Download CVPA Research Grants 2004 ABSTRACTS Faculty Member: Ryan

CVPA Research Grants 2004
ABSTRACTS
Faculty Member: Ryan Berg
Proposal Title: Documentation of Performance Project
Funded: $1,200
Abstract: The project proposed is to hire a videographer and web designer to record the
performance entitled Fall in Love with Us, Chariot! on view currently at the USF
Contemporary Art Museum. The piece involves a quiet rock and roll performance by
Ryan Berg and Chariot and involves suspending the members of the band over a
sculptural stage structure. The performance brings the intimacy of listening to music and
the euphoric feelings derived from the dream of being larger than life. In this instance
the viewer interacts with the performers of the rock and roll spectacle of costuming and
lights in a way that is both intimate and dreamlike.
The proposal is to develop a website focused on the work of the performance group
Chariot and to gain professional video of the performance.
Faculty Member: Bill Brewer
Proposal Title: USITT Conference & World Stage Design
Funded: $1,450
Abstract: Attendance and participation in the annual United States Institute for Theatre
Technology Conference gives me, as a designer and teacher, a unique opportunity to be
involved in an international network of professional theatrical artists. At this conference,
March 13 through 19 in Toronto, Canada, I am scheduled to participate with a poster
presentation and will also be showing costume designs from USF's production of Bat Boy
the Musical. I have also been selected to exhibit in the juried World Stage Design
Gallery exhibit, and, as a result, am therefore eligible for award consideration. I am
requesting funding for travel, registration, lodging, and materials and shipping expenses
for the presentations.
Faculty Member: Michael Foley
Proposal Title: The Transit of Venus: The Female Dancer/The Male Choreographer
Funded: $2,500
Abstract: The Transit of Venus will be the culmination of several years of work with six
female dancers of diverse cultural and generational backgrounds. Working independently
with each of these women, a theme has emerged: they have become my muses. The
Transit of Venus – the next step in a repertory concert series exploring the theme of the
female muse on the male choreographer – will be the fruition of an intense creative
process that will have taken me around the globe and expanded my choreographic
language.
Faculty Member: Kim McCormick
Proposal Title: Chamber Music in Provence
Funded: $1,150
Abstract: The Florida Flute Orchestra, consisting of eight professional flutists from
Florida, will present a series of high quality and unusual concerts in the region of
Provence in March of 2005. They are sponsored in part by the French arts organization
AICLER and directed by Paige Long, formerly on the faculty at New England
Conservatory. The group will also participate in an exchange with flutists at two French
conservatories.
Faculty Member: Chuck Owen
Proposal Title: Personal Orchestra
Funded: $1,200
Abstract: This proposal seeks funding for several pieces of hardware and software that
will be utilized in the creation and digital reproduction of large orchestral scores. The
most immediate need for this equipment is to assist in the preparation of
compositions/orchestrations for a potential summer music festival performance in Poland
(Polsko Amerykanski Musicfest) involving the Jazz Surge (USF professional jazz
repertory orchestra in residence) playing in tandem with the Szczecin Philharmonic.
Additionally, however, the equipment will greatly facilitate the acquisition of future
grants, commissions, and performances through the ability to prepare high quality
orchestral demos.
Faculty Member: John Robison
Proposal Title: Kim Eun-Hye & the Second Generation of Women Composers in Korea
Funded: $1,200
Abstract: Kim Eun-Hye is a member of the generation of women composers born in
South Korea following the Korean war. The only second-generation Korean woman
composer with a Ph.D. in musicology, Kim’s dissertation on Darius Milhaud’s ballets
reflects her passion for other disciplines besides music and her skills as an analyst. Kim’s
music reflects an interesting array of influences, and it is inspired by external sources
(poetry, painting, film). Her recent compositional output also shows more Korean
influences than the works of many of her colleagues. These tendencies were illustrated
through a discussion of twelve compositions.
Faculty Member: Michael Timpson
Proposal title: Recording and Release of Third Symphony by Kiev Philharmonic
Funded: $1,200
Abstract: This project is for the recording and release of Michael Sidney Timpson’s
Symphony No. 3 “Plethora.” The composition was recorded by the Kiev Philharmonic in
the Ukraine and conducted by Robert Ian Winstin. This recording is released by
ERMMedia as the third volume in the series “Masterworks of the New Era.”
Faculty Member: Jeanne Travers
Proposal Title: “Peace by Peace” a Multicultural Dance Collaboration
Funded: $1,200
Abstract: I am creating a choreographic project that is inspired by and based on
Madame Chantal Bernard’s International Book of Peace. I was deeply inspired by this
book and by the work of Madame Chantal when I attended the opening ceremony for the
Book of Peace at the Memorial de Caen in Caen, France in 2002. The text includes
writings by princes, Nobel Peace Prize recipients, dignitaries, artists, scholars, clerics and
poets. My choreography is a multicultural, interdisciplinary Peace Project which will
include text from the International Book of Peace, dancers from Paris and Tampa,
musicians from Algeria, France and Tunisia and live narration by narrators from the
United States and Paris. The narration will be in French and English. The piece will
include eight dancers living in Paris and four USF dance alumni from Tampa, including
Maria Juan, Kelly Rayl, Diana Mighdoll and Ashley Wilson. The choreography will be
performed in Paris during April 2005.
Faculty Member: Jack Wilkins
Proposal Title: Swedish Jazz Recording Project
Funded: $1,200
Abstract: The Jack Wilkins Swedish Jazz Recording Project will document my artistry
as an American jazz saxophonist and composer in collaboration with a group of
Sweden’s best jazz musicians. This recording session will document this group playing
my original music, with the anticipated outcome of a CD release on ClaveBop records, a
well-respected jazz label.
Faculty Member: Sheila Woodward
Proposal Title: Travel to Present Research at International Conference
Funded: $1,200
Abstract: Dr. Woodward gave several research presentations at the World Congress of
the International Society for Music Education (ISME) in Tenerife, and at the
PreConference in Barcelona. She was also elected onto the ISME Board of Directors. The
presentations aimed to share innovative developments and research in music education at
USF. These include the use of technology to make international connections, through
websites and video conferences. Research has focused on the development of DVDs that
provide a valuable resource for teaching South African children’s music and on an
international collaboration serving juvenile offenders in Tampa and in Cape Town, South
Africa.