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SCHOOL OF THEATRE DANCE PERFORMANCE STUDIES UMDSCHOOLOFTHEATRE,DANCE,ANDPERFORMANCESTUDIES PRESENTS Pre-show Discussion: Creating a World Premiere Sunday, April 22 . 1PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall Tuesday, April 24 . 12:30PM Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Recital Hall Faculty and alumni artists perform a concert of Argento Songs and works, including the world premiere performance of Cabaret Songs, the composer’s gift to this celebration. FREE This free lunchtime concert is the first public opportunity for Maryland’s music students to perform some of Argento’s repertoire for the composer. FREE Sunday, April 22 . 7:30PM Ulrich Recital Hall (1121 Tawes Hall) Thursday, April 26 . 5PM Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Recital Hall As a boy, Argento dreamed of becoming what was then called an “aviator.” Much later he was struck as well as fascinated by the story of Salomon Andrée’s doomed North Pole expedition. It inspired him to embark on his most ambitious song cycle. FREE In this story-telling performance, poetry by e.e. cummings and William Wordsworth along with letters from seven different composers are uniquely set to the sounds of singers and strings. Friday, April 20 . 6:15PM Leah M. Smith Lecture Hall, Room 2200 This discussion with School of Music faculty and composer Dominick Argento offers a behind-the-scenes look at how composers and artists collaborate when conceptualizing a new work, becoming productive performing partners. FREE MARYLAND OPERA STUDIO UMD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Friday, April 20 . 7:30PM Sunday, April 22 . 3PM Thursday, April 26 . 7:30PM Kay Theatre The Opera Studio’s tribute to Argento leads off with the composer’s surreal operatic salad of delights about love, dreams and living in the imagination. $35 Pre-show Discussion: A Birthday Suprise for Miss Manners Monday, April 23 . 6:30PM A Conversation with Dominick Argento “Miss Manners” (Judith Martin) and her husband join Dominick Argento to tell the story of the delightful 1998 premiere of Miss Manners on Music at the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC. FREE Saturday, April 21 . 6:15PM Leah M. Smith Lecture Hall, Room 2200 The composer talks about his clear attachment to writing for the voice and why he is inspired to turn certain pieces into music. FREE Monday, April 23 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall Pre-show Discussion: MARYLAND OPERA STUDIO UMD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Saturday, April 21 . 7:30PM Wednesday, April 25 . 7:30PM Friday, April 27 . 7:30PM Sunday, April 29 . 3PM Kay Theatre The tribute continues with Argento’s opera based on Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations. $35 Faculty, students and alumni artists perform a sparkling selection of Argento’s chamber works and a special pre-show discussion with Judith Martin on Miss Manners. $27 FREE Thursday, April 26 . 12PM Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Recital Hall UMD Voice Students refine their repertoire with guidance from world-renowned mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade. FREE UMD School of Music Sunday, April 29 . 1PM Kay Theatre As a prelude to the closing performance of Miss Havisham’s Fire, world-renowned mezzosoprano Frederica von Stade is joined by baritone Dominic Cossa to perform a piece she premiered in 1996. $15 Daniel MacLean Wagner, Producing Director CREATIVE SOLES BLOSSOMING: SPRING 2012 MARYLAND DANCE ENSEMBLE Director: Adriane Fang Choreographers: Devin Brosnan, Roberta Capobianco, Michelle Chia, David Dorfman, Lynnette Fears, Jessica Quigley, Banessa Videla, Connor Voss, Rachel Jordan Wolfe Lighting Designers: Jane Chan, Robert Denton and Paul D. Jackson DOMINICK ARGENTO Photograph by Tom Berthiaume Tuesday, April 24 . 7:30PM Ulrich Recital Hall (1121 Tawes Hall) with Faculty, Student & Alumni Orchestra This short, 45-minute piece, based on Anton Chekhov’s On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco and Audubon’s Birds of America, by an amateur lecturer whose presentation on water birds unravels, moving from comic quirkiness to intimate revelations about his blasted marriage. FREE CELEBRATING 1O YEARS IN THE COMPANY of EXTRAORDINARY MINDS claricesmithcenter.umd.edu | 301.405.ARTS (2787) April 19 – 22, 2012 Dance Theatre CLARICE SMITH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 7 PROGRAM CREATIVE SOLES BLOSSOMING: SPRING 2012 MARYLAND DANCE ENSEMBLE Director: Adriane Fang Choreographers: Devin Brosnan, Roberta Capobianco, Michelle Chia, David Dorfman, Lynnette Fears, Jessica Quigley, Banessa Videla, Connor Voss, Rachel Jordan Wolfe Costume Designer: Jeanette Porter and Jennifer Dasher Lighting Designers: Jane Chan, Robert Denton and Paul D. Jackson Will you Choreographer: Han Michelle Chia Music: Composed and performed by Isiah Johnson Lighting Designer: Jane Chan Performers: Jennifer Alcott and Nicole Turchi If I go away What would still remain of me? The ghost within your eyes? The whisper in your sighs? You see... Believe And I’m always there. —Jon Oliva People Watching Choreographer: Rachel Jordan Wolfe Music: Les Flons Flons Du Bal, La Foule by Edith Piaf Lighting Designer: Jane Chan Performers: Nava Behnam, Rachel Jordan Wolfe Vignette Choreographer: Banessa Videla Music: Score by Banessa Videla and Will Argueta Lighting Designer: Robert Denton Performers: Jennifer Alcott, Han Michelle Chia, Ellen Clark, Lynnette Fears and Jessica Hughes PROGRAM Powerbaby Choreographer: Connor Voss Music: Bikini Kill Lighting Designer: Robert Denton Performer: Connor Voss No Fault Choreographer: Jessica Quigley Music/Collaboration: Pressing Strings - Jordan Sokel – Guitar/Vox - Josh Kachura – Guitar/Vox - Bob Novak – Drums/Percussion - Nick Welker - Bass/Vocals Lighting Designer: Jane Chan Mentor/Outside Collaborator: Alvin Mayes Performers: Devin Brosnan, Roberta Capobianco, Bethany Disque, Lynnette Fears, Chelsea Freeman, Gabriella Meiterman-Rodriguez, Sydney Pearson, Candace Scarborough “Where may it stand? Where may it fall, if even room for it at all; In that it is brought on by the very thing it is!?” INTERMISSION Is This Me… Choreographer: Lynnette Fears Music: Time by Hans Zimmer Costume Designer: Robert Denton Performer: Lynnette Fears Special thanks to Devin Brosnan for all her work making my vision become a reality. Special thanks: to Tamara Hodge for attending every single one of my performances and to Patrik Widrig for guiding me throughout this process and giving me advice that I will carry with me for my future endeavors. 