Weekly Announcements: WEEK 1 | March 26-April 1

WELCOME BACK

I, Annie Beserra, am now your loyal blogger. Thank you to Jaclyn Thompson for her fabulous work keeping us "posted" the last two quarters. Any requests for blog postings can be sent to beserra.1@osu.edu. The deadline for inclusion for Monday's posts will be 5pm the Friday prior.

UGU: WE LOVE YOU UNDERGRADS PARTY!

This Wednesday, March 28th at 7:30pm the Grads are hosting an appreciation/information party for the Undergrads at:

Brewer's Yard Clubhouse
100 W. Frankfort St.
Columbus, OH 43206
7:30-8pm: Chatting, Chomping, and Cheer
8pm: Small Group Discussions

All undergrads are invited to bring their questions and concerns about navigating life within the department and beyond. There will be food and drink and lots of good cheer. Take the High Street Bus or carpool to get down there. Brewer's Yard is in German Village.

NEW GROUND WORK FEATURED IN ART & TECH SYMPOSIUM

The New Ground series this year is centered around the " Technology
Expanding the Horizon: A Reinterpretation & Investigation of the Landscape " symposium that is happening this week Thursday and Friday. An exhibit for the symposium that's up in Hopkins and Haskett includes two works by students in New Ground.

Technology Expanding the Horizon: A Reinterpretation & Investigation of the Landscape
Thursday, Mar 29 & Fri Mar 30, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm at the Wexner Center Film Video Theater

In the past the landscape was understood as a physical place; the distance you could see to the horizon or the rows of corn needing to be plowed before sundown. Now, with ubiquitous Google Maps, the World Wide Web, digital photography and nanotechnology, the landscape, a physical place has been evolving into the landscape as a virtual place. As experimenters and meaning-makers, artists create an important dialogue about how technology impacts and changes our notion of the meaning of this landscape. To address these issues the Art & Technology area and the Photography Area within the Department of Art have invited artists, theorists, and scientists to participate in a free public symposium and exhibition of art and ideas about today's reinterpretation and creative investigations of the landscape.

Visit the schedule for specific information about each panel: http://artandtech.osu.edu


Karole Armitage Visits OSU Dance!

Armitage Gone! Dance , renowned choreographer Karole Armitage’s company, makes its Columbus debut performing its dynamically charged works for one-night only in the Thurber Theater at the Drake Center on Thursday, March 29. A Master Class with Karole Armitage will be held in the department on Thursday, March 29 during technique.


VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR WUNDERKAMMER

Please email Noelle Stiles at stiles.48@osu.edu if you would like to be part of the production crew for Wunderkammer! Ushers/tech helpers are needed! If you're interested but cannot be there every night, please still contact her.

WUNDERKAMMER



The OSU Department of Dance
and Colleen Leonardi and Noelle Stiles present

Wunderkammer
April 5,6, & 7 at 8pm
EMMA Lab at ACCAD

Admission is free.
Guests are asked to arrive early as venue seating is limited.
For seating information, email wunderkammer.567@gmail.com.

Colleen Leonardi will premiere Waveland, a new work that includes Leonardi and Stiles as well as Adriana Durant, Jaclyn Thompson, and Yen-Fang Yu.

Leonardi’s master’s work examines the role of language in the dance-making process. Through choreography, Leonardi aims to explore “choreographic thought” and how ideas follow from a dancing body. Her research extends beyond dance-making to the creation and establishment of an online journal by, for, and about choreographers and dedicated to questions of craft, currently titled www.choreojournal.com.

