FINAL BOOKLET PDF

Presence In Practice
2016 North Central Conference
University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point
March 19-23, 2016

Presence In Practice ACDA North Central Regional Conference
University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, March 19-23, 2016
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Welcome 2016 North-Central ACDA Conference friends,
It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Department of Theatre &
Dance and 2016 North-Central Regional ACDA Conference. Our conference theme, Presence In Practice, has
guided how we envisioned, planned, and organized this week’s array of events.
Presence In Practice provides a key lens for all student and faculty participants. Throughout the sessions we’ll
be taking an intimate and thoughtful look at the many ways we create, perform, view, think about, and discuss
dance. We encourage you to consider how presence impacts your work, how practice sustains you and,
ultimately, how presence in your own practice generates new levels of understanding and enriched engagement.
The Chicago based RE|dance group kicks off the conference with a performance of The Lonely Visitors, a dance-
theatre work that embodies Presence In Practice. Throughout the week fresh perspectives and new information
shared by the exciting roster of guest artists and faculty will stimulate discovery and inspire artistry.
ACDA and UWSP’s Dance Program value diversity and presenting a conference reflective of the many forms,
approaches to, and traditions of dance. We are interested in furthering the dialogue about dance in higher
education and the larger presence of dance in our world.
We are excited to welcome our diverse regional dance community to this unique conference and creative
gathering. We look forward to a physically and intellectually adventurous event and time to enjoy and be
rejuvenated by each other’s company.

Best,

Professor Joan Karlen
Dance Program Coordinator
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

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Participating Schools | North Central Regional Conference

Beloit College
Carleton College
Columbia College Chicago
Gustavus Adolphus College
Hamline University
Iowa State University
Macalester College
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Northeastern Illinois University
Northwestern University
Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota
St. Olaf College
Texas A&M University
University of Iowa
University of Minnesota Duluth
University of Minnesota Morris
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
University of Nebraska, Kearney
University of Nebraska—Lincoln
University of Northern Iowa
The University of Texas at Dallas
University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire
University of Wisconsin—Madison
University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee
University of Wisconsin—River Falls
University of Wisconsin—Stevens Point
University of Wisconsin—Whitewater
Ursinus College
Winona State University

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General Information

Registration and Check-in
Headquarters: UWSP’s Noel Fine Arts Center (NFAC) Courtyard will serve as the conference headquarters.
Initial registration and all other conference information can be found here. All participants will receive a
wristband upon registration. Entry to events and classes will only be granted with this wristband.
Guidebook: Guidebook is an eco- and user-friendly event information guide that is accessed from your mobile
device. All paper booklet information (and more!) is on the ACDA 2016 North-Central Conference guide. To
download the event guide on your device:
Apple/iOS, Android, Blackberry 10+, and Amazon Kindle users: Go to the app store that corresponds with your
device and search for "Guidebook." Download and open the Guidebook app on your device. To access the ACDA
2016 North-Central Conference guide, tap “Enter Passphrase” at the top of the screen, and then type NCACDA.
Tap "Get this Guide" to download the guide.
Desktop, Windows, non-Blackberry 10 users: On your device's web browser (Chrome, Internet Explorer, etc.),
type in guidebook.com/browse/. Tap on "Redeem" in the top right of your screen. Type in NCACDA on the
page that appears and click "Redeem Code". Your guide should automatically install.
T-Shirts: A limited number of conference t-shirts will be on sale in the NFAC Courtyard throughout the
conference.

First Aid: There will be first aid kits in the NFAC Courtyard, NFAC Dance Program Office, Health Enhancement
Center (HEC) information table, and in each classroom.

Lost and Found: At the end of each day lost and found items will be collected and taken to the NFAC Courtyard
registration table. You may check there for any lost items. The University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point and the
Department of Theatre & Dance are not responsible for lost or stolen items.

Classes
Participation in classes is on a first come-first served basis. Door monitors will be positioned in each classroom
to manage the number of students in each class. Classes will be held in NFAC and HEC classroom spaces.

The American Dance Festival (ADF) Scholarship Audition will take place in HEC 110 on Monday, March 21 from
4:15-6:15pm. If possible, please arrive 30 minutes early to complete paperwork. Be prepared to perform a one-
minute solo (choreographed or improvised).

The Modern American Dance Company (MADCO) open audition class will take place in HEC 110 on Monday,
March 21 from 10:15-11:45am. MADCO Rehearsal Director Nikki Whitesell will lead the class. Company positions
are available for the 2016-17 season.

Safety
Please remember to be aware of your surroundings at all times. Safety precautions are necessary to ensure that
your time in Stevens Point is safe and enjoyable. In the event of an incident please contact UWSP Campus
Security 715-346-3456 (non-emergency) or 911 (emergency).

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Concerts
• Adjudication Concerts: Sunday, March 20 | 1:15pm
Monday, March 21 | 1:15pm & 8:00pm
Tuesday, March 22 | 1:15pm
All adjudication concerts will be held at Theater @1800 located at Sentry Insurance, 1800 North Point
Drive. Please see the Adjudication Concert and Tech Schedules for specific details.
• Informal Concerts: Sunday, March 20 | 8:00pm | Jenkins Theatre (NFAC 280)
Tuesday, March 22 | 7:30pm | Jenkins Theatre (NFAC 280)
• Gala Concert: Wednesday, March 23 | 2:00pm | Theater @1800, Sentry Insurance

Special Events
Saturday, March 19, 2016
• Meet the Adjudicators Panel: 5:00pm | Jenkins Theatre (NFAC 280)
• Guest Artist RE|dance group Concert: 8:00pm | Jenkins Theatre (NFAC 280)
• Opening Night Reception: 9:15pm | NFAC Courtyard and Balcony

Sunday, March 20, 2016
• Tap Summit: Sunday - Monday, March 20-21 | NFAC 136
A two-day focus on Tap dance in the collegiate curriculum.
• Guest Artist Max Pollak: Solo Show: 4:15pm | NFAC 136
• Faculty Reception: 6:00-7:45pm | PJ’s Restaurant at SentryWorld
601 North Michigan Ave. Stevens Point, WI
From the University Noel Fine Arts Center
o Turn Right on Division St.
o Turn Right onto Northpoint Dr.
o Turn Left onto Michigan Ave. and Sentry World is on your right hand side.

Monday, March 21, 2016
• Tap Summit: Sunday - Monday, March 20-21 | NFAC 136
A two-day focus on Tap dance in the collegiate curriculum.
• ACDA Membership Lunch Meeting: 11:45-1:00pm | Lecture Hall (NFAC 221)

Tuesday, March 20, 2016
• ACDA Regional Planning Meeting (invited guests): 8:30-10:00 | NFAC 110
• Student Jam Session & Pizza Party: 9:30-11:30pm | NFAC Courtyard

Wednesday, March 21, 2016
• Closing Reception: 4:00pm | Sentry Theater @1800 Lounge

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RE|dance group presents
The Lonely Visitors

Michael Estanich, Choreographer
Sarah Lackner, Lighting Designer

The Company |Daiva Bhandari, Stacy DeMorrow, Michael Estanich, Erika Farkvam, Danielle Gilmore,
Corinne Imberski, Michael O’Neill, Melanie Rockwell, Lucy Vurusic Riner

Act I—The Rainy Season
Intermission
Act II—Snow Falls
This dance contains brief nudity

Music Act I
99 Luftballons: composer Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen, lyric: Carlo Karges, recorded by Nena
Swans Migrating: composer Osmo Vanska, recorded by Lahti Symphony Orchestra
I’ll Believe in Anything: recorded by Wolf Parade
Landscape On a Hill: composer Chihei Hatakeyama
Nessum Dorma from Turandot: composer Giacomo Puccini, recorded by Luciano Pavarotti
Leaving on a Jet Plane: composer John Denver, performed live by Daiva Bhandari
Songs & Poems for Solo Cello, Song VI: composer Philip Glass, recorded by Wendy Sutter
Shiny Happy People: recorded by R.E.M.

