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1 Five College Dace departmet ewsletter FCDD wis a Natioal College Choreography Iitiative Grat to Dace Trisha Brow s Set ad Reset The FCDD has bee awarded a Natioal College Choreography Iitiative grat to have Trisha Brow s pivotal work, Set ad Reset, taught to a auditioed group of FCDD dacers for performace i three cocerts i the sprig of Our cosposor for this project is the Weissma Ceter for Leadership at Mout Holyoke College, which will host Brow i a public lecture o February 10 as part of a series o Leadig Wome i the Arts. c h r i s c a l l i s Sice her early years with the Judso Dace Theater, Brow has bee captivated by the ifiite ways movemets ca be maipulated ad the possibilities for developig structure ad form. Her process of creatig structure is evidet i her descriptio of Set ad Reset as based o a rectagular dace circumvetig the peripheral edge of the stage space. Brow says, I thik of it as a delivery system for other smaller uits of dace duets ad trios that are issued up ito the ceter of the stage. I the buildig process I gave the dacers a set of Set ad Reset/Reset by Trisha Brow. Thak you to the FCDD studets who wrote sectios of this ewsletter: Shao Heegha, Ashley Hesel-Browig, Kara Johso, Samatha Siegal, Faia Marie Tsakalakos. Thaks, too, to Betty Thursto for all her help. Editor: Daphe Lowell, Chair of the FCDD Desiger: Roby Cutler Trisha Brow istructios that iclude: keep it simple, act o istict, work with visibility ad ivisibility, ad work with liig up. For Brow, the structure ad choices the dacers make i how to deliver themselves to the ceter is as provocative as the steps performed. The dacers are a itegral part of her process through the choices they make. The foudatio of this project is the experiece of steppig iside Trisha Brow s choreographic process. This is a comprehesive dace experiece, challegig the studets as dacers, improvisers, ad choreographers. This choreographic project will egage studets i the process that sets Brow apart from her cotemporaries. Abigail Yager (MH), a former member of the Trisha Brow Dace Compay ad a graduate of our departmet, will set the work. The special isight provided by a dacer who has goe through the process of learig ad helpig to develop the work will be ispirig for our studets. The FCDD is particularly pleased that oe of our alumi will be ivolved, as she kows both the work ad the departmet. Abby will teach Brow s trademark silky ad sequetial core movemet sequeces, ad the use the origial istructios give by Brow to her compay i 1982 to direct the studets i improvisatios that will lead to the creatio of Set ad Reset/Reset, a variatio o the origial choreography. Set ad Reset/Reset will be performed at Hampshire College o February 9 11; at Amherst College o March 9 11; ad at Smith College o April 6 8. I additio to Brow s public lecture the afteroo of February 10, she will offer a master class o choreography that morig at UMass. V i c e t P e r e i r a Retur Service Requested Five College Dace Departmet Dace Buildig, Hampshire College 893 West Street Amherst, MA (413) Noprofit Org U.S. Postage P A I D Permit No. 21 Amherst, MA 01002

2 FCDD Studet ad Alum News Sereade/Balachie Emily Alpre (AC) has bee ivited to become a member of the America Mime Theater. Rebecca Aderso (UM 08) was accepted ito the prestigious Jacob s Pillow summer dace workshop i Becket, MA. Pele Bauch (HC) is presetly workig at The Field, a artist service orgaizatio i NYC. Last Jue she performed two ew works, Pedestal ad She, o a Daspace Project program at St. Mark s Church. Two of the works were ispired by the dyamics of self-presetatio ad femiiity. The first uses a abstract perspective, the secod the emotios of character. Noah Beit-Aharo (HC) taught a Jauary-term class at Hampshire i Israeli folk dace. Tovah Boder (UM) is artistic director of the moder dace compay The Robi s Egg, which had its debut performace i Jue at The Carriage House Theater i Providece, RI. They performed Boder s The Magdalees, with a origial score composed by UM alumus Jim Muro. I September, Tovah bega a ew positio as dace teacher for the first (public) RI arts high school, the Jacquelie M. Walsh School for the Performig ad Visual Arts. I additio to techique classes, she teaches aatomy/ijury prevetio ad dace criticism. Amada Boggs (AC), after a three-year ru i the off-broadway show DeLa- Guarda, etered graduate school i ciematography at the Uiversity of Souther Califoria. Melissa Briggs (SC) received a woderful review i the New York Times (November 1, 2005) for her Book Daces, which creates scees from ovels by Tolstoy, Steibeck, Rad, ad Saliger. Willie Brow (UM) daced with the Garth Faga Dace Compay i , ad with the Brazz Dace Theater i Northampto, Bosto, ad at the Florida Dace Festival. He has bee ivited to teach with the Dace Collective of Miami. Curretly he is teachig dace at Florida Iteratioal Uiversity. He also performed at this year s ASWAD coferece i Rio de Jaeiro. Berard Bygott (AC), actor/dacer, received a Cotiued o page J o c r i s p i FCCD studets i Balachie s Sereade. By Kara Johso (MH) Fall 2004 marked the FCDD s 25th aiversary as well as the 100th aiversary of George Balachie s birth. We hoored both occasios with artistic ad academic collaboratios. Dace historia Costace Valis Hill (FCDD/HC) ad ballet professor Rodger Blum (SC) cotaught Balachie 100. This course icluded the study of 12 ballets spaig Balachie s choreographic career. Hill remarks, Videotapes ad books are ot eough to study Balachie. Therefore, operatig alogside this course was the rehearsal ad performace of the first movemet of Balachie s Sereade, with permissio from the Balachie Trust. This was the first time i FCDD history that studets from the Five Colleges performed Balachie repertory. To Hill, the collaboratio of theory, history, ad practice was ideal for a academic settig. Professor Rose Flachs (MH), who has performed Balachie ballets i her professioal career, oversaw the project. Studets leared the choreography from Victoria Simo, a former Balachie dacer ad a member of the Balachie Trust. The dacers participated i ie performaces o three differet campuses (MH, SC, ad UM). Flachs says that this movemet from Sereade was appropriate for the FCDD s 25th aiversary because historically, Mr. Balachie first choreographed the ballet for studets. Katie Bailey (MH), a studet i the course ad performer i Sereade, believes that this collaboratio provided a cotext for her dacig; it made her feel more i tue with the style of Balachie ad helped me fid a little more about what I was portrayig, she said. The project was so successful that Victoria Simo has give the FCDD permissio to perform more Balachie ballets. t h o m a s g i r o i r 2 Five College Dace Departmet ewsletter

