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FACULTY/GUEST ARTIST PROGRAM Greetings from the Chair... Welcome to this evening’s online presentation of the SRU Faculty and Guest Artist Dance Concert. This evening’s lineup presents work by eight faculty members and guest artist, Chitra Subramanian, who completed a residency at SRU in February 2020. This concert exemplifies the power of the creative process to reveal who we are and what motivates us. This concert is also a testament to the power of the arts to unite, confront, and comfort in times of strife and struggle. Thank you to all the choreographers and performers, especially our SRU dance majors and minors, who have engaged in new ways to bring you these diverse, filmic dances. To our community of learners, families, alumni, educators and artists everywhere, thank you for coming together with us and celebrating the arts. Please find us on facebook and instagram, or write us at [email protected] to share your thoughts and reactions on the concert. We look forward to connecting. Sincerely, Jennifer Keller Chairperson, SRU Department of Dance Income generated from this performance will benefit SRU dance activities, including our Virtual Guest Artist Series. To donate to the Dance Scholarship Fund, please visit https://www.srufoundation.org Slippery Rock University is an accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Dance. The SRU Department of Dance is one of the fourteen sister institutions of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. It is the only dance department within PASSHE. Faculty and Guest Artist Virtual Concert Program 2020 Linked (2020) Choreography and Direction: Chitra Subramanian Music: “Disparate Youth” by Santigold Performance: Reva Adams, Erin Brod, Alyssa Colon, Kathryn Eberhart, Ilisa Chasser, Anna DeRubeis, Luvenia Kalia, Rachel Male, Erin Moyer, Natalia Siles, Kaylee Smith, Riley Smith Student Rehearsal Director: Reva Adams First Camera: Jennifer Keller Second Camera: Kari Hoglund Editor: Lauren McBarron Assistant Editor: Kari Hoglund Production Assistant: Morghan Dyer Roll Up Your Sleeves (2016) Choreography: Nora Ambrosio Music: “Empty Bird Cage” by Andy Hasenpflug Performance: Emmalee Hallinan Weeping (2020) Choreography and Direction: Lindsay Fisher Viatori Performer: Lindsay Fisher Viatori Camera and Edit: Ben Viatori Music: Michael Wall Trip to Cambodia (2020) Choreography: Jaya Mani Music: Traditional Classical Music Performance: Deepa Mani, Kavya Suresh, Luvenia Kalia, Ramita Ravi and Shravani Charyulu If You Were Coming In the Fall (2020) Music and Performance: Andy Hasenpflug Poetry: “If You Were Coming In The Fall” by Emily Dickinson If you were coming in the fall, I'd brush the summer by With half a smile and half a spurn, As housewives do a fly. If I could see you in a year, I'd wind the months in balls, And put them each in separate drawers, Until their time befalls. If only centuries delayed, I'd count them on my hand, Subtracting till my fingers dropped Into Van Diemen's land. If certain, when this life was out, That yours and mine should be, I'd toss it yonder like a rind, And taste eternity. But now, all ignorant of the length Of time's uncertain wing, It goads me, like the goblin bee, That will not state its sting. Sweet Sense (2020) Direction and Camera: Jennifer Keller Choreography and Performance: Kari Hoglund Music: Emily Holden Edit: Kari Hoglund Cha Cha Interlude (2020) Excerpt from "I Am a Haunted House: Re-animating Joan" Dancer: Jesse Factor Videography and Digital Editing: Scott Andrew Music: Andy Hasenpflug Made with support from the KST Alloy Studios Freshworks Residency Program, Pittsburgh, PA Golden Bull (2018, excerpt) Choreography: Christy Funsch and Nol Simonse Music: Aaron Gold Performance: Hien Huynh, Rogelio Lopez, Andrew Merrell, Victor Talledos, Erik Wagner Lighting design: Harry Rubeck Videotape of performance: Loren Robertson Productions Made with support from Dancers’ Group and Theatre Bay Area’s CA$H, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and Shawl Anderson Dance Center’s Residency Program Nocturnal Landing: A Journey of Memory and Reclamation (2020) Choreography, Direction, Editing: Ursula Payne Music: Blah, Blah, Blah Courtesy of Free Music Archives First Camera: Ursula Payne Second Camera: Octavia Payne Costume Conception: Ursula Payne Wearable Sail Art Design: Heather Hertel Wearable Sail Art Construction: Ann Groenendaal Digital Media Consultant: Dr. Franklin Charles Filmed at: Caldwell Berry Farm (1918-2020), Huntersville, NC SILKEN : EDGE (2019) Choreography and Direction: Lindsay Fisher Viatori Performance: Tiffany Shrom, Lindsay Fisher Viatori Camera and Edit: Ben Viatori Music: The Four Seasons, Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, RV 