Music Act II
Cello Suite #1 in G-Sarabande: composer Johann Sebastian Bach, recorded by Pablo Casals
Kol Nidrei Op.47: composer Max Bruch, recorded by Orchestres des Concert Lamoureux & Pierre Fournier
There In Love, Where Am I?: recorded by The Weepies
The World Is…: composer Matthew Ryan
That Knot Unties?: composer David Karsten Daniels
Anodynia III. Grave: composer Break of Reality
A La Claire Fontaine: recorded by The Simon Sisters
Songs & Poems for Solo Cello, Song III: composer Philip Glass, recorded by Wendy Sutter

RE|dance group is led by Lucy Vurusic Riner and Michael Estanich, creative partners dedicated to the
presentation of dance theatre works that explore personal, intimate human relationships. The instability and
possibilities of charged relationships act as symbols for living in a volatile, contemporary world. We ground our
artistic philosophy in creative exchange, seeking to expand our voices as contemporary artists. Our work reflects
a rigorous inquiry into the body's capability for expression through motion and movement—from the subtle to
the immense. Our dances embody a heightened physical experience rich with emotional content and dramatic
imagery. The winding path from imagined concept to physical reality to audience experience intrigues us and
grounds our process. The creative process is an ever evolving dynamic between intention, honesty, intuition,
and play. Though we call Chicago homebase for RE|dance group, the partnership relies on a unique long
distance collaboration. We became fascinated with the idea of creating work in a new way—generating
movement material while we were together and developing characters or deepening our personal
understaniding of ideas while we were apart. Through conversation and dialogue we establish physical
memories that enrich our dancing and the relationships created in the works.

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RE|dance group biographies

Michael Estanich (artistic director) is an Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. He
teaches modern dance, composition, dance pedagogy, movement analysis and dance history. He earned his MFA from The
Ohio State University and his BFA from Denison University. His creative research currently examines ideas of space,
architecture, landscape and habitation often resulting in dances supported by sculptural environments. He and Lucy formed
RE|dance group in 2009 as a means to explore long distance collaboration. Michael’s performance credits include Molly
Shanahan/Mad Shak, Cerulean Dance Theatre, Rebecca Rosen, Melanie Bales, Bebe Miller, a reconstruction of Mark Morris’
choreography All Fours, and Susan Marshall's ARMS. He teaches annually at the Trollwood Performing Arts School in
Moorhead, MN and recently became the choreographer for their Mainstage Musical. He is the North Central Regional
Director of ACDA.

Lucy Vurusic-Riner (executive director) is a native Chicagoan who has been dancing, choreographing and teaching in the
Midwest for over twenty years. She received her BS Degree in Dance and Dance Education from Illinois State University.
Lucy has been a member of Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak, RTG Dance Company and Matthew Hollis’ “The Power of Cheer.”
She has also been part of the community cast of White Oak Dance Project and David Dorfman Dance. Lucy has taught
modern, hip hop, and jazz at numerous studios and high schools in the Chicagoland area. For the last fourteen years she
was the Director of Dance at Oak Park and River Forest High School. Lucy now teaches at New Trier High School. In 2005,
Lucy completed her Masters Degree in Education from National Louis University and also received the Midwest Dance
Teacher of the Year award and was the youngest of four finalists in the running for the National Dance Teacher of the Year
award. When Lucy is not working with RE|dance group, she spends time with her super, supportive family: Jim, Margie and
Luka.

Daiva Bhandari (dancer) is an actress and dancer originally from Louisiana where she got her start as a performer playing
pretend outside in the rain. She attended Loyola University, New Orleans and after graduating with a BA in Drama and
History (cum laude), Daiva studied Modern Dance at Tulane University and Viewpoints with EgoPo Productions. She moved
to Chicago in 2006 and has worked with The Neo-Futurists, Theatre Y, Steppenwolf and The Building Stage, to name her
favorites. For the past four years Daiva has been lucky to perform across the Midwest with RE|dance group where she is
able to feel like her 11 year old self, lost in her imagination under the warm rain.

Stacy DeMorrow (dancer) earned her bachelor’s degree in dance from the University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point. During
her studies there she performed works by Billy Siegenfeld, Susan Marshall, Mary Anthony, as well as spending a month
teaching dance in Thailand as part of the Thailand Project, a mission to use higher education as humanitarian aid. Now
living in Chicago Stacy has performed for Perceptual Motion Dance Company, We Stand Sideways Dance, Mordine and
Company Dance Theater, Montom Arts by Monica Thomas, and Kelly Anderson Dance Theater. Stacy is thrilled to continue
in her fifth season with RE|dance group.

Erika Astrid Farkvam (dancer) began her dance training at the Academy of Movement and Music in Oak Park, IL. In 2005,
she moved to Tucson, Arizona to attend the University of Arizona where she received her BFA in Dance in May 2009. From
2009 to 2012, Erika danced and choreographed with New ARTiculations Dance Theater in Tucson. Since Erika’s return to
Chicago in 2012, she has performed with Momenta (2012-14); a showing of Aftertaste, hosted by The Inconvenience and
Tuesday Night Dinner (2013); The Fly Honey Show (2013-14); works choreographed by Erin Kilmurray; and most recently in
The David Bowie Variety Hour Show at the MCA with The Salt. She is very excited to be performing with RE|dance group
this season.

Danielle Gilmore (dancer), originally from Yuma, Arizona, attended the University of Arizona, receiving her BFA in dance
performance. She trained under faculty members Susan Quinn Williams, Amy Ernst, Michael Williams, James Clouser,
Melissa Lowe-Handcock, Sam Watson and Nina Janik. Upon moving to Chicago, Danielle studied and performed with
Hedwig Dances, River North Dance Chicago, Thodos Dance Chicago, JMT/JLS Choreography, and Chicago Dance Crash. She
also had the opportunity to travel and perform on Norwegian Cruise Line, "Pride of Hawaii," as an original cast member and
Dance Captain. Danielle is currently performing with Mordine and Company Dance Theater and Kelly Anderson Dance
Theater. Danielle is extremely excited to be performing with the amazing RE|dance group this season.

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Corinne Imberski (dancer) is a Chicago based dance educator, performer, and choreographer who has created over fifty
works that have been presented across the United States and in France, Bulgaria, and Canada. Corinne has been on the
dance faculty at Northwestern University, Hillsdale College, the University of Toledo, Paul Taylor Summer Intensive in Ann
Arbor, Michigan, and the Summer Dance Institute at the University of Michigan. Corinne has danced on many stages around
the world—grand, small, and impromptu. Currently, Corinne is a faculty member of Columbia College Chicago, stages and
dances in her own works, and is a company member of Chicago based RE|dance group.

Michael O’Neill (dancer) began his dance training at the age of 14 when he was accepted into the Youth Performing Arts
High School located in his hometown, Louisville, KY. In 2013, Michael graduated magna cum laude with a BFA in
Performance and Choreography from Ohio University’s School of Dance. While attending the school, he performed in
faculty work by Mickie Geller, Travis Gatling, Marina Walchli, and Chengxin Wei, as well as guest artist work by Gladys
Bailin, Sean Curran, Adriana Durant, and Urban Bush Women. Michael currently lives in Chicago, IL where he has danced
with Mordine & Company Dance Theater, We Stand Sideways, and Kelly Anderson Dance Theater. He is thrilled to be
joining RE|dance group this season.

Melanie Rockwell (dancer) graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point with a BA in Dance. While at UWSP
she performed works by Michael Estanich, as well as Jeannie Hill, Joan Karlen, and guest choreographer Eddie Ocampo.
Melanie joined RE|dance group in 2011 and since moving to Chicago she has worked with Suna Dance and Laboratory
Dancers. Interested in the functionality and freedom in all applications of movement, she is currently the administrative
manager of Helios Center For Movement, a Pilates studio and teacher training center.

