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CSU Summer Dance Workshop
July 8 – 26, 2013
Including “Intersections” Creative Process Sessions
Middough Building, Dance Studio 523/530

For more information on Dance events, contact Lynn Deering at dance@csuohio.edu. 

Contemporary Technique Classes with:

• Noa Zuk (formerly w/ Batsheva Dance Company)
• Doug Gillespie (Kate Weare Dance Company)
• Amy Miller (Gibney Dance, GroundWorks DanceTheater)
• Helanius Wilkins (Edgeworks Dance Theatre)

Somatic Techniques:

• Pilates w/ Lisa DeCato
• Yoga w/ Erica Steinweg

Special Offerings as a part of the Intersections Project providing points of intersection between artists and community with experiences that all creative artists share in common.

SOMATIC TECHNIQUES DAN 424/524 (1 credit)
Monday – Friday from 8:30 – 9:45 am
Study in the methods of somatic training and its application to the moving body including Pilates Mat and Ball Work, an exercise-based system that aims to develop the body’s “center” to create a stable core for efficient and effective movement and Yoga, establishing principals for optimal alignment and balanced energetic action. No previous dance experience required.

CONTEMPORARY MOVEMENT TECHNIQUES DAN 473/573 (1 credit)
Monday – Friday from 10:00 – 11:30am
This technique class incorporates material from a variety of sources, ranging from release-based work connecting with the ground to an eclectic series of standing contemporary sequences. Classes explore various elements including a weighted and grounded approach to moving, harnessing the body’s momentum and force, and improvisational techniques.

MIX AND MATCH DAN 499/599 (1 credit)
Mix and Match is a grab bag of 15 classes– your choice–from among the three fabulous weeks of Summer Dance!

Special Offerings During Summer Dance 2013:

Sunday, July 7, 2013 at 2:00 pm
Middough Blackbox Lab, CSU Arts Campus, Middough Building, 5th Floor, Room 521
Double Vision: GroundWorks Dance theater, in partnership with Cleveland State University Department of Theatre and Dance, present a double bill of solo work performed by renowned contemporary Israeli artists Noa Zuk and Ohad Fishof. Zuk and Fishof are long term collaborators with Batsheva Dance Company and its artistic director Ohad Naharin. They are each defining their own creative territory, bold, provocative, and defying traditional categories.

Monday, July 8 – Friday, July 12 (afternoons date/time TBA)
CSU Arts Campus, Middough Building, Dance Studios 523 and 530
GroundWorks DanceTheater in rehearsal: A new work created by Noa Zuk for GroundWorks DanceTheater with music and sound score by Ohad Fishof will be created and rehearsed in the facilities of the CSU Arts Campus Dance Studios. Some rehearsals will be open for observation and conversation with GroundWorks, the in Residence Professional Dance Company of CSU.

Saturday, July 13 from 11:00 – 12:30 pm
CSU Arts Campus, Middough Building, Dance Studio 523
Master Class with Doug Gillespie
Community master class with Summer Dance guest artist Doug Gillespie of the Kate Weare Dance Company.

Monday, July 15 – Friday, July 19 from 12:15 – 2:15 pm
CSU Arts Campus, Middough Building, Dance Studio 523
Creative Process with Amy Miller
By cultivating an environment that embraces playful experimentation, CSU Summer Dance Guest artist Amy Miller prioritizes collaborative process over final product in her creative workshops. Whether interested in diving deeper into a project idea already started, or looking for inroads toward a new starting point, these workshops will expose participants to exercises and techniques that enliven the imagination, generate useful questions, and encourage a curiosity for evolution of an idea over time. Collaborative decision making and group feedback sessions will provide valuable cross-pollination of concepts and esthetics. Ways of approaching music collaboration will be addressed along with strategies for em-powering and encouraging your collaborators throughout a creative journey. The week will culminate with a work-in-progress showing of studies generated during the sessions on Friday, July 19 at noon.

Saturday, July 20 from 8:30 am – 4:30 p.m.
CSU Arts Campus, Middough Building, Dance Studio 523
Dance for PD® for Health Professionals
Workshop conducted by Mark Morris Dance Group’s David Leventhal offering training and enrichment related to the intersection of dance/movement and Parkinson’s disease. This will include a community class for those with Parkinson’s and their care-givers.

Friday, July 26 at 12:00 noon
Middough Blackbox Lab, CSU Arts Campus, Room 521
Video Screening of /CLOSE/R
CSU Summer Dance guest artist Helanius Wilkins shares his choreographic process and final product of this evening length solo in which he exposes the naked truth through the process of shedding. The work fuses lighting design, video technology, movement and text.

Friday, August 2 at 12:00 noon
Middough Blackbox Lab, CSU Arts Campus, Room 521
Ancestra (work in process showing)
Ancestra is a devised performance that celebrates women’s voices throughout the ages featuring poetry from diverse cultures, as well as primary source materials from the women’s suffrage movement. A multi-cultural and intergenerational ensemble serves as performers/collaborators, contributing reflections in movement, words, and song on their own lives and the lives of their mothers and grandmothers. Discussion on the creative process will be led by director Holly Holsinger.