3 t a r a f a l e a u x Celebratig Our FCDD Musicias FCDD Celebrates Jea Baxter s 30th year with the Departmet What do a major i physics, a major i art history, ad a certificate from the Harvard Busiess School for arts admiistratio have i commo? Where do Wigma aesthetics, Graham techique, ad silver medal skatig meet? Why does the Five College Dace Departmet s productio schedule ru like a welloiled machie? Who ca teach you to maage the most elaborately complex performig arts evets, ot the least of which beig your ow weddig, PTO carival, or Girl Scout troop? Easy: Jea Baxter, Jea Baxter, Jea Baxter, Jea Baxter! Come oe Jea Baby, come all Jea Babies, to celebrate Jea s 30th aiversary. Jea, our FCDD productio maager par excellece (aka Most Hoorable Drill- Sergeat-Mother of Multitaskig), bega workig with us eve before we were a departmet, ad she has kept us goig strog ever sice. We will host i her hoor a Careers i Dace pael discussio with alums who, with the help of Jea s traiig, have goe o to techical theater, desig, ad admiistrative careers, Friday, April 7, 2006, at 4 p.m. i the Weistei Auditorium i Wright Hall at Smith College. Faculty ad alums are ivited to the Jea Bea Roast ad Ralph Lemo. By Kara Johso (MH) Live musical accompaimet is a refreshig privilege for the FCDD faculty ad studets. Oce dacers experiece live music, more ofte tha ot they are uable to tur back to the old days of compact discs. It is time to celebrate ad thak the departmet s diverse group of musicias. The diversity i the accompaists istrumetatios ad musical styles rages from classical piao to Africa drum, from Bach to vocal jazz. Live accompaimet helps geerate positive group eergy i the studio; the room is full of people, with either their bodies or their istrumets ready to work. Our musicias are willig metors, guidig studets i fidig ad recordig music for choreography, or takig time to cout out a tricky musical phrase. May are multitaleted istrumetalists, switchig to various istrumets throughout class to achieve a excitig repertoire with which to dace. Others show their expertise for music history ad theory by teachig isightful courses. Furthermore, these fie musicias have vibrat performig careers i the Pioeer Valley ad beyod, pleasig the ears of others outside campus walls. Their passio for music is cotagious; it makes dacers wat to reach farther, balace loger, ad jump higher. Ad, most importat, live musicias make dace eve more fu! After a log morig of sittig at a desk, a piao reditio of the Harry Potter theme durig grad pliés is sure to put a smile o ayoe s face. Jea Baxter behid the scees. Toast directly followig. RSVP to Cathy Nicoli by March 1 to reserve your spot (space is limited) at (413) (No dress code, but do you remember? RRCCFF ) Ralph Lemo Gives the FCDD s Aual Fall Lecture By Samatha Siegal (AC) FCDD Musicias for : Paul Arslaia Joh Coster Jesse Feiberg Elizabeth Haymaker Lada Isupova Peter Joes Jua Malik Makaya Mcrave William Middleto Julius Robiso Toy Silva Joh Sprague Sekou Sylla Mike Vargas Ralph Lemo (left), reowed dacer, choreographer, ad media artist, drew a audiece of 200 with his multimedia presetatio of Geography Trilogy. Usig a rich mixture of text, video, ad dialogue, Lemo discussed the process of creatig this, his crowig work. The Trilogy, a set of three separate pieces that took 10 years to complete, explores Lemo s persoal resposes to his expeditios to Africa, Asia, ad the America Deep South. These joureys raised questios for him about his persoal ad artistic idetity, racism, cultural history, ad memory. I his lecture Lemo exposed his creative process by readig from his prepared text while showig a series of filmed images a ma walkig o a raiy day i Africa, his quiet istallatios markig former lychig sites, ad his exploratio of two stereotypical black orms : boxig ad jazz music. These images were thick sesory extesios of his joureys. Most otably, Lemo touched o his time visitig with black jazz musicia legeds ad their families, for whom he performed what he called livig room daces i their homes. Lemo s presetatio provoked his viewers to seek coectios amog performace, art, race, ad idetity i a global culture. rave review for his work as oe of the Dromios i the America Shakespeare Ceter s productio of Comedy of Errors i NYC. Mora Catli (MH) had a summer merchadisig itership at America Dace Festival i North Carolia ad a fall itership i the Performace Plus departmet at the Keedy Ceter. Nichole Causo (HC) After workig with such leadig Philadelphia-based compaies as Moxie Dace Collective, Headlog Dace Theater, ad Pig Iro Theater Compay, Nichole is strikig out o her ow, premierig Nichole Causo Dace Compay i We Spar Dow the La, at this year s Live Arts Festival at the Paited Bride Arts Ceter. The Philadelphia Iquirer wrote: Nichole Causo s daces have a presece, a rightthereess i the momet... like a great slowed-dow slapstick routie. Jacly Capozzi (UM) served as artistic director for the Melrose (MA) Youth Ballet productio of The Nutcracker i December Sue Caruolo (MH) teaches elemetary school childre i Providece, RI. Yaira Castro (AC), professioal NYC choreographer, received with her compay a prestigious Rockefeller MAP grat. I additio, she was awarded a moth s residecy this past July at the Rockefeller s Bellagio Ceter i Italy. Carolie Coh (UM 08) was accepted ito the highly competitive Mark Morris Summer Itesive dace program. Kim Coralia (SC) After graduatio, Kim daced with idepedet choreographers i NYC ad CT, icludig Maura Doohue (SC). She has performed with New Dace Collective Compay ad Off-Ceter Dace Theater ad has bee teachig at Dace Cavise i Mamaroeck, NY. Nicole Dagesse (UM 06) ad Laure Sprace (UM 06) received the Silverma Merit Scholarship Award for records of academic excellece ad a record of persoal achievemet. Irada Djelassi (UM), co-artistic director with Katherie Hooper (UM) of the Mass Motio Dace Compay (reamed BoSoma Dace compay), preseted Velocity at Bosto Uiversity s Tsai Performace Ceter i September UM alumae Kriste Duffy, Melissa Cotiued o page 4

