Announcements 4/17

Hello UR Dance Students!

We are looking forward to seeing all of you at the End of Term Showings this week!

While there are many Upcoming Events in this newsletter, note that these are also the FINAL EVENTS of the semester. So if you still have workshops and performances that you need to attend for course assignments, don't forget to put these events on your calendar today!

- The Dance Faculty

UPCOMING EVENTS

End of Term Showing #1
Wednesday, April 20
8:00-9:30 pm
MAY ROOM
Generally, M/W classes are performing!

End of Term Showing #2
Thursday, April 21
8:00-9:30 pm
SPURRIER
Generally, T/Th classes are performing!

Walifanyi Tide - performance by Sansifanyi West African Dance and Drum Ensemble
Saturday, April 23
6:00 pm
Spurrier Dance Studio

Come join Sansifanyi for an evening of performances from UR's very own West African Dance & Drum Ensemble!

UR Remnants

Sunday, April 24 @ 4pm

Outdoor performance

Meet Across from Chapel (Rain location Spurrier Dance Studio)

Weaving dance, music, photography, visual art, and storytelling, the piece unveils the human and ecological memories of the site the University of Rochester sits on — from the indigenous beginnings through current times. REMNANTS is designed as an immersive walking art installation involving multiple modalities. The audience is invited to join in moving through the natural spaces of the performance.

Art and attention — or — how to turn down the volume of your brain’s default mode network - Workshop with Greg Woodsbie

Monday 4/25 @ 9am

Todd Union Dance Studio

This workshop will guide participants through explorations of the questions “How are we as audience members actually the co-creators of any work we are present for?”, and, “How and why does art make us less neurotic and more available for others?”

Projection on Wilson

Monday 4/25 after dark! Turn your focus up as you walk by!

Got oxygen?

Tuesday 4/26 @ 9:40 Workshop with Trish Corcoran

Outdoor walk — Meet outside Sloan Performing Arts Center

Got oxygen? Thank a tree, for that and so much more! Walk along the river and meet your neighbors (trees and plants). Learn about their community and consider what we take for granted, but should be grateful for.

Crafting Truth Through Art

Tuesday 4/26 @ 12:30pm Workshop with Andrea A. Gluckman

Spurrier Dance Studio

The traditional role of photography has largely been to document events, places, and people, but how can photography be used to help tell the hidden stories of history? How can technique, composition, and post production work be combined to create images to accompany hidden histories of communities left out of official/traditional historic narratives? How can images be created to capture a moment unseen by the photographer? Photography offers one artistic entry point to experience the oral narratives and people's histories, but how can other art forms perform similar functions in allowing people to experience hidden histories? How can art serve the cause of justice? Photographer Andrea Gluckman will share stories and photographs, while welcoming a discussion from the group as to how each individual's artistic offerings can offer portals to wider empathy.

The Good Mind

Film Showing + Discussion

Tuesday 4/26 5-7pm

Gowen Room

Post Film Panel with: Solveiga Armoskaite, Brianna Theobald, Thomas Gibson, Blair Tinker, Stella Wang

The documentary centers on the Haudenosaunee, the Onondaga Nation near Syracuse in particular.The film’s journey reveals the Onondaga Nation’s tireless environmental advocacy, and their legal battle with the U.S. over ancestral land taken by New York State in violation of a 1794 treaty with George Washington. Motivated by ancient prophecies, the Nation seeks environmental stewardship of their sacred land and waters, which have suffered vast degradation by industrial resource extraction and pollution.

Alleghany River Dancers

Wednesday 4/27 @ 5:30pm

Wilson Quad (Rain location: May Room)

The Alleghany River Indian Dancers are a Native American dance group that showcases the traditional songs and dances of the Iroquois. The general performances incorporate many aspects of Native American culture. The Seneca language and culture pertaining to the origin of the songs and dances are shared in the program narratives. All performers wear traditional Native American regalia. All the music is performed live. The show is as educational as it is entertaining. Some of the highlights of the show include the Iroquois Smoke dance, a very fast contest dance. The Hoop dance is also featured. The hoopdancer uses hoops to make various designs and shapes to represent birds, animals and themes from nature in this beautiful story telling dance.

