return to the SC Teen Arts Festival the following year. Any school with disciplinary actions taken against it during the day of the festival will not be recommended to the State Teen Arts Festival. ACCESSIBILITY RVCC is an ADA compliant facility; please call two (2) weeks prior to the festival to request assistive services. SECURITY/ EMERGENCIES Emergency Call Boxes BLUE BOX / ARTS BUILDING: between Rooms A-19 and A-20 BLUE BOX / MAIN BUILDING: outdoors by Library and Book Return RED BOXES/ALL OTHER BUILDINGS: center of each Main Hallway Defibrillators ARTS BUILDING: between Rooms A-19 and A-20 COLLEGE CENTER: between Students Activities and Finance Offices COLLEGE SECURITY OFFICE: Somerset Building, Floor “B” FIRE EVACUATE ALL BUILDINGS IMMEDIATELY, LEAVING BY NEAREST EXIT. PROCEED AWAY FROM THE BUILDINGS AND EMERGENCY PERSONNEL. 3 PPeerrffoorrmmaannccee && CCrriittiiqquuee SScchheedduullee LARGE GROUP DANCE Location: Nash Theater Adjudicators: Loretta Fois and Joe Monteleone TIME SCHOOL STUDENT/GROUP TEACHER Watchung Hills Regional 9:00 WHRHS Dance Ensemble Daniel Bertelli High School 9:10 North Plainfield High School Canuck Dance Company (17) Rebecca Visintainer 9:20 Sampson G. Smith School SGS Adv Dance 8th Grade – Boys Cherilyn Strand 9:30 Sampson G. Smith School SGS Adv Dance 8th Grade – Girls Cherilyn Strand 9:40 North Plainfield High School Canuck Dance Company (15) Rebecca Visintainer 9:50 Franklin Middle School FMS @ HSC Adv 8th Grade Boys Aaron Ramos 10:00 Franklin Middle School FMS @ HSC Adv 8th Grade Girls Aaron Ramos NOTE: Please be at the entrance to the backstage hallway and ready to perform 15 minutes prior to your performance. Enter: Backstage Hallway Exit: Front of Auditorium WARM-UP SPACE FOR LARGE DANCE PERFORMANCES: Upstairs lobby area (in front the entrance to the balcony) ” Dance is the hidden language of the soul.” ~Martha Graham 4 SOLO & SMALL GROUP DANCE Location: Welpe Theater Adjudicators: Loretta Fois and Christine Sampson TIME SCHOOL STUDENT/GROUP TEACHER Somerset County VoTech VoTech Repertory Dance Maureen 10:30 High School Company Glennon-Clayton Irazema Rivera and 10:40 Franklin High School How Did I? Della Serra 10:50 Franklin High School Toni Wright Irazema Rivera Somerset County VoTech 11:00 VoTech Dance Company Sheila Sullivan High School Irazema Rivera and 11:10 Franklin High School Tonei Silver & Juliana Ciccone Della Serra 11:20 Hillsborough Middle School HMS Trio Katherine Stein 11:30 Hillsborough Middle School HMS Duet Katherine Stein 11:40 Hillsborough Middle School Emma Gonzalez Katherine Stein 11:50 Hillsborough Middle School Alma Chan-Olan Katherine Stein BREAK 12:10 Purnell School Dance Synthesis Hannah Castro Sydney Muhando and 12:20 North Plainfield High School Rebecca Visintainer Amir Simmons 12:30 Purnell School Monae Payne and Shelly Zhan Hannah Castro WARM-UP SPACE FOR SMALL DANCE PERFORMANCES: Upstairs lobby area (in front of the entrance to the balcony) 5 LARGE GROUP INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC Location: Nash Theatre Adjudicators: Lee Anderson and Virginia Johnston TIME SCHOOL STUDENT/GROUP TEACHER 1:00 Franklin High School FHS Flute Ensemble Eric Diaz and Dan Berz 1:10 Hillsborough Middle School Baker’s Dozen Tracey Baker 1:20 Green Brook Middle School Woodwind Ensemble Vincent Sorensen Branchburg Central 1:30 BCMS Chamber Orchestra Regina Santangelo Middle School 1:45 Manville High School Manville High School Jazz Band Joseph Espineira NOTE: Please be at the entrance to the backstage hallway and