4 Ham-Ellis, Megha Hood, ad Geiee Maybruch daced i the show, ad Breda Cortia (UM) was the lightig desiger. Jillia Ducharme (UM 06) received the Gerald Scala Studet Employee of the Year Award. Adriee Celeste Fadjo (UM) is artistic director, dacer, ad choreographer for her ow moder dace compay, AdrieeCelesteFadjo- DANCE. The compay was icorporated i December ad performs at umerous veues aroud NYC, such as White Wave Dace, Merce Cuigham Studio, 92d Street Y, Joyce SoHo, the Puffi Room, ad Alvi Ailey Studios ( Erica Forrece (MH) cotiues to work as assistat to the executive director of The Joyce. Ly Fredrikso (SC) preseted her paper Creativity i Betwee: Ispiratios from Pearl Primus s Faga at the NDEO coferece i Buffalo this October, ad Coversatios with Africa Dace at the fall 05 Society of Ethomusicality coferece i Atlata. Claire Gilbert (MH) recetly curated a cocert of ew choreography at APE i Northampto, ad she also performed i a piece etitled Hidde Costs. Richard J. Guimod (UM) lauched Kidrich Corporatio ( specializig i iteractive, fu-filled dace/movemet products for childre, such as videos, games, ad books. He also performs i folk dace theater productios ad teaches at a elemetary school i NYC. Martha Hart Eddy (HC) was ivited to lead movemet activities at Family ad Youth Day at Teachers College i NYC. Her activities ivolved the etire group as well as members of a ew ceter she directs called the Ceter for Kiesthetic Educatio. Her work ivolves priciples of Embody Peace, Kiesthetic Learig, Peaceful Play, Somatic Movemet Therapy, ad Laba Movemet Aalysis that she has bee developig sice her studies ad teachig at Teachers College Somatic Educatio. Kaitli Hies (HC) bega a itership last summer with Dace NewAmsterdam (formerly Dace Space Ceter) i NYC, which has ow tured ito a regular positio as developmet associate. She s bee able to combie her iterests ad experiece Cotiued o page l a r r y l o e h e r Hello ad Welcome to the ew full-time faculty who have joied our FCDD family! Matisse Madde is a Guest Artist this year at Mout Holyoke College teachig Ballet Techique, Ballet Repertory, ad Ballet Coditioig. Matisse double-majored i dace ad zoology at the Uiversity of Hawaii ad received a MFA i ballet from the Uiversity of Utah. She has daced professioally with Royal Ballet Kauai, Ballet Hawaii, ad Utah Regioal Ballet ad has performed lead roles i Balachie s Stars ad Stripes ad Sereade. She specializes i teachig Pilates as a supplemetal regime to ehace ad prolog dacers careers, ad is very iterested i the preservatio ad documetatio of the traditioal daces of the South Pacific Islads, specifically the daces of Samoa. Cathy Nicoli (right) has joied the faculty of Hampshire College as a Visitig Assistat Professor of Dace for the ext three years. She eared her BA i dace ad performace studies from Roger Williams Uiversity ad her MFA from Smith College. Cathy is a prolific choreographer ad dace educator who has worked with studets i private ad public schools, ier-city arts programs, ad college ad uiversity settigs icludig Brow Uiversity, Keee State College, Providece College, Rhode Islad School of Desig, Roger Williams Uiversity, ad Smith ad Amherst Colleges. She daces ad choreographs for various dace compaies, most recetly Heidi Hederso s Elephat Jae Dace Compay. Robi Prichard (below) is our ew Visitig Assistat Professor ad Graduate Adviser at Smith College for two years. Robi holds a BFA i dace from SUNY Purchase ad a MFA from UCLA. She has daced with Victoria Marks, David Rousseve, Doa Uchizoo, ad Doug Varoe, ad her choreography has bee see at the Joyce/ SoHo, Dace Space, Highways, Califoria Choreographer s Festival, ad Dace Kaleidoscope. She wo a Fulbright to study ad teach i Australia, where she completed several cross-cultural choreography projects ad taught at the Uiversity of Wester Sydey ad the Natioal School of Dace for Aborigials ad Isladers. She is iterested i cross-cultural choreography betwee idigeous ad cocert dace, the relatioship betwee laguage ad movemet i performace, ad the potetial of dace to egotiate biary oppositios. We also welcome our ew ad returig Guest Faculty: Amie Dowlig Pam Raff Lesley Farlow Tom Vacati Felice Wolfzah Joae Gervais Je Webber Melissa Bruce Christia Tsoules Sharo Wyrrick Maryae Delisle Kodzis Griff Goehrig Paul Deis Cadace Salyers Cythia McLaughli Spotlight o New FCDD Courses By Faia Maria Tsakalakos (SC MFA) The FCDD faculty cotiue to create courses every year that erich the curriculum ad reach out to ew populatios of studets. For example, several faculty members have developed ew freshme semiars. Wedy Woodso (AC) created Parter Dacig, i which studets examied geder, history, politics, ad culture by ivestigatig how two bodies egotiate time ad space i various crosscultural duet forms. Others iclude Rebecca Nordstrom s (HC) Dace Repertory class, explorig idetity, ad Daphe Lowell s (HC) Ceterig. Other ew courses iclude Video & Performace. Wedy teamed up with Rodger Blum (SC) to offer this two-campus collaboratio. It grew out of Rodger s Dace & Techology course, which embodies his iterest i the ways computer techology ca be used i ad for dace, ad Wedy s Choreography ad the Camera, where she explores video used both i live performace ad i the gere of dace video. Their collaboratio offered a rich foudatio for studets iterested i multimedia work. Terese Freedma (MH) created a challegig ew Advaced Moder Techique class by brigig i seve distiguished alumi from New York, LA, Paris, Amsterdam, Taiwa, ad elsewhere to teach for two weeks each. Cythia McLaughli (SC), Abby Yager (MH), Christopher Johso (AC), Yaira Castro (AC), Liz Youg (MH), Martha Maso (MH), ad Jelea Petrovic (MH) brought their ow artistic ad pedagogical voices to the class, challegig studets to quickly grasp the gestalt of each istructor s movemet style. Terese has also created a ew icaratio of Scietific Foudatios II. This sprig Mark Alla Davis (SC) ad Nia Love (SC) will offer ew courses that emphasize the Africa/Africa-America ifluece o America dace ad culture. I additio to dacig ad sigig, studets i Mark s Performig Musical Theater will study the history of Broadway dace, focusig o the work of promiet Africa-America Broadway choreographers. Nia s ew Africa Exploratios class, like her West Africa Dace ad Moder/Afro-fusio III classes, will impress upo her studets awareess of the Africa-America ifluece o moder dace, ad the importace of requirig Africa dace i college dace programs. Daphe Lowell s ew course Cotemplative Dace/Authetic Movemet brigs together studets from diverse fields to lear CD/AM, study its theory, ad help add to it by articulatig coectios they discover i it to their ow fields. She also offered this course, co-taught with Alto Wasso, as a Jauary itesive where adults from all over the coutry worked side by side with Hampshire studets. The FCDD is oe of the few dace programs i the coutry i which this form is taught. Other ew FCDD courses iclude Dace Educatio (Billbob Brow, UM), Yoga for Dacers (Peggy Schwartz, UM), Ballet Pedagogy (Rose Flachs, MH), ad Jazz Moderism ad Three Milleium Choreographers (Costace Valis Hill, FCDD/HC). We hope our studets ejoy these excitig additios to our curriculum! S c o t t L a p h a m Five College Dace Departmet ewsletter