8 WWW.CLARICESMITHCENTER.UMD.EDU CREATIVE SOLES BLOSSOMING: SPRING 2012 MARYLAND DANCE ENSEMBLE 9 PROGRAM Stratum Choreographer: Roberta Capobianco, with contributions from the dancers Music: Hor d’oeurves by Made in Heights Lighting Designer: Jane Chan Performers: Chelsea Brown, Unissa Cruse-Ferguson, Emilie Davignon, Bethany Disque, Caroline Eves, Katie Gundlach, Christina Camacho, Jessica Quigley, Lauren Rabon, Laura (Beth) Vallandingham PRODUCTION TEAM PRODUCTION AND STAGE MANAGEMENT Dance Production Coordinator Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager COSTUMES Costume Shop Manager Drapers Stitchers (Undergraduate) Someone I Used to Know Choreographer: Devin Brosnan Music: Cloister by Loscil and Infra 8 by Max Richter Sound: Original text by Amy Scheer and Candace Tucker, edited by Devin Brosnan Lighting Designer: Robert Denton Performers: Amy Scheer, Candace Tucker Memories affirm what we once had and what once was. Depth of Perception Choreographer: David Dorfman Restaged by Sharon Mansur and Boris Willis Rehearsal Director: Sharon Mansur Sound by Chris Peck Original Lighting Designer: Catherine Eliot Original Costumes by: Kelsey Hunt Costumes Adapted by: Jennifer Dasher Lighting Reconstruction: Paul D. Jackson Performers: Roberta Capobianco, Rachel Jordan Wolfe (Thursday & Saturday), Nava Behnam, Unissa Cruse-Ferguson (Friday and Sunday) This duet was created by David Dorfman in 2004 for Sharon Mansur and Boris Willis through a process of discussion, writing, and movement invention concerning private and public aspects of identity. Sharon and Boris restaged the work with four undergraduate dance majors involving similar writing and discussion approaches. The original creation of “Depth of Perception” was supported by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, George Mason University, and Dance Place, and was recently performed by Sharon and Boris during the Fall 2011 Maryland Dance Ensemble concert. 10 301.405.ARTS (2787) Erin Glasspatrick Lauren Joy Ruth Anne Watkins Dressers Susan Chiang Lisa Burgess, Emily Hoem Francesca Blume, Oliva Brann, Margaret Brinkley, Emerald Brooks, Katie Finnegan, Marshalle Grody, Alisa Kurbatova, Gabriella MeitermenRodriguez Ashley David, Joanne McKee ELECTRICS Assistant Manager of Electrics Electrics Coordinator Master Electrician Electricians Light Board Operator Laura MacAdam Jeff Reckeweg Robert Denton Emerald Brooks, Andrea Fanta, Jenay McNeil, Katie Moore David Samuel PROPERTIES Properties Master Properties Shop Assistants Properties Construction Crew Tim Jones Andrea Moore, Pamela Weiner Mariel Berlin-Fischler, Brittany Truske PAINTS Scenic Charge Artist Paint Crew Ann Chismar Riley Bartlebaugh, Phyllis Liu, Neel Madan SCENE SHOP Technical Director Assistant Technical Director Scene Shop Supervisor Set Construction Crew Mark Rapach Jonathon Shimon Steven Workman David Benson, Angela Hou CREATIVE SOLES BLOSSOMING: SPRING 2012 MARYLAND DANCE ENSEMBLE 11 PRODUCTION TEAM ABOUT THE ARTISTS SOUND Audio Shop Manager Audio Coordinator Sound Board Operator James O’Connell Collin Warren David Benson RUN CREW Stage Operations Manager Run Crew Bill Brandwein Sadie Koeppel, Cheryl Robinson, Jenny Rosenberg, Kate Trapani Jennifer Alcott (Will You and Vignette) is a senior dance major at University of Maryland, College Park. She has training in ballet, modern and jazz, and has also taken classes in Bharatanatya and Irish step dance. This is her first performance here at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, but she was last seen dancing in both VooDoo Child and Sunshine In Blue at Howard Community College. Nava Behnam Shabahang (People Watching and Depth of Perception) is a junior dance major with a minor in philosophy. She has studied at Anna Wyman School of Dance Arts, American Dance Institute, Bethesda Academy of the Performing Arts and Maryland Youth Ballet. In previous seasons she has performed in Open Interstice, Give or Take, I Wake Up Dreaming, a reconstruction of Erika Thimey’s work, A Fear Not of One, but of Many and Nathan Andary’s graduate thesis concert, Going Viral. This semester, she performed in graduate student Graham Brown’s full-length show, You. In spring 2011 she was awarded the Dorothy Madden Dance Scholarship. Devin Brosnan (No Fault and Someone I Used to Know) is a senior-year dance major in the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies. She transferred to the University of Maryland in 2009 upon receiving the President’s Transfer Student Scholarship. Brosnan was also the recipient of the George and Ruth G. Tretter Performing Arts Award in 2011. Since attending Maryland, she has had the pleasure of performing in student works as well as guest artist works, including Jen McGinn’s Thank You, for the Maryland Dance Ensemble spring concert in 2010. She also performed in the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange’s The Matter of Origins and Valerie Durham’s Opus 80 in the Shared Graduate Dance Concert 2010. She understudied in guest artist Keith Thompson’s Which Side of the Edge Crumbles Amidst the Soft Break and made her choreographic debut at Maryland with a tap dance entitled Another One Bites the Dust in 2010. Someone I Used To Know is Brosnan’s first dance presented in Maryland Dance Ensemble. Chelsea Brown (Stratum) is a freshman dance major from Annapolis who has been awarded the Creative and Performing Arts scholarship. She has been dancing for 16 years and has trained with the Anne Arundel Community College Dance Company and the Dragonfly Dance Experiment. In addition, she earned the title of All-State Dancer in 2010 and the Emerging Artist award in 2011 for the state of Maryland. Presently, she is a member of Phunktions hip-hop team and rehearsing for Sharon Mansur’s Reston Project, a site-specific work that will be performed this September in Reston, Virginia. 12 WWW.CLARICESMITHCENTER.UMD.EDU CREATIVE SOLES BLOSSOMING: SPRING 2012 MARYLAND DANCE ENSEMBLE 13 ABOUT THE ARTISTS Cristina Camacho (Stratum) is a sophomore double majoring in dance and kinesiology. She is Vice President of Community Service/Promotion on Dynamic Dance Team, a hip hop team on campus. She is also secretary of the Student Dance Association. This is her first MDE appearance. Roberta Capobianco (Depth of Perception and Stratum) is a senior dance major at the University of Maryland. Since coming to the university she has had the pleasure of performing in works by Graham Brown, David Dorfman, Sharon Mansur, Jen McGinn, Erika Thimey, PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER and various undergraduate choreographers. She is a performing member of Phunktions Hip Hop Dance Company, and the president of the Student Dance Association. In addition to Stratum, Capobianco’s choreography was featured in Maryland Dance Ensemble, Spring 2011. Jane Chan (Lighting Designer) is a second-year MFA candidate in lighting and scenic design, and an international student from Macau. She received her undergraduate degree in communication design and minor in theatre design from the University at Buffalo. She was a lighting design intern during 2011 at Williamstown Theatre Festival; Nikos Stage: A Streetcar Named Desire (assistant lighting designer), Studio project: F***book (lighting designer). Han Michelle Chia (Will You?) is a