September 2018 College News

College of Fine Arts and Communication | 11 Misti Galvan performed in Unfurl , as part of Wilson College’s M.F.A. summer residency in Chambersburg, PA. Galvan will be graduating with an M.F.A. from Wilson College in May 2019 with a focus in choreography. Galvan also designed and implemented the Yoga for Dancers program in the Dance Division. Tis class has 20 students, 10 of which are participating in an additional Yoga Teacher Training and Certifcation program through Sacred Art Yoga. Brandon Gonzalez , in collaboration with Aino Ojanen, presented the video dance piece Wrecking/Landscapes as part of the MINI exhibition. Te exhibition was at the Pikkupuoli Gallery in northern Finland. Brandon participated in the teacher’s meeting at the International Contact Festival Freiburg, in Freiburg, Germany. Lynzy Lab taught 150 of the high-school and college- aged musical theatre performers at Wake Forest University as a founding faculty member of Te Performing Arts Project’s groundbreaking summer intensives, Blueprint and Panorama. Each summer, Lynzy joins a faculty comprised of Tony-winners, Broadway and television veterans, and members of distinguished companies such as Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Gallim Dance, and the Paris Opera Ballet. Nicole Wesley presented “Appropriation, Colonialism, and Privilege: Devised Arts Practice Pedagogy confronts the History of North American Dance,” at the Congrès de l’Association Française d’Etudes Américaines at the Université Nice Sophia-Antipolis in Nice, France in May. Nicole was accepted into the 95th Annual Texas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (TAHPERD) Convention at Moody Gardens to be held in Galveston this December. She will conduct a session entitled “Devised Pedagogy & Practice-Based Research in Music & Dance,” with Professor Chris Smith from Texas Tech University. Nicole will conduct a workshop entitled “Devised Pedagogy in Collaborative Cross-Boundary Music and Dance Creation,” at the World Dance Alliance Conference in El Paso next February. In addition, Nicole taught a master workshop in improvisation at Pivotal Academy of Dance of Buda in June and a college recruitment class at Heather Stolle’s School of Dance. [2] Tis summer, Scott Vandenberg served as the Production Coordinator for Zilker Teatre Productions’ All Shook Up , performed in the Zilker Hillside Teater in Austin. Scott also returned for his third season as the resident Lighting Designer for Summer Stock Austin’s productions of Te Music Man , Dirty Rotten Scoundrels , and the new musical Rob1n , written by Allen Robertson and Damon Brown performed in the Rollins Teater at Te Long Center in Austin. Joining him was MFA candidate Andrew McIntyre (ALD / Projection Designer for Te Music Man ) and BFA student Maximillian Wallace , (AME / Projection Designer for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ). STUDENT ACCOLADES Merge Dance Company was invited to present the choreography Loose Perspectives during Footprint Dance Festival at the Michaelis Teatre, University of Roehampton, London. Rebekah Bali was invited to participate in a 5-day intensive Butoh (20th Century Japanese dance practice) workshop in Colorado with Nathan Montgomery. She was the youngest participant and received a competitive scholarship to attend the training. ALUMNI ACCOLADES Julia Hutcherson , recent B.F.A. Dance graduate, has been accepted to study Dance Ministry at Hillsong College in Sydney, Australia next year (2019). DIVISION ACCOLADES Dance Feeds the Soul , a concert benefting Hays County Food Bank and School Fuel SMTX featured six Texas State Choreographers (students, alumni, and faculty), and over thirty fve dancers from Texas State University’s Division of Dance, San Marcos High School, Goodnight Middle School, and Miller Middle School. [3] LeAnne Smith partnered with Joanna Ruley-Garza of San Marcos to produce the event which was held at San Marcos High School’s Performing Arts Center under the technical direction of Jack Moore. More than $2,000.00 was raised to help those who are food insecure in our community.