Noelle Stiles will perform two works; a solo entitled MERGE, created in collaboration with Portland, OR-based choreographer Linda K. Johnson and excerpts from Bebe Miller’s seminal 1993 work Nothing Can Happen Only Once. MERGE will include an original score by Matt Jones and Delaney Kelly, as well as sculpture by architecture student Kyle Zaylor. Nothing Can Happen will be performed with dancers Robin Anderson, Adriana Durant, Tahni Holt and Jaclyn Thompson. Stiles’ master’s work has focused on the relationship between dance performance and the senses. Specifically, how the senses contribute to the embodiment of movement material, understanding somatic techniques, the creative process and audience perception of dance. Her master’s work is also concerned with the social and political implications of how the senses are engaged in postmodern dance/performance art. Additionally her research, will address the performer’s perspective and issues of performance through the creation of a website that will serve as a forum on performance.

DANCE LINX WORKSHOPS AND AUDITIONS



The popular hip hop dance team, Dance Linx, will be having FREE workshop classes this Saturday, March 31st at 1:00 pm. The team will teach 3 to 4 fun and energetic dance routines. If you want to brush up on your hip hop skillz or experience the many styles of Dance Linx, then you wont want to miss the last workshop of the year! And if you can't get enough of us, immediately following the workshops will be auditions for the team at 3:00pm. This is your chance to be part of THE HOTTEST TEAM ON CAMPUS! Don't Miss It!

All events to be help at the RPAC in multipurpose room 3

Visit www.freewebs.com/dancelinx for more info!

SUSAN MANNING TO VISIT DEPARTMENT IN APRIL

Susan Manning will be doing a lecture in our department on Thursday, April 12. The title of her talk is "Ausdruckstanz across the Atlantic." She will be presenting in Candace's Postmodernism class (4:30 in the conference room) and there will be a book signing afterward. Her two books are now coming out in paperback editions. They are: "Ecstasy and the Demon: Feminism and Nationalism in the Dances of Mary Wigman" and "Modern Dance, Negro Dance."

Susan Manning has pursued her research interests in dance studies by working through the more established fields of drama, theatre, and performance studies. A Professor of English, Theatre, and Performance Studies at Northwestern University, she teaches the history and theory of twentieth-century theatrical performance, including dance, drama, and music theatre. Her first book, Ecstasy and the Demon (1994 de la Torre Bueno Prize), traces the shift from modernist bodies to fascist bodies in the works of Mary Wigman, Germany's leading dancer between the two world wars; a second edition appeared in 2006. Her recent book, Modern Dance, Negro Dance: Race in Motion (2004), examines changing relations between modern dancers and African American concert dancers in mid-century New York City. Currently, Professor Manning serves as president of the Society of Dance History Scholars and as convener of the Chicago Seminar on Dance and Performance.

Susan is here in conjunction with a conference going on in the theatre department entitled "Disciplining Interdisciplinarity." The conference is Friday through Sunday and all are invited to attend.

The Disciplining Interdisciplinary website is up, active, and ready to take registrations (which are free to anyone interested). Go to: http://theatre.osu.edu

Weekly Announcements: WEEK 10 | Mar 5-11

Notable News
Congratulations to all those involved in Happy Hour this weekend! A big thank you goes out to the production crew, Jenny, Adriana, Carrie, Dave, and our advisors from Jeff, Sarah and Jaclyn!

WhoDunIt?
Film noir meets pink tulle in Susan Hadley's new ballet for BalletMet, set to an original score by Bradley Sowash. The show opens this week! WhoDunIt? runs from March 8-18 at Capitol Theatre. Visit www.balletmet.org for showtimes. Tickets can be purchased in advance by calling CAPA at (614)229-4848. Student tickets are only $10! Don't miss it! There is a pre-performance talk with Susan and Bradley on March 8 at 7pm and March 16 at 7:30pm.

Guest artist
Liz Waterhouse of the Forsythe Company will be here on Tuesday, March 6 as a guest speaker in Karen Eliot's history class at 4:30. Unfortunately she won't be able to teach a master class but this is a great opportunity to hear her speak about
life with the Forsythe Company, life after grad school, life.....! All are welcome to attend. The class meets in the lower floor of the Music and Dance library in Room 66.