senior double major in animal science and dance. She has performed work of Alvin Mayes, Keith Thompson, PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER, Tzveta Kassabova, Emily Oleson and Diedre Dawkins. In 2007, she received the award for MD Distinguished Scholar: Talent in Art and the Washington Post Dance Scholarship. Ellen Clark (Vignette) is a freshman pursuing a dual degree in dance and behavioral and community health. She performed in Adriane Fang’s Movement Poetry Project in the Fall 2011 Maryland Dance Ensemble. Clark has trained in modern, improvisation, ballet and jazz with instructors from Connecticut Dance and with instructors from the 2009 Goucher College Summer Arts Institute. Unissa Cruse-Ferguson (Depth of Perception and Stratum) is a sophomore dance and family science double major who has been dancing since the age of three. She has received training from Towson University’s Children’s Dance Division, Rage Box Contemporary Dance Center, Peabody Preparatory and Mercy High School’s Dance Troupe in ballet, modern, jazz, lyrical, contemporary, hip-hop, Irish and African. She has had the opportunity to perform at Essex Community College in Baltimore. At the University of Maryland she performed in Movement Poetry Project in the Fall 2011 Maryland Dance Ensemble concert and in February 2012 in 14 301.405.ARTS (2787) ABOUT THE ARTISTS Shannon Dooling’s Recognition. In addition she was cast as Arabian and an angel, in The Nutcracker, in which she performed with the Russian Moscow Ballet. Emilie Davignon (Stratum) is a freshman dance and early childhood education double major. She has been dancing since the age of two and has studied at several schools, including Studio G, Arena’s Performing Arts Centre, the Sewickley School of Performing Arts and the La Roche College Dance Academy. She performed with the Moscow Ballet in The Great Russian Nutcracker in 2007 and became a founding member of the Mid-Atlantic Contemporary Ballet Company in 2010. Davignon is a CAPA scholar. Robert Denton (Lighting Designer) First Year MFA Candidate in Lighting Design; came to University of Maryland from New York City where he associate/assistant designed. Dentons’s past designs include: Caroline, or Change (Court Theatre, Chicago,) La Boheme (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis), Samson et Dalilah (Florida Grand Opera), Madame Butterfly (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and Arizona Opera), Upcoming Designs: Madame Butterfly (The Minnesota Opera). Denton is a member of United Scenic Artist Local 829. Bethany Disque (Stratum and No Fault) is a junior dance major at UMD. She is the vice president of the Student Dance Association and co-director/choreographer of Phunktions Hip Hop Dance Company. Disque was most recently seen performing in Graham Brown’s You this past February. David Dorfman (Depth of Perception, choreographer) Artistic Director/David Dorfman Dance since 1985; Connecticut College/Dance Department Chair since 2004; fellowships from Guggenheim, NEA; Martha Hill Mid-Career Award; a “Bessie”/The Family Project; a “Barrymore”/Green Violin; DDD: worldwide touring and See Level, Lightbulb Theory at JCCSF; underground at American Dance Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, Poland, Russia; Disavowal at Duke, Florida Dance Festival; Prophets of Funk at Jacob’s Pillow, Bates Dance Festival, and with The Family Stone live at Lincoln Center; Live Sax Acts with Dan Froot: toured internationally including recently to Zimbabwe; new project inspired by Patti Smith’s artistry in process. Catherine Eliot (Depth of Perception, original lighting designer) began designing lights at Connecticut College. David Dorfman was one of the first choreographers with whom she worked. Eliot has created light designs for dance in the DC Metro area for 20 years. CREATIVE SOLES BLOSSOMING: SPRING 2012 MARYLAND DANCE ENSEMBLE 15 ABOUT THE ARTISTS Caroline Eves (Stratum) is a sophomore pre-nursing student at UMD. This is her first performance with the Maryland Dance Ensemble and she is so excited to be a part of the program this semester. She performed in several dance performances in high school, as well as the school musicals. Adriane Fang (Concert Director) graduated with honors with a double major in dance and psychology from the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point in 1994 and received her MFA in Dance from George Mason University in 2009. She was a member of Doug Varone and Dancers from 1996-2006 and has worked with several choreographers including Colleen Thomas, Bill Young, Wally Cardona and Clare Byrne. She was on faculty at George Mason University from 2006-2009 and at the Doug Varone and Dancers Summer Workshops from 2000-2007. She presented her first evening of work at Danspace Project from December 9-11, 2005, shared with Colleen Thomas. Currently an Artist in Residence at the University of Maryland, Fang is the recipient of a 2007 New York Dance and Performance Award (“Bessie”) for her performance with Doug Varone and Dancers. Lynnette Fears (Vignette, No Fault, and Is This Me?) is a senior dance major at Maryland. Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, she transferred to the University of Maryland from Columbia College, South Carolina in 2010. Fears has been dancing for 15 years and has received training in several different styles. Fears performed in the Fall 2010 MDE pieces North End choreographed by Alvin Mayes and Which Side of the Edge Crumbles Amidst the Soft Break choreographed by Keith Thompson. Fears has received several academic honors, and she is a lifetime member of the Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society. Chelsea Freeman (No Fault), junior dance major on a pre-physical therapy track. Dance training in New York at Youth Theatre Interactions, Inc., Ballet Hispanico and The Ailey School. Previous performances include Kre, Kre, Kre (Kay Theatre, 2010), Vaudevival: old is the new New (Gildenhorn, 2011), Different Edens (Kay Theatre, 2011). Upon graduation, Freeman hopes to return home to New York where she will enter the performing arts world to dance professionally. Katharine Gundlach (Stratum) is in her second year in the School of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and is majoring in both dance and dietetics. She has previously performed in the Fall 2010 Maryland Dance Ensemble concert as a part of I Wake Up Dreaming, and is looking forward to her second performance this spring. Jessica Hughes (Vignette), senior hearing and speech sciences and dance double major. Productions: Movement Poetry Project, The Coronation of a Walrus King, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange: A Matter of Origins, Orchesis Dance Company, Jazz 16 WWW.CLARICESMITHCENTER.UMD.EDU ABOUT THE ARTISTS Allegheny Dance Ensemble. Dance/Gymnastics teacher at The Little Gym of Silver Spring, and English teacher in Italy, using TEFL techniques through dance and drama. Lauren Joy (stage