315 "Summer": III. Presto by Antonio Vivaldi, performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra & Itzhak Perlman Pulse (2020) Choreography, Camera, Edit: Jennifer Keller Music: Emily Holden Performance: Olivia Barner, Sarah Dietsch, Kaitlyn Falce, Lauren McBarron Lighting: Naomi Bates, Autumn Hazelet Faculty and Guest Artist Biographies Nora Ambrosio is a full professor and has been at SRU since 1988, where she teaches dance composition, dance history, creative dance for children, teaching of dance, senior capstone, and university seminar. She has written Learning about Dance, 8th edition (Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, IA, 2018), which is used in over 150 dance departments throughout the country and Canada and has sold over 400,000 copies. A new on-line version has also been published. Kendall/Hunt Publishers also published The Excellent Instructor and the Teaching of Dance Technique (3nd edition, 2018). Nora was a seven-year member of the Commission on Accreditation for the National Association of Schools of Dance and served a three-year term as Chairperson of the Commission. She is currently a member of the NASD Board of Directors, and a presidential appointee to the Commission on Accreditation. She also serves as an accreditation site visitor for college and university dance programs across the country. She is on the Nominating Committee of the National Dance Museum’s C.V. Whitney Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, NY, and is the president of the Board of Directors for the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School in Midland, PA. She is also on the Editorial Board for a national journal, Dance Education in Practice, and serves as a Writing Mentor for journal submissions. She served as the artistic director of SRU Dance Theatre for nine years and again in 2010-2011, and as the director of the Kaleidoscope Arts Festival in 2008-2009. Nora was the chairperson of the Department of Dance from 1998-2011, successfully achieving national accreditation for the department in 2000, and reaccreditation in 2006 and 2011. She is a prolific grant writer and has secured over forty grants for the Department of Dance, the Kaleidoscope Arts Festival and her own artistic endeavors. Nora worked diligently toward the downtown revitalization of the Village at Slippery Rock and was instrumental in bringing the arts to the downtown area and securing grant and private funding for commissioned public art pieces. Nora choreographs for both student and professional venues, and for many years created dance/theatre work with her husband, David Skeele, as part of Ambrosio/Skeele Dance/Theatre. She is currently the Coordinator of University Seminar at SRU. Jesse Factor danced with the Martha Graham Dance Company, Graham II, served as dance supervisor for the North American company of Cats, and toured in the European production of Cabaret. Factor’s independent creative work has been presented in dance, art, and nightlife venues including TQ Live! at the Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh), OUTsider Festival (Austin), Milton Art Bank (Milton), RADfest (Kalamazoo), St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery (NYC), Fresh Fruit Festival (NYC), House of Yes, (NYC), Fierce Queer Burlesque (Toronto) and digitally through Princess Jafar Online and the Queerly Contemporary Virtual Dance Festival. Awards include the Twin Cities Arts Reader Critics Pick and Staff Pick for RELIC at the Minnesota Fringe Festival and Outstanding Dance Performance for Marthagany at the Fresh Fruit Festival-NYC. Jesse received the Kelly Strayhorn Alloy Studios Freshworks (PA) residency grant for a collaborative work with multimedia artist Scott Andrew. As a regisseur for Martha Graham Resources, Jesse’s reconstructions of archival Graham work include Helios from Acts of Light, Serenata Morisca, and Celebration, which was performed by SRU dance students at the Joyce Theater (NYC) and the Jacob’s Pillow (MA) Inside/Out performance series with support from an SRU Faculty Student Research grant. Jesse holds a BFA in Drama with honors from Tisch/NYU and an MFA in Dance from the University of Iowa, receiving the Iowa Arts Fellowship and an Obermann Graduate Institute Fellowship. www.jessefactor.com Christy Funsch formed Funsch Dance in 2002 and has since been presented in Amsterdam, Chicago, London, Nebraska, New York, Phoenix, Portland, Toronto, Virginia, and throughout California. She has newly relocated to New York; while in San Francisco, Christy self-produced thirteen full-length evenings of new work. Christy continues to enjoy rich collaborative partnerships with Nol Simonse, Julie Mayo, and Peiling Kao. 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