Thank you to all who participated in the 2010 OhioDance Festival.

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2010 OhioDance Festival and Conference

Dance Matters: Move Your Imagination

May 15 and 16, 2010
Oberlin College
Co-sponsored by OhioDance and the Oberlin College Theatre and Dance Program
Events held in Warner Center

Master Classes and panel discussions will be held Saturday May, 15 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, May 16 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the Warner Center at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. Classes are taught by dance professionals from universities and dance companies and include contemporary, ballet, jazz and world dance forms. Panel discussions will address current dance trends by dance professionals in the field. The festival also includes professional auditions and an awards presentation.

Participating Oberlin faculty are Nusha Martynuk, Ann Cooper Albright, Elesa Rosasco, Deb Vogel, Roger Copeland, Holly Handman-Lopez and Astrid Jobe. Nusha Martynuk will teach a choreography workshop, Ann Cooper Albright a contact improvisation master class and Deb Vogel a dance medicine specialist will offer a class on stretching. Holly Handman-Lopez will teach a Cunningham inspired class in conjunction with a lecture on Cunningham by Roger Copeland, author of Merce Cunningham and the Modernizing of Modern Dance. Elesa Rosasco, is the Oberlin College festival coordinator and Astrid Jobe will manage the Showcase.

Imagination Conversation
Saturday, May 15, 2010
1:30pm-3:00pm
Hallock Auditorium in the Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental
A highlight of this year’s festival is an Imagination Conversation - a panel discussion. This dialogue is part of a broader two-year Imagination Conversation initiative of Lincoln Center Institute (LCI). LCI will catalyze a nationwide series of state events on the topic of imagination, why it matters and how to develop it in our institutions, our work and our lives. The findings of this effort will contribute to a culminating final summit in 2011. OhioDance and Oberlin College in cooperation with the Ohio Department of Education are pleased to host one of our states imagination discussions on this timely topic.

The distinguished panelists from Oberlin College are:
Mark Braford, Professor of Biology and Neuroscience;
Julia Christensen, artist, writer and visiting Assistant Professor of the Emerging Arts;
David W. Orr, Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics;
Lynn Powell, award-winning poet and Oberlin resident.
The panel will be moderated by
Ann Cooper Albright, performer, choreographer, feminist scholar, and Professor of Dance and Theater at Oberlin College.

This panel discussion is open to anyone interested in this topic.

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The Showcase performance will be Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 7:30 in Hall Auditorium. This year’s showcase will feature: Professional companies; Dancing Wheels Company, Hixon Dance, Like You Mean It, Marquez Dance Project, Pooja Kumar, and Verb Ballets. College dance programs represented are: Grey Castro, from Oberlin College and dance students from Cuyahoga Community College. Pre-professional companies performing are BalletMet Columbus, Hathaway Brown, and Toledo Ballet.

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This year's award recipients are Nusha Martynuk, Choreographer and Professor of Dance and Chair of Theatre and Dance and Oberlin College for outstanding contributions to the advancement of the dance art form, and
Kaye Davis, Associate Professor of Dance, at the University of Akron for outstanding contributions to the advancement of dance education. Awards presented at the Showcase following intermission.

The 2010 OhioDance Outstanding dance student award recipient is Christopher Evans, a BalletMet pre-professional student. Chris received international recognition of his potential in January of 2010 when he participated in the Prix de Lausanne, Switzerland. He was one of twenty students selected for the finals and one of the seven scholarship winners. Dance students receiving Honorable Mention are: Katie Bostleman, Leisa DeCarlo, Claire Von Enck, Kasha Hilton, and Ashley Moore.

Dessert Reception following the Showcase at the Oberlin Inn. Musical performance by Black River Belles.
10:30pm-11:30pm

 

Please call Jane D'Angelo at 614-224-2913 or email for more information.

The 2010 OhioDance Showcase:

2010 Showcase was adjudicated by:

Teena M. Custer, Faculty in the Department of Dance at Slippery Rock University. She is a member of Venus Fly Trap, the first all female all street dance style crew in the U.S. Ms. Custer is a b-girl and a hip hop dance theatre artist.