5 i both dace ad writig i this excitig job! Kaitli also cotiues to perform Middle Easter dace with the Casbah Dace Experiece, which performed at the New York Public Library i November. Katherie Hooper (UM), oe of the artistic directors of the Bosto-based Mass Motio Dace Compay (recetly reamed BoSoma Dace Compay), taught a weeklog workshop at Peridace Ceter i Mahatta. She is also the group fitess coordiator at Wellbridge Athletic Club i Bosto. Lisa Ivis (MH) recetly married, ad teaches elemetary school i Coecticut. New Dimesios i Dace Studies As dacers we kow that dace ad movemet studies coect with may other disciplies certaily with other art forms, but also with studies of culture ad history, aatomy ad educatio, psychology ad, yes, eve politics. We also kow that dace traiig ad study ivolve may differet modes of learig, developig itellect, imagiatio, body, values, ad more disciplie, selfawareess, cofidece, collaboratio, orgaizatio, time maagemet. As faculty we are proud to see our dace alums go o from the FCDD to establish successful careers i a wide rage of fields, ofte careers i performace ad choreography, but also i fields like educatio, health care, arts maagemet, ad commuity developmet. So how do we help studets, parets, ad colleagues kow more about the breadth ad richess that dace study offers? For the past several years, the FCDD has bee developig ways to describe this dyamic array of possibilities. We call it New Dimesios i Dace Studies. Our goal is to ispire ew iterests i dace/movemet studies both for our dace majors ad for studets from other fields. We have idetified seve areas of focus: Techique, Repertory, ad Performace; Choreography ad Creative Studies; Dace Studies: History, Culture & Aesthetics; Dace Educatio ad Commuity Outreach; Dace ad Techology; Dace Sciece, Somatics, ad Arts Therapies; Desig ad Productio. We are developig courses ad makig coectios to colleagues i other departmets who offer courses related to these areas. We are creatig advisig sheets, helpig studets of similar iterests coect with each other ad with alums i the field, ad reachig out to colleagues ad sites i the commuity to lik with itership ad other learig opportuities. We are begiig a multiyear project for which we ivite iput from ayoe with somethig to offer! Previous page: Cathy Nicoli (top right) ad Robi Prichard (bottom left). J O N C R I S P I N j i m c o l e m a Jae Jerardi (HC) received her first commissio to create a ew, major performace project, Efficiecy, which premiered i October Commissioed by Washigto Performig Arts Society i hoor of its 40th aiversary seaso, it received support from The Eugee ad Ages E. Meyer Foudatio, with additioal assistace from the DC Commissio o the Arts ad Humaities. The piece was performed at the ew Tivoli Theater i Washigto, DC (www. jajerardi.com). Jeifer Kayle (SC MFA) preseted work at the Frige Festival i Mieapolis i August Zoe Klei (HC) has bee desigig lights, dacig, ad performig acrobatics i NYC ad has traied i parter balacig acrobatics ad trapeze for two years with LAVA. She was a cofoudig member of the circus/theater compay KIRKOS for two years ad recetly joied forces with David Paris to form a compay called Paradizo Duo, traiig i Motreal, Australia, ad Germay. The duo performed ad taught classes for their August tour i Thailad, Hog Kog, Japa, New Zealad, ad Australia. Recet lightig collaboratios iclude LAVA, Ferado Maeca, Gia Gibey, ad Wally Cardoa. Zoe is techical director at Brookly Arts Exchage ad Daspace Project, Ic. This page: Ad They All Fall Dow by Terese Freedma (top); studets i Marily Middleto s West Africa dace class (above); ad Nia Love performig Passages of the Middle: Cycles of a Circle (left). Amae Kurre (MH) sice graduatio has bee doig all kids of lightig desig work, icludig desig work at MHC ad other colleges i the area. Mariah Lilly Azarovitz (UM) is teachig creative movemet at the Pioeer Valley Motessori School. J O N C R I S P I N Joyce Lim (SC MFA) shared a performace at Daspace Cotiued o page 6 5

6 Project i October 05 with Paz Tajuaquio. The work was a culmiatio of Joyce s past five years of travel ad livig i Southeast ad East Asia. Movi ad Groovi By Shao Heegha (UM) Jamey Log (MH), after dacig i the Philadaco secod compay, has retured to Columbia for her master s degree i social work. Sarah Maya Hertzberg (SC) preseted her ew work, Bruised Fruit, at de Warade i Tarhout, Belgium, i September 05. Bruised Fruit looks at the physicality of food, the fudametal struggle betwee beig dirty ad clea, ad the eed for order while fightig chaos. Dusty Marticich (SC MFA) chaired a pael at the Society of Dace History Scholars Coferece at Northwester Uiversity o Dace i Techology ad Corporealities last summer. She also participated i the Dace Itegrated i Humaities ad Society itesive/coferece i Amsterdam, ad was o scholarship at Joel Hall Dace Ceter i Chicago. Megha McGrath (UM) is dacig aboard the Royal Caribbea ship Majesty, cruisig aroud the Bahamas performig i two shows called Boogie Woderlad ad Viva. Olive McKeo (HC) atteded the America Dace Festival, where she preseted two ew works. She curretly has a itership with Cotact Quarterly i Florece, MA. Ae Morris (SC) has moved to Miami to cotiue workig with Brazz Dace, performig ad teachig durig compay residecies. She also reports that Augusto Soledade (former SC faculty ad artistic director of the compay) has just received a $10,000 choreographer s grat from Dade Couty. Natalie