my Generation is a dance landscape created in collaboration with several dancers and coordinated by Kate Speer ’08 at Mascher Space Cooperative in Philadelphia.

Speer states “Building community, whether with dancers in the studio, between the audience and the performer, or within neighborhoods, is an important aspect of my work. my Generation is my second project to be performed
for Moffet Elementary School, a public school located directly across the street from our studio, Mascher Space Coop.”

Last year, grades K-2nd saw performances of The Walrus and the Camel and participated in workshops that played with improvisation and imagination exercises.

In this high speed, plugged in lifestyle, information overload is in full effect. my Generation creates a physical experience of saturation though high velocity and momentum that comes from the gut and extends beyond the reaches of the hand.

Prepare to be swept up in its vortex.

Featuring Christina Gesualdi, Emily Herchenroether, Lisa Rothstein, Carly Sinn, and Zornitsa Stoyanova

Friday, June 3rd at 8pm

Saturday, June 4th at 8pm

Mascher Space Coop
155 Cecil B. Moore
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Tickets: $5-15 sliding scale

The Dance Program sends a warm invitation to all to join us for the Spring Student Dance Concert on April 29th and 30th at 8PM in the LPAC Pearson-Hall Theater. This term’s concert will feature dances and music in a variety of styles and from various cultural traditions including Kathak, African, Flamenco, Ballet, Tap, and Modern pieces will all be included. Senior Amelia Kidd will showcase some of the choreography she has worked on as part of her honors dance minor course work. Other student dancer/choreographers include Aaron Corral, Tanya Rosenblut, Jalisa Roberts, and Joy Heller. Families with children are especially welcome to attend.

Congratulations to the Winner of the first annual poster art contest for the Dance Program–Michelle Lin ’12.
Michelle’s poster was part of the poster art display during Arts Weekend 2011 and will soon be seen on campus announcing the upcoming Spring Student Dance Concert.
Thanks everyone for your exciting and beautiful entries and we hope that you submit again next time!

Beverly Naidus is an internationally recognized artist on the faculty at UW-Tacoma where she teaches courses in art for social change and
healing. Interdisciplinary to her core, she works in many mediums, allowing the content to determine the form. Themes in her work include
the ecological crisis, fear of difference, unemployment, nuclear nightmares and her dreams for a reconstructed world. She has displayed
her work on city streets, subways and buses, in major museums, libraries, hospitals, community centers, commercial and university galleries and alternative spaces.

For over three decades she has straddled the high art world and the activist art and community arts worlds, finding it important to share
ideas and art projects in all three, sometimes overlapping contexts. Her work has been discussed in books by Lucy R. Lippard, Suzi Gablik, Paul
Von Blum and Lisa Bloom, as well as in significant journals and newspapers. She is the author of Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the
Frame, New Village Press, 2009 as well as two artist’s books, One Size Does Not Fit All and What Kinda Name is That.

She has taught at Carleton College, Goddard College, Hampshire College, the Institute for Social Ecology and California State University, Long Beach. She shares a home and garden on Vashon Island, Washington with Bob Spivey(founder of SEEDS) and their teenage son, Sam.

Her websites are beverlynaidus.net and www.artsforchange.org and her blog for her current eco-art project is www.edenreframed.blogspot.com

Beverly will be joining us on campus April 5th and 6th.  Her public lecture will be April 6th at 4:15PM in the Keith Room of Lang Center.  She will share a slide presentation on aspects of contemporary activist art practice that have influenced her.

The Department of Music and Dance and the Japanese Section of Modern Languages at Swarthmore College presents the Tamagawa University Taiko Drum and Dance Group in the Lang Music Building Concert Hall on April 3, 2011 at 7PM.

The renowned Tamagawa Taiko Drum and Dance Group returns to Philadelphia for a week of performances as part of the Greater Philadelphia Cherry Blossom Festival (March 4- April 15) sponsored by the Japan America Society and the Japan Foundation. Heart-pounding drum rhythms intermingle with elegant dances in breath-taking fashion to create unforgettable memories. Experience the relentless energy and stunning visuals as Tamagawa takes you on a journey through ancient and modern Japan.

Taiko drumming has been a feature of the College’s dance and music offerings for nearly a decade, thanks largely to the efforts of Associate Professor of Dance Kim Arrow. This event showcases the significant relationship between the College and Tamagawa University in Japan.  Arrow, an accomplished dancer and choreographer, is the recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts for choreography, among other awards. He joined Swarthmore’s faculty in 1991 and teaches a taiko repertory class.

The event is free and open to the public without advance reservations.  For further information, contact Geoffrey Peterson at gpeters1@swarthmore.edu.

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.

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.