Carlos Fittante, choreographer/dance-artist based in New York City. He is a graduate of the School of American Ballet, has studied and performed extensively in Bali, Indonesia, and has a Bachelors of Arts in Dance from Empire State College. He specializes in Baroque and Balinese dance and is the artistic director of BALAM Dance Theatre, which creates a new vision of contemporary dance that fuses diverse dance styles from around the world with Balinese theatre. www.BALAMDance.org. He has extensive performing credits including, New York Theatre Ballet, Neo Labos Dance Theatre, soloist with New York City Opera, principal dancer with the New York Baroque Dance Company, and Nani Devi’s Indonesian Dance Group. His work has been presented at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Ballet Santa Barbara, Apollo’s Fire-Cleveland’s Baroque chamber orchestra, Queens Museum of Art, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, DUMBO Dance Festival, Queer Culture Festival and at art galleries, colleges, libraries and other venues here and abroad. His choreography and performances have received critical praise from the New York Times, Village Voice among others.

Tong Wang, for the last twenty years, has enjoyed a successful international dance career as a principal dancer. After graduating from Beijing Dance Academy in 1986, he worked with companies such as Shanghai Ballet, Tulsa Ballet Theatre, Dayton Ballet, Colorado Ballet, and most recently, Ballet West. He has performed almost every leading role in the classical ballet repertoire and also danced a full range of contemporary ballets created by world-renowned choreographers such as George Balanchine, Antony Tudor, Frederick Ashton, John Cranko, Paul Taylor, Glen Tetley, Birgit Culberg, Choo-san Goh, William Forsythe, Ben Stevenson, and Hans Van Manen. While dancing professionally, he completed his B.F.A and M.F.A degrees with the University of Utah Ballet Department and also worked as a guest faculty member from 2000-2005. In addition, he has enjoyed a choreographic relationship with Ballet West, the University of Utah Ballet Department, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Ballet West Conservatory, DanceOhio and Wright State University, where he taught from 2005 to 2007. For the past two years, Tong has served as an Assistant Professor of Dance at Butler University. Internationally, Tong taught and set his work in varies schools and companies.

Saturday, May 15, 2010 - 12:00pm-1:00pm Dance Audition and Master Workshop: Selections will be made by representatives from various schools and companies: Verb Ballets, Cleveland; The Ohio State University, Department of Dance, representatives Susan Petry and Melanye White Dixon, Columbus; Dancing Wheels Company, Cleveland; Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Dayton; Smag Dance Collective, Michael Groomes, Dayton; BalletMet Dance Academy, Summer Intensives and year-round Pre-Professional Program, Susan Brooker, Academy Director.

Audition Format and Requirements

Please take a class either ballet or modern class from 10:15am-11:30am before the audition for warm-up

Ballet Criteria: Adagio center work, center combination with multiple pirouettes, grand allegro, pointe and/or men's combination, if requested by recruiters.

Contemporary Criteria: Spine work: contractions, spinal succession and tilts, rolling to, from and on the floor, tilts, spirals, recovery, fall and rebound. Combination with big directional changes, turns, small jumps and falls. Structured improvisation exercise.Repertory Segment: Movement phrases and/or choreography from the repertoire taught. Ballet criteria is included in repertory segment.

Cuts will be made after each company does ten minutes of repertory. (the students who are cut may stay to watch Please Note: There will be several dance techniques and styles represented at the audition.

Audition Attire Students should be dressed in appropriate audition attire. Ballet slippers are required for the ballet component. If you have had at least three years of pointe at an advanced level and feel comfortable wearing pointe shoes for the entire ballet portion of the audition, you may do so. Students must remove shoes for the modern component. No warm-ups or sweats allowed. It is suggested students wear convertible tights.

Please bring resume or CV and dance photo. Audition $15 members, $20 nonmembers
Download this form to bring to the audition click here!

 

Please call Jane D'Angelo at 614-224-2913 or email for more information.