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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
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April 19 – 22, 2012
Dance Theatre
CLARICE SMITH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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!
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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