The Dance Program and the Department of English invite you to a dialogue with Daniel Singh, founder of the Dakshina Dance Company on April 7th at 2:40PM in the Troy Dance Lab.

Daniel Phoenix Singh is the artistic director of his DC based dance company that performs Bharata Natyam, Modern Dance and their own syncretic style that builds on the two idioms. The company is well known for presenting issue based work that is socially relevant and for their own innovative, expressive style of movement. Singh holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Maryland, has a Certificate in Movement Analysis from the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, and studied Bharata Natyam for many years with Guru Meena Telikicherla. More information on Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company can be found at www.dakshina.org.

Join us for a brief look at Shavon Norris’ current work, offered by the Swarthmore Project: Window on the Work on March 1st, 2011 in the Troy Dance Lab at 4:30PM.

Shavon Norris is an artist, educator and performer.  Originally from New York City, she received a BA from Manhattanville College where she majored in Biology and a Master of Fine Arts in dance from Temple University.  Shavon’s work has been presented at many venues and festivals on the East Coast. As a performer she has worked with a variety of artists including Swarthmore alums and professors, Jumatatu Poe and C. Kemal Nance.  Shavon teaches school age children to college students, locally and nationally.  Shavon’s artistic and educational philosophies are rooted in the desire to give herself, students, performers and audiences opportunities to deepen the understanding of self and the collective.  Shavon loves what she does.

Join us for a brief look at Shavon Norris’ current work, offered by the Swarthmore Project: Window on the Work on March 1st, 2011 in the Troy Dance Lab at 4:30PM.

Shavon Norris is an artist, educator and performer.  Originally from New York City, she received a BA from Manhattanville College where she majored in Biology and a Master of Fine Arts in dance from Temple University.  Shavon’s work has been presented at many venues and festivals on the East Coast. As a performer she has worked with a variety of artists including Swarthmore alums and professors, Jumatatu Poe and C. Kemal Nance.  Shavon teaches school age children to college students, locally and nationally.  Shavon’s artistic and educational philosophies are rooted in the desire to give herself, students, performers and audiences opportunities to deepen the understanding of self and the collective.  Shavon loves what she does.

The Dance Program is holding its first annual POSTER ART CONTEST.  We are seeking visual representations of material relevant to Program’s philosophy of “global embodied social change”.   The question we ask is: How does dance cross cultural barriers, contexts, and disciplines?
Size: Finished artwork should be 11” x 17”.  Please use RGB, 300dpi if you send a digital image.  Emailed images should be less than 8MB compressed (JPG or PDF or Photoshop format) or you can drop off a final printed image or a CD/DVD of your artwork in LPAC 4 to Tara Webb, Arts Administrator for Theater and Dance (x8260 or twebb1@swarthmore.edu).

Parameters: Final submission can be a JPG, PDF, or Photoshop project (of a drawing, painting, photo, sculpture or 3D space), a digital graphic design, a screen-print, a typographic exploration, a collage, a drawing, a painting, a photo, a photo montage, or any combination of techniques or processes that exist or that you can invent for a printed announcement.  (For the sake of authenticity and copyright we’re requesting that all imagery be original or used with proper permission and that imagery does not violate any law or copyright, trademark, publicity or privacy right.)

One finalist will be chosen as the poster designer for the Student Dance Concert (April 29 and 30) and will receive a small honorarium.  ALL submitted materials will be considered for future posters and other Dance Program artwork (with the artists’ permissions). We would also like to invite all interested or participating students to sit in on any of our dance classes for inspirational or sketching purposes.  For more information, please contact Tara Webb (twebb1@swarthmore.edu) at x8260.

ALL submissions will be displayed in the LPAC Lobby during Arts Weekend April 16 and 17, 2011 as part of a curated cross-disciplinary exhibition.

Posters will be judged based on clarity of concept (does not necessarily mean simplicity), composition and aesthetics (with hierarchy, typography, color, imagery, etc. considered).

You must include somewhere on the poster the following information (in no particular format):

The Department of Music and Dance

presents the 2011 Spring Student Dance Concert

featuring Ballet, Modern, Tap, African, Kathak, Flamenco

Friday, April 29^th and Saturday, April 30^th

LPAC Pearson Hall Theatre (Mainstage)

Free and Open to the Public

For more information contact Tara Webb at 610.328.8260 or twebb1@swarthmore.edu.