manager) sophomore theatre production major. Kay Theatre: Everything in the Garden (assistant stage manager). Dance Theatre: Vaudevival/Going Viral (assistant stage manager). Other UMD productions: MFA in Performance Studies: Hello, My Name Is (stage manager). UTAS: Night of Love and Sex (stage manager). Fresh Produce: Night of One Acts (stage manager). Outside productions: Temple University: Sweeney Todd (assistant stage manager). Sharon Mansur (Depth of Perception, rehearsal director) Assistant Professor in Dance, is originally from Boston, and is an experimental multimedia dance artist. Her choreographic and improvisational collaboratively based projects have been presented throughout the U.S. and internationally in traditional, alternative and site-specific venues, with support from the John F. Kennedy Center, the Maryland State Arts Council, the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the Bossak Heilbron Charitable Foundation, among others. Mansur has performed in dances by BodyCartography Project, David Dorfman, David Roussève and Sara Rudner, and works with numerous Washington DC area artists. Gabriella Meiterman-Rodriguez (No Fault) is a sophomore double major in dance and kinesiology. She has received training from the Howell High School Fine and Performing Arts Center in Howell, New Jersey. She has worked with Alvin Mayes and Terre O’Connor on works in the Fall 2011 Maryland Dance Ensemble Concert. She recently performed in the Shared MFA Thesis Concert this March in Profondeur Inconnue with Florian Rouiller. She looks forward to performing yet again on the CSPAC stage. Sydney Pearson (No Fault) is a junior dance major in the School of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies. She has performed in previous Maryland Dance Ensemble concerts in Civicus/Refugee, Give or Take, I Wake Up Dreaming and North End. She has also performed in FAME Inc. as a representative of the University of Maryland. She has studied at the Washington School of Ballet, Kansas City Ballet and the American Academy of Ballet New York. She has studied with renowned teachers such as Arthur Mitchell, Fabian Barnes, Septime Webre, Troy Brown and Allain Lupien. Jessica Quigley (No Fault and Stratum) was encouraged to revisit her passion for dance after receiving one of the top fine arts scholarships in Nevada, Missouri. She is currently continuing her education as a senior dance major. She has had the CREATIVE SOLES BLOSSOMING: SPRING 2012 MARYLAND DANCE ENSEMBLE 17 ABOUT THE ARTISTS opportunity to work with various graduate students, faculty and guest artists such as Jenn McGinn, Liz Lerman, Haley-Hoss Jameson, Joe Byrnes, Ayesha Upchurch, Dawn Springer, Alvin Mayes, Sharon Mansur, Nathan Andary, Graham Brown, Cottey Repertory Dance Company and PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER. She just recently set work on the Cottey College Repertory Dance Company, as the guest artist, in January 2012; and looks forward to joining AndaryDance (andarydance.org) following her graduation in May 2012. Lauren Rabon (Stratum) is a Junior neurobiology and physiology major. This is her first performance with the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies. Rabon is also a performing member of Phunktions Hip Hop Dance Company. Candace Scarborough (No Fault) is a senior dance major at the University of Maryland. Upon transferring from UCLA, she has had the opportunity to perform in dances by guest artists Keith Thompson, Erika Thimey and Terre O’Connor as well as in works by faculty members Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig, Alvin Mayes and graduate students Florian Rouiller and Graham Brown. She is also a recipient of the Creative and Performing Arts Scholarship. Amy Scheer (Someone I used to know) is a senior dance major. She has received training in contemporary choreography and improvisation from Headlong Performance Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At UMD’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, she performed in Emily Oleson’s Vaudevival: old is the new new in October 2011 and Sharon Mansur’s re(semblance) in October 2010. Additionally, Scheer was the composer and musical director for Lesole Main’s Without a Home at Dance Place in November 2010 and continues to perform with her band Jubilee (www.chaosjubilee.wordpress.com). She also co-organizes Girls Rock! DC, a rock-n-roll camp for girls aged 8-18. Candace Tucker (Someone I Used to Know) is a senior at the University of Maryland graduating in May with a BA in dance along with a minor in special education. She has plans to eventually work in a therapeutic field focusing on children in special education. In the meantime, she enjoys teaching yoga along with modern and hip-hop. She has worked with previous choreographers such as Liz Lerman: The Matter of Origins, Caitlin Foley: Letters from Home, Molly Kirkup: Spring MDE 2011 and Valerie Durham In|And|Of|Through thesis concert. Working on this performance is a pure example of how healing dance can be as a therapeutic technique. 18 301.405.ARTS (2787) ABOUT THE ARTISTS Nicole Turchi (Will You?) is a freshman dance and kinesiology double major at the University of College Park. Prior to college, she danced with the Youth Dance Ensemble for two years, under the direction of Helen Hayes. She is a College Park Arts Scholar, a Maryland Distinguished Scholar for talent in the arts, and a recipient of the Creative and Performing Arts scholarship. Beth Vallandingham (Stratum) has been dancing since the age of four; studying jazz, tap, ballet, modern, contemporary, and hip-hop at Slater’s Dance Studio in Edgewater, Maryland. She has followed her passion for dance into college and is currently a member of Dynamic Hip-Hop Dance Team, as well as Prima Dolls Dance Company. She is an environmental health major with hopes of helping people see the world in a brighter light by spreading knowledge and the beauty of nature through photography. Banessa Videla (Vignette) is a dance/studio art major at the University of Maryland. This is her senior year and she will be graduating at the end of the spring 2012 semester. Videla graduated with her associate’s degree in dance from Montgomery College. Since then she has appeared in a DC5 Lottery Commercial, Chuck Brown “Party Roll” music video, half-time performance alongside of Golo LLC for artists Fantasia, Mya, Raheem Devaughn and Chuck Brown. She was also a part of Jazzlan Dance Theater for a year working with Artistic Director Laurie Newton and guest artist Sandra Atkinson. Videla is currently in MFA candidate Emily Oleson’s piece Vaudevival. Connor Voss (Powerbaby) is a junior majoring in dance. Voss has performed new modern dancework in the CrossCurrents Dance Company and with the A.O. Movement Collective, as well as hip-hop work with Phunktions Dance Team. He has worked with choreographers Sara Pearson, Patrik Widrig, Sharon Mansur, Diane Hunt, Graham Brown, Emily Oleson and Tere O’Connor. Voss is on the