NovDec2021_CollegeNews

DANCE Dance Studies, Per formance & Choreography, Single Teaching Certif ication, & Dual Teaching Certif ications FACULTY ACCOLADES Ana Baer participated at the Virtual Panel RefleXions Social Impact through the Arts by the University of Arkansas Department of Music. Ana co-presented “An Evolution Step: Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema Moving Toward a More Inclusive Ethos” at Dança em Foco virtual event. Her screendance, La Sabina , screened at Quetzalcoatl Indigenous International Film Festival, Oaxaca, Mexico; at the Online Thrilling Impressions Selection from the International Portrait Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria; at InShadow Lisbon Screendance Festival and at Sphere Digital World Cinema Carnival from Bengali, India. Olhar Migrante screened at Sphere Digital World Cinema Carnival from Bengali, India; during Kino Tanca 2021 at the Mazowiecki Instytut Kultury, Warsaw, Poland and screened during Dança em Foco, Sao Paolo, Brazil, virtual event. Thule screened at the Haiku Festival, in the Hague, Netherlands and at The International Moving Film Festival, Abadan, Iran. Imàgenes de una Realidad, dunes and The Way we are in Space (a collaboration with Kaysie Seitz Brown , Richard Hall , Michelle Nance , and Nicole Wesley ) screened at IMARP, Sao Paulo, Brazil. WECreate Spaces: Limerick (a collaboration with Michelle Nance ) screened at IMARP, Sao Paulo, Brazil and at the Tokyo Documentary Film Festival, Shinjuku K's Cinema, Tokyo, Japan. Ixchel screened at Primigenia Festival de Danza, Morelia, MX and at the Primer Coloquio Iberoamericano de Transdisciplina, Creatividad y Neuroartes Escénicas, virtual event produced by Universidad Michoacana SNH, Universidad de Querétaro, Universidad de Oaxaca, MX. [1] Torens Johnson will be performing the role of the Father and the Rat King in Baltimore Dance Tech's production of the city Nutcracker on December 19th. Christa Oliver’s choreography is featured in Zach Theatre's 2021 production of A Christmas Carol . Ana Baer's screendance, Ixchel Masterclass taught by Torens Johnson organized by Christa Oliver Opening Door Dance Theatre and Texas State Opera Theatre's production, ReWritten 12 | November & December | College News 1 2 3 As part of the Dance Division’s recruitment activities, Christa Oliver organized the masterclasses taught by Torens Johnson at Booker T. High School for the Visual and Performing Arts, Arlington Heights High School, W.T. White High School, and Arlington ISD Center for the Visual and Performing Arts. [2] STUDENT ACCOLADES CIM TEYA, directed by Kaysie Seitz Brown , was invited to perform for the children enrolled in the after school program at the San Marcos Housing Authority on November 17. They performed Anyone Can Dance and Symmetry/Asymmetry as well as two interactive works during which they invited the children and their caregivers to participate in creating a Name Dance and a dance about the season of fall. Additionally, during the month of November, Kaysie’s Creative Movement pedagogy class has been visiting and working with children at Fuentes Elementary in Kyle. DIVISION ACCOLADES Opening Door Dance Theatre and Texas State Opera Theatre collaborated to present ReWritten , an exploration through artistic expression of this year's Common Experience theme Compassion. [3] Under the Artistic Direction of Marc Reynolds and LeAnne Smith with assistance from Cheryl Lindquist and Scott Vandenberg , ReWritten began with the work- in-progress of guest artists Matthew Cumbi and Tom Truss. Exploring the relationship between writers Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne; based on Melville’s letters written during the mid 1800s, the collaborators chose to illustrate the trajectory of love found and lost, and how one may, or may not, move toward healing. In addition, dance faculty Shay Hartung , Amanda McCorkle , and LeAnne Smith contributed choreography set on Texas State dance majors. Catherine Lee, internationally renowned artist generously donated the use of her sculpture, “Recluse 2” for the dance, "A Heart Unbound." Cheryl Lindquist, pianist, beautifully provided accompaniment for all musical offerings. She and Marc Reynolds worked tirelessly to create an evening that was a visual and aural feast. Special thanks to projection designer James Camp , costume designer Vanessa Vega , and Scott Vandenberg for his exquisitely rendered lighting design and technical direction. Michelle Nance , Director of the Division of Dance, was recently selected to receive an Everette Swinney Faculty Senate Excellence in Teaching Award. Each year the Faculty Senate recognizes the Piper Professor nominee and two runners- up with the Everette Swinney Faculty Senate Excellence in Teaching Award, for which awardees receive an honorarium and a plaque. #FACULTYSPOTLIGHT College of Fine Arts and Communication | 13