Spring 2017 Dance Concert Program Details

The Department of Performing Arts and Humanities
of the School of Liberal Arts at CCBC

presents

SPRING 2017 Dance Concert

CCBC Dance Company Artistic Director
Melinda Blomquist

Associate Director
Kristi Schaffner

CCBC Dance Coordinator
Tommy Parlon

Technical Director
Jason Randolph

Lighting Designer
Thomas Gardner

Stage Manager
Miles Lawlor

Seamstress
Dani Gebski

Costume Assistant
Charisse Secrest

Choreographers:
Melinda Blomquist | Adrienne Clancy | Alice Howes
Adrienne Kraus Latanishen | Tommy Parlon | Kristi Schaffner

March 30 at 11:10 am
March 31 at 8pm
April 1 at 8pm

Director’s Note

This Spring concert is comprised of nine works with very different viewpoints. All of the choreographers selected their themes or concepts and developed movement that expresses that concept for them. The student dancers in the CCBC Dance Company have been rehearsing since January to prepare for this performance. Each work presents them with specific challenges in regard to movement vocabulary, emotional connection to the movement, their fellow dancers, and you, our audience. These dancers have grown as artists in many ways through the rehearsal process as they have worked with a diverse and talented group of choreographers.

Many of the works in this performance utilize ideas and concepts from Modern dance, which comes from a tradition of pushing boundaries and exploring different ways of expressing an idea. Modern dance asks you to think about your experience and contemplate the possibilities that are presented. Using movement as a means of expression, the work creates a moving landscape of ideas, emotions, and possibilities. Just as each work is unique, how you as an audience member experience each work will be unique to you. As you watch the performance and are affected by the movement, lighting, costumes, and music, you will discover how their interaction feeds your understanding of what the work might be about.

I would like to personally thank all of the dancers, choreographers, faculty, and staff who have helped to put this concert together. Their dedication and enthusiasm for dance is a blessing to work with and be a part of.

Enjoy the Performance!

Melinda Blomquist

PROGRAM

Romeo and Juliet Suite
(2017)
Choreographers: Melinda Blomquist and Tommy Parlon
Music: “Sergei Prokofiev” arr. Johan de Meij
Visuals:
Costume Design: Melinda Blomquist and Tommy Parlon
Dancers: DeAundre Drisdom, Kelsey Lewis, Katlin Magruther, Asia Mitchell, Stephanie O’Hare, Rachel Pavlosky, Angel Stewart, Rachel Weddington

By Day My Limbs, By Night My Mind
Choreographer: Alice Howes
Text: William Shakespeare
Reader: Ja’min Williams
Music: Sheila Chandra
Costume Design: Alice Howes
Dancer: Savionne Chambers
Understudy: Angel Stewart

The bRoken Bird Syndrome
(2017)
Choreographer: Tiffany Morgan
Music: “The Way” by Zack Hemsey
Dancers: Asia Mitchell, Rachel Pavlosky and Rachel Weddington
This work is in partial fulfillment of the AFA Degree in Dance
Cascading Thoughts
(2017)
Choreographer: Adrienne Clancy
Music Collage Sources: Pat Methany, Michael Wall, Albert Mathias
Music Collage edited by: Anthony Amatucci
Interpreted and Performed with movement contributions by: DeAundre Drisdom, Kelsey Lewis, Asia Mitchell, Rachel Pavlosky

Intermission – 10 minutes
better than silence
(2017)
Choreographer: Rachel Pavlosky
Costume Design: Rachel Pavlosky
Dancers: Rachel Pavlosky and Anita Samek
This work is in partial fulfillment of the AFA Degree in Dance

there is enough for everyone
(2017)
Choreographer: Tommy Parlon
Music: “Timequakes” by The Starseeds
Costume Design: Tommy Parlon
Dancers: Savionne Chambers, DeAundre Drisdom, Kelsey Lewis, Katlin Magruther, Asia Mitchell, Tiffany Morgan, Stephanie O’Hare, Rachel Pavlosky, Anita Samek, Angel Stewart, Rachel Weddington

Darker Path
(2017)
Choreographer: Rachel Weddington
“Music: Vow” by Meredith Monk
Dancer: Tiffany Morgan
This work is in partial fulfillment of the AFA Degree in Dance

