October2022_CollegeNews

DANCE Dance Studies, Per formance & Choreography, Single Teaching Certif ication, & Dual Teaching Certif ications FACULTY ACCOLADES Ana Baer’s screendance IXCHEL was awarded Best Experimental Film by 9th Pink City International Short Film Festival, Rajasthan, India. Her screendance, Being Together , was awarded Best Experimental Film by Austin Spotlight Film Festival. [1] Her repertoire of films were selected for screening at Eku’e Muestra Internacional de Videodanza de Asunción, Paraguay; APEX Film Award, Brighton, East Sussex, UK; XII Encuentro Para Cinéfagos (Festival de CineArte en la Frontera), Táchira, Venuzuela; SECINDI, Merida, Spain; Festival Internacional de Cinema Socioambiental, Rio de Janeiro, BRA; COCO Dance Festival, Port of Spain, Trinidad. In early October, Brandon Gonzalez hosted the Texas Dance Improvisation Festival, a three-day event that had over 250 participants and over 24 guest artists from around the country and Mexico. During the festival Gonzalez presented his class "Sometimes We Vortex" and performed his ensemble work "Us/Uncertain." He also received a University Lecturer's Grant to bring the featured artist Darrell Jones to the TXST campus, whose presentations focused on ritual performance, mechanisms of oppression, and liberatory dance practices. [2] Ana Martinez and Ana Baer were invited by the Universidad Areandina to teach and share their research during the Gastro Performance Festival in Bogotá, Colombia. Baer presented the Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema; Martinez presented her book Performance in the Zocalo . Amanda McCorkle traveled to Port of Spain, Trinidad to present her work "Mare Crisium" at the prestigious Queen’s Hall Theater. She lead several somatic movement masterclasses at both the University of Trinidad and Tobago and the University of the West Indies. [3] Ana Baer presenting at the Gastro Performance Festival in Bogotá, Colombia Brandon Gonzalez hosted the Texas Dance Improvisation Festival that had over 250 participants Amanda McCorkle taught numerous somatic masterclasses while she travels to the Port of Spain, Trinidad 10 | October | College News 1 2 3