Deadline: Materials must be completed and submitted NO LATER THAN Wednesday, April 6^th, 2011 at 5PM.

The Dance Program is holding its first annual POSTER ART CONTEST.  We are seeking visual representations of material relevant to Program’s philosophy of “global embodied social change”.   The question we ask is: How does dance cross cultural barriers, contexts, and disciplines?
Size: Finished artwork should be 11” x 17”.  Please use RGB, 300dpi if you send a digital image.  Emailed images should be less than 8MB compressed (JPG or PDF or Photoshop format) or you can drop off a final printed image or a CD/DVD of your artwork in LPAC 4 to Tara Webb, Arts Administrator for Theater and Dance (x8260 or twebb1@swarthmore.edu).

Parameters: Final submission can be a JPG, PDF, or Photoshop project (of a drawing, painting, photo, sculpture or 3D space), a digital graphic design, a screen-print, a typographic exploration, a collage, a drawing, a painting, a photo, a photo montage, or any combination of techniques or processes that exist or that you can invent for a printed announcement.  (For the sake of authenticity and copyright we’re requesting that all imagery be original or used with proper permission and that imagery does not violate any law or copyright, trademark, publicity or privacy right.)

One finalist will be chosen as the poster designer for the Student Dance Concert (April 29 and 30) and will receive a small honorarium.  ALL submitted materials will be considered for future posters and other Dance Program artwork (with the artists’ permissions). We would also like to invite all interested or participating students to sit in on any of our dance classes for inspirational or sketching purposes.  For more information, please contact Tara Webb (twebb1@swarthmore.edu) at x8260.

ALL submissions will be displayed in the LPAC Lobby during Arts Weekend April 16 and 17, 2011 as part of a curated cross-disciplinary exhibition.

Posters will be judged based on clarity of concept (does not necessarily mean simplicity), composition and aesthetics (with hierarchy, typography, color, imagery, etc. considered).

You must include somewhere on the poster the following information (in no particular format):

The Department of Music and Dance

presents the 2011 Spring Student Dance Concert

featuring Ballet, Modern, Tap, African, Kathak, Flamenco

Friday, April 29^th and Saturday, April 30^th

LPAC Pearson Hall Theatre (Mainstage)

Free and Open to the Public

For more information contact Tara Webb at 610.328.8260 or twebb1@swarthmore.edu.

Deadline: Materials must be completed and submitted NO LATER THAN Wednesday, April 6^th, 2011 at 5PM.

Prior to and following the Faculty Dance Concert on Saturday February 5th, there will be a sale of tie and dye and batik fabric to benefit Bohee women’s cooperative in Ghana.  Tablecloths, napkins, assorted other items as well as fabric yardage will be available.   All funds raised return to the women of this cooperative, located in the village of Dodowa, Ghana.  This program was begun by alumna Tamara DeMoor, a Lang Scholar in collaboration with Professor Nii Yartey and Professor Sharon Friedler.

Join the faculty of the Dance program (Department of Music and Dance) for an engaging evening of varied choreography in the Pearson Hall Theatre (Mainstage) of Lang Performing Arts Center on February 5 at 8PM. The program includes Ballet, Modern, Kathak, African, and video dances.

For further information please contact Tara Webb at twebb1@swarthmore.edu or 610.328.8260.

Prior to and following the Faculty Dance Concert on Saturday February 5th, there will be a sale of tie and dye and batik fabric to benefit Bohee women’s cooperative in Ghana.  Tablecloths, napkins, assorted other items as well as fabric yardage will be available.   All funds raised return to the women of this cooperative, located in the village of Dodowa, Ghana.  This program was begun by alumna Tamara DeMoor, a Lang Scholar in collaboration with Professor Nii Yartey and Professor Sharon Friedler.

Join the faculty of the Dance program (Department of Music and Dance) for an engaging evening of varied choreography in the Pearson Hall Theatre (Mainstage) of Lang Performing Arts Center on February 5 at 8PM. The program includes Ballet, Modern, Kathak, African, and video dances.

For further information please contact Tara Webb at twebb1@swarthmore.edu or 610.328.8260.