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Anonymity Reminder for Conference Participants
To all conference participants:

Just a reminder…the adjudication process is structured to ensure that the adjudicators do not know the names
of schools or choreographers presenting work in the adjudication concerts. This ACDA policy allows the
selection process to be as objective as possible. In order to keep the integrity of this policy and process in tact
through the adjudicators’ final decision, it is necessary to ask all conference participants to avoid conversation
with adjudicators about the adjudicated dances, the adjudication process, or their comments during the
feedback session. In addition, please do not discuss your school’s programs or your own work with the
adjudicators. Your full cooperation is being requested for the enjoyment of all conference participants, including
the adjudicators!

Thank you in advance!

Professor Joan Karlen
Dance Program Coordinator

NATIONAL COLLEGE DANCE FESTIVAL
The National College Dance Festival, a biennial event, showcases on the national level the outstanding
quality of choreography and performance that is being created on college and university campuses. Dances are
selected by the adjudicators from each of the regional conferences based on their outstanding artistic excellence
and merit. Approximately 30 schools from around the country will be invited to perform in one of the three gala
concerts.
The total number of dances adjudicated at each conference determines the number of dances selected
from that conference. Adjudicators select dances for the National Festival after viewing the regional gala
concert. The same anonymity policies apply to the National Festival selection as apply to the regional gala
selection. Only one dance from a school may be selected for the National Festival, even if that school had two
dances in the regional gala.
The 2016 National Festival will take place at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in
Washington, DC. from June 8-11, 2016, with performance on June 9, 10 and 11. The focus of the National
Festival is on the gala performances. All ACDA member institutions are invited to attend the Festival. For more
information, check the ACDA website (www.acda.dance) or contact the ACDA national office at
info@acda.dance.

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Conference Policies for the National Festival

1. In a National Festival year, a fully produced Gala Concert comprised of adjudicated works must be presented
at each Regional Conference.
2. The adjudicators are solely responsible for the selection of works for the National Festival.
3. The pieces chosen for the National Festival will be selected from those performed in the Gala Concert.
4. In a National Festival year, the Gala Concert program for adjudicators will have no identifying information
beyond title, year originally choreographed, and music.
5. All National Festival selections must be made following the regional Gala Concert to allow for a second
viewing.
6. All rules listed in “Adjudication Policies for Participating Schools” apply to works selected for the National
Festival.
7. ACDA strongly believes that overall excellence is the most important criterion in selecting dances for National
Festival concerts. Quality of both performance and choreography must be considered for each work selected.
8. In National Festival years, the number of selections made from the regional Gala Concert for presentation at
the National Festival is based on the number of pieces being adjudicated. The Executive Committee
Representative will inform the adjudicators of this number and any other rules guiding National Festival
selection.
9. Adjudicators must also select one or two alternate works.
10. No more than one work from any one institution will be selected for the National Festival.
11. Works must be selected for the National Festival in their entirety as performed for adjudication with no
requirements for editing.
12. An Executive Committee member or approved substitute must review decisions regarding the National
Festivals prior to their announcement.
13. National Festival selections will not be announced until after the conference has concluded. They will be
posted on the conference website within 24 hours after the conference concludes. Posting will include names of
the selected dances and the alternates selected. Additionally, the adjudicators will collectively write comments
for each work including their reasoning for their selections.
14. The Conference Coordinator will provide the National Office with a high quality, accurate, color DVD
documentation or other acceptable format (e.g., high definition .mov or .mpeg file) of the Gala Concert..
Appropriately labeled DVD’s and a Gala program must be sent to the National Office immediately following the
conference.
15. The Conference Coordinator must secure video waivers from the choreographers of works appearing in a
Gala Concert and send them with the recording directly to the National Office. Video waivers must be collected
for all adjudicated works; only waivers for the dances in the gala concert should be forwarded to the national
office. All DVD’s will become the property of the American College Dance Association Archives.

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Adjudicators

Blake Beckham
Blake Beckham is a choreographer, producer and educator in Atlanta, Georgia.
She co-directs The Lucky Penny, a presenting organization with the mission to
advance artistry and cultivate community through daring, experimental
performance work. Blake’s artistry and leadership have been recognized with a
SEED Fund Grant from The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Tanne Foundation
Award, and Community Impact Award from Emory’s Center for Creativity. Her
work has been supported through residencies at Theater Emory and
Performance Works Northwest, and through competitive grants from Idea
Capital Atlanta, Fulton County Arts Council and more.
Blake’s current body of work examines the intersections of dance and design, where architectural
impulses collide with embodied inquiry. Working with large teams of multi-disciplinary collaborators, Blake
creates production designs filled with stunning intention and imagination. Her recent celebrated works include:
Threshold(2012), a dance inside a monumental cardboard house designed by Mack Scogin Merrill Elam
Architects and Dearly Departures (2014), a confluence of movement and mechanics featuring design by
Beckham’s collaborating partner, Malina Rodriguez.
Beckham earned a BA in English and Dance from Emory University, where she received The Sudler Prize
for highest achievement in the arts. She attended Ohio State as a University Fellow, to complete her MFA in
Choreography. Blake’s prolific career has included teaching appointments at Agnes Scott College, Emory
University and The Woodruff Arts Center. Recently, she launched The Lucky Penny’s Work Room, a rehearsal
studio that houses a residency program for Atlanta choreographers. The space is a community resource, and an
experiment in cooperative sustainability. There Beckham teaches and facilitates professional development
opportunities while she continues to make some of the most rigorous choreographic work in the South.
Learn more at blakebeckham.org and theluckypenny.org.

Robin Gee
Robin Gee is an Associate Professor of Dance at UNC Greensboro holds an MFA
in Choreography and Performance from Sarah Lawrence College and specializes
in African, and Modern dance techniques, Dance for the Camera and the
research and documentation of traditional dance forms. Ms. Gee has performed
with several New York based dance companies, including Les Ballet Bagata
directed by Yousouff Koumbassa, Maimouna Keita Dance Company directed by
Marie Basse Wiles and the Cinque Folkloric Dance Company where she served as
Choreographer and Artistic Director for 15 years. In 2006 she formed her own company Sugarfoote Productions,
a multiservice arts organization designed to help local North Carolina audiences experience the richness of
African and Diasporan cultural traditions. Since its inception Sugarfoote has presented a wide variety of arts
programming and is the 2010/2011 recipient of the UAC Multicultural Arts Investments Grants for her
community outreach programming. She is the recipient of the numerous research grants and awards for her
work in dance documentation and preservation, including but not limited to: The West African Research
Associations’ Post Doctoral Fellowship in African Research (2006); the Central Piedmont Regional Artists Hub
Grant (2005/2010) for her work on dance documentation in Guinea and again in 2010 for her work in Mali;
American Association of University Women’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for her work on The Mande
Lagacy – A Multimedia Dance Documentation Project (2006), and a US Fulbright Scholars Award for Urban
Griots: (Re) Imaging the Word (2013). Recently she has created and curated the Greensboro Dance Film Festival,
an international Screen Dance Festival showcasing films from around the world. In 2008 she created the

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language in things, a dance for the camera film that was selected as part of the 2009 DFTC Festival in Victoria,
Canada, 87 Productions Film Festival in Winston Salem, NC and the Kinetic Works Film Festival in New York in
2010. Her choreographic credits include works developed on student and professional artists, the most recent of
which, A Walk to Beautiful, premiered in New York at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts and 3
commissioned works premiering at the Dance In/Out Festival in Burkina Faso which she co-founded in 2013 .
She is also active in community theater, co-directing and choreographing a production of For Colored Girls Who
Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange, Death and the King’s Horseman by
Wole Soyinke wiand choreographed Evil Dead: The Musical by George Reinblatt and Lewis Carroll’s Alice,
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and Spamalot and August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, among others.

