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Five College Dance Department Newsletter 2008–2009 FIVE COLLEGE DANCE DEPARTMENT NEWSLETTER 2008–2009 MARK MORRIS’S GLORIA AT THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC CDD presented the final performances of Editor: Jim Coleman (FCDD Chair) Mark Morris’s masterpiece, GLORIA, on a con- Additional help: Betty Thurston (FCDD), Anne Lewis (MHC ’09) cert of all live music and dance works at the Designer: Robyn Rodman, Five Colleges Academy of Music in Northampton in March. This unique Town-Gown collaboration was Fa fitting culmination to a series of concerts last fall - at Mount Holyoke, Smith and UMASS, each featuring resi- dent orchestras and choral ensembles. Set to Vivaldi’s joyous choral music “Gloria in D”, played RETU live by the Amherst College Orchestra and Choral En- College Hampshire Building, Dance www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/dance Five College Dance Department Dance College Five semble, GLORIA is “One of Morris’ masterpieces, beauti- R N SE ful, lush virtuosic—one of those pieces where you can 01002 MA Amherst, 893 West Street West 893 see the unbelievable connection between movement 549-3600 (413) R and the music.” The Mark Morris Dance Group first pre- VI C miered GLORIA in 1981 and the piece was restaged on E REQUE five college dancers this fall under the direction of long- time Mark Morris company member, Marjorie Folkman. S TE This project afforded the 20 dancers who performed in D the two casts a unique — and often challenging — inside n experience of the demanding rhythmic and ensemble intricacies of Morris’s musical choreography. The project was supported in part by a NEA American Masterpieces grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. n No. Hatfield, MA Hatfield, No. Nonprofit Org Nonprofit U.S. Postage U.S. Permit No. 4 No. Permit PAID Top photo: University Dancers. Middle photo: Alvin Ailey II dancers. Above: Sankofa Dance Project 2008. 1 FCDD HEADLINE? STUDENT AND AlUM NEWS Emily Alpren (AC ’02) recently received her MFA in Acting from ART and is now in Los Angeles looking for work in film. Nora Ambrosio (SC MFA ’87) continues to chair the Department of Dance at Slippery Rock U in Pennsyl- vania. She just completed a sabbatical, writing a sixth edition of her widely used book Learning about Dance, and a second edition of her new book on dance peda- gogy, The Excellent Instructor and the Teaching of Dance Technique (both published by Kendall/Hunt Publish- ers). She was recently elected to the Commis- sion on Accreditation for the National Association of Schools of Dance and serves as a site visitor for the association. Vanessa Anspaugh (SC MFA ’08), Maura Dono- hue (SC MFA ’08), Aretha Aoki (MFA ’08), Lily Gold (HC ’08) and Mary Reed (HC ’08) produced Food for Thought in November 2009 for which Vanessa choreographed, Maura cu- rated, and Aretha, Lily, and Mary performed. Vanessa recently presented a new work on DTW’s Fresh Tracks winter series. Christiana Axelsen (MHC ’03) spent parts of 2009 The Sankofa Dance Project hosted another thrilling sum- touring in Boston, New mer workshop, this year led by the incomparable Chuck York, San Francisco and Montana with Seattle- Davis; other members of the artistic team included Stafford based contemporary dance Berry, Associate Artistic Director of the African American company zoe/juniper. She Dance Ensemble (North Carolina), Amaniya Payne, Director now lives and dances in of the Muntu Dance Company (Chicago), Abdel Salaam, Di- New York where she is on a rector of the Forces of Nature Dance Company (New York), merit scholarship in the Pro- and Marilyn Sylla, Director of Bamidele and Dancers (Am- fessional Training Program at the Cunningham Studio. herst). Additionally there were musicans galore - drummers, She is currently performing a blue grass band, an akonting player - as Master Choreog- with several NYC chore- rapher Chuck Davis developed an extended version of “Blue ographers including Jules Grass/Brown Earth” which traces the history of the West Af- Skloot (Hampshire ’03). rican akonting to the development of the American banjo. Katie Bailey (MHC ’07) Once again, over fifty students participated including many is a Pilates coordinator at youth from the greater Springfield area. n Equinox Fitness Club in New York. Pele Bauch (HC ’96) per- formed an excerpt from her new piece, H to Oh, as part of HEADLINE? Performance Mix Festival at Joyce SoHo in February ’09. Chuck Davis came back in the fall to restage “Blue Grass/ Lisa Biggs (AC ’93) is Brown Earth” for the University Dancer’s Winter Concert. working on her PhD in This concert series set the scene for a marvelous degree Performance Studies at Northwestern University. ceremony in which Baba Chuck was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, the highest degree the University can Alexandra Botti (SC ’08) is bestow. It was thrilling to have Chuck Davis’s contribution to working PR for TripAdvisor in the University community as well as to arts and education Boston, teaching open