A Drop In This Ocean
(2017)
Choreographer: Adrienne Kraus Latanishen
Music: “Ocean Tranquility” “Hayling” by FC Kahuna; “Tick of the Clock” by Chromatics;
“Into the Past” by Nero
Music Editing: Adrienne Kraus Latanishen
Costume Design: Adrienne Kraus Latanishen
Dancers: Katlin Magruther, Stephanie O’Hare, Rachel Pavlosky, Anita Samek, Rachel Weddington

RE(de)FINED
(2016)
Choreographer: Kristi Schaffner
Music: Recorded by Seeburg Music Library Inc. circa 1950’s and 1960’s
Text: Coronet Instructional Films
Sound Editing: Craig Blomquist
Costume Design: Kristi Schaffner
Dancers: Savionne Chambers, DeAundre Drisdom, Kelsey Lewis, Asia Mitchell, Tiffany Morgan (Thursday/Saturday), Angel Stewart (Friday)
This work was selected for the Gala Concert at the 2017 Mid-Atlantic North Regional American College Dance Association Conference

The Dancers

SAVIONNE CHAMBERS

DEAUNDRE DRISDOM

KELSEY LEWIS

is in her second year at the Community College of Baltimore county. She is a dance major and has been a part of the CCBC Dance Company since 2015. Kelsey attended high school at George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology for dance and after college she plans on continuing dance at another college or university.

KATLIN MAGRUTHER

began her dance training at Ballet School of Glyndon. She has participated in multiple Dance Masters of America Ch.17 workshops. She has danced for Charm City Ballet in their production of Beauty and the Beast as a villager and a tree. This is Katlin’s first semester with the CCBC Dance Company. After completing her AA in dance Katlin plans on transferring to a four year school.

ASIA MITCHELL

is a graduate of Baltimore School for the Arts where she was under the training of Norma Pera, Debra Robinson, Anton Wilson, Linda-Denise Fisher, and Sandy Lacy. She has had the opportunity to perform Balanchine’s Serenade staged by Deborah Wingert, Martha Graham’s Appalachian Spring staged by Miki Orihara, Baltimore’s very own Tapping Santas and The Nutcracker choreographed by Barry Hughson performed at The Modell Lyric. Asia is a AFA Dance major for Performing Arts, and plans on transferring to a four year University after the Spring of 2017, she has been a member of CCBC,s Dance Company since the Fall of 2015

TIFFANY MORGAN

a Baltimore native, began her dance training in 8th grade training at Inertia Performing Arts under Candice Kemp. She has performed numerous times with this group at MICA and Six Flags America. She has performed as a project dancer at AKIMBO Baltimore with the Deep Vision Dance Company under Nicole Martinell. She is currently a company member of the CCBC Dance Company, and enjoys the opportunities it brings. She will be graduating Spring 2017 with an Associates of Fine Arts Degree.

STEPHANIE O’HARE

RACHELPAVLOSKY

ANITA SAMEK

has trained primarily with Perry Hall Dance and A Step Ahead Dance Studio. She currently teaches dance classes at these two studios, as well as Dance Conservatory of Maryland and Forest Hill Dance. She has also performed with Charm City Ballet. Anita was featured in a tap dance music video by Hillary-Marie, director of FutureStep Tap Company, where she was offered a position in the company. She enjoys attending yearly dance conventions such as The Pulse, Dance Teacher Summit, and Jersey Tap Fest. Anita is a member of the CCBC Dance Company and plans to transfer after completing her AFA degree at CCBC.

ANGEL STEWART

RACHEL WEDDINGTON

has been a member of CCBC Dance Company since Fall 2015. She began her training at Connexions School for the Arts in 2010 where she participated in Connexions Repertory Company for 3 years. She graduated Cum Laude and was awarded for Most Artistic Improvement. She is now a AFA dance major for performing arts and will be working towards receiving her BFA in dance performance/choreography.

JA’MIN WILLIAMS

is a CCBC student and actor, currently enrolled as a Theatre Performance Major. He has been in Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), Hamlet: Lost/Found (Laertes) and other CCBC productions as various roles. He enjoys the stage and is excited to be collaborating with the CCBC Dance Company.

PRODUCTION STAFF

MELINDA BLOMQUIST
(Artistic Director)

received a Master of Fine Arts in Dance Choreography and Performance from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee; and a Master of Arts in Dance Pedagogy from Brigham Young University. Melinda has presented her choreographic work in numerous venues nationally and internationally including: the South Central and Mid-Atlantic American College Dance Festivals; the Southern District AAHPERD conferences; Northwest Vista College; the National Dance Association Pedagogy Conferences; the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee; and at the Attakkalari Festival in Bangalore India. She has also performed her own work and the work of other artists in various venues. Melinda is currently working with Trajectory Dance Project.

