2010-2011 SPCPA J-Term Offerings Contemporary Indian Dance
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2010-2011 SPCPA J-Term Offerings Contemporary Indian Dance Choreographed by Ananya Chatterjea SPCPA’s 2010 graduation speaker, dancer, choreographer, published author, dance scholar and educator, Ananya Chatterjea envisions all of her work in the field of dance as a “call to action.” She is the Director of Dance at the University of Minnesota, and also the Artistic Director of Ananya Dance Theatre, an internationally renowned company of women artists of color who believe in the powerful intersection of artistic excellence and social justice. Romantic Ballet Choreographed by Karen Paulson Rivet Karen Paulson Rivet excels in the rich traditions of Russian classical ballet and character techniques. During her performing career she danced solo roles in Les Sylphides, Pas de Quatre, Giselle, and Loyce Houlton’s Nutcracker Fantasy. Ms. Paulson Rivet has restaged Les Sylphides, Pas De Quatre, and the Pas de Trois from Swan Lake for St. Paul City Ballet. She is currently on the teaching staff of Minnesota Dance Theatre/The Dance Institute, Northland School of Dance and Lake Harriet Dance Center, and is a guest master teacher for many other ballet schools. Ms. Paulson Rivet continues to perform with recent appearances in The Fringe Festival, Continental Ballet’s Cinderella and Coppelia, and Minnesota Dance Theatre’s Nutcracker Fantasy. Afro Modern Choreographed by Roxane Wallace Roxane Wallace is active in the arts as a performer, teacher, dancer, and choreographer. She is a teaching artist for the Children’s Theatre Company and has been a member of the Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater Company for the past eight years. Constantly engaged in her field, Roxane has worked with choreographers and directors of both regional and international acclaim. Her proficiency and experience in dance includes Modern, Jazz, West African, Hip-Hop, Improvisation, and Dance Theater. In 2004 she was named “Best Dancer” in the City Pages’ “Best of the Twin Cities” issue. In 2006 she wrote, choreographed, directed, and produced the original ensemble production “Evolution of a Soul Sista.” She received a 2007 Sage Award for Outstanding Performer in Dance and was also honored to be a recipient of a 2008 McKnight Fellowship for Dancers. Tap Choreographed by Ellen Keane A professional performer since 1981, Ellen Keane has taught rhythm tap for universities and dance schools around the Midwest and is currently on the faculty at the University of Minnesota Theater & Dance Department. She has taught school residencies for the Ordway, the St Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the East Side Arts Council in St. Paul. Collaborations include the St Paul Chamber Orchestra, Misora Taiko, and most recently the Chicago Human Rhythm Project's production of Tap Dance in Beijing China, featuring 6 youth tap ensembles and internationally known professionals. During the past 13 years, performances with her tap company Keane Sense of Rhythm have ranged from the street to the rooftop and from outdoor venues to professional theaters. Keane Sense of Rhythm has performed for over 100,000 people, and many of these performances were free to the public. Modern Choreographed by TU Dance Uri Sands and Toni Pierce Sands are TU Dance. Founded in 2004 by Toni and Uri, the Minnesota-based company reaches across dance styles, drawing on the broad range of dance traditions from contemporary ballet to modern and traditional forms. Their work is a blend of high physicality and fine technique. Both have performed with the Alvin Ailey Dance company and have garnered many accolades and awards, including a McKnight fellowship, an artist of the year from the Star Tribune, and one of the “25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine. Jazz Choreographed by Laura Selle Virtucio Laura Selle Virtucio holds her BFA from the University of Minnesota. Among her greatest accomplishments, she counts her long partnership as a company member and choreographers’ assistant with Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater and Shapiro & Smith Dance. With these companies, Laura has danced as a featured performer on stages nationwide, including the Joyce Theater (NY), Annenberg Center (PA), The Guthrie (MN), and The Southern Theater (MN) and has set numerous repertory works across the country. Laura is also a member of Carl Flink’s Black Label Movement and has performed as a dancer in productions with the Minnesota Opera. She has served as affiliate faculty in dance programs at the University of Minnesota and Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota. Laura is a recipient of the 2007 McKnight Fellowship for Dancers, a 2007 Sage Award for Best Performer, and was named Best Dancer 2001 by City Pages of Minneapolis. These 6 dance pieces will perform at the O'Shaughnessy Auditorium at 7:00 PM on Friday, January 28. Sossy Mechanics Moving Theater Combining their “energetic and charismatic” forces, Brian Sostek and Megan McClellan’s whimsical sensibilities and exacting standards have earned them an award-winning reputation for creating “clear, brilliant storytelling,” dances