Zvi Gotheiner
Born and raised in a kibbutz in northern Israel, Gotheiner began his artistic
career as a gifted violinist with the Young Kibbutzim Orchestra where he attained
the rank of soloist and Concertmaster at age 15. He began dancing at 17, and
soon after, formed his first performance group. Gotheiner arrived in New York in
1978 on a dance scholarship from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and
danced with the Joyce Trisler Dance Company, Feld Ballets/NY and Batsheva
Dance Company. After directing Tamar Ramle and the Jerusalem Tamar Dance
Companies in Israel, and the Israeli Chamber Dance Company in New York, he
founded ZviDance.
A world-renowned pedagogue, Gotheiner has also created an internationally acclaimed teaching method,
inspired by the work of Maggie Black, under whom he studied for many years. Combining different traditions of
ballet, with emphasis on placement and movement efficiency, his method is respectful of the human body and
the specific needs and abilities of each individual.
Teaching awards: American Dance Festival’s Balasarawat/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Teaching Award (2014);
Kaatsbaan International Dance Center’s Playing Field Award (2014).

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ADJUDICATION CONCERT—SENTRY THEATER @1800
1800 NORTH POINT DRIVE, STEVENS POINT WI 54481

Directions to Sentry Theater @1800 from the University
• Travel North on Division St.
• Turn Right onto North Point Dr.
• Take the second Left and travel up the ramp to the parking structure.
• Keep to the right and continue to the top of the ramp.
• The Theater will be on your right at the top of the ramp.
• It is recommended to car pool to the theater if possible. During the weekdays (M-W) Sentry Insurance
employees will also be parking in the parking structure.

Tech Process
• All performers and Tech people should arrive at Sentry Theater at least 30 minutes prior to your
scheduled tech time.
• You can park briefly in front of the theater to unload any props. After unloading props, please park on
the top level if possible. If no spots are available on the top level, a lower level area is available.
• Once inside the theater, please stop at the Check-In Table in the lobby and a UWSP Volunteer will direct
you to the back stage area after giving a brief tour of the space.
• There will be two large warm-up areas where you can prepare as well as store your belongings during
your tech time.
o You can leave your costumes in your assigned dressing room.
o All props can be stored in this area until after your scheduled performance.
• When it is your time to tech, a UWSP Volunteer will lead you to the stage area.
• Each adjudication piece is allotted 20 minutes of tech time. The stage manager will keep strict track of
the time.
• Your tech person should deliver the labeled gels for each adjudication piece to the stage manager and
then make his/her way to the back of the theatre.
o There are 6 booms on each side of the stage with High, Mid, and Shin locations.
o Bring your gels without frames
o Each gel should be labeled with the University Name, Name of Your Dance, Boom Location
(High, Mid, Shin) and Stage Side (SR or SL)
o Please cut gels to the following specifications:
§ 1 set (high, mid, shin) for each side cut to 6.5 x 6.5
§ 5 sets (high, mid, shin) for each side cut to 7.5 x 7.5
• Your tech person will call all of the cues from the light booth. The sound board, however, is located at
the back of the house. Headsets will be used to communicate with the light board operator, sound
operator, and stage manager.
• During your 20 minutes, you should check your lights, set your music levels, and run the dance.
• After your tech, please leave the theatre as quickly as possible so that the next group can enter the
space.

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ADJUDICATION CONCERT—SENTRY THEATER @1800
1800 NORTH POINT DRIVE, STEVENS POINT WI 54481

Performance Process and Flow
• Check-In time for schools in Adjudication Concerts 1, 2, and 4 is 12:00pm.
• Check-In time for schools in Adjudication Concert 3 is 7:00pm.
• After checking in, you should go to the large warm-up areas until a UWSP Volunteer informs you that
the dressing rooms are available.
o Dressing rooms are rather small and will need to be shared. They should be used for make-up
and changing into costumes. Warming up and waiting should be in the large warm-up areas.
• A UWSP Volunteer will call you to the back stage area two pieces before your performance.
o Example: Dance #1 on stage, Dance #2 in the wings, Dance #3 and #4 in the hallway behind the stage.
• Once your performance is finished you should change out of your costumes, collect your personal
belongings from the warm-up area and depart.
• It is recommended that you not bring valuables with you to the warm-up area. Though there will be a
door monitor present at all times to watch items, to ensure safety leave valuables at your hotel or with a
friend.
• You are welcome to join the audience after your performance if seating permits.

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Adjudication Concert 1 | Technical Rehearsal
Sunday, March 20 | 8:00am-12:20pm

All adjudicated concerts and technical rehearsals will be held at Theater @1800,
located at Sentry Insurance, 1800 North Point Drive

Time University Title
8:00-8:20 University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point A New and Different Sun
8:20-8:40 University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point The Reluctant Performer
8:40-9:00 Gustavus Adolphus College Counting Stars
9:00-9:20 Gustavus Adolphus College
mer·e·tri·cious /merəˈtriSHəs/ adjective:
apparently attractive but having in
reality no value or integrity
9:20-9:40 Columbia College Chicago A Place Worth Keeping
9:40-10:00 Columbia College Chicago Double Dutch Training Ground
10:00-10:20 BREAK BREAK
10:20-10:40 University of Northern Iowa From The Air
10:40-11:00 University of Northern Iowa Opus
11:00-11:20 University of Nebraska, Kearney Wanderer
11:20-11:40 University of Nebraska, Kearney Gone Fishing
11:40-12:00 Hamline University Lean In
12:00-12:20 Hamline University Process

Feedback Session | 4:15-6:00pm | Michelsen Hall, NFAC 270

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Monday, March 21 | 7:30am-12:30pm


7:30-7:50 University of Wisconsin - Whitewater The Unsound Mind
7:50-8:10 University of Wisconsin - Whitewater Corporeal Analysis
8:10-8:30 University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Rapid Eye Movement
8:30-8:50 University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee …
8:50-9:10 St. Olaf College Eyes Open to Leave
9:10-9:30 St. Olaf College How Much…
9:30-9:50 University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire Mothers en Façe
10:10-10:30 The University of Texas at Dallas Sound Memory
10:30-10:50 University of Minnesota Mankato Earth, tomorrow?
10:50-11:10 University of Minnesota Mankato
Television: Or (And Now, Our National
Anthem)
11:10-11:30 Iowa State University The Rambler
11:30-11:50 Iowa State University Stonewall

Northwestern University is in Adjudication Concert 3
11:50-12:10 Northwestern University Two Pieces of One: Green
12:10-12:30 Northwestern University Breakdown/through


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Monday, March 21 | 4:00-7:30pm

All adjudicated concerts and technical rehearsals will be held at Theater @1800, located at Sentry
Insurance, 1800 North Point Drive

4:00-4:20 Texas A&M University Time
4:20-4:40 Texas A&M University Sierra: The Edge
4:40-5:00 University of Minnesota Twin Cities SCREENING Pt. 1
5:00-5:20 University of Minnesota Twin Cities Almost But Not Yellow
5:20-5:40 Macalester College Sorry For You Loss
5:50-6:10 University of Wisconsin – River Falls Broken
6:10-6:30 University of Nebraska – Lincoln Progress
6:30-6:50 University of Nebraska – Lincoln Beneath The Silent Walls
6:50-7:10 University of Wisconsin - Madison bonesetting
7:10-7:30 University of Wisconsin - Madison Influx

Feedback Session | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:15-12:00pm | Michelsen Hall, NFAC 270

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Tuesday, March 22 | 8:00-12:20pm


8:00-8:20 Winona State University . . thWUmp . .
8:20-8:40 Winona State University From Within
8:40-9:00 Carleton College The Main Street Project (excerpt)
9:00-9:20 Carleton College What do you think of me
9:20-9:40 Beloit College It’s a giant place.
9:40-10:00 Beloit College Faux Fur
10:20-10:40 University of Iowa Progress
10:40-11:00 University of Iowa Screen
11:00-11:20 University of Minnesota Morris Solidarity
11:20-11:40 University of Minnesota Morris The Dress
11:40-12:00 Northeastern Illinois University Unintended Consequence
12:00-12:20 Northeastern Illinois University Controlled Chaos


