Artfusion News A publication of Marymount Manhattan College Issue No. 6 - Fall 2010 Artfusion News Artfusion News serves as an open forum to learn about, discuss, advocate, and enjoy cultural activities in and around New York. The magazine, founded in Spring 2008, serves as a public voice for students of all majors who are interested in exploring and sharing their ideas on various forms of cultural expression, including art, music, dance, theater, and film. Artfusion News contains works by practicing visual and performing artists, and interviews with Marymount students, alumni, and professors who are working in art-related fields. We also count on students to keep us posted on cultural activities abroad. As an interdisciplinary organization, we invite students to write articles and editorials on intersections among the arts, sciences, humanities, business, and social sciences. We hope, ultimately, to enrich the cultural awareness of all Marymount students by investigating and celebrating the limitless and unparalleled artistic and educational resources available to us through our distinct location—the heart of a great cultural capital—and beyond. As the arts have long been enriched by the diversity of its creators, this edition of Artfusion News is dedicated to Marymount’s Gay-Straight National Alliance Project (G-SNAP). G-SNAP is a student organization that strives, through sponsored events and discussions, to build awareness about Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ), and other diverse cultures. Greater awareness of LGBTQ issues and organizations such as G-SNAP and the “It Gets Better” Project provide comfort for those who feel alienated and reiterate the importance of combating intolerance in all of its forms. Artfusion News Contents In Every Issue Prof. Adrienne Bell, Letter from the Editor and Faculty Adviser 5 Spotlight on the Artists Alida Rose Delaney 7 Elizabeth Rosetty 10 KellyAnne Semple 13 Students in the News Erica Jackson 16 Faculty Focus Kayley Fullerton, “Princess Penelope and Other Tales: An 17 Interview with Julia Gran” Rebecca Lermsider, “Living the Life: Nancy Lushington” 21 Amanda DiLodovico, “Dance Faculty Brings New York 24 Dance Scene to Europe” Fine and Performing Arts in the City Art: “The Fall 2010 Season in the Hewitt Gallery of Art”; 26 “Marymount at the Met” Dance: “Dancers at Work” 28 Theater: “A Bill for Bill: Short Plays in Memory of J. William 29 Bordeau” Jordan Anderson, “Visionary Art in ‘The Spanish Manner’ at 30 the Frick Collection” Sara Patterson, “A Preview of the 2011 Broadway Season” 33 Lindsey Sullivan, “Broadway on Broadway: New York 36 Community Takes Center Stage” Artfusion News Essays on the Arts Elizabeth Rosetty , “A Nexus Between Performance Art 42 and Computers: Multi-media Interactive Dance through Motion-Capture Technology” Meghan Quinlan, “Celebrating the Life and Work of Alwin 47 Nikolais” Cultural Studies Abroad Prof. Rob Dutiel, “Theater Study Abroad: Theater and 52 Drama of Ancient Greece” Katie Hennessy, “Welcome to Alaska!”: Ten Days of Art and 55 Architecture in Egypt Off the Beaten Track An Up-date on Manburger Surgical 58 About Our Contributors 59 Cover photo from Alwin Nikolais’ Kaleidoscope. Dancers: Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. Photo: Fred Hayes. Used with permission. Photo from http://www.ririewoodbury.com. Director of Advertising: Samantha Rees, ‘13 Designed by Will Fischer, ‘11 Edited and Produced by Prof. Bell Forthcoming in the Spring 2011 edition of Artfusion News Review of “Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time,” Whitney Museum of American Art (through 10 April 2011) Reports on Spring 2011 events in Art, Dance, and Theater, including exhibitions in the Hewitt Art Gallery and the Spring Repertoire. ...and much more. Artfusion News Letter from the Faculty Adviser and Editor by Professor Adrienne Bell elcome to the sixth edition of Artfusion of the faculty. Julia Gran, a well-known W News, Marymount’s cultural-affairs illustrator, discusses her professional experiences magazine. We are pleased to present a rich array with Kayley Fullerton, who is considering a of articles and interviews on the cultural activities kindred career while she majors in both Art of our students and faculty—at the college, in History and Studio Art. In another interview, New York, and in such far-flung locations as Rebecca Lermsider, a dancer in the BFA Dance Nicosia and Deir el Bahri. Performance Program, learns about the illustrious In keeping with the mission of Artfusion career of Dance professor Nancy Lushington… News to represent a full scope of cultural who returns for a second interview, this time with activities, this edition contains articles on art, Dance professor Anthony Ferro. They talk to art history, dance, and theater. We begin, as Dance and English major Amanda DiLodovico always, by shining a bright spotlight on three about their inspiring work, during the Summer exceptional artists. Alida Rose Delaney is a first- of 2010, as guest professors at a Cyprus dance year student with a great love of photography