And more TBA!
All of these special offerings are a part of the Intersections Project providing points of Intersection between artists and community with experiences that all creative artists share in common. This is made possible in part by the generous support of the residents of Cuyahoga County, through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.

 

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Week One (Monday through Thursday)

Noa Zuk began dancing with the Batsheva Ensemble in 1997. In 2000, she joined the Batsheva Dance Company (BDC) where she performed until 2009. During her time with BDC, she also began choreographing her own work. Among her early pieces are O.M.S., A Droom Come Tree and the trio Boxerman, which was performed by members of the Batsheva Ensemble in New York City. Her collaboration with interdisciplinary artist Ohad Fishof on the video dance One More Song was presented in Israel and abroad. In 2010, she was awarded The Schusterman Foundation Visiting Artist Scholarship and spent three months in residency at The Ohio State University in the United States. Her recent work, Speaker (trio version), premiered in Israel’s annual event International Exposure as part of the Curtain Up series in 2011. In 2012, her new creation for Bern Ballet premiered in Switzerland and she was also selected as one of ten finalists to present her work in the 5th Copenhagen International Choreography Competition. In the fall of 2012 she returned to another artist residency at The Ohio State University, where she premiered NOTHING II – a piece for 15 OSU dancers created in collaboration with Ohad Fishof and performed at the Wexner Center for the Arts .Last March she returned to the U.S, performing two duets and a new solo, Nothing III, in New York and Chicago. Noa is also a teacher of Ohad Naharin’s Gaga Movement Language.

Week One (Friday and Saturday)

Douglas Gillespie, rehearsal director and dancer with Kate Weare Company, received his BFA in Dance from Florida State University and subsequently worked with choreographers Ben Munisteri, Heather McArdle and Tennille Lambert in New York before joining Kate Weare Company in 2007. Born in California but hailing from The Sunshine State, Gillespie currently serves as rehearsal director for the company as well as Weare's directorial assistant for outside commissions. Douglas was a featured soloist in the 2012 opera, Weakness, choreographed by Weare and composed by Barbara White for Princeton University. Gillespie's dancing has been described in The Village Voice: “...(Gillespie) hurls himself into complicated connections the way an Olympian runs into their pole vaults.” Gillespie regularly teaches on behalf of Kate Weare Company, most recently as part of the NYU Summer Program and in residence at Virginia Commonwealth University, as well as under his own auspices at Dance New Amsterdam in New York.

Photo by Keira Heu-Jwyn Chang

Week Two

Amy Miller is a New York-based dancer and choreographer. Founding member of Cleveland-based GroundWorks Dance Theater, she continues to serve as artistic associate and guest choreographer. A former member of the Ohio Ballet, her choreographic body of work was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. In 2012, her work has been seen in NYC at Judson Church, Mark Morris Dance Center, Triskelion Arts, Spoke the Hub, Scandinavian House, and Gibney Dance Center. Her ongoing collaboration with Oberlin Conservatory of Music professor/composer Peter Swendsen will continue with an upcoming premiere with the Oberlin Dance Company. A new member of Gibney Dance, Miller will be involved in a collaboration with the renowned string quartet Ethel and composer Ryan Lott (Son Lux.) Miller also appeared in this season's Metropolitan Opera productions of Don Giovanni and Doug Varone's Les Troyens.

Photo by Steve Wagner

Week Three

Helanius J. Wilkins, a native of Lafayette, LA, is an award winning choreographer, performance artist, and instructor based in Washington D.C. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of EDGEWORKS Dance Theater – a Washington,DC-based all male contemporary dance company of predominately African-American men (www.hjwEdgeworks.org ). In 2008 he was awarded with the Pola Nirenska Award for Contemporary Achievement in Dance, DC’s highest honor given by the Washington Performing Arts Society; and was a three times finalist for the D.C. Mayor’s Arts Awards. In 2002 and 2006 he received the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Local Dance Commissioning Project award. In addition to performing the works of several nationally recognized choreographers including Robert Moses, Earl Mosley, Joy Kellman, Troy Powell, and Kevin Wynn, he has enjoyed creating, presenting, and receiving commissions for choreography throughout the United States. To date, he has choreographed and directed over 60 works. In summer 2010, Wilkins made his DC theater debut as the choreographer for Studio Theatre’s wildly successful and critically-acclaimed musical production “Passing Strange.” Foundations and organizations including New England Foundation for the Arts (National Dance Project), DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts have supported Wilkins's work. Wilkins also teaches professional and pre-professional dancers as well as students of various ages and levels of skill. He has served as an adjudicator and master teacher at American College Dance Festivals in 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011, and 2013. He is currently on faculty at Joy of Motion Dance Center and University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), where he was the guest artist in residence in fall 2012.

Photo by Angelisa Gillyard

 

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