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Adjudication Concert #1
Sunday, March 20 | 1:15-3:45
A New and Different Sun (2015)
University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point
Choreographer: Emily Hein (Undergraduate)
Performers: Maddie Adams, Maddy Blotz, Sydney
Enzler, Sarah Fenander, Madeleine Gregor, Ayla
Jakes, Alyx Johnson, Claire Penning, Allie Round,
Aaryn Wertz
Lighting Designer: Alyssa Janco
Costume Designer: Sandy Spence
Music: Leading by Goldmund, Með Blóðnasir by
Sigur Rós

A Place Worth Keeping Elsewhere (2015)
Choreographer: Alison Gannon (Undergraduate)
Performer: Kelly Mitchell
Lighting Designer: Benjamin Witt
Music: Untitled 2 by Lotus Eaters, Eros by Ludovico
Einaudi, (edited)
Music Editors: Kelly Mitchell and Alison Gannon

Counting Stars (2015)
Choreographer: Jill Patterson (Faculty)
Performers: Sara Bitton, Samantha Heggem, Laura K
Johnson, Eliza Nolan, Allie Retterath, Elizabeth
Saunders
Lighting Designer: Terena M. Wilkens
Costume Designer: Elsa Larsen
Music: Tabula Rasa: I. Ludus by Arvo Part, Cantus in
Memory of Benjamin Britten by Arvo Part,
(edited)
Poem Excerpt: Any Case by Wislawa Szymbroska
Wanderer (2015)
Choreographer: Makenzie Hinrichs (Undergraduate)
Performers: Breanna Carter, Mary Dworak, Mizuki
Watanabe and Minori Yamauchi
Lighting Designer: Matthew Benes
Costume Designer: Elaine Elizabeth
Music: One Strange World by Antonio Pinto,
Soulmates by Antonio Pinto

Lean In (2015)
Hamline University
Choreographer: Jordan Laffin (Undergraduate)
Performers: Jack Hein, Joshua Kiyee
Lighting Designer: Jake Otto
Costume Designer: Adriana Anderson
Music: Untitled 3 by Sigur Rós

From The Air (2016)
Choreographer: Cayden Shiltz (Undergraduate)
Performers: Jenny Crumrine, Kendra Gerrish,
Corinne Myers
Music: O Superman by Laurie Anderson

INTERMISSION

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The Reluctant Performer (2015)
Choreographer: Shane Donohue (Undergraduate)
Performers: Shane Donohue
Lighting Designer: Danny Halminiak
Costume Designer: Sandy Spence
Music: Your Feet’s Too Big by Fats Waller; Murphy
by Moin; Jumper by Third Eye Blind
Note: This piece contains brief nudity.

Double Dutch Training Ground (2015)
Choreographer: Keyierra Collins (Undergraduate)
Performers: Aaliyah Leonard, Alexis Franklin, Amber
Johnson, Keisha Bennett, Marceia Scruggs, Nura
Abdul-Mateen
Lighting Designer: Jasmine Mendoza
Music: Journey 1 [Infra] by Max Ritcher, Untitled by
Mamady Keita and Sewa Kan, (edited)
Music Editor: William Harris

Opus (2015)
Choreographer: Mandy Masmar (Faculty)
Performers: Maria Bottino, Jamie Crispin, Treasure
Divis, Lynnea Lehmeier, Samantha Lennon,
Faith MacLennan, Gary Mayfield, Morgan
Pranger, Cheyene Robertson, Katelyn Roling,
Cayden Shiltz, Eileen Tucker, Caitlyn VanScoyk,
Danielle Young
Music: Blueprint by iSweat Fitness
mer·e·tri·cious /merəˈtriSHəs/ adjective:
apparently attractive but having in reality no
value or integrity (2015)
Choreographer: Allie Retterath (Undergraduate)
Performers: Emma Hunt, Laura K Johnson, Rachel
Lux
Lighting Designer: Terena M. Wilkens
Costume Designer: Larissa McConnell
Music: Lassen by Hilary Hahn & Hauschka

Gone Fishing (2015)
Choreographer: Dayna DeFilippis (Faculty)
Performers: So-Young Chun and Akira Watanabe
Lighting Designer: Carlie Cassas
Costume Designer: Sara Curran Ice
Music: Gone Fishing by Tyler Hileman

Process (2015)
Hamline University
Choreographer: Elena Anderson (Undergraduate)
Performers: Kristen Bark, Kyra Engen, Jack Hein,
Hayley Kilbride-Pierce, Joshua Kiyee, Chantelle
Ward, Tara Willits
Lighting Designer: Jake Otto
Costume Designer: MaryBeth Gagner
Music: Arrival in Nara by Alt J, Poor Atlas by Dessa,
Megan by Anesthesia, (edited)
Text: Survivors of sexual violence in the Twin Cities
area

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Monday, March 22 | 1:15-3:45

The Rambler (excerpt) (2011)
Choreographer: Joe Goode with Melecio Estrella
and Andrew Ward (Guest Artist)
Performers: Katie Crouch, Abigal Hinchley, Rachel
Lord, Alaina Mattimiro, Brittany Miller,
Michaela Minock, Sarah Park, Paul Tong, Ryan
Yen
Lighting Designer: Jim Trenberth
Costume Designer: Melecio Estrella and Andrew
Ward
Music: Rambler by Jesse Olsen Bay, original sound
score for the live singing by Joe Goode
Performance Group

Rapid Eye Movement (2015)
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Choreographer: Rachel Rugh (Graduate Student)
Performers: Paula Higa, Rachel Rugh, Maggie Seer,
Nicole Spence
Lighting Designer: Iain Court
Costume Designer: Rachel Rugh
Music: Original sound score by Rachel Rugh

Together But Alone (2016)
St. Olaf College
Choreographer: Heather Klopchin (Faculty)
Performers: Shaina Andres, Jacob Borg, Julia
Bassett, Chloe Chambers, Harper Foote, Cosi
Peri, Kate Roy, Ben Swenson-Klatt
Lighting Designer: Jake Roberts
Costume Designer: Aimee Jillson
Music: Dim by James Blake, I'm on the Outside by
Little Anthony and the Imperials, Love is a
Losing Game (Demo Version) by Amy
Winehouse, (edited)
Earth, tomorrow? (2015)
Choreographer: Alina Fatieieva (Undergraduate)
Performers: Alina Fatieieva, Shawn Jones-Murray,
Emily Nelson, Sergio Peredia
Lighting Designer: Adam Guss
Costume Designer: Catherine Schmeal-Swope
Music: Rostro by Murcof

The Unsound Mind (2016)
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Choreographer: Caitlin O’Malley (Undergraduate)
Performers: Amanda Arnold, Katie Gaulrapp,
Courtney Greenwald, Audrey Meis, Melissa
Miller, Elizabeth Radtke, Marqi Soenksen,
Nikole Treider, Ziema West, Jake Wuchterl,
Jenna Ziebarth
Lighting Designer: Steve Chene
Costume Designer: Katherine Middleton
Music: Piano Dubstep by SamT

Sound Memory (2015)
The University of Texas at Dallas
Choreographer: Sarah Matzke (Guest Artist)
Performers: Katlyn Crawford, Abby Medrano, Caitlin
Morrow, Samantha Ragsdale, Daniel R.Suarez
Lighting Designer: Christopher Trevino
Costume Designer: Sarah Matzke
Music: Suffering by Leszek Mozdzer and Iiro Rantala

INTERMISSION

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Stonewall (2015)
Choreographer: Rachel Lord (Undergraduate)
Performers: Hanna Bovine, Abby Hinchley, Rachel
Lord, Taylor McCombs, Brittany Miller,
Michaela Minock, Krystal Pollard, Rachel
Tucker, Ryan Yen
Lighting Designer: Jim Trenberth
Costume Designer: Rachel Lord
Text: Preamble of the Constitution
Music: I’ve Got A Woman by Ray Charles