that “recall Fred and Ginger at their most playful” and “magic out of just about nothing.” Transforming the stage and transfixing audiences together since 2000, they have developed a devoted public following and garnered international critical acclaim wherever they have performed, including a 2003 Critics' Pick at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. www.SossyMechanics.com Guest direction and choreography by Sossy Mechanics (Megan McClellan and Brian Sostek) Rehearses and performs at the Lab Theater in Minneapolis on a double bill with The Land of Polished Stones. The Land of Polished Stones The Land of Polished Stones is an epic tale of life and death — an earthy, dramatic, poetic work with a comic edge. This original, ensemble created evening of dance-theater will be highly physical and imagistic, requiring full bodied movement from all cast members - actors and dancers. Performers should come to rehearsal ready to move, vocalize, experiment and invent. Our process and final piece will be based in “Total Theater”: the idea that all elements of performance (movement, visuals, music, text) are equally important and should be conceived and developed simultaneously. The Land of Polished Stones has principal roles for both experienced dancers and actors as well as up to three or more instrumentalists who are able to compose or improvise. Vocalists are welcome, but must be willing to move. In preparation for J-term, 2-3 casting and development workshops will be held fall semester. Please contact Jon Ferguson ([email protected]) or Sarah Jacobs ([email protected]) with questions. For dancers, actors and musicians. Directed by Sarah Jacobs and Jon Ferguson Rehearses and performs at the Lab Theater in Minneapolis (along with Theatre Dance) Piano in the Round Piano duets reflect the crucial collaborative quality of appearing to think with one brain. As four synchronized hands move in response to a single artistic impulse, we listen to just one artist in service of the music. The final production will be held at the beautiful Landmark Center, Room 317. Join Dr. Max Radloff for the elegant and exciting evening of Piano in the Round. Rehearses at the Lowry, Performs at the Landmark Center Project Director: SPCPA’s Max Radloff New Play Festival Eight SPCPA student-written plays rehearse toward performances at the internationally renowned Playwrights’ Center. A company of 20 actors will perform in multiple plays. This project also needs directors and perhaps 1 or 2 more playwrights. We are thrilled to be working in the Playwrights’ Center for tech rehearsals and performances the final week of J- Term. Project Director: Dominic Orlando Dominic Orlando is a co-creator of Fissures (lost & found) (Humana Festival, 2010); plays he’s written include Danny Casolaro Died for You (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre,2010), Juan Gelion Dances for The Sun (Crowded Fire Theatre, 2006) and Life During Wartime (HERE, 2002). Commissions include Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Guthrie Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Playwrights Center, The History Theatre, Nautilus Music-Theater, BVT Children's Theatre and Teatro Del Pueblo. His work has been presented/developed at New York Theatre Workshop, HERE, The Samuel Beckett on Theatre Row (off-Broadway), The Aurora Theatre, Kitchen Dog, Bay Area Playwrights Festival (multi-year), The NYC International Fringe Festival (multi-year), The Prague Fringe, The Pasinger/Fabrike in Munich and The Tokyo International Festival of the Arts. He’s been a writer-in-residence at The Mac-Dowell Colony (multi-year), Yaddo, The Edward Albee Foundation (multi-year), and The Atlantic Center for The Arts (with Paula Vogel). He was awarded two Jerome Fellowships and a McKnight Fellowship to The Playwrights’ Center, where he is currently a Core Member and a founding producer of The Workhaus Collective, the Center’s company-in-residence. Rehearses at SPCPA Techs and Performs at the Playwrights’ Center Theater in Minneapolis Resurrecting Vaudeville The magic of classic vaudeville performed at the venue made for it—the Minnesota Centennial Showboat’s Riverboat Theater. Acts will include classical musicians, dancers, comedians, slap stick, trained animals (we know they’re out there!), magicians, female and male impersonators, jugglers, stand-up, athletes, minstrels, silent black & white film shorts, and classic vaudeville songs--musical acts--jazz and honky tonk, from Minnesota, St. Louis, and on down the river to the stylings of old New Orleans. Please come to call- backs prepared to present a one-minute piece in the style of any of the above categories of entertainment. For musicians, actors, singers, dancers, and magicians. Directed by SPCPA’s Joey Clark Choreographed by SPCPA’s Shannon Roberg Rehearses at the Lowry Lab Theater Techs and performs on the Minnesota Centennial Showboat in St. Paul Departure Point Creating New Music with Zeitgeist Departure Point is a composition/performance workshop for music students interested in exploring new and traditional ways of creating new work. Students will meet with Zeitgeist members for 4 hours each day at Zeitgeist’s performance space, Studio Z.