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Dance End of Semester Event

Dec 18, 2020

08:00 PM

Online venue,

University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242

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Dancer on the top story of the IMU parking ramp

End of Semester Event + Angelica DeLashmette Hurst Independent Projects
Friday, December 11 at 8:00 p.m. CST
virtualdance.studio.uiowa.edu

The University of Iowa Department of Dance will close its fall 2020 semester with a series of works by graduate and undergraduate students from the department. This event will also include independent projects by Angelica DeLashmette Hurst.

 Join us virtually on Friday, December 11 at 8:00 p.m. CST at virtualdance.studio.uiowa.edu to celebrate the work of these students.

The following ten works will be presented:

the thought of losing me...
Choreography by Angelica DeLashmette Hurst
This is a solo research project that is a continuation of Angelica’s thesis research she began with Figures of Speech; not only are we in dialogue with others, but we are also inside of a call and response relationship within ourselves. Out self to self conversation extends to others and the world around us. This project was giving Angelica time to be in conversation with herself. The time to investigate her influences, history, and what inspires her and brings her joy.

[Interrupted] Speech
Choreography by Angelica DeLashmette Hurst, in research and collaboration with the dedicated and talented Figures of Speech cast
[Interrupted] Speech is a re-staging of the original thesis work, Figures of Speech, with changes and adaptations made in response to COVID-19 limitations. Figures of Speech emerged from a curiosity about dialogue and the moving body, inspired by connections between Western Post-Modern and Contemporary dance improvisation practices and Afro-Diasporic dance practices that are centered in the "social" moving body. The concept of a “social” body in the context of this research encompassed practicing and crafting movement through a lens of dialogue – communication, cultural exchange, discourse – and using this lens to develop relational approaches to creative process, choreographic design, and performance. The research in the studio investigated what it means to be both a speaker and a listener, how to attend to one’s relationship to other bodies in space, and how to develop “relational intelligence” through the body as we engage in real-time, compositional dialogue. Figures of Speech is an interplay of spontaneous and structured materials, examining how performers can build and share in the cooperation of empowered choice-making – making individual choices while also engaging in ensemble thinking to determine outcomes throughout the performance. The research interrogates choreographic structures and explores how embodying practices and sensibilities of receptivity and reciprocity can map and shape the architecture of a live performance work.

"And it's not my fault, not where I was, not how I dressed."
Choreography by Ianka Hou
Because of the pandemic, Ianka decided to do all the production work by herself to reduce the possibilities of risking others and her life. Thus, she is the choreographer, director, cameraman, and editor for the film. She has also set individual rehearsals before the last rehearsal to distant her dancers. Also, she made no partner-phrase or touching-phrase to distant the dancers as well. Nevertheless, Ianka set all rehearsal times outdoors to avoid the indoor risk, and finished all rehearsals and filming before the week of October 15 to avoid the cold weather.

kirakiraidolincarnate
Choreography by Sean Thomas Boyt

I Needed to Listen
Choreography by Katie Phelan, in collaboration with Kara Bouck and Darrius Gray II

within the CHRYSALIS
Created by Michael Landez and Juliet Remmers, in collaboration with Allyson Kegel
Oboist, Allyson Kegel, and dancers, Juliet Remmers and Michael Landez, have worked together this semester to create various forms of an interdisciplinary collaboration with the Department of Dance and School of Music. Originally presented as a socially-distanced, drive-in performance for the Iowa Dance Festival, the creative team realized the beauty and glamour of Voxman Music Building (where the piece was originally created) called for a reimagining in the form of a screen dance. This presentation is one iteration of this imagining, as we celebrate our capacity to make work at this time.

Echo Movement
Choreography by Alexsandria Wahl
This project began as a way for Alexsandria to connect her two passions of dance and history. The screendance accompanies a research project and paper that she has been working on for the past semester. Her biggest challenge was to figure out how to produce this screen dance during the pandemic. In an effort to be as safe as possible, she decided to produce this on her own. It has been a good challenge to play the role of producer, editor, camera operator, and dancer on top of the research for her capstone project. Making this work has shown Alexsandria what it takes to adapt to dance and making creative work with COVID impacting the process. She’s had to be much more thoughtful, but the desire to adapt is a necessary skill to have.

Mmhmm!
Choreography by Dhari Piekarska, in collaboration with the dancers
This is a fierce and humorous piece highlighting the joy of dance and the beauty of women coming into their own. Too often, dancers are held to extremely high standards of aesthetic and the associated pressure can be enough to chip away at even the most resilient of us. This piece is a lighthearted empowerment of women and a recalling of the joy of dance.

Body-Bridges and Park-ing Places
Directed by Jennifer Kayle
With co-creating performers: Tae Butler, Cearra Crosser, Hannah Hinkel, Mia Nagl, Gracie Schulz, Mady Sevareid, Lauren Short, Anna Snyder, Brittany Taylor, Maya Villanueva
These works were created in a First-Year Seminar with dance majors in their first semester of study. Directed by Associate Professor, Jennifer Kayle, these co-creating performers explored several sites on the UI campus, investigating and responding to the physical environment, logging their experiences in distinct places, and creating movement at the nexus of body and place, internal and external, the self, the landscape, and the built environment. Graduate student Michael Landez contributed to the project by filming and editing our experiments, and by assisting in the direction of the shots. Interim Director for the Center for New Music, Zack Stanton, gathered and directed students from the Center to create original music compositions. In other words, each moment in these short videos is the result of a large community of collaborators! Many thanks go to each contributing artist for helping to create these quick-studies.

On the Verge…
Choreography by Armando Duarte, in collaboration with the dancers
First-Year Seminar is directed towards an introductory level of dance performance for first-year dance majors entering the Department of Dance. It encompasses the creation of a choreographic work by the course instructor/choreographer. The creative process involves full participation in the elaboration, rehearsals, and staging of the final choreographic outcome. Dance students in this class are required to explore and analyze contemporary dance vocabulary, work collaboratively with other dancers in the course, and adapt general principles to specific movement challenges. Students also engage in various professional models of creating, rehearsing, and performing: learning material taught by the course instructor/choreographer, altering or inflecting material as directed and responding to creative assignments. As part of the rehearsal process, students also practice receiving and/or participating in critical feedback and are guided in understanding the individual performer's responsibility in achieving the success of the whole work.

Works in this performance are subject to change.

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