... (2015)
Choreographer: Caroline Seigworth
(Undergraduate)
Performers: Melissa Gross, Amanda Laabs, Annie
Peterson, Nicole Spence, Jimmi Weyneth
Lighting Designer: Sarah Hamilton
Costume Designer: Caroline Seigworth
Music: Aningaag by Steven Price, Outro by M83,
(edited)
Additional Credits: Sound Design by Tim Russell and
Caroline Seigworth

How Much... (2015)
St. Olaf College
Choreographer: Cecilia Wall (Undergraduate)
Performers: Shaina Andres, Julia Bassett, Briana
Blakey, Gabrielle Dominique, Harper Foote,
Anna Linden, Amanda Myroniuk
Lighting Designer: Jake Roberts
Costume Designer: Cecilia Wall
Music: Remembrance by Balmorhea

Corporeal Analysis (2016)
Choreographer: Aislinn Poe (Undergraduate)
Performer: Aislinn Poe
Lighting Designer: Steve Chene
Costume Designer: Tracey Lyons
Music: Sonata for Solo Cello, Op.8:II. Adagio (Con
gran espressione) by Alisa Weilerstein (edited)

Mothers en Façe (2015)
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Choreographer: Hannah Hebl (Undergraduate)
Performers: Hannah Hebl, Jodi Herrmann, Bridget
Ryan
Lighting Designer: Hannah Hebl
Costume Designer: Hannah Hebl
Music: As I Roved Out by Sam Amidon, Wichita
Sutra Vortex by Philip Glass

Television: Or (And Now, Our National
Anthem) (2015)
Choreographer: Daniel Stark and Dancers (Faculty)
Performers: Matilda Buffum, Alina Fatieieva, Kayla
Johnson, Shawn Jones-Murray, Brooke Kiehl,
Ian Lah, Regan O’Connor, Abby Okoneski
Lighting Designer: Steven Smith based on original by
Ryan Strelow
Costume Designer: Amber Kuennen
Music: Brats; Plaster Casts of Everything; Pro Anti
Anti by Liars, You Deserve a Break Today by
Keith Reinhard and Sidney Woloshin, Spanish
Flea by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, Star-
Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key and John
Stafford Smith, (edited)

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Monday, March 21 | 8:00-10:00pm

bonesetting (2015)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Choreographer: Li Chiao-Ping (Faculty)
Performers: Joyce Gaffney, Kimi McKissic, Nicolette
Meunier, Conley Pitzl, Sarah Schwab, McKenzie
Wisdom
Lighting Designer: Claude Heintz
Costume Designer: Li Chiao-Ping
Music: Mercè, Diletti Amici by Giuseppe Verdi, Old
World by Tin Hat, Partita #1 in B; BMV 1002 – 6.
Double by J.S. Bach, Illness (Letter from Joan of
Arc) by Richard Einhorn, (edited)

Two Pieces of One: Green (2008)
Choreographer: Garth Fagan (Guest Artist)
Rehearsal Director: Erin Barnett
Performers: Thomas Boyer, Hayley Bullock, Savannah
Couch, Ariel Harper, Rachel Hughes, Chloe
Nadon, Enriquez, Elisa Meyer, Zining Mok, Alana
Rosenbloom, Caroline Spikner
Lighting Designer: Alex Ridgers
Original Costume Design: Jennifer Harrison
Sound Design: Aaron Quick
Music: Two Pieces of One: Red by Tony Williams,
Officium by Jan Garbarek/Cristobal de Morales
Note: This piece originally premiered in New York
City at the Joyce Theatre; 2008

SCREENING Pt. 1 (2015)
Choreographer: Leila Awadallah (Undergraduate)
Performer: Leila Awadallah
Lighting Designer: Pearl Rea
Costume Designer: Leila Awadallah
Music: Douja (Live) by Le Trio Joubran and Dhafer
Youssef, Arabian Nights by Walt Disney, Fox
News Interview - Sean Hannity and Yousef
Munayyer, (edited)
Time (2015)
Choreographer: Lauren Dowdy (Undergraduate)
Performers: Michaela Barta, Lauren Copping, Brooke
Griffin, Samantha Scioneaux, and Michaela
Vermeulen
Lighting Designer: Lauren Dowdy and Christine S.
Bergeron
Costume Designer: Carisa Armstrong
Music: Opening by Philip Glass

Progress (2015)
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Choreographer: Ali Spurgin (Undergraduate Student)
Performers: Samantha Adrales, Jacqueline Adair,
Halle Bowman, Lupé Chairez, Joslyn Evans, Bree
Gibbs, Melanie Kieffer, Sarah McCurley, Jordan
Patt, Allison Phillips, Maria Reyes, Kennedy
Rolfes, Shaylee Schroeder, Madeline Thelen
Lighting Designer: Laurel Shoemaker
Costume Designer: Ali Spurgin
Music: 02 4 95 by Mike Wall

Broken (2016)
University of Wisconsin-River Falls
Choreographer: Mari Kline-Kluck (Faculty)
Performers: Megan Busse, Izzi Mielke, Jordyn
Tansom, Jenna Miller, Emily Olson, Stephen
Zanton, Mariah Cooper, Taylor Vlasak, Halan
Tran, Katrina Spilde
Lighting Designer: Mari Kline-Kluck
Costume Designer: Mari Kline-Kluck
Projection Designer: Mari Kline-Kluck
Music: Nannou by Aphex Twin, Sarajevo by Max
Richter & Sara Leonard, (edited)

INTERMISSION

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Influx (2015)
Choreographer: Tiffany Merritt-Brown
(Undergraduate Student)
Performers: Amy Ausen, Amanda Graziano, Niki
Hofslien, Lyndsay Lewis, Kimi McKissic, Nicolette
Meunier, Conley Pitzl, Sarah Schwab, McKenzie
Wisdom
Lighting Designer: Claude Heintz
Costume Designer: Maggie Dianovsky
Music: Brotsjr by Olafur Arnalds
Music Editor: Tiffany Merritt-Brown

Breakdown/Through (2015)
Choreographer: Ariel Harper (Undergraduate)
Performers: Lauryn Schmelzer, Caroline Spikner
Lighting Designer: Connor Macmillen
Costume Designer: Amanda Lower
Music: After the Rain by Little Dragon

Almost But Not Yellow (2015)
Choreographer: Leila Awadallah (Undergraduate)
Performers: Jessika Akpaka, Abby Johnson, Laura
Osterhaus, Tabitha Steger, Nicole Stumpf
Lighting Designer: Pearl Rea
Costume Designer: Leila Awadallah
Music: Eshkamed by Djivan Gasparyan and Vachagan
Avakyan, Killer Mike Saved My Life by Straya,
Hotel Costes by Nitin Sawhney, Drum by Hiss
Golden Messenger, Recorded Sounds by Leila
Awadallah, (edited)

Sierra: The Edge (2015)
Choreographers: Carisa Armstrong & Christine S.
Bergeron (Faculty)
Performers: Micheala Barta, Lauren Banowsky, Ginny
Ann Byerly, Lauren Copping, Danielle Dooley,
Lauren Dowdy, Annie Forman, Brooke Griffin,
Samantha Scioneaux, Kali Taft, and Micheala
Vermeulen
Lighting Designer: Carisa Armstrong and Christine S.
Bergeron
Costume Designer: Carisa Armstrong
Music: Thunders and Lightnings by Ezio Bosso

Beneath the Silent Walls (2016)
Choreographer: Nhan Ho (Guest Artist)
Performers: Lupé Chairez, Kelli Marie Griffin,
Melanie Kieffer, Sarah McCurley, Henry O¹Neil,
Jordan Patt, Maria Reyes, Kennedy Rolfes,
Madeline Thelen.
Lighting Designer: Laurel Shoemaker
Costume Designer: Nhan Ho and dancers
Music: Funkbugfx by Alva Noto, Shilhed by Mike
Sheridan