Dancing Opportunities Over Spring Break
Come to CM2's class at Columbus Dance Theatre, 592 East Main St. Class is on Saturdays from 11-12:30 pm and costs only $10. OSU's Robin Anderson will be teaching Sat, March 10th, 24th and 31st and will share information she learned at Vienna's ImpulsTanz dance festival this past summer. Or try Pilates and Yoga at Alpha State Studio. Visit www.alphastatelife.com for a class schedule.

Departmental Informance
If you or your students would like to be in the dance major informance, contact Rachael Fullenkamp at rachael.dance@gmail.com by THIS TUESDAY no later then 10pm.

Spring Course Offerings
There have been a couple of changes with Modern Technique for Spring Quarter. On MWF at 10:30, the three technique offerings will be: Ming-Lung Yang - Modern,
Bebe Miller - Modern, and Teena Custer - Hip Hop. Please note that Abby Yager will not be teaching modern at 10:30. Yoga at 8:45 will be taught by Ashley Thorndike. And also please note that Early Ballet History, taught by Angelika Gerbes on MW 4:30-6:30, is offered every other year only - so catch it this spring.

Want to learn Irish Dance?
Learn at OSU during the Spring Quarter 2007 on Saturdays 11-1 with instructor Erin Tisdale. Enroll under course number 601.08, call number 20949-7 for 2 credits. Also check out the class trailer on YouTube by searching: "Irish Dance Class at OSU!" Questions? Contact tisdale.28@osu.edu .

LabanWriter
David Ralley and Lucy Venable have just put LabanWriter 4.6 up on the OSU Department of Dance website. Go to http://www.dance.osu.edu/labanwriter/ where you can download for either OS9 or OSX.
Heads Up!
Version 4.6 will run on OS9, but this is the last version that will do so. Future versions will only run under OSX. Instructions are there for downloading to OS9. Follow them carefully regarding the fonts. When you download now to OSX the fonts find their place automatically. No muss, no fuss! Your Feedback Matters!
David and Lucy would like to remind you again to let them know immediately when you have problems or when you have a request or new idea. Sometimes the answer is already there, and they just need to explain something to you. Sometimes it is something they can fix quickly and make it available for everyone to download so just send a message to labanwriter@osu.edu while you're there at your computer. They would like to hear from you.

An Opportunity to Give Back
Camp Sunrise, a non-profit organization that sponsors a one-week summer camp for kids impacted by HIV and AIDS, is accepting applications from interested volunteer camp counselors for its 2007 camp. The camp will be held August 12-18th, and staff will be required to participate in a pre-camp training on Friday, August 10 and Saturday, August 11. The camp, as well as the staff training, will be held at Camp Kern in Oregonia, Ohio, just north of Cincinnati.

We are in search of camp counselors and volunteers for our Expressive Arts program. All volunteers must be 21 years of age at the time of camp. We are specifically looking for someone to participate in the Expressive Arts program (which is comprised of talent show preparation, campfire activities, music, writing, and other theatre components). We are also in search of camp counselors for the week of camp. These individuals work in groups of three or four to oversee a cabin of 8-10 youth, assisting them with traditional camp activities like horseback riding, archery, canoeing, drama and arts & crafts. The youth attending Camp Sunrise's summer camp are between the ages of 6-17 and are impacted by HIV and AIDS, meaning that they themselves are HIV positive or are living with or grieving the loss of a loved one to the disease.
Lodging and food are provided for the entire week for volunteer camp counselors, and new counselors will be working under the guidance of veteran counselors and a highly skilled camp director. All volunteers are responsible for their own transportation to and from camp. Volunteers must be able to commit to the staff training and the entire week of camp. Volunteers must fill out an application, complete an interview, and undergo an FBI and BCII fingerprinting screening at the time of the interview.

More information and camp counselor applications are available on the website at www.sunrisekids.org. Interested volunteers may also contact the Program Manager, Katie McKee at (216) 432-9544 or kmckee@atfgc.org. Deadline for applications is July 1, 2007; however, Camp Sunrise is currently interviewing for these positions. Apply as soon as possible!