Olivia DrakePedro Alejandro, associate professor of dance, is a recipient of the C. Newton Shenck III Award for a "lifetime achievement in and contribution to the arts." Alejandro received the award from the Arts Council of Greater New Haven board of directors. He was mentioned in a Nov. 9 article in The Hartford Courant. Alejandro was featured in The Wesleyan Connection in May 2008.
(Photos by Cora Lautze '11)
Tesla Place, a "thunderous light project" by Pedro Alejandro, associate professor of dance, was performed May 10 and 11 on the Wesleyan campus. The dance, light and sound-based performance began outside Crowell Concert Hall and ended in the Center for the Arts Courtyard. The theme focused on the inventor/scientist Nikola Tesla (1856-1943). Tesla Place was created in collaboration with Marcela Oteiza, adjunct assistant professor of theater and faculty fellow; Paul Boylan; Sal Privitera, audio-visual technician; Adam Tinkle; graduate student Rod O'Connor; Dante Brown '09; Brittany Delany '09; Aaron Freedman '10; Spencer Garrod '09; Shayna Keller '09; and Samantha Sherman '09.…
The dance and music departments of Wesleyan hosted the West African Drumming and Dance Spring Concert showcasing the vibrancy of West African cultures through their music and dance forms. In West Africa, dance is life embodied in rhythm and movement. It celebrates and reinforces life and its various cycles. Right from conception to death, people in West Africa are called upon to honor and celebrate the different stages, achievements and successes of life, as well as to mourn and remember bitter experiences and losses, through music and dances. (Photos by Alexandra Portis '09)
Choreographer Hari Krishnan, artist in residence of dance, will present his first New York season with his company inDANCE in New York City. Performers include Julie Neuspiel '09 and Emily Watts '03; and musician Aaron Paige, music graduate student. The evening features five works choreographed by Krishnan. With dancers of diverse personal and training backgrounds, inDANCE strives toward "radical innovation in the extraction of post modern dance vocabulary from contemporary Bharatanatyam and classic modern dance with an uncompromising standard of excellence." The company’s socio-political consciousness characterize the repertoire and its approach to dance-making. inDANCE is a Toronto-based Canadian company, that…
Suzanna Tamminen, director of Wesleyan University Press, received a "2008 Outstanding Service to Dance Research" award from the Congress on Research in Dance (CORD). The CORD Awards were established in 1995 to recognize excellence in the field, contribute to motivating further research, and signal to the scholarly world at large that the works and individuals recognized are highly valued by those involved in dance research.
Katja Kolcio, associate professor of dance, is co-author of "Faking It: The Necessary Blind Spots of Understanding" in the journal Cultural Theory-Critical Methodologies 9:2, published in May 2009. Kolcio wrote this article in collaboration with Wesleyan dance major, Ellen Gerdes '06. Gerdes is currently doing graduate studies in dance at Temple University.
(more…)
(more…)
(more…)
(more…)