Dean’s List and is a CAPA scholar. Ruth Anne Watkins (Assistant Stage Manager), senior theatre and marketing double-degree candidate. President’s Scholarship. Maryland Distinguished Scholar. Cora and John H. Davis Performing Arts Scholarship, Mote Family Theatre Scholarship Award. UMD productions: Everything in the Garden (ASM), Minotaur (ASM), Bakeshop (SM), A Festival of Mendacity (ASM), Am I Black Enough, Yet? (Dresser), Enchanted April (Mrs. Graves), M Butterfly (ASM/Asst. Costume Design), Prelude to Ruin (Director), Parodos (Ensemble), Spotlight! (Stacey) Outside productions: Jack and the Pantheon of Dreams (SM, Pointless Theatre Company, July 2012), Pop! (ASM, Studio Theatre 2ndStage), Sleeping Beauty: A Puppet Ballet (Puppeteer, Pointless Theatre Company). CREATIVE SOLES BLOSSOMING: SPRING 2012 MARYLAND DANCE ENSEMBLE 19 ABOUT THE ARTISTS Boris Willis (Depth of Perception) is Chief Artistic Officer of Boris Willis Moves and an Assistant Professor of Dance and Computer Game Design at George Mason University. He has performed with Liz Lerman/Dance Exchange, Streb, Jacob’s Pillow’s Men Dancers and several DC choreographers. He has created video art for Sharon Mansur and his blog danceaday.com. Willis has an MFA in Dance and Technology from Ohio State, a BFA in Dance from George Mason University and a NC School of the Arts Diploma in dance. He is the recipient of the Kennedy Center Local Dance Commission and a Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship. Rachel Jordan Wolfe (People Watching) is thrilled to be performing and choreographing in this year’s Spring Maryland Dance Ensemble. In the past she choreographed and performed in Clementine, a solo presented in Spring MDE 2011, and Gravity, a trio created in collaboration with Raha Behnam, presented in spring 2010. Most recently she performed in Graham Brown’s You and Terre O’Connor’s Different Edens in the 2011 Fall Maryland Dance Ensemble. SCHOOL NEWS FACULTY NEWS Izumi Ashizawa (Assistant Professor, Acting, Movement, and Devised Theatre) mounted a new show Haoma and the Warrior in Tehran, Iran last June. Ashizawa created an original performance iKilL with her company members last July, and won the Capital Fringe Director’s Award. She and her company members are creating a new performance, which will be premiered in Peru this summer. She will also direct Ekho in Australia and Alexander in Bulgaria this summer. Karen K. Bradley (Associate Professor, Dance) taught in the Laban Movement Studies program in Koolskamp, Belgium, in January 2012 and was appointed a member of the Dance Writing Team for the new Core Standards in Dance. She completed two book chapters for publication in spring 2012: “The Dance of Learning” in the revised Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children and “Impulse 1961: The Dancer as a Person” in The IMPULSE Project. She had a chapter published (“How to Change”) in Transformative Eco-Education for Human and Planetary Survival. Professor Bradley was invited to present a talk, “Shift Happens: A Geo-somatic Journey of a Human Body, Moving” at the Festival of the Moving Body, March 16, 2012, at SUNY Stonybrook. She has also been invited to participate in DANCE 2050: a symposium on the future of dance education at Temple University in May 2012. Faedra Chatard Carpenter (Assistant Professor, Critical Race Theory and Performance & Dramaturgy) was recently honored with two different appointments: she is now an Editorial Board Member of Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Arts in the South and was also selected to be a member of the Board of Directors for the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA). In addition, Dr. Carpenter recently served as the dramaturg for The Hampton Years (a piece commissioned for Theatre J’s Locally Grown new play festival) and she is currently serving as the dramaturg for the world premiere of The Wings of Ikarus Jackson for the Kennedy Center’s Theater for Young Audiences. Daniel Conway (Associate Professor, MFA Director/Head of Design) recently designed Sabrina Fair for Ford’s Theatre; Hairspray for Signature Theatre directed by Eric Schaeffer; the premiere of Ken Ludwig’s (Lend Me a Tenor) new farce The Game’s Afoot directed by Aaron Posner for The Cleveland Playhouse; and the premiere of a new adaptation of Cyrano by Michael Hollinger (Opus) for the Folger Theatre and Arden Theatre Company. He is currently at work on The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed by Stephen Rayne for The Shakespeare Theatre (assisted by MFA students Douglas Clarke, Drew Kaufmann and JD Madsen); Double Indemnity for Round House Theatre; and the American premiere of Sucker Punch, directed by this year’s 20 WWW.CLARICESMITHCENTER.UMD.EDU CREATIVE SOLES BLOSSOMING: SPRING 2012 MARYLAND DANCE ENSEMBLE 21 SCHOOL NEWS Obie award-winning director, Leah Gardiner, for the Studio Theatre (assisted by MFA students Jake Ewonus and Andrew Cohen). This production marks his twenty-fifth design over the course of 20 seasons for Studio Theatre. In the summer of 2012 Professor Conway will serve as an advisor to The White House Historical Association’s Decatur House on Lafayette Square. Professor Conway has been nominated 12 times and received The Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Set Design in 2000 and 2010. He was recently nominated for the 2011 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Set Design, and he is thrilled by the same nomination for his third-year MFA student, Collin Ranney. Leslie Felbain (Associate Professor, Acting, Movement, Theatrical Styles, F. M. Alexander Technique) traveled to Argentina where she presented an Alexander Technique workshop and her company Infinite Stage performed L’Hiver Sous la Table (Winter Under the Table) by Roland Topor. Felbain co-translated, adapted and directed the production, which was nominated for Best Production, Best Direction, Best Actor and Best Actress at Festival Otono. Felbain performed a workshop production of her new solo piece, Heart Beat, at the 2011 International Congress of the F.M. Alexander Technique in Lugano, Switzerland. She also presented a workshop, “The Experience of the Performer,” in Lugano. Felbain directed The Measure of Our Lives, a site-specific performance piece at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery, which featured 12 undergraduate theatre majors. Mitchell Hébert (Professor, Acting and Performance) recently received a nomination for The Robert Prosky Award for Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play for After the Fall at Theatre J. He will direct The Illusion at Forum Theatre in May 2012. Misha Kachman (Assistant Professor, Scene and Costume Design) recently designed The Bright New Boise for Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (nominated for the 2011 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Set Design) and the world premieres of The Adventures of Dr. Wonderful at the Kennedy Center and Really Really at Signature Theatre. Kachman is honored to have become a member of the Company of Artists at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in the fall of 2011. He is currently getting close to the opening of the world premiere new rock musical Brother Russia by John Dempsey and Dana Rowe at Signature Theatre. He is also designing The Crown of Shadows at Round House Theatre (world premiere), Mr. Burns by Ann Washburne at Woolly Mammoth (world premiere), Xanadu at Signature Theatre and The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity at Woolly Mammoth later this season. 