intensive. and a sophisticated perspective on ways of “Fine and Performing Arts in the exploring the medium’s complexities through City” offers a glancing look at a few of the key her interests in language and dance. Elizabeth cultural events during the Fall at the College and Rosetty introduces us to a selection of her in New York. Comprehensive we cannot be but artwork, which includes expressionistic portraits we’re glad to highlight activities in the Hewitt Art in acrylic and lyric-infused images of members Gallery, the Dance and Theater programs, the of the rock bank Incubus. Inspired by nature, Frick Collection, and on Broadway. The selection Studio Art major KellyAnne Semple offers fresh of topics relies wholly on student contributions, and sensitive explorations of easily overlooked so if you feel that something crucial is missing— treasures through her drawings and mixed-media and we’re sure it is—then hop on the AFN constructions. bandwagon and tell us about it in the Spring 2011 The Art History department was edition. especially proud last Spring when the news broke Dance is the focus for our “Essays that one of our majors, Erica Jackson, ’12, had on the Arts” section. Here, Elizabeth Rosetty been awarded a Watson Fellowship. We celebrate returns to discuss the impact on dance of the her achievement in this edition of the magazine. growing field of motion-capture technology. We are delighted this semester to Meghan Quinlan fills us in on the rich array of feature the work of three outstanding members events designed to celebrate the life and work of 5 Artfusion News Letter from the Faculty Adviser and Editor the outstanding choreographer Alwin Nikolais have rather amusing ways of battling the heat. (1910-1993). The Marymount community Thanks—as ever and always—to the will have a rare opportunity to watch Nikolais’ students who contributed articles and works of Crucible (1985), which will be performed during art to this edition of Artfusion News. You are a the Spring 2011 Dance Repertoire. model of superior teamwork. We are also grateful We’re off to Greece and Egypt for to Jim Rogers, Dean of Admission, for making “Cultural Studies Abroad.” Elise M. VanderKley copies available to prospective students, and to and Nicholas Moreno celebrate a course co- Samantha Rees, our ace Director of Advertising, taught by Professors Rob Dutiel and Mark for building strong relationships with local Ringer in Greece during the Summer of 2010. businessess that support the magazine. Special Undoubtedly inspired by Cole Porter’s song thanks to Professors Gran, Ferro, and Lushington about mad dogs and Englishmen going out in (twice!) for taking the time to give interviews to the midday sun, Katie Hennessy boldly ventures our student reporters. Finally, it was a pleasure inside the wonders of Khafre’s pyramid before to continue my collaboration with the magazine’s heading off to Karnak, Luxor, and Hatshepsut’s splendid designer, Will Fischer, ’11. tomb—in June, no less—to study the Egyptian approach to the afterlife. Apparently, Cairoans Artfusion News: Policies and Procedures ll students are enthusiastically invited to Finally, please include a brief autobiographical Asubmit work for publication in Artfusion statement for the About Our Contributors page. News. Calls for submissions are made via “What’s Artfusion News is funded through sales Happening” announcements throughout the of advertisements. Approximately 800 copies academic year. There is no minimum length for are printed and distributed free of charge to the articles, though they may be edited for spatial Marymount Manhattan community at the end of considerations. Please email submissions of each semester. Artfusion News is also permanently essays, interviews, and artwork to Prof. Bell available online through its own website. If at [email protected]. When submitting images you wish to place an ad in future editions or to (high resolution jpeg files are preferred), please support the publication in any other way, please include full caption information: artist, title of contact Prof. Bell. work, medium, date, and location. Please credit the photographer or photo source, and indicate how to clear permission to reproduce the images. 6 Artfusion News Artist’s Statement by Alida Rose Delaney assion drives me. One reason I am so personal experience, a process that is limited, in P attracted to the arts—and to photography my opinion, when the idea is only read. in particular—is the freedom that they offer. As I continue to build on my portfolio an artist, you can express yourself and whatever of images inspired by literary ideas, and am you may feel, wholly and completely. I’ve always inspired and curious to combine other aspects wanted to explore my creative cravings for of the liberal arts with photography. For me, dancing, acting, writing, and photographing. In what makes an artist an artist is being able to my artwork, I pay tribute to my dance training, find something new in both the expected and the which truly opened my eyes to many other forms unexpected; that’s what I strive to do in my work.