Sorry For Your Loss (2016)
Macalester College
Choreographer: Brian Evans (Faculty)
Performers: Holley Carlson-Riddle, Karin Davey,
Laura Einerson, Sophia Hill, Shaylene McCue,
Hannah Silverman, Yuri Smith, John Stark, Niara
Williams
Lighting Designer: Tom Barrett
Costume Designer: Lynn Farrington
Music: Once Upon Another Time by Sara Bareilles,
Say Something by Ian Axel, Mike Campbell and
Chad King, Open Third Eye Chakra by
NuMeditationMusic, N°025 by Relaxdaily,
Untitled by Joseph Mubarak, (edited)
Text: Holley Carlson-Riddle, Karin Davey, Brian J.
Evans, Hannah Silverman, Yuri Smith, John Stark,
and Niara Williams

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Tuesday, March 22 | 1:15-3:45

It’s a giant place. (2015)
Beloit College
Choreographer: Sarah Ellen Miller (Undergraduate)
Performer: Sarah Ellen Miller
Lighting Designer: Sam Gartzman
Music: Basskrewell by Albert Mathias
Music Editor: Brandon Kipp

Screen (2014)
University of Iowa
Choreographer: Emily Climer (Graduate Student)
Performers: Dot Armstrong, Erin Corcoran, Flannery
McAdams, Brooke Robinson
Lighting Designer: Jim Albert
Music: The Art of the Fugue; BWV 1080 by J.S. Bach

. . thWUmp . . (2016)
Choreographer: Erinn Liebhard (Guest Artist)
Performers: Corin Blazing, Jenna Grochow, Kassidy
Jackson, Adyson Johnson, Courtney Harms,
Hannah Lefebvre, Abbie Leone, Sydney Swanson
Lighting Designer: Casey Howe
Costume Designer: Tracy Van Voorst
Music: When the Dust Settles by STS9, original sound
effects by Erinn Liebhard

Unintended Consequence (2015)
Choreographer: Stacy Anderson (Undergraduate)
Performers: Stacy Anderson, Kait Engelhardt, Jaymi
Niems, Megan Swiderek
Lighting Designer: Dan Mayer
Costume Designer: Stacy Anderson
Music: Everything Must Change by Olafur Arnalds,
We Move Lightly by Dustin O’Halloran, (edited)

Solidarity (2016)
Choreographer: Stephanie Ferrian in collaboration
with dancers (Faculty)
Performers: Samantha Currie, Kia Kolbinger, Sonja
Swanson
Lighting Designer: Brian Mitchell
Costume Designer: Stephanie Ferrian
Music: Riots by Mark Isham & Will.I.Am featuring
Miri Ben-Ari, Torn by Nathan Lanier, #88 by Lo-
Fang (edited)

The Main Street Project (excerpt) (2014)
Carleton College
Choreographer: Mathew Janczewski (Guest Artist)
Performers: Sarah Abdel-Jelil, Erin Arntson, Mike
Bahn, Alison Ball, Hunter Brown, Michelle Hoge,
Lucia Webb
Lighting Designer: Jeff Bartlett
Costume Designer: Mary Ann Kelling
Music: Xilo by Gui Buratto, Call Your Girlfriend by
Robyn, (edited)

INTERMISSION

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Progress (2014)
University of Iowa
Choreographer: Tori Lawrence in collaboration with
the dancers (Graduate Student)
Performers: Anthony Pucci, Calvin Windschitl
Lighting Designer: Jim Albert
Additional Credits: Charlotte Dean, Eleanor Goudie-
Averill, Tessa Ritchey
Music: Chimeras; Piano Drop by Tim Hecke, LSD
Experiment by Dr. Sidney Cohen, Schizophrenic
Model Psychosis INduced by LSD 25 by
Confidential Telepictures Inc, The British
Policeman by The National Film Archive
Collection, The Dynamic American City by The
Chamber of Commerce of the United States;
What Does is Matter by Bjorn Erik Haugen; In the
Suburbs from Redbook Magazine

From Within (2016)
Choreographer: Hannah Lefebvre (Undergraduate)
Performers: Corin Blazing, Ella Diederberger, Courtney
Harms, Kassidy Jackson, Adyson Johnson, Hannah
Lefebvre, Hannah Pulver-Knowles, Sydney
Swanson
Lighting Designer: Casey Howe
Costume Designer: Tracy Van Voorst
Music: My Enemy My Friend by Jarboe and Helen

Controlled Chaos (excerpt) (2011)
Choreographer: Venetia Stifler and Concert Dance Inc.
(Faculty)
Performers: Stacy Anderson, Kait Engelhardt, Carmen
Melendez, Jaymi Niems, Omar Nunez, Tevin Rice,
Stephanie Shparago, Megan Swiderek
Lighting Designer: Dan Mayer
Costume Designer: Jamie Farrell
Music: I Love Jazz by Louis Armstrong

The Dress (2016)
Choreographer: Kia Kolbinger (Undergraduate)
Performers: Samantha Currie, Kia Kolbinger, Sonja
Swanson, Aundria Howard, Mia Shaw, Jackie
Bell
Costume Designer: Kia Kolbinger
Music: Dress by Sylvan Esso

What Do You Think of Me (2015)
Carleton College
Choreographer: Lucia Webb (Undergraduate)
Performers: Sarah Abdel-Jelil, Erin Arntson, Mike
Bahn, Alison Ball, Hunter Brown, Michelle Hoge,
Lucia Webb
Lighting Designer: Jeff Bartlett
Costume Designer: Lucia Webb
Music: Fur Elise by Beethoven, How To Win Friends
and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, Cry, Cry,
Cry by Johnny Cash, (edited)

Faux Fur (2016)
Beloit College
Choreographer: Gina T’ai in collaboration with the
dancers (Faculty)
Performers: Maddie Barron, Gabrielle Garcia, Sarah
Ellen Miller, Charlie Vail
Lighting Designer: Chuck Drury
Costume Designer: Gina T’ai
Music: Deloreon Dynamite by Todd Terje
Music Editor: Paul Balistreri

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INFORMAL CONCERT—JENKINS THEATRE, NFAC 270
FLOW

Stage Spacing (10:15-11:45am and 4:15-6:15pm)
• Each school will have 15 minutes of spacing time on the stage.
• The Stage Manager and Sound and Light Board Operators will be present to assist with flow, light
selection, and music playback.
o Stage manager should take notes on lighting ‘feel’ selection.
o The Stage Manager should keep time so that schools do not go over time.
• Schools can bring props to the scene shop doors and store items in the scene shop until the end of the
conference.

Performance (Sun. 8:00-10:00pm and Tues. 7:30-9:30pm)
• Call time for schools in Informal Concert 1 is 7:00pm.
• Call time for schools in Informal Concert 2 is 6:30pm.
• Schools should check with the door monitor at the Studio Theatre (NFAC 120). This is the warm-up area
for all Informal Concerts.
• Performers will have access to the dressing rooms for changing and make-up.
o Each school with be assigned a UWSP volunteer who can lead you to the dressing rooms after
checking in with the door monitor
• Your UWSP volunteer will lead all performers along a backstage path to Jenkins Theatre for your
performance and back to the Studio Theatre after your performance.
• Once your performance is finished you should change out of your costumes, collect your personal
belongings from the warm-up area and depart.
• It is recommended that you not bring valuables with you to the warm-up area. Though there will be a
door monitor present at all times to watch items, to ensure safety leave valuables at your hotel or with a
friend.
• You are welcome to join the audience after your performance if seating permits.

UWSP VOLUNTEER FLOW FROM STUDIO THEATRE TO JENKINS THEATRE
• The Flow is a 5 Station Process:
1. Studio Theatre to
2. Scene Shop to
3. In the Wings to
4. Perform on Jenkins Stage and
5. Back to Studio Theatre
• Volunteers should stay with their assigned schools.
• Once schools check in with the Studio Theatre door monitor, you can lead dancers to the Jenkins Green
Room where they can change into costumes and do their make-up.
• Escort schools back to the Studio Theatre (Station 1) to await their call to Jenkins Stage.
• From the Studio Theatre, you will lead dancers up the spiral staircase in the Studio Theatre across the
catwalk and out the door nearest the Scene Shop Entrance (Station 2).
• When given the OK, move performers to the Jenkins Wing Area (Station 3).
• From the Wings, dancers will take their places to perform on Jenkins Stage (Station 4).
• After the performance, volunteers will lead the dancers down the stairs to the Green Room and back to
the Studio Theatre (Station 5).
• Dancers should change out of costumes collect personal items and exit the Studio Theatre.