22 301.405.ARTS (2787) SCHOOL NEWS Brian MacDevitt (Associate Professor, Lighting Design) designed the lighting for Book of Mormon on Broadway and received a TONY award for best lighting. He designed lights for the new Broadway play Mountaintop starring Samuel Jackson and Angela Bassett, and Enchanted Island at the MET, which premiered New Year’s Eve. Professor MacDevitt directed the production of Proof at Theater Three in New York that opened this January. This spring he is designing the revival of Death of a Salesman directed by Mike Nichols, Sucker Punch at the Studio in DC, and The Maryland Opera Studio’s Miss Havisham’s Fire and Postcards from Morocco. Sharon Mansur (Assistant Professor, Dance) performed this past fall at the Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival, the Sonic Circuits Experimental Music Festival in DC, and was an Artist Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts with collaborator UMD Architecture professor Ronit Eisenbach. They will be presenting another phase of their site-specific performance/installation project on April 28 at Lake Anne Plaza, Reston, Virginia, commissioned by the Reston Community Center. This spring Mansur will co-teach a dance improvisation workshop at the Performática Festival for Contemporary Dance and Movement Arts in Mexico, and perform at The Flea Theater’s Dance Conversations Festival in New York City with dance colleague Maré Hieronimus. With longtime collaborator Daniel Burkholder she will be performing sightlines, an improvisational duet, at the Falls Bridge Improvisation Festival in Philadelphia, Dance Place in Washington DC and RADFest in Michigan. Alvin Mayes (Instructor in Dance) was honored with the 2011 Pola Nirenska Award for Lifetime Achievement in Dance by the Washington Performing Arts Society. His work I Wake Up Dreaming, created as part of the Fortune’s Bones project, was performed November 14, 2011, for the 50th Anniversary of the Peace Corps and was performed again for Women’s History Month in March 2012. In addition I Wake Up Dreaming was performed for the Fall 2011 Maryland Dance Ensemble. His work Early Fall, commissioned by the Community College of Baltimore County, was performed for the 9/11 Remembrance in Baltimore, at Coppin State University for 1st Annual Urban Dance Festival October 1, 2011 and at Dundalk Theatre in December 2011. Mayes has been commissioned to make Haikus for Peace, a work for Montgomery College Rockville campus for spring 2012. Laurie Frederik Meer (Assistant Professor, Performance Studies) recently presented papers at two international conferences: ASTR (American Society for Theatre Research) and AAA (American Anthropological Association), both held in Montreal, Canada in November. At ASTR she presented a paper entitled “Painting the Body Brown: Gender, Nation, and Artistic Authority in Competition Ballroom Dancing.” The paper was part of a working group she helped organize, called CREATIVE SOLES BLOSSOMING: SPRING 2012 MARYLAND DANCE ENSEMBLE 23 SCHOOL NEWS Economies of Showing, and she is in the process of co-editing a book volume of articles selected from this event. At AAA she presented a paper entitled “Legacy of Critique: Negotiating Artistic Membership, Ethnographic Trust, and Academic Expectations In Cuba,” a discussion of censorship in Cuba and Cuban theatre, and of the academic pressure to publish on these topics. Her first book, Trumpets in the Mountains: Theater and the Politics of National Culture in Cuba, is in production and coming out in July with Duke University Press. Professor Meer won a RASA grant to investigate legal performance and the “arts of persuasion” in both U.S. and Puerto Rican courtrooms, a project she began in January. For Maryland Day, Professor Meer will be teaching a ballroom dance class called “DanceSport Endurance.” Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig (Associate Professors of Dance, Artistic Directors of PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER) in September opened the 2011-12 season at Dance Place in Washington DC. In January, PWDT (including MFA Candidate in Dance Graham Brown and alumnus Tzveta Kassabova) traveled to Santiago, Chile, to create and perform The Razor’s Edge, a new work in collaboration with Compañía OTUX. PWDT performed at Movement Research at the Judson Church in New York City on April 16. In July/August 2012, Pearson and Widrig will choreograph a new work for Tanz Plan Ost in Switzerland. In September, they will create the next incarnation of their acclaimed site-specific work A Curious Invasion, this one at Middlebury College. www.pearsonwidrig.org. Miriam Phillips (Assistant Professor, Dance) served on the 2011 Congress of Research in Dance (CORD) Program Committee held in conjunction with the Society of Ethnomusicology (SEM) in Philadelphia. She organized and moderated the panel “Sounding the Floor: the Kin-aesthetics of Percussive Dance,” presented the paper “Foot, Floor, Footwork: Embodied Culture Through Kathak and Flamenco Foot Percussion,” and mentored TDPS graduate student Kathleen Spanos on her paper, “Into and Out of the Floor: Weaving Music and Braiding Tradition in Irish Dance” presented in the same panel. Her article, “Becoming the Floor / Breaking the Floor: Experiencing the Kathak-Flamenco Connection” was accepted for publication in the Journal of the Society of Ethnomusicology to be published later this year. Recently, Professor Phillips served as grants consultant to San Francisco’s Creative Work Fund, a program of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and The James Irvine Foundation. She is currently working with Professor Karen Bradley, the Association for Cultural Equity and the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement on the project, “Digitizing a World of Dance: Repatriating the Alan Lomax Dance Archive.” For Maryland Day, Phillips will be teaching the popular FlamencoRobics® she developed in 2003 for the first time on the East Coast! 