Neckyfarrow (SC) cotiues to pursue her career i dace ad theater, playig Gertie i the Heights Players productio of Oklahoma! ad i a origial moologue show called Me at the Mahatta Repertory Theater. She has also bee doig backgroud work o Descet, a feature film starrig Rosario Dawso. Rithy Ngy (UM 07) received a scholarship for study with the Alvi Ailey America Dace Theater, as well as a idividual study award. Cathy Nicoli (SC MFA) has bee hired as a assistat professor at Hampshire. Cotiued o page 7 B E N B A R N H A R T Billbob Brow ad studets from the Crocker Farm Elemetary School at the Eric Carle Museum. I the fall of 2004, Crocker Farm Elemetary School i Amherst ad the UMass Dace Program bega a uique collaboratio ivolvig art, music, ad dace. Crocker Farm art teacher Jaet Wisto teamed up with music teacher Ages Zsigmodi to ispire their Crocker Farm fifth-graders to create artwork based o Chris Raschka s picture books ad Joh Coltrae s Giat Steps. Ito this mix came UMass dace professor Billbob Brow ad his FCDD Dace Educatio course studets, hosted by Crocker Farm s P.E. teacher Kacey Schmitt, to help the childre tur their creatios ito dace. The youg studets may of whom had ever daced before quickly grasped the basics of compositio ad made iterestig shapes ad movemets with their bodies. Next, the FCDD studets helped the fifth-graders make small group works based o their drawigs ad the music of jazz greats like Coltrae. They daced these i Movi ad Groovi, a cocert performed at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art i November to a packed house. It featured the fifth-graders dacig while their artwork was projected o the stage wall behid them. The collaboratio received impressive support from the commuity it was aired o the local televisio statio ACTV ad garered praise from all studets, youg ad old. Jazz Jam! A Eveig of Jazz Improvisatio ad Performace This fall the music ad dace programs at Hampshire College joied to host JAZZ JAM!, featurig Grammy Award wiig jazz tap dacer Jaso Samuels Smith ad jazz piaist Theo Hill i a musical tribute to jazz tap dace legeds. This evet, orgaized by Costace Valis Hill (FCDD/HC) ad Margo Edwards as a part of their co-taught Jazz Moderism course, was a resoudig success. Samuels ad Hill thrilled the audiece with their rhythmically itricate improvisatio of impeccable commuicatio, collaboratio, ad challege. The Margo Edwards ad Michael Desse of the Hampshire music faculty, jazz musicias Paul Arslaia (FCDD musicia) ad Bob Wieer, ad FCDD guest faculty, jazz tap dacer Pam Raff (MH), ad others joied Samuels ad Hill i a jazz music ad dace jam that brought dow the house! ABT2 Performs at MH This fall Mout Holyoke s Dace Program hosted ABT2, the America Ballet Theatre Studio Compay (Joh Meeha, artistic director) for the third year i a row. Mout Holyoke gratefully ackowledges the Rosh Foudatio Artistic Iitiatives Fud ad aluma Robi Chemers Neustei for supportig this excitig compay s performaces. New Fudig Source for Course Offerigs Hampshire College will have a ew course this sprig thaks to the iitiative ad geerosity of members of the Iteratioal Associatio for Creative Dace. Group Improvisatio: Explorig Creative Dace will itroduce the work of dace pioeer Barbara Mettler, who champioed a free approach to the art of movemet ad who believed dace was a basic huma eed. Mettler s archives photos, films, videos, ad writte materials from a career that stretched across six decades which are housed i the Hampshire College Library, will erich the course. Griff Goehrig, oe of Mettler s former teachig assistats, will preset the course. Griff, who has a master s degree i dace/movemet therapy, works with people of all ages ad abilities ad performs both improvised ad composed works. FCDD ews leaps ad bouds America College Dace Festival 2005 By Shao Heegha (UM) At the festival last year i Oroo, Maie, FCDD faculty ad studets preseted a total of 14 works. Each of the five colleges etered works i oe of the adjudicated cocerts. Professor Sam Keey (UM) preseted Saborealo, featurig 12 UMass dacers, ad Guest Faculty Christia Tsoules (AC) showed her piece The Livig Room. Mout Holyoke studets Kara Johso ad Marlea Hubley performed their utitled duet ad Alexis Listo brought her Utitled for Six. Smith studets Akae Noda ad Amy Softic each performed solo works, (de)sesitized ad Echoes of Spirit, respectively. Hampshire College staged two 20-perso esemble pieces: Pathétique #1, choreographed by Romia Rodreguez-Crosta ad Addys Gozalez, ad Pathétique #2, by Jeifer Roseblit ad Rodreguez-Crosta. Tara Madse (SC, MFA), Megha Frederick (HC), ad Billbob Brow (UM) preseted works i oe of ACDFA s iformal cocerts ad Mark Davis (SC), Billbob Brow, ad Rebecca Nordstrom (HC) showed choreography at the faculty cocert. All works were well received by adjudicators ad audiece members alike. Cogratulatios to all ivolved ad best of luck to this year s participats. 6 Five College Dace Departmet ewsletter

7 FCDD Master Classes ad Guest Lectures Some of these master classes icluded: She jois Becky Nordstrom (SC MFA) ad Sam Keey (SC MFA) i represetig Smith MFA s teachig i the FCDD. J O N C R I S P I N Asparas, by Rajaaa Devi. By Ashley Hesel-Browig (HC) Every year the FCDD is fortuate to host a multitude of master classes ad guest lectures that offer studets a chace to lear from a diverse array of professioal artists ad scholars. Durig , these icluded dace techique classes from tourig dace compaies ad idepedet artists i a wide rage of idioms classical ad cotemporary ballet ad moder dace, Butoh, Tago, Idia, ad other world dace forms as well as classes i dace i coectio with other arts music, theater, somatic practices. Several of these were made possible through our collaboratio with the UMass Fie Arts Ceter ad the Asia Arts ad Culture Programs. Alog with these, studets had the opportuity to atted lectures give by such promiet experts as Korea dace scholar Dr. Eu S. Kim; Dea of the America Dace Festival Martha Myers; Balachie dacer Robert Moreao; ad preemiet dace athropologist Joa Keali iohomoku. FCDD Faculty, Staff, Musicias News Wedy Woodso (AC), i additio to creatig several ew dace pieces this year for Dace Geerators ad Uiversity Dacers, premiered her ew video etitled NERVE, a 30-miute experimetal documetary about the work ad ijury of Dr. Leore Maderso, the Australia athropologist. She also created ad