September2022_CollegeNews

DANCE Dance Studies, Per formance & Choreography, Single Teaching Certif ication, & Dual Teaching Certif ications FACULTY ACCOLADES Ana Baer produced SemillaFest's second installment at the city's Park Plaza. The festival celebrates Hispanic, LatinX and African performing arts. Her work was screened at: D’olhar Itinerante, Goiânia, Brazil; Madrid Film Awards, Spain; Hibrido Film Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Nahui Ollin Film Festival, Durango, Mexico; The Fine Arts Film Festival, Venice, California; Golden Short Film Festival, Avezzano, Italy; ADF Movies by Movers, Durham, NC; INART Community Festival, Lisbon, Portugal; Fisura, Film Fest, CDMX, Mexico; ELO(KUVA)KUU in Tampere, Finland; Eku’e Muestra Internacional de Videodanza de Asunción, Paraguay; 9th Pink City International Short Film Festival, Rajasthan, India; APEX Film Award, Brighton, East Sussex, UK. Ana Baer’s Thule was awarded Best Original Music by the Tulum World Environment Film Festival. Ana Baer’s Ixchel and Imágenes de una Realidad were semi finalist for Best film award at We Make Films International Film Festival, Wallington, UK. Ana produced Sans Souci Fest as part of Gastro Think Tank and presented the lecture demonstrations: A Brief History of Screendance and Towards a Collaboratory arts production methodology in Bogota, Colombia on September 22-26. Brandon Gonzalez attended the Critical Mass CI50 Conference (celebrating 50 year of Contact Improvisation) in July (Ohio). Torens Johnson served as deputy director of AileyCamp with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre during the summer of 2022. In that role, he set choreography, directed the staff orientation, and directed the final productions for nine camps in nine different cities across the U.S. Michelle Nance , Kaysie Sietz Brown , Amanda McCorkle , Shay Hartung , and LeAnne Smith performed in and choreographed for …mending , a Michelle Nance's new choreography “Deep" at the Choreographers’ Showcase Christa Oliver's workshop on dance activism at the Harvard Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research seminar Christa Oliver's workshop on dance activism at the Harvard Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research seminar 10 | September | College News 1 2 3 production of the Shay Ishii Dance Company in Austin in June, featuring live music by Richard D. Hall . Michelle Nance presented new choreography “Deep” in Choreographers’ Showcase at Texas State in August. [1] Christa Oliver's dance pieces "Rooted in Love" and "Black and Proud" were featured in the Anthropology of Motherhood exhibit at the Three Rivers Arts Festival in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She also led a workshop on dance activism at Harvard University. [2 - 3] Kaysie Seitz Brown's article, “Dance & Cultivation: Spurring the Next Generation’s Enthusiasm for the Art of Dance”, was published in the Journal of Dance Education on August 18. Scott Vandenberg was the production manager for this season of Summer Stock Austin which produced in rep both In The Heights and a new musical by Quinton Johnson, Alice's Wonderland . This season was produced in conjunction with Texas Performing Arts and performed at the McCullogh Theatre on the University of Texas campus. The company consisted of over 70 college and high school performers, artisans and technicians led by professional directors, choreographers, and designers. Amanda McCorkle (pictured) and Kaysie Seitz Brown performed "Threshold" choreographed by LeAnne Smith at the 35th Annual BMCA Conference “Rejoining the Circle: Somatic Agency and Social Justice,” where they also presented their workshop entitled "Somatic Justice Through Somatic Agency with Young Children" June 24th and 25th in Granville, OH. BMCA is an international, not-for-profit membership organization committed to the practice, education, and ongoing development of Body-Mind Centering professional field with a strong belief in the profound effects of its experiential and collaborative process. BMCA CONFERENCE College of Fine Arts and Communication | 11