24 WWW.CLARICESMITHCENTER.UMD.EDU SCHOOL NEWS Ashley Smith (Assistant Professor of Voice and Acting) recently adapted and directed Eugene O’Neill’s Recklessness Before Breakfast for radio broadcast as part of Arena Stage’s Eugene O’Neill Festival. The cast of the radio production includes TDPS students and faculty. In February, he served as Dialect Director for the American premiere of Roy Williams’ play Sucker Punch at Studio Theatre, assisted by MFAP student Caroline Clay. Over the winter, he performed in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s critically acclaimed production of Much Ado About Nothing. Last fall, he served as Dialect Director for Baltimore Centerstage’s production of The Rivals. GRADUATE STUDENTS Since January, Graham Brown (MFA Candidate) has presented three works in various venues and events on and off campus, including most recently You, an evening-length choreographic work that was presented in the CSPAC Dance Theater. His work The Better Half was performed in the Shared Graduate Concert here at CSPAC, as well through the Dance Exchange in the Round House Theatre in Silver Spring. His solo work as far as I know was selected to be performed in the Choreographers’ Showcase sponsored by the Clarice Smith Center in partnership with the Maryland-National Capital Park & Planning Commission. He is currently choreographing Leigh Smiley’s new theatre work, Sandwalk, which will premiere on April 27. He recently toured with PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER to Santiago, Chile and will soon be touring to New York City and Middlebury, Vermont. His wife recently gave birth to a baby girl Elliette Noelani Light Estrada-Brown. Caroline Stefanie Clay (MFA Candidate in Performance) is serving as Assistant Voice and Dialect Coach to Professor Ashley Smith at Studio Theater’s American premiere production of Sucker Punch. Shannon Dooling (MFA Candidate in Dance) recently presented a paper titled “Hidden in the Hands Four: An Exploration of Self, Gender and Community in Contra Dance Events at Glen Echo Park” at the Graduate English Organization at the University of Maryland 2012’s conference, The Body Electric. She performed her solo work My Ex-Boyfriend (One Short Story) at the Open Marley Showcase hosted by Baltimore area dance company The Collective in January, and danced in a recital with UMD music student Yee Von Ng and other musicians at Mount Vernon Unitarian Church in March. In May 2012, her dance company New Street Dance Group will present a shared concert with two local companies in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. CREATIVE SOLES BLOSSOMING: SPRING 2012 MARYLAND DANCE ENSEMBLE 25 SCHOOL NEWS Xuejuan Feng (MFA Candidate in Dance) participated in the Dance Across the Board Conference hosted by NYU’s Tisch School of Dance and performed a part of her thesis project in February 2012. Her final thesis dance concert will be performed on October 19, 2012, in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center’s Dance Theater. She will be teaching and performing a short segment on Chinese folk dance at the University of Maryland’s 2012 Maryland Day on April 28. This summer, she will be collaborating with and choreographing for the UMD Theatre Department on their cross-cultural production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which will be showing in both the U.S. and China. She actively collaborates with and choreographs for local Chinese culture associations and recently participated in the Lantern Festival Gala of Virginia on February 18 of this year. In November 2011, she collaborated with the Silk Road Dance Company on their annual Silk Road Dance Festival and staged two original works, The Tibetan People and Snow. She also performed her solo dance Snow in the Peace Corps’s 50th Anniversary Event on November 14 at the University of Maryland. James Hesla (PhD Candidate, Theatre Studies) is presenting his dissertation research on Clown theatre at the Performance Studies International Conference, Leeds, UK, and at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference in balmy Washington DC. Creative activities include serving as dramaturg for the Source Theatre Festival in Washington DC this June. In addition, the Source Festival will present his 10-minute play, Lost and Found at the Hotel Mogador, directed by Rick Hammerly. Hesla has also been commissioned to co-write a musical about a high school science fair for Active Cultures Theatre in suburban Maryland. through home movies” was included in the Dance Across the Board Conference at NYU in February. She is currently working on a full evening of choreography that will be produced by Dance Place in the 2012-2013 season. Emily Oleson (MFA Candidate in Dance) recently presented a paper at the Dance Across the Board Conference at New York University in February 2012, and will be presenting an expanded version of her thesis concert Vaudevival: Old is the new New at Dance Place in Washington DC, June 30 and July 1, 2012. Tickets at www.danceplace.org. The updated version will include collaboration with Baakari Wilder and Capitol Tap, among other artists. Check out the preview at Maryland Day! Read along with her research blog at www.vaudevival.wordpress.com. Oleson is also co-coordinating Dance Week at the Augusta Heritage Center in Elkins, West Virginia in August, as well as several other summer events (www.goodfootdance.com). AnnMarie T. Saunders (PhD Candidate, Early American Theatre) co-organized the Economies of Popular Entertainment working group at the 2011 ASTR conference in Montreal, co-created a workshop entitled “Theory, Performance, Action: an Arts-Based Civic Dialogue on Gender Performance, Past, Present, and Future” for the Women and Theatre Program at the 2011 ATHE conference, and will be presenting a paper, “Myth Made Manifest: the Building of the First Washington Theatre,” at the 2012 MATC conference. She will complete her dissertation “ ‘To the Advantage of the City:’ Playgoing, Patriotism, and the first Washington Theatres, 1800-1836” in the spring of 2012. Rob Jansen (MFA Candidate in Performance) wrote, adapted and developed his Aaron Tobiason (PhD Candidate) served as an Advisory Council Fellow at the Casey Kaleba (PhD Candidate) staged movement and violence for Signature Matthew R. Wilson (PhD Candidate, Theatre & Performance Studies) was honored with two Helen Hayes Award mentions this year: He is Artistic Director of Faction of Fools Theatre Company, which won the 2012 award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company, and he was a writer/performer on dog & pony’s Beertown, which was nominated for Outstanding New Play. This April-May, Wilson performs the title role in Hamlecchino: Clown Prince of Denmark. He also recently presented a paper at the International Commedia dell’Arte Conference in Toronto and teaches stage combat classes at Round House Theatre. His article on Goldoni & Commedia dell’Arte is currently published in the Season Guide for the Shakespeare Theatre Company. www.MatthewRWilson.com. solo performance Ah, Eugene O’Neill: The Birth, Death, and (Impractical) Rebirth of American Theatre, which was performed as part of the Eugene O’Neill Festival at Arena Stage in March. Theatre’s premiere of Really Really, as well as Folger Theatre’s The Gaming Table and Time Stands Still at Studio Theatre. He serves on the adjunct faculty at