performed a ew text/movemet solo for the coferece Gettig Our Act Together: Performace Studies i Ucertai Times, ad was a featured solo performer i the XI D.C. Iteratioal Improvisatio Festival i Washigto, DC. She is curretly workig o a ew full-legth performace istallatio piece etitled VERONICA S FOLD, to be premiered at the Ko Festival this summer, ad she has bee workig o a series of Web/video poems that ca be viewed at edu/%7ewwoodso/preset- Compay/lookigglass/storyboard1.html. Susa Walter (SC) completed her most recet term as chair of the FCDD last sprig. Durig the year she happily oversaw the may celebratory activities we udertook as part of our 25th aiversary. As part of those celebratios, she co-choreographed a ballet(!) with Ke Lipitz (UM), ad for the FCDD Faculty cocert choreographed a piece to the first movemet of Beethove s Moolight Soata, which Julius Robiso (SC) played live. Fiftee local Smith alums were ivited to dace i the work ad the umber varied from 12 to 15 for each performace. Last summer she performed her solo Catherie s Weddig Dress, at the Got Family cocert i Holyoke ad at the tow hall i Ashfield, MA. Mike Vargas (musicia) cotiues to sped most of his time improvisig ad composig music, especially for dace. He has bee tourig, teachig, ad performig extesively worldwide with dacer Nacy Stark Smith, last summer i Spai, Estoia, ad Germay. This year he ll be workig i Italy, Spai, Toroto, Iowa, ad Rochester, ad possibly Paris ad Italy. This fall, he worked o a commissio for a dace o video, ad a eveiglegth solo cocert of electroacoustic music for a cocert i November at Thores Market A.P.E. ( org/artists/vargas.html). Next August he will be makig music at the Bates Dace Festival. Betty Thursto (FCDD staff) is happy to work with Daphe Lowell, the ew chair of the FCDD. She is also happy to ed Alexader Techique: Missy Vieyard Argetiia Tago: Daiel Treer, ad also Bredo Shaw Ballet Techique: Hubbard Street Dace Compay of Chicago, ad Kare Brow (UM) Butoh: Akira Kasai Classical Idia Dace: Justie Lemos (HC) Cotact Improvisatio: Mark Zemelma, Spirit Joseph, Kristi Horriga, Felice Wolfzah Eurhythmy: Carolie Lijiestrom from Swede Foot Reflexology: Mary A Kelly Graham Techique: Tadej Brdik, of the Martha Graham Dace Compay Isadora Duca Dace: Laura Pravitz Moder Techique: Melissa Ham-Ellis of Tadem Dace Compay, Kyle Shukis (UM) of the Rady James Compay, Kristi Day of Sappy Dace Theater, Heidi Hederso (SC MFA) Music ad Dace Collaboratio: Nacy Stark Smith ad Mike Vargas Parterig: AXIS Dace Compay, with Katie Faulker (HC) Performace ad Social Issues: Lisa Biggs (AC) Performace Techiques: Laurie Carlos Soud Editig ad Composig: Toy Silva (UM) Stage Maagemet: Malcom Ewe her golf seaso with a tie for first place i the mixed-foursome divisio of the Frieds of the Mout Holyoke Golf Touramet held at The Orchards i September. Joh Sprague (musicia) has bee active as a musicia i the dace world. Last summer he offered his Movig-from-Withi workshop with colleague Susa Bauer at the Norther Califoria Dace Collective Summer, ad he also taught ad played for several classes i the Bay Area, as well as back east at Earthdace ad the Dace New Eglad Summer Camp. He also played for the Cotemplative Dace workshops at Hampshire College. This fall he played for improv sessios at Earthdace ad i Northampto. He also plays percussio ad flute for kirta ((Hidu chatig) throughout the New Eglad area, ad has begu work o a ew album. Peggy Schwartz (UM) has bee grated a year s research assigmet to orgaize a massive amout of primary materials o Pearl Primus, havig bee steeped i the research process for may years. Last sprig Peggy worked with Joe Nash shortly before his death to help him orgaize his collectio of slides o Primus. Peggy hopes to have a first draft complete before returig to teachig i the fall. Durig the summer of 2005, Peggy was ivited to represet Pearl Primus at a coferece at the Natioal Museum of Dace hoorig the New Dace Group. She also traveled to Seegal ad The Gambia for three weeks with Baba Chuck Davis, to dace ad drum ad chat ad plat a tree i hoor of Pearl Primus ad Joe Nash i a memorial garde. Toy Silva (musicia) composed music for Billbob Brow s (UM) Hypercube, which premiered at the Uiversity Dacers cocert i December, ad he has bee workig with Wedy Woodso o her ew Web-based piece, the lookig glass ( edu/~wwoodso/presetcompay/lookigglass/storyboard1. html). He also teaches Pro Tools at Amherst College i the audio suite ( Julius Robiso (SC), lecturer ad pricipal piaist i the Smith dace departmet, is researchig 19th-cetury Turkish music for a book he is writig with seior lecturer Salem Ecevit o 19th-cetury dace ad music. Pam Raff (MH), a Bosto-based tap performer, is teachig itermediate tap ad workig with her studets i a arragemet of a Leo Collis piece for the faculty dace cocert. Rebecca Nordstrom (HC) cotiues to do teachig ad performig residecies with UM colleague Billbob Brow, ad is a member of his compay Chaos Theory Dace. Last year their travels took them to Colby Sawyer College i NH, The Putey School i VT, Cocord Academy, ad Harvard Uiversity. They also performed with the Cambridge (MA) based Sarasa Chamber Music Esemble. Cathy Nicoli (HC) will premier I Our Walls Grow Little Gardes at the Hampshire College Witer Cocert ad Love Apple at the FCDD faculty cocert i March. She is excited to offer her ew course, Mergig Mids ad Motio: Approachig Academics through Creative Dace, this sprig. She plas to roud out her first year at Hampshire with some soul food: a compositio workshop with Susa Rethorst ad a dace therapy workshop at Atioch. Cathy will be spedig her summer teachig dace ad iterdiscipliary arts to special-eeds childre at Bearstow Arts ad Nature Retreat i Mt. Vero, Maie, ad workig o a eveiglegth solo dedicated to her gradmother. Excavatio will Cotiued o page 8 Kary Norto Ediso (UM) has bee ower/director of the Dacig Arts Ceter i Hollisto, MA, for 26 years. The Dacig Arts Ceter has employed several UM alums as teachers over the years icludig Jodi Demos, Yolada Daelemas-Greaves, ad Adrea Taylor-Bleish. Seve of her 2005 graduates will begi studyig dace at Hartt, Bard, ad Marymout Colleges ad Columbia Uiversity s Alvi Ailey certificate program. Her studet Rowa Salem was accepted ito the UM Amherst Dace Program. The Dacig Arts Ceter received the Outstadig School Award preseted by Youth America Grad Prix. The