April May 2021 College News

1 Merge Dance Company’s recent dance piece "Lingering Patterns" 2 CIM TEYA's fnal project of the year, Quarantine Haikus: Tings I Miss and Silver Linings 3 CIM TEYA's fnal project of the year, Quarantine Haikus: Tings I Miss and Silver Linings 8 | April & May | College News DANCE Dance Studies, Per formance & Choreography, Single Teaching Certif ication, & Dual Teaching Certif ications FACULTY ACCOLADES Ana Baer was nominated as one of the Alpha Chi Favorite Professors for 2021. Baer’s Shift screened at Miradas a Traves del Tiempo, Montevideo, Uruguay with original music by Richard D. Hall . Baer’s Being Together was screened at An Ordinary Film Festival, Stockholm, Sweden. Tis work is a collaboration with Body Shift, Merge Dance Company and Richard D. Hall . Baer’s Olhar Migrante was screened during the Urban Visions Beyond the Ideal City Festival, Bologna, Italy. Selected from over 900 submissions for this main category, the flm is screened with 40 others. Baer’s La Sabina screened at Filmoptico Visual Art and Film Festival, Tarragona, Spain. Ana Baer and Christa Oliver directed Merge Dance Company’s virtual show and premiered the piece "Lingering Patterns" with light design by Cheri Prough DeVol . [ 1 ] Christa Oliver has been accepted to the 2021 Mellon School of Teater and Performance Research at Harvard University. On March 23, Christa presented her current research project at PoP Moves Australia, and on April 14th, she presented her performance-based art project at PoP Moves UK. Christa also co-directed Merge Dance Company's virtual concert and organized the company's online dance masterclasses. Kaysie Seitz Brown presented STREAM in Motion: Enhancing Public School Curriculum Trough Dance for Young Viewers & Doers for the UT Osher Lifelong Learning Institute on April 22. A recording of the CIM TEYA production LiveSTREAM in Motion was presented for the students at Voigt Arts Integration Academy in Round Rock. CIM TEYA also completed their fnal project of the year, which was a collaboration with Fuentes Elementary in Kyle as well as Texas State Dance Major Kalista Reyna and Texas State Composer Richard D. Hall , Quarantine Haikus: Tings I Miss and Silver Linings . [ 2 - 3] STUDENT ACCOLADES B.F.A. in Performance and Choreography student, Daniel Garcia , was commissioned to present two works, Elements and Staccare , at the El Paso Community College Dance Film screening. Merge Dance Company (directed by Christa Oliver and Ana Baer ) taught free face-to-face and online dance masterclasses for children at the PODER Learning Center and Lively Middle School. On April 21st, the company taught a modern dance class and choreography from their Spring Concert for the department's Wellness Week. WECreate Spaces: Limerick recently screened during the Urban Visions Beyond the Ideal City Festival, Bologna, Italy. WECreate Spaces: Limerick features dancers Michelle Nance (pictured), Director of the Division of Dance, and Heike Salzer as well as direction by faculty member, Ana Baer and Heike Salzer . Te screendance is a poetic visual portrait of the historic city of Limerick. Bodies and costume merge with the materials and shapes, resonating the textural and rhythmic layers of the urban landscapes. Te work suggests an embodied ethnographic view of the local, drawing on the visceral ability of the artists to capture ephemeral sensibilities through their presence. Tis montage highlights echoes of the now along with fragments of the past, revealing the stories that are engrained in the desecrated architecture and felt through the movements of the people of the city. WECREATE SPACES: LIMERICK College of Fine Arts and Communication | 9