Melinda is an Associate Professor of Dance at the Community College of Baltimore County and is the Artistic Director of the CCBC Dance Company. Melinda is involved in community outreach, focusing on promoting the importance of dance as art form in public education. Previously Melinda was a member of the dance faculty at the University of Texas Pan American where she was the Co-Artistic Director of the Dance Ensemble. Melinda has also worked with the Theatre and Music departments as a choreographer for Musical Theatre productions both at the University of Texas Pan American and at the Community College of Baltimore County.

KRISTI SCHAFFNER
(Associate Director)

attended the University of Oklahoma as a teaching fellow where she received her MFA in modern dance (2011). She also has BFA in dance education from Kent State University (2004). Through a graduate student grant, she studied Laban Movement Analysis at the Laban Institute in NYC. Ms. Schaffner has performed with Jeslyn Dance Gallery, Clawson Dances, Junction Dance Theatre, and Tommy Parlon Dance Projects among others, and is a current dancer and Director of Education and Outreach for Dragonfly Dance Experiment. Her choreography has been presented across the country including Pittsburgh, Oklahoma City, Washington D.C., Annapolis, Baltimore, Salt Lake City and at the Howard County Dance Festival. A passion for education has inspired her to create and implement dance curricula for both preschools and charter school students diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder. Ms. Schaffner is a current adjunct faculty member in the dance divisions of Anne Arundel Community College and the Community College of Baltimore County and is a frequent guest instructor and performer in schools and community events.

TOMMY PARLON
(Dance Coordinator)

a native of Washington, D.C., received his M.F.A. in Dance (Choreography and Technology) from Arizona State University and his B.F.A. in Dance and Choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University. From 1998-2002 he was an Assistant Professor of Dance at Kent State University. While in New York City he danced with J. Fregalette Janson Dance, Centaur Dance Theatre, Beyondance Inc! and the Paris based multi-media performance art company FIASCO. Mr. Parlon has danced in pieces by Doug Varone, Stephen Petronio, Alvin Mayes, Laura Dean and Elizabeth Streb. In 1996-1998 he collaborated on Falling to Earth, an interactive multi-media performance piece created with the Institute for Studies in the Arts at Arizona State University. His choreography has been commissioned by Incidents Physical Theater of New York City, NEW ARTiculations in Tucson, Arizona, Lansing Chamber Dance in Michigan, and numerous colleges throughout the United States. He was awarded an Individual Artist Award in Solo Dance Performance from the Maryland State Arts Council in 2004 and an Artist Award in Choreography in 2007. Mr. Parlon is currently the Artistic Director of Tommy Parlon Dance Projects in Washington, D.C., the Artistic Associate of Ground Zero Dance in Richmond and the Dance Coordinator at CCBC.

JASON RANDOLPH
(Technical Director)

THOMAS GARDNER
(Lighting Designer)

is a CCBC alum and current lighting design major at Towson University. He just recently light designed for Polaroid Stories at Towson. His next project will be Lighting Designer for Arsenic and Old Lace with Cockpit in Court this summer, directed by F. Scott Black.

MILES LAWLOR
(Stage Manager)

is a sophomore technical theatre major here at CCBC Essex. He has previously stage managed The Menaechmi Twins in spring of 2016 and The Scottish Play this past fall. He stage managed last summer for Cockpit in Court’s production of The Gazebo and will be staging managing Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike for Cockpit this summer. He will also be Asst. Stage Managing for Fells Point Corner Theatre’s production of [title of show] this April.

ADRIENNE KRAUS LATANISHEN
(Choreographer)

is a proud Baltimorean who knew she wanted to be a dancer and choreographer eversince she was a little girl. She began her training at The Community College of Baltimore County, then, transferred to The University of Maryland, College Park where she graduated with honors with her B.A. in Dance. Adrienne has taught at several studios and recreation programs alike including MgM Dance Studio, where she currently teaches various styles. In addition to dancing, choreographing, and teaching for The Collective, AKL also dances for Andary Dance, Nathan Andary’s professional company, and withhart.dance.projects, of which she is also founding member and assistant director. Her choreography has been commissioned at local high schools, colleges, and organizations. Adrienne made her New York City debut performing in the Perceptions Contemporary Dance Festival, WAXworks at Triskelion Arts, Green Space, Movement Research, and the world famous Judson Church. She made her Washington D.C. debut performing at The Dance Exchange, Joe’s Movement Emporium, and Dance Place. However, her greatest achievement is starting her own brand new company named AKL Dance Theatre. Much love to The Collective who shares their passion, collaborates their creativity, and keeps dance alive in Baltimore!