Wedy Osserma Dace Compay (SC) was preseted at Dace Theater Workshop i September 05. MiRi Park (UM) is the U.S. air guitar champio! A marketig associate for the Dace Space Ceter i lower Mahatta, she helped curate Wave of Humaity, a eight-hour dace evet to aid i the tsuami relief effort. Stephe Petroio (HC). At the Joyce Theater i NYC i March 2005, Stephe Petroio Compay celebrated its 20th aiversary seaso, lookig back ad ahead, spaig a pivotal decade of hallmark vitage works ad heraldig the future. From the provocative MiddleSex Gorge (1990), to the clario Lareige (1995), to the seductive Prelude (2000), these daces resoate with Petroio s sigature whiplash movemet, fierce structure, ad sesual force. Completig the program was Bud, a preview of a ew work i collaboratio with siger/sogwriter Rufus Wairight. Jesse Philips-Fei (SC) preseted her first eveiglegth work, Wilderess, i NYC i November. The dace looked at the defiitios of wild ad tame, with a stark look at what we have gaied ad lost i a humadomiated world. Rya Platt (AC), who is gettig his PhD at Corell, will be teachig a cotemporary dace survey course ext semester. Rochelle Rice (UM) appeared o the CBS Morig Show i Jauary 05. The show took a lighthearted look at New Year s resolutios ad featured members of her program, I Fitess ad i Health. Deborah Robertso (SC MFA) came to Smith for her Cotiued o page 8

8 25th reuio i May 05. She is a associate professor ad head of the BFA actig program at Norther Illiois Uiversity. Jeifer Rockwell Edwards (UM) married Ross Edwards ad moved to Mieapolis MN. Rai Ross (MH) is the artistic director of Lehua Dace Theatre i Washigto state. Rowa Salem (UM) teaches at the Dacig Arts Ceter ad Dacig Arts Academy day school i Hollisto, MA, where she substitute taught for the director i Jauary. Cristia Septie, Maria Libel, Adrew Sloat, Aie Lok, ad Emily Alpre (all AC) are workig together i NYC as a movemet/theater performig compay, South Pleasat Street. I the fall they premiered a piece at the Cuigham Studio ad received a favorable review i the New York Times. Kyle Shukis (UM) performed with Rady James Dace Works at the Joyce SoHo i NYC. Laura Simeral (UM) is workig full time as a group exercise istructor ad persoal traier at Wave Health & Fitess Club at the Seaport Hotel i Bosto. She also daced with BoSoma Dace Compay. Sara Smith (HC) received her MFA i dace from Sarah Lawrece College. Her choreography ad soud desigs have bee see ad heard i NYC at Joyce SoHo, Daspace Project s Food for Thought at St. Mark s Church, P.S. 122, HERE Arts Ceter, the Brookly Museum, Brookly Arts Exchage (BAX), Galapagos Art Space, ad Ur, where she was a residet Ur Cousi i She also performed last year with choreographer Chris Yo ad frequet collaborator ad choreographer Karie Keithley (HC). William Soleau (AC) is a prolific choreographer who has created over 70 ballets o compaies aroud the world ( com). He is also executive director for the Joh Butler Foudatio Ic., dedicated to preservig ad protectig the master works of this ifluetial America choreographer. Arlee Steier (UM) ad Melissa Ham-Ellis (UM) are co-artistic directors of the Bosto-based Tadem Dace, Ic. The compay performed i the Divie Project at the Uiversity of New Hampshire, a fudraiser for a dacer with leukemia, ad i a iformal showig at Gree Street J O N C R I S P I N FCDD Plas for the Future This year ad ext the FCDD is udertakig a comprehesive 10-year self-study to look for ways to cotiue to improve what we offer ad to celebrate what we have achieved. Alums ad Studets: We wat your iput! Stay tued for further aoucemets. Cotiued from page 7 start with family research, field study i Nova Scotia, ad sitespecific improvisatios based o ladscape desig ad the cotext a place iherits from the actios that occur withi. Matisse Madde (MH) choreographed a large-cast poite piece for the Mout Holyoke Faculty Cocert i November, ad restaged ad performed i a trio from Le Corsaire. Marily Middleto ad Sekou Sylla (MH) report that Sekou cotiues to heal well after a tragic car accidet last sprig. This fall they appeared with their childre i a piece Marily set o studets for the Mout Holyoke Families Dacig cocert. Daphe Lowell (HC), the ew chair of the FCDD, has two articles i Authetic Movemet vol. 2, edited by Patrizia Pallaro, due out Jauary 2006 from Jessica Kigsley Publishers: Itroductio to Authetic Movemet ad Authetic Movemet as a Form of Dace Ritual. This itroductio, first published i Cotact Quarterly (vol. 27, o. 2), was recetly selected for etry i the Reaissace electroic database. She is also workig o a book about Authetic Movemet as a rite of passage. She performed Authetic Movemet solos twice this past year: Silece, with music by Joh Sprague, i the FCDD faculty cocert, ad Eough (bread), which she offered as a fud-raiser for South Asia earthquake relief. She cotiues to teach Cotemplative Dace/AM with Alto Wasso at Hampshire i the summer. Sam Keey (UM) preseted her first eveig-legth cocert with her ew compay, the Samatics Dace Esemble, at Hampshire College i September. The compay is also a curret recipiet of a Northampto Arts Coucil grat i support of its secod cocert, to take place i Northampto i the sprig of Costace Valis Hill (FCDD/HC) joied the board of directors of The America Tap Dace Foudatio, ad helped foud The Gregory Hies Collectio of America Tap Dace, a major collectio documetig the history of tap dace i the Dace Divisio of the New York Public Library ( ). As a member of the editorial board of the Society of Dace History Scholars Studies i Dace History, she was the volume coeditor of Kaiso! Writig by ad about Katherie Duham, ed. Veve Clark ad Sarah Johso-Lao, published by Wiscosi Uiversity Press. Costace s most recet essay, Cabi i the Sky: Katherie Duham s ad George Balachie s (Afro) Americaa, has just bee published i Discourses i Dace, a joural of the Laba Ceter i Lodo, edited by Susa Foster ad Ramsay Burt (sprig 2005). She hopes to sped her upcomig sabbatical o a ew writig project: Tap Dacig America: A Twetieth-Cetury Cultural History ad Chroology, Elizabeth Haymaker (musicia) cotiues to ejoy teachig private piao lessos i her home studio. She is musical director for the Lisa Leizma Dace Compay, the residet dace compay of the Northampto Ceter for the Arts. I December, Elizabeth ad the compay did a fud-raiser for the ceter featurig works set to the music of Bartok, Hidemith, ad