Modern Technique Workshop 11/17/2011

Melanie Kloetzel ’93 will teach a modern technique workshop in the Troy Dance Lab (LPAC 2) on Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 4:30PM.

Melanie is the artistic director of the contemporary dance company kloetzel&co., which she founded in New York in 1997 and which has presented work across the US and in Canada. Her film works have been shown at dance film festivals internationally and her book, “Site Dance: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spaces”, is in its third printing from the University Press of Florida. She is an Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Calgary.  Kloetzel holds an MFA in Dance from the University of California at Riverside in addition to a BA and an MA in History from Swarthmore College and the University of Montana, respectively.

Aszure Barton & Artists in the LPAC November 11, 8PM

Aszure Barton & Artists will perform BUSK and BLUE SOUP in the Pearson Hall Theater at 8PM on November 11, 2011.  Sponsored by the William J. Cooper Foundation and the Department of Music and Dance, this will be an exciting and entertaining evening of performance.  A Master Class with the company will take place in Troy Dance Lab (LPAC 2) on November 10, 2011 at 4:30PM.  For more info on the master class, contact Kim Arrow (karrow1@swarthmore.edu).
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Isadora Duncan Week (October 4-7) at Swarthmore

Isadora Duncan Week

Along with Bryn Mawr College, Eastern University and Drexel Dance Programs, Swarthmore will be hosting a lecture/class with Alice Bloch as part of an Isadora Duncan week.

Dr. Alice Bloch, trained by renowned Isadora Duncan teachers Lori Belilove, Ellen Forman, Gemze DeLappe, and the late Julia Levein, carries on the Duncan tradition in her staging of these dances.  Alice Bloch has a doctorate in Dance History from Temple University and a choreographic MA from UCLA.   Dr. Bloch will teach a majority of the workshops during the residency.

“Isadora Duncan was more than just a founder of modern dance, she was a pioneer, a free thinker and a feminist,” said Dr. Miriam Guguere, director of Drexel’s Dance program. “It is an honor to have two internationally renowned scholars on this essential artist together in one week. I am delighted to be collaborating with three other dance programs in the Philadelphia area in order to bring this work to a wider audience from the dance community.”

All residency events are free and open to the public; however several have limited openings for participation.

For more information, check out the calendar: http://calendar.swarthmore.edu/calendar/EventList.aspx?view=EventDetails&eventidn=8003&information_id=24211&type&syndicate=syndicate

The Phoenix Notes Swarthmore Alumni in the 2011 Fringe Festival!

Swarthmore alums are well represented in the Fringe including Pig Iron Theatre Company (Dito van Reigersberg and Quinn Baureidel ’94 and Dan Rothenberg’95) and Tangle, a circus arts company founded by Lauren Rile Smith ’08.

http://www.swarthmorephoenix.com/2011/09/01/living/college-well-represented-in-2011-philly-art-festivals

2005 alums at the Philly Fringe 2011

Hannah de Keijzer

mostly practical
people spark and tumble. an
awkward puzzle solved.

Dances from Philly and New York, appropriate for all ages – A Vegan Kids Dance for Adults with Nudity: join Green Chair Dance Group, Gabrielle Revlock and devynn emory for an evening of dance!

Friday, September 9  – 10PM
Saturday, September 10  – 2PM
Sunday, September 11 – 7PM

Mascher Space
155 Cecil B. Moore
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Running Time: approximately 75 minutes
Sliding scale tickets $15-18 ($12 for anyone who can plead their case)
Box Office: For tickets, contact the Festival Box Office at (215) 413-1318 or visit www.livearts-fringe.org

Investigate our latest, We are practical people – practical, complicated, vulnerable – we solve body puzzles like we’ve never heard the word awkward.
Brash and adventurous, we fold in on ourselves; share secrets; flip upside down; and build spontaneous, lush architectures that eddy and dissolve.
Gabrielle Revlock will join the tumble with A Fork and Stick Thing – a dance inspired by birds striving to be human with music entirely composed of words.
devynn emory will also spiral into the mix with My Child November – a collaboration with vocalist/performer Margot Bassett and dancer Meghan Milam.