adult classes part-time for Boston nationally and internationally acknowledged by the Chan- Ballet and training to teach cellor, the Provost and the Dean of the College of Humani- elementary students. ties and Fine Arts, the highest administrators on the Univer- n Strauss Bourque (HC ’06) an- sity campus. Art matters! Congratulations to Dr. Davis! nounced an exhibition of his work at the Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY, in a show entitled Leopards in the Temple, featuring established Continued on page 3 2 • FIVE COLLEGE DANCE DEPARTMENT NEWSLETTER and emerging American and FEROCIOUS BEAUTY: GENOME — LIZ LERMAN IN RESIDENCE European artists. Nick Brentley (AC ’06) performed with the McArthur Fellowship recipient, Philadelphia-based Tania world renowned choreographer, Isaac Dance Company dancer, and founder of the Liz on a brief tour to Jacob’s Lerman Dance Exchange, Liz Ler- Pillow and the Bates Dance man was in residence at Hampshire College in November. Festival before returning She presented a series of Master Classes, participated in a home to Washington DC as a “suitor” for a production panel discussion, “Dancing Through Science” and presented of Kiss Me, Kate at Toby’s a keynote lecture/performance: “Ferocious Beauty: Ge- Dinner Theater. Currently nome”. This lively talk on art and science synergies was in- he works as a motivational terspersed with performance and video excerpts from her dance-party instructor for evening-length performance work, Ferocious Beauty: Ge- NYX Entertainment Co. and nome. This multimedia production was created in collabora- is a member of the Lesoles Dance Project. tion with scientists and educators, and explores the science and meaning of the human genome project, interpreted Taela Brooks (AC ’06) through movement, images and sound. Lerman’s residen- is living in Melbourne, Australia working as a stage cy and its many activities was co-sponsored by FCDD and performer, choreographer Hampshire College’s Dance Department and Culture, Brain and teacher. Her next show and Development Program. n is Gershwin’s Crazy for You. taelanaomi.com. Willie Brown (UM ’02) is dancing with Dance Theater HEADLINE? X based in Philadelphia, an afro/contemporary modern David Dorfman was in residence at Smith College this company directed by Charles fall, creating a new work for 18 dancers from Smith and O. Anderson. He performed with Danse4Nia Repertory the five colleges. Dorfman is a nationally renowned Ensemble in Philadelphia in choreographer and artistic director of David Dorfman September, ’09. Dance — his company’s dancers and artistic collabora- Julia Brownell (AC ’04) grad- tors have been honored with eight “Bessie” Awards. Dor- uated from NYU in May, ‘08. fman describes his new piece, Dance To The Music/Every Julia’s most recent play, Smart Body Is..., as “a celebration of the joy of dancing and the Cookie opened in January funk of living.” n 2009 at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta. alliancetheatre. org/performance. Katherine Buechner (AC ’04) is a graduate student in the Yale School of Sound Design. Bernard Bygott (AC ’02) performed in The Supper Club of Lost Causes at A Theater for the New City this past November. theaterforthenewcity.net/ supperclub.htm Kat Callard (HC ’04) com- pleted a graduate program in Childhood and Creative Arts in Learning at Lesley University in the spring of HEADLINE? 2009. She is currently in her second year of teaching In February, FCDD hosted Norah Zuniga Shaw in a lec- 2nd grade at Park. ture/demonstration on her recent interactive web proj- Nichole Canuso (HC ’06) ect, SYNCHRONOUSOBJECTS (synchronousobjects.osu. writes that the Nichole edu), developed with renowned contemporary ballet Canuso Dance Company (out of Philadelphia, PA), choreographer, William Forsythe and designer Maria performed in a salon setting Palazzi. Ms. Shaw is a Hampshire graduate and currently in Brooklyn, NY. Assistant Professor and Director for Dance and Technol- nicholecanusodance.org ogy at Ohio State University. Yanira Castro (AC ’94) is working on a new project: Focusing on Forsythe’s complex ensemble dance One Flat Wilderness, which will Thing, reproduced, the project presents an original collec- premiere in fall 2010 with tion of screen-based visualizations (video, digital artwork, Dance Theater Workshop at animation, and interactive graphics) that reveal interlock- the Old American Can Fac- ing systems of organization in the choreography. The proj- tory. More on her work can be viewed at her Web site, ect aims to appeal to a broad public from diverse fields acanarytorsi.org. including but not limited to dance. Forsythe explains, “The project starts from the recognition that choreography is an Molly (Corkern) Tynes (HC ’03) was cast in the organizational practice that employs fundamental creative Paper Mill Playhouse’s strategies relevant to many other domains.” new production of On the Town! which opened Shaw writes: “This was a deeply interdisciplinary project in November 2009.
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