Radall Thompso. The compay also performed at the Academy of Music as part of Northampto s First Night celebratios. Peter Joes (MH), musical director of the Mout Holyoke College dace program, keeps busy composig ad scorig for a wide variety of choreographers ear ad far. He has released six CDs of music o his ow recordig label, Joeschord Music, icludig his two latest CDs: Skeletos for solo piao ad Gradual Motio 2. Lada Isupova (musicia), a ative of Moscow (Russia), came to the U.S. i 2000 ad ow lives i Amherst. This summer she recorded a CD for a ballet class taught by Charles Flachs (MH). For the last three years Lada has orgaized ad led music classes for Russia childre i the Amherst commuity. She also was ivited by the editor of Russia Life Magazie to orgaize a Russia folk performace for childre ad adults to be performed i Amherst i the Taste of Russia Folk Festival i August. She is curretly stagig a Russia childre s opera, The Little Turip, to premier at Amherst s Muso Library i February Rose ad Charles Flachs (MH) opeed a ew studio, the Massachusetts Academy of Ballet, i Holyoke s Ope Square. Charles is performig with MAB studets i a excerpt from Coppelia, directed by Rose, for the Witer Performace at the Northampto Ceter for the Arts ad for the First Night celebratio at the Photo above: Performace of Te 2 Talkig by Terese Freedma. Academy of Music i Northampto. Their summer icluded attedig the CORPS de Ballet Iteratioal Coferece at the Sa Fracisco Ballet School ad teachig for the Pesylvaia Academy of Ballet. Although o sabbatical this year, they made a guest appearace as a family of cats i the Families Dacig cocert at MH i October. Lesley Farlow (MH), a faculty member at Triity, is guestteachig 20th-Cetury History. She performed i the Families Dacig cocert with her sixyear-old daughter, Jig Jig. Rajaaa Devi (Asia Arts & Culture Program, UM) is workig o a ew course for the FCDD, Sacred to the Secular: Performig Arts of Asia, to be offered at Hampshire ext fall. She is also preparig lectures ad choreography, some of which will take place this sprig at the Asia Studies ad Dace Program of Colorado College ad at Mout Holyoke College. Paul Deis (MH), former Limo compay member for ie years, has bee hired to teach Moder 4 durig the sprig semester. Jim Colema ad Terese Freedma (MH) are workig o a cocert of ew works to be preseted i early February that will iclude a collaborative piece with visual artist Neal Parks ad video projectio, live cam with their daughter Zoe. Terese will be teachig a ew course i advaced kiesiology sprig semester 06. Jim cotiues to promote collaborative arts projects as arts coordiator at MHC. Billbob Brow (UM) set ew works this past year at Sprigfield College ad Wester Wyomig Commuity College. He also performed i Mario Kirk Joes s Skydacers with Desert Dace Theater s artistic director Lisa Chow at the Scottsdale Ceter for the Arts, ad Space Cowboy at a Daiel Nagri coferece, both i Arizoa. His Emmy award wiig video, Opeig Doors, was aired o the Arizoa PBS statio i October. Last summer he created This Wedesday, a dace-video stage work about the war i Iraq o Tadem Dace Compay i Bosto, taught a workshop with Ballet Plymouth i New Hampshire, ad performed with Rebecca Nordstrom (HC) i umerous places icludig at Colby-Sawyer College i New Hampshire. He also created a major dacevideo evet for Northampto s 350th aiversary celebratio with his Chaos Theory Dace Compay as a fud-raiser for Uited Way. Rodger Blum (SC), o sabbatical this year, recetly completed a video performace work with his compay, Survivig Jesse Productios ( edu/survivigjesse). Embrace premiered i the Northampto Film Festival i November. This sprig he will udertake several weeks of course work i media arts ad expad Psyche s Loss, a work he created for the 2004 Smith Faculty Cocert. This December, he performed the role of Herr Drosselmeyer i the Pioeer Valley Ballet s Nutcracker, which was co-artistic-directed by Smith MFA s Tomas Vacati ad Maryae Delise Kodzis. Paul Arslaia (UM), musical director of the UMass dace program, cotiues to study tap dacig ad hopes to soo have oly oe left foot. He will be hoored o Natioal Tap Day, May 19, at the Museum of Our Natioal Heritage i Lexigto, MA, for his cotributios to the art form. Past hoorees iclude Buster Brow, Breda Buffalio, Jimmy Slyde, ad Sara Petrio. Paul s piao playig ca be heard o the latest Pottery Bar Christmas Kids music CD. Studios, Cambridge, MA, of completed ad i-progress works by Ham-Ellis, Steier, ad UM faculty member Billbob Brow. Layard Thompso (UM) received the followig glowig review i the New York Times: The highlight was Layard Thompso performig Deborah Hay s The Ridge. He leared the rigorous piece last year i Scotlad through Ms. Hay s Solo Performace Commissioig Project, i which participats agree to practice the piece daily for at least three moths. The Ridge is full of eccetric twists ad turs that redered Mr. Thompso with his malleable body ad sparklig red shoes partcreature, part-huma. Rachel Tischler s (AC) most recet performace istallatio was cited as the best of the show i a recet curated program at the Cotemporary Arts Museum i North Adams, MA. Rachel is ow assistat geeral maager at the Triity Repertory Compay. Alie Wickham (HC 09) choreographed two of UMass Theatre Guild s productios: The Who s Tommy fall 05 ad Time of Your Life. Debbie Williams (SC) will be pursuig a master s degree at the Uiversity of Roehampto i Eglad. Elaie Wislow-Redmod (UM), who has bee a Radio City Rockette for 11 years, received a master of sciece degreee i applied physiology ad utritio from Columbia Uiversity ad is a certified athletic traier ad member of the Natioal Athletic Traiers Associatio. She created a welless program for the Rockettes ad is their head athletic traier ad athletic traiig program director. She also works as athletic traier for other NYC performig compaies such as Blue Ma Group, the New York Kicks City Dacers, Tap Kids, ad NYC Dace Alliace, ad has bee iducted ito her high school s hall of fame. Yasuko Yokoshi (HC) lived i Japa i , studyig traditioal Japaese kabuki dace with master teacher Masumi Seyama. She is ow back i NYC,where she recetly showed a work i progress at the Guggeheim Museum. Alums! Stay i Touch with Us! Dear Alums: Please sed us your ad other cotact iformatio! us at fcdd@hampshire.edu Five College Dace Departmet ewsletter