Final Showing: Dance Improvisation
Thursday, April 28
2:00-3:00 pm
Outdoors - meet in the courtyard between O'Brien and Sage
Raindate: Friday, April 29 at 2:00 pm

Join DANC 160: Dance Improvisation for their Final Showing in which they will perform site-specific scores of their own design!

Dance Photoshoot with the Dance Council
Sunday, May 1
2:00-4:00 pm

Drop by Spurrier to get dance photos taken for free by the Dance Council! Shots can be taken indoors and outdoors, weather permitting.

FALL 2022: OPEN COURSES

Registration for Fall 2022 opened last week!
The following DANC courses still have openings:

DANC 106: Pilates Lab
DANC 155: Movement Revolutions: A Cultural History of Social Dance
DANC 160: Dance Improvisation
DANC 167: Ecolinguistics: Language, Movement & Well-Being
DANC 170: Embodied Resourcing through Somatic Practices
DANC 171: Capoeira: Brazilian Art Movement
DANC 181: West African Dance Forms
DANC 188: Hip Hop Culture & Breaking
DANC 202: Dance & Peacebuilding
DANC 240: Tap Dance: Intermediate
DANC 243: Dance on Camera: Camera on Dance
DANC 247: Moving Memories
DANC 248: Arts & Activism
DANC 250: Contemporary Dance: Context & Practice
DANC 252: Intermediate Ballet: Context & Practice
DANC 260: Interdisciplinary Dance Studies
DANC 266: Intermediate Contemporary Dance
DANC 267: Advanced Contemporary Dance
DANC 278: Choreography
DANC 283: West African Dance & Dundun
DANC 365: Sansifanyi: West African Dance & Drum Ensemble

SUMMER COURSES

Summer Session 2022
DANC 114: Introduction to Yoga - 2 credits
Instructor: Missy Pfohl Smith
MTWR 9:30-10:45 am
May 16-June 10, 2022

Yoga is defined as “union,” the uniting together of ourselves in all aspects: body, mind, heart and spirit. This class introduces the student to a hatha yoga method which integrates a dynamic and engaging approach to living through practicing “on and off the mat.” The goal of this class is to learn how to create a deeper, more enlivened relationship to one’s self through honoring one’s abilities and limitations, while growing one’s skills and sensitivity in the supportive environment of the class community. Students will engage with principles of attitude, alignment and action in a full range of hatha yoga poses, breathing techniques, readings on yoga philosophy, reflective practices and discussion. Through this ongoing process, students of yoga are encouraged to cultivate a more expansive and clear perception of self and others.

This course will be offered online.

Questions? Email m.p.smith@rochester.edu

DECLARING A MAJOR?

Are you thinking of declaring a Major in Dance this semester?

If so, please contact Missy so she can check in with you!
m.p.smith@rochester.edu

Dance Studies Majors: note that DANC 260 - what was once called "Seed Seminar" - has been renamed "Interdisciplinary Dance Studies" for next semester. We recommend taking this course in your Junior year.

LOST & FOUND ITEMS

See photo below for some lost items that have been found.

Contact Rose if you recognize either of these pieces of clothing: rose.beauchamp@rochester.edu.

DID YOU KNOW?

Did you know that if you ever have concerns about what happens in a dance class, there are many ways to report your concern or initiate a conversation?

Options include:
- You can email Missy Pfohl Smith, Director of the Program of Dance and Movement, to set up a conversation: m.p.smith@rochester.edu

- You can bring your concern to a member(s) of the student Dance Council and they will relay it to the faculty: urdancecouncil@gmail.com

- You can submit a Bias-Related Incident Report through the Paul J. Burgett International Center. The Burgett Center, along with the College Center for Advising Services and the Director of the Program of Dance and Movement, will be alerted to the concern and will follow-up. These reports will maintain confidentiality at the reporter's request; in other words, students can choose to be anonymous or not on these reports.

No issue is too small to mention - we want everyone to feel safe and respected during Program of Dance & Movement classes, activities and events!

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