ADRIENNE CLANCY, PH.D., M.F.A
(Guest Choreographer)

is a dance artist and proclaimed “wizard of invention” by the Washington Post. As a “tour de force of unpredictable partnering,” her work explores architecturally informed partnering developed among diverse artists. Simultaneously dynamic and emotionally perceptive, Clancy’s choreography exemplifies an environment of mutual respect and creates images that embrace diversity and foster community awareness.

Over the past twenty years, Dr. Clancy has choreographed and performed throughout the world. She was the youngest choreographer to present at the Suzanne Dellal International World Dance Competition in Tel Aviv, and the sole student choreographer to represent the United States in the International College Dance Festival in Kobe, Japan, which toured to Tokyo and other Japanese cities. Clancy has taught and performed at the Open Look Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia and toured her work alongside the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange (LLDX). As a member of LLDX, Clancy taught modern dance techniques for the Dance and Community Partnerships Workshop at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Her choreography has been performed internationally in Colombia, England, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Paraguay and Poland.

Dr. Clancy was a member of the Bella Lewitzky Dance Company; a rehearsal director, project director, and company member for the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange; a principal dancer for Nora Reynolds Dance and RoCoCo Modern Dance Company; and guest artist for Maida Withers Dance Construction Company, Victoria Marks, Bill Evans Dance Company, Paradigm Dance Company, Doug Hamby Dance, and Cathy Paine Mixed Media.

Clancy earned her Ph.D. and a MFA in Dance from Texas Woman’s University. Clancy holds a BFA in Choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University and a MA in Dance, emphasis in History & Criticism, from University of New Mexico. Clancy continues to write, most recently penning the foreword for Reminiscences of a Dancing Man, a book written by Bill Evans and published by the National Dance Association in 2006. In addition, she has been commissioned to write for the Oxford University’s International Encyclopedia of Dance. Adrienne has been on faculty at many universities, including: George Mason University (VA), American University (DC), the University of Maryland Baltimore County (MD), Towson University (MD), Community College of Baltimore Essex (MD), George Washington University (DC), Goucher College (MD), and graduate courses at the University of Maryland College Park (MD).

Adrienne Clancy is honored to receive awards for her teaching and choreography, the most recent being the NDEO 2013 Outstanding Dance Educator of the Year Award, the 2014 County Executive’s Award for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities, Education Award, and the 2014 Individual Artist Award for Choreography from the MD State Arts Council as well as from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County.

As the Founding and Artistic Director, Adrienne Clancy dedicates her artistic life to ClancyWorks, a Maryland-based non-profit company of highly qualified local and national artists. Through the motto “Shifting Perceptions Through Performance,” ClancyWorks uses the arts as a vehicle to develop mutual understanding and advance positive social action.

ALICE HOWES
(Guest Choreographer)

is a dance artist and educator who is director of Trajectory Dance Project, a Baltimore-based modern dance ensemble. She has held full-time faculty positions at universities including Coppin State University, UNC Charlotte, and Lamar University. In addition, she served from 1995 to 2004 as artistic director and resident choreographer of Washington, D.C.’s Sister’s Trousers Dance Company, a modern dance ensemble based in the D.C. area. Sarah Kaufman of The Washington Post described Howes’ performance as “riveting, thrilling and deeply mysterious”. Howes’ choreography has appeared in selective showcases at venues such as D.C.’s Dance Place, The Booth Theater in Charlotte, North Carolina and the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater and Millennium Stage. She holds an MA in dance from American University and an MFA in dance from Sam Houston State University. Howes also has earned a Certificate of Movement Analysis (CMA) from the Laban Institute of Movement Studies in New York City.

Special Thanks

Dr. Sandra Kurtinitis | President, CCBC
Dr. Mark McColloch | Vice President of Instruction
Dr. Rich Lilley | Vice President of Enrollment & Student Services
Dr. William Watson | Dean of Liberal Arts
Patti Crossman, Chair | Performing Arts & Humanities
Jacqueline Lucy | Media Relations Coordinator
Jacqueline McTear | Graphic Designer