ready to perform 15 minutes prior to your performance. Enter: Backstage Hallway Exit: Front of Auditorium INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC WARM-UP ROOM AND INSTRUMENT STORAGE Somerset Building, S-16 Instruments are stored at the student’s own risk. ” Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.” ~Frank Zappa 6 SOLO & SMALL GROUP INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC Location: Arts Building, A-33 Adjudicators: Lee Anderson, Virginia Johnston, and Tony Strong TIME SCHOOL STUDENT/GROUP TEACHER Watchung Hills Regional 8:30 Taylor Hestvik Angela DiIorio Bird High School 8:45 Bound Brook High School Crusader Band Elizabeth Levering 9:00 Hillsborough Middle School Saloni Parkar Tracey Baker Emily Coa, Stephanie Guo, and 9:10 Hillsborough Middle School Tracey Baker Allyson Lee 9:20 Hillsborough Middle School Alec Ruiter Tracey Baker Rithuik Akella, Alexander 9:30 Hillsborough Middle School Tracey Baker Lin, and Anna Sun 9:40 Hillsborough Middle School Thomas Walega Tracey Baker 9:50 Sampson G. Smith School SGS Wind Chamber Jonathan Ware 10:00 Sampson G. Smith School SGS Brass Ensemble Jonathan Ware 10:10 Green Brook Middle School GBMS Saxophone Quartet Vincent Sorensen 10:20 Green Brook Middle School GBMS Brass Ensemble Vincent Sorensen 10:30 Franklin High School FHS Percussion Ensemble Eric Diaz, Dan Berz 10:40 Franklin High School FHS Saxophone Ensemble Eric Diaz, Dan Berz 7 SOLO & SMALL GROUP INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC CONTINUED… 10:50 Franklin High School Chamber Guitar Ensemble Patrick Callahan Branchburg Central 11:00 BCMS Brass Ensemble Krissy DeNicuolo Middle School Branchburg Central 11:10 BCMS Clarinet Ensemble Krissy DeNicuolo Middle School Branchburg Central 11:20 BCMS Saxophone Ensemble Krissy DeNicuolo Middle School Branchburg Central 11:30 BCMS Flute Ensemble Krissy DeNicuolo Middle School INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC WARM-UP ROOM & INSTRUMENT STORAGE Arts Building, A-31 Instruments are stored at the student’s own risk. “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.” ~Albert Einstein 8 LARGE GROUP THEATRE Location: Welpe Theater Adjudicator: Eric Diamond TIME SCHOOL STUDENT/GROUP TEACHER Branchburg Central 9:00 BCMS Drama Club Nicole Kepner Middle School 9:20 Hillsborough Middle School ShakesPeer Society Christina Simons 9:40 Bound Brook High School Bound Brook Drama Club Anna Shaffner WARM-UP ROOM FOR LARGE THEARE PERFORMANCES: Somerset Building, S-14 “Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way.” ~Eugene Ionesco Don’t forget to tag your photos from the Festival on Instagram with #SCTEENARTS 9 SMALL GROUP THEATRE PERFORMANCE Location: College Center, C-08 and C-10 Adjudicators: Eric Diamond and Beth Painter TIME SCHOOL STUDENT/GROUP TEACHER 10:00 Hillsborough High School Vinisha Bhagdev Julianna LoBiondo 10:10 Hillsborough High School Elena Waddleton Julianna LoBiondo 10:20 Hillsborough High School Caitlin Schwarz Julianna LoBiondo 10:30 Franklin High School Avelyn Simons Ellen Beattie 10:40 Franklin High School Amari Munn Ellen Beattie 10:50 Franklin High School Nia Abdullah Ellen Beattie Raquel Layton-Brown and 11:00 Franklin High School Ellen Beattie Therese Gonzales 11:10 Bound Brook High School Madeline Shallop Marian Stewart 11:20 Bound Brook High School Noelia Bernal Marian Stewart 11:30 Bound Brook High School Erin O’Rielly Marian Stewart Branchburg Central 11:40 Phoebe Montemurro Nicole Kepner Middle School 11:50 Green Brook Middle School