UI AWARDED AMERICAN MASTERPIECE GRANT

Greg Halloran was awarded a $10,000 National Endowment for the Arts American Masterpiece: Dance College Component
grant to have Donald Shorter Jr. from the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company come to UI to set Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane's dance Continuous Replay for Dance Theatre in fall 2008.  The grant is administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts and Dance/USA.  Helen Brown, grant writer for HPERD, wrote the grant.  Matching funds will come from the College of Education and Dance Theatre.  The UI dance majors are pleasantly anticipating their performance in this seventeen minute piece of post modern history next fall.  This is the third time in recent years the dance program has been awarded a NEA grant. 

SUMMER ACTIVITIES

The Center for Dance was active over the summer of 2007.  We hosted Dance Idaho! with Festival Dance and Performing Arts featuring guest artists from Lineage Dance.  The Center also hosted DDD College, run by Dan Bukvich.  Greg Halloran was busy choreographing the musical Summer of 42' for the Idaho Repertory Theatre and Mary Heller spent her summer at the World Jazz Dance Congress and choreographing in Chicago. 

ACDFA

Last spring over 20 students attended the American College Dance Festival Northwest Conference.  We adjudicated two works, one by guest artist Hillary Thomas and another by undergraduate dance major Emily Anglin.  We performed Doris Humphrey's classic Water Study for the informal.  The UI dancers made another amazing showing of their talents. 

GUEST ARTISTS

This fall the Center for Dance will host Alan Sener for a week in October to teach classes and choreograph a dance for Dance Theatre.  BodyVox from Portland will also be on campus to teach a master class.     

BACK ON HER TOES FOR KERRY PARKER

Kerry parker, who has taught ballet and choreographed for Dance Theatre the last few years, has decided to go back to performing.  She has joined the Canopy Dance Company in Madison.  She will be performing and choreographing for the company and teaching for their school.  We wish her the best of luck with her career goals.