Shepherd University, and served as creative consultant and host for the Folger Library’s Electronic Field Trip, a live interactive broadcast for secondary schools in collaboration with Alabama Public Television. Stephanie Miracle (MFA Candidate in Dance) recently presented her intergenerational work, Recollecting Disappearing at Round House Theatre in Silver Spring through the Dance Exchange’s Healthy Living Commission, funded by the Met Life Foundation. Her research documentary, “Dancing Backwards: Autoethnography 26 SCHOOL NEWS 301.405.ARTS (2787) McNeil Center for Early American Studies last fall, where he conducted research on his dissertation. He also co-convened a session on Economies of Popular Entertainment at the American Society for Theatre Research. CREATIVE SOLES BLOSSOMING: SPRING 2012 MARYLAND DANCE ENSEMBLE 27 SCHOOL NEWS Anu Yadav (MFA Candidate in Performance) conducted play research and performed her new work-in-progress Meena’s Dream this winter in Delhi, India through a grant from the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies International Initiatives Fund. She apprenticed with acclaimed street theater troupe Jana Natya Manch, documented their annual “Safdar Sahadat” theater festival and taught voice workshops for troupe members. She also reunited with members of her family for the first time in 10 years. This past February, Arena Stage screened the debut of Walk With Me, a documentary featuring her work along with artists Lisa Biggs and the late Rebecca Rice, as women whose theater work is engaged with issues of community-building and social change. SCHOOL NEWS Tzveta Kassabova (MFA Dance 2009) is featured in Dance Magazine as one of 25 to watch. See http://dancemagazine.com/issues/January-2012/2012-25-To-Watch. Kym Perfetto (BA Theatre 2002), fitness instructor, is featured for the second year in Time-Out New York. Natasha Rothwell (BA Theatre 2003) participated in the New York City Just for Laughs Showcase on Friday, February 3, to be considered for the Characters Show at the 2012 JFL Festival. Baakari Wilder (BA Theatre 2011) recently performed as World’s Fair Attendant and others in the production of The Water Engine at Spooky Action Theatre. ALUMNI NEWS Malaurie Barber (BA Theatre 2000) has a new yoga DVD available on Amazon.com, which is receiving rave reviews. Erin Baxter (BA Theatre 2006) serves as Production Supervisor for Synetic Theater Company, where she recently had the pleasure of working with Daniel Pinha (MFA Theatre Design 2010), Kristy Hall (MFA Theatre Design 2010) and current MFA student Laree Lentz on the production of Genesis Reboot. Risa Binder (BA Theatre 1999) just released her debut album Paper Heart on February 14. Dominic D’Andrea (BA Theatre 2003), founder and producing director of the New York One-Minute Play Festival, is interviewed in the Boston Globe about the new Boston One-Minute Play Festival. http://bostonglobe.com/arts/2012/01/06/ boston-one-minute-play-festival-creates-miniatureworlds/pDsQAlotw2 OjGLzz29edFN/story.html. Genna Davidson (BA Theatre 2008) opened a new work, The Nightmare Dreamer, with Tattooed Potato at the Mead Theatre Lab in March. You can read about this ensemble creation at www.nightmaredreaming.wordpress.com. Eternanda Fudge (BA Theatre 2009) is working with the Black and Latino Filmmaker’s Coalition on a documentary entitled Black is Beautiful, the culmination of 100 Black and Latina women verbally celebrating the strength, power and beauty of being a person of color. 28 WWW.CLARICESMITHCENTER.UMD.EDU CREATIVE SOLES BLOSSOMING: SPRING 2012 MARYLAND DANCE ENSEMBLE 29 SCHOOL OF THEATRE, DANCE, AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES SCHOOL OF THEATRE, DANCE, AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES FACULTY AND STAFF Director Daniel MacLean Wagner FACULTY Izumi Ashizawa Karen Bradley Faedra Carpenter Daniel Conway Walter Dallas Adriane Fang Leslie Felbain Mitchell Hébert Franklin J. Hildy Helen Q. Huang Paul Jackson Misha Kachman Brian MacDevitt Sharon Mansur Alvin Mayes Laurie Frederik Meer Heather S. Nathans Sara Pearson Miriam Phillips Patrik Widrig Movement and Acting History, Theory and Education Theatre History and Diversity Scene Design Acting, Playwriting, and Directing Artist in Residence, Dance Movement for Actors and Acting Acting and Directing History and Theory Costume Design and History Production and Lighting Design Costume and Scene Design Lighting Design Improvisation and Kinesiology Technique and Choreography Performance Studies History and Theory Technique and Choreography Global Perspectives, Movement Analysis and Flamenco Directing, Black Theatre, and Musical Theatre Voice for the Actor and Acting, Associate Director of Theatre Voice for the Actor and Acting Lighting Design, Director of the School Movement Analysis and Creative Process, Associate Director of Dance Technique and Choreography Patti P. Gillespie Roger Meersman William V. Patterson Meriam Rosen Alcine Wiltz Professor Emerita Professor Emeritus Associate Professor Emeritus Professor Emerita Professor Emeritus Scot Reese Leigh Smiley Ashley Smith Daniel MacLean Wagner Anne Warren 30 301.405.ARTS (2787) SCHOOL OF THEATRE, DANCE, AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES ADJUNCT FACULTY Susan Chiang Ann Chismar Cary Gillett Erin Glasspatrick Kyle Kweder Raye Leith Kris Messer Aaron Posner Michael Rohd Korey Rothman Julia Smith Costume Construction Scenic Painting Stage Management Theatre Craftsmanship Lighting Technology Figure Drawing Theatre and Performance Studies Scenic Design Acting and Performance Theatre History Ballet STAFF Stephanie Bergwall Sue Blandford Cary Gillett Erin Glasspatrick Sandra Jackson Isiah Johnson Bob Novak Marguerita Phelps Camilla Schlegel Executive Administrative Assistant Program Management Specialist Theatre Production Coordinator Dance Production Coordinator Director of Business Operations Accompanist Accompanist Coordinator of Student Services Program Management Specialist GRADUATE ASSISTANTS AND FELLOWS Nathan Andary, Drew Barker, Teresa Bayer, Mike Boynton, Graham Brown, Tracey Chessum, Andrew Cissna, Douglas Clarke, Caroline Clay, Andrew Cohen, Erin Crawley-Woods, Allan Davis, Rebecca DeLapp, Dave Demke, Robert Denton, Ashley Duncan Derr, Adriana Diaz, Shannon Dooling, Valerie Durham, Jared Ewonus, Elisabeth Fallica, Ana Farfan, Xuejuan Feng, David Gregory, Paige Hathaway, James Hesla, Nicholas Horan, Kelsey Hunt, Rob Jansen, Andrew Kaufman, Jessica Krenek, Jessica Laurita-Spanglet, Laree Lentz, JD Madsen, Stephanie Miracle, Adam Nixon, Emily Oleson, Kwame Opare, Aryna Petrashenko, Collin Ranney, Jedidiah Roe, Claudia Rosales, Florian Rouiller, Annmarie Saunders, Chelsey Schuller, Adam Sheaffer, Matthew Shifflett, Kathleen Spanos, Erin Bone Steele, Natalie Tenner, Ruthmarie Tenorio, LaRonika Thomas, Robert Thompson, Sara Thompson, Aaron Tobiason, Sarah Tundermann, Matthew Wilson and Anupama Yadav. 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