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SPRING 2009
ACDFA Gala Selection The dance program would like to congratulate students Natalie DuKane and Stephanie Wolpert for their selection to the 2009 Gala Concert at the Northwest American College Dance Festival in Utah for their work Time After Time. The work, choreographed and performed by the students, is a comical look at dance, especially lyrical dance. Adjudicators whom included Cleo Parker Robinson praised their risky use of comedy in choreography. Being a non-national year this is the highest honor bestowed by the association. Visit http://www.today.uidaho.edu/Details.aspx?ID=4874 for more information.
UI Dance Awarded $15,000 NEA Grant Helen Brown and Greg Halloran have been awarded a $15,000 American Masterpiece: Dance National Endowment for the Arts grant to restage three Jean Erdman solos for fall of 2010. Nancy Allison, expert and trustee for Erdman, will act as artistic advisor. The project is in collaboration with the Dance Notation Bureau in NYC. This is the forth NEA grant for dance UI has received since the year 2000. The other three include choreography by Bill Evans, Frankie Manning and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zanes. The current grant will notate one of the trilogies of solos by Erdman at UI and officially check the Labanotated scores for the other two solos. Modern dance will keep living in history with help from the UI dance program. http://www.today.uidaho.edu/Details.aspx?ID=4955
Dance Keeps Growing at Jazz Fest The four days of Movement Clinics for the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival totaled over 1900 participants in spring of 2009. This was helped with Latin Dance guest artists Juliet McMains and Sasko Despotovski funded by a grant from the Florence Wasmer Fund for Arts and Culture of the Inland Northwest Community Foundation submitted by Helen Brown and Mary Heller. Juliet and Sasko also performed for the main stage concert on Wednesday night of the festival. The delightful artists also blessed UI with teaching a pedagogy workshop for northwest social dance teachers.
Dancers Drummers Dreamers DDD once again performed to sold-out crowds (the largest ever) and standing ovations in Look Sharp! based on the theme of sports. The production also toured this year to standing ovations at Lewiston High School. This staple of the arts is directed by Dan Bukvich from music, Greg Halloran and Diane Walker from dance. DDD continues to be the longest collaborative effort in the arts at UI. Special thanks also goes to Mike Locke for his work as lighting designer and technical director of the production. It was also nice to see so many alumni come to town to view the performance. DDD has unofficially become a dance reunion weekend.
A Wonderful Year of Guest Artists The UI dance program was honored with a multitude of guest artists in 2008-2009. Artists included Donald Shorter and Germal Barnes, former company members of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zanes Dance Company, Clair Porter, Juliet McManis and Sasko Despotovski, and a company member of Urban Bush Women who were in the area performing at Washington State University. All artists taught master classes, Shorter and Barnes staged a dance, Shorter presented an intimate and revealing solo performance dedicated to the dancers at UI, and Clair Porter performed her famous show “Namely Muscles.”
Idaho Dance Educators Workshop The UI Dance Program (Greg Halloran) co-hosted an Idaho Dance Educators Workshop with the Idaho Commission for the Arts (Ruth Pispanen) in Boise this April. Participants included K-12 dance teachers, K-12 artists in residence, university teachers and K-12 outreach coordinators from Idaho dance studios. Guest teachers included Karen Klippinger who presented a workshop on injury prevention and Eric Johnson who presented student based learning and ran a group discussion on Idaho dance needs. The workshop was a huge success and will hopefully become a yearly event to unite the Idaho dance community.
Greg Halloran Blogged Worldwide Associate Professor Greg Halloran was blogged across the world this year for his work restaging Sophie Maslow’s Folksay for CityDance Ensemble last summer. The company’s resident videographer filmed various segments of the process and the one clip showing how the Labanotated score is structured was picked up by numerous blogs including the Dance Notation Bureau in NYC and the Winger in Israel. Google ‘Greg Halloran and Labanotation’ to see the clip.
Senior Goodbyes The dance program would like to congratulate seniors Sara Eberlein, Kayla Glenn and Shayla Weeks whom produced their senior concerts this spring. Eberlien, who will graduate in fall but will spend her last semester studying abroad at the Laban Center produced her own concert Love Stories: Inside Wants Out and Glenn and Weeks co-produced their concert Aylas Squared. Amy Dexter who produced her senior concert last fall will graduate this spring and Jamie Wollenberg graduated last fall.
Alumni Update · Julie Anderson (2003) is dancing for Louder Than Words Dancetheatre and teaching dance in the Denver area. · Emily Anglin (2006) dances for Kinetic Images Dance Company in Portland. · Allison Beau (2007) is the new owner of Northwest Dance in Pullman, Washington. · Crystal Bain (2008) teaches jazz and hip hop for Festival Dance including Dance Idaho! in the summers. · Crystal Fullmer (2004) in now the full time instructor of dance at Washington State University. · Leisa Gandlolfo dances for A Wing and a Prayer in Reno. · Kelsey Hamon (2005) is Assistant Director and teacher at the American Dance Institute in Seattle and co-directs Crooked Toe Productions. · Andrea Sheridan (2007) runs the jazz program at Northwest Dance and teaches jazz for the University of Idaho. · Jamie Wollenberg (2008) is on an international tour this spring with the White Mischief Bay.
Wonderful Faculty The UI dance program would like to thank its wonderful faculty for another year of exciting dance: · Greg Halloran: modern technique, Laban studies, dance history, choreography, senior projects. · Mary Heller: jazz technique, modern technique, dance pedagogy, children’s dance, choreography, dance in society. · Janine Kovsky: Hawaiian dance · Melissa Scholten: ballet technique · Mia Seshiki: ballet technique · Andrea Sheridan: jazz technique · Diane Walker: Dancers Drummers Dreamers and so much more! · Melissa Woelfel: hip hop and tap
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