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Informal Concert 1 | Spacing Rehearsal
Sunday, March 20 | 10:15-11:45 and 4:15-5:30pm

All Informal Concerts (and spacing) will be held in Noel Fine Arts Center, Jenkins Theatre (NFAC 280)

10:15-10:30 Texas A&M University Onwards and Upwards
10:30-10:45 University of Wisconsin-River Falls Show Me
10:45-11:00 Beloit College Oddly Enough
11:00-11:15 University of Wisconsin-Madison Herbivore
11:15-11:30 University of Iowa A Vicious Circle
11:30-11:45 University of Minnesota Morris Thunder

4:15-4:30 Carleton College Breath
4:30-4:45 Winona State University Avarice
4:45-5:00 University of Minnesota Twin Cities & Again
5:00-5:15 Northwestern University ellipsis
5:15-5:30 Northeastern Illinois University Competitive Improvement

Feedback Session | Monday, March 21 | 8:30 10:00am | Michelsen Hall, NFAC 270

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Informal Concert 2 | Spacing Rehearsal
Tuesday, March 22 | 10:15-11:45 and 4:15-5:30pm

All Informal Concerts (and spacing) will be held in Noel Fine Arts Center, Jenkins Theatre (NFAC 280)

10:15-10:30 University-Stevens Point I Can Move Mountains
10:30-10:45 University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Do Not Resuscitate
10:45-11:00 Gustavus Adolphus College Le Spectacle de la Marionnette
11:00-11:15 University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Just Float
11:15-11:30 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Submerged
11:30-11:45 Iowa State University Meprobamate

4:15-4:30 St. Olaf College C. John C.
4:30-4:45 University of Northern Iowa Blue
4:45-5:00 Minnesota State University, Mankato Stage 4
5:00-5:15 Columbia College Chicago Furtherance
5:15-5:30 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Forever & Always

Feedback Session | Wednesday, March 23 | 9:00 10:30am | Michelsen Hall, NFAC 270

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Informal Concert #1
Sunday, March 20 | 8:00-10:00pm

ellipsis (2016)
Choreographer: Jeff Hancock (Faculty)
Performers: Savannah Couch, Annalissa Hartsell,
Emma Hill, Rachel Hughes, Paige Lester, Elisa
Meyer, Sarah Morimoto, Maia Nowack, Alana
Rosenbloom, Lauryn Schmelzer
Lighting Design: Matthew Sharp
Costume Design: Jeff Hancock
Sound Design: Aaron Quick
Dramaturg: Susan Lee
Projection Design: Peter Anderson, Matthew Sharp
Music: The Road is A Grey Tape, Lullaby From the
West Coast Sleepers, Broken Symmetries, Berlin
By Overnight, When the Northern Lights… from
24 Postcards in Full Color by Max Richter,
Dream Tempo, Dark Pulse from La Primea Linea
by Max Richter

Onwards and Upwards
Choreographer: Diane Cahill Bedford (Faculty)
Performers: Lauren Banowsky, Kelsey Clark, Lauren
Copping, Danielle Dooley, Annie Forman,
Hannah Juenke, Samantha Scioneaux, Michaela
Vermeulen
Music: Thunderstorm and Rainfall, Nocturne in F
Minor; Op. 55, No 1 by Frederic Chopin,
arranged by Chad Lawson for Piano, Violin,
Cello, (edited)

Show Me
University of Wisconsin-River Falls
Choreographer: Mercedes Leininger
Performers: Tyler Barbian, Marcus Dryer, Nathan
Grosse, Samantha Iversen, Rina Kiyomizu,
Mercedes Leininger, Ichiko Mori, Elizabeth
Parsons, Xiaoqui Wang
Music: Where Do I Begin (Love Story) by Shirley
Bassey

Oddly Enough
Beloit College
Choreographer: Audrey Laviolette (Undergraduate)
Performers: Audrey Laviolette
Music: I’m Thinking About You by Mike Taylor
(Spoken Word), Printemps by Alf Moon, (edited)

Herbivore
Choreographer: Sarah Schwab (Undergraduate)
Performers: Amy Ausen, Amanda Graziano, Niki
Hofslien, Molly Hodgson, Arianna Imperl,
Rebecca Johnson, Conley Pitzl, Brigid Transon,
Lydia Walters
Music: Call Any Vegetable by Frank Zappa, Let’s Get
It On by Marvin Gaye, Requiem for a Dream by
Clint Mansell, (edited)

A Vicious Circle
University of Iowa
Choreographer: Crystal Gurrola (Undergraduate)
Performers: Crystal Gurrola
Music: The Mind by Alan Watts

Thunder
Choreographer: Stephanie Ferrian (Faculty)
Performers: Jackie Bell, Samantha Currie, Brennan
Gensch, Aundria Howard, Kia Kolbinger, Mia
Shaw, Carleigh Swanson
Music: Thunder by Nuttin’ But Stringz

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Breath
Carleton College
Choreographer: Sarah Abdel-Jelil (Undergraduate)
Performers: Sarah Abdel-Jelil
Music: Bring the Noize by M.I.A.

Avarice
Choreographer: Courtney Harms (Undergraduate)
Performers: Corin Blazing, Courtney Harms, Kassidy
Jackson, Adyson Johnson, Hannah Lefebvre,
Abbie Leone, Hannah Pulver-Knowles
Music: My Mind Rebels at Stagnation; Psychological
Recovery by Hans Zimmer

& Again
Choreographer: Ayana Dubose (Undergraduate)
Performers: Jessika Akpaka, Emilia Bruno, Daonna
Lewis, Margaret Ogas, Georgia Sylvester, Aubrie
Winters
Music: Lemonade by Gucci Mane and Tyler the
Creator

Competitive Improvement
Choreographer: Megan Swiderek (Undergraduate)
Performers: Stacy Anderson, Carmen Melendez,
Jaymi Niems, Megan Swiderek
Music: Machine Sounds by Peter Rozen

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Informal Concert #2
Tuesday, March 22 | 7:30-9:30pm

I Can Move Mountains
Choreographer: Constance Williams
Performers: Kirsten Brenden, Shane Donohue, Emily
Hein
Lighting Designer: Simone Tegge
Costume Designer: Vee Delgato
Music: Pepita by Vono Box, Sensitive Artist by King
Missile, Embrassé Moi by Jeanne Moreau

Do Not Resuscitate
Choreographer: Jenna Ziebarth (Undergraduate)
Performers: Marie Fritz, Madisun Holverson, Audrey
Meis, Ann Amelia Roeder, Nikole Treider,
Lindsey Tutaj
Music: Smother by Daughter
Text: Breath by Alexandria Delcourt

Le Spectacle de la Marionette
Choreographer: Emma Hunt (Undergraduate)
Performers: Emma Hunt
Music: La valse des monstres by Yann Tiersen

Just Float
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Choreographer: Lindsay Schleppenbach
Performers: Hannah Hebl, Jody Herrmann, Lindsay
Schleppenbach, Page Wilson
Music: To Build a Home by The Cinematic Orchestra

Submerged
Choreographer: Desmond Cotton (Undergraduate
Student)
Performers: Melissa Schobert
Music: Calming Rainfall by Robbins Island Music
Group, Heavy Thunder Rumbles & Lightning by
Royalty Free Music & Sound Effect Factory, Soft
Music by Spa Break, (edited)
Meprobamate
Choreographer: Abby Hinchley (Undergraduate)
Performers: Abby Hinchley, Rachel Lord, Taylor
McCombs
Music: Lost Song by Olafur Arnalds

C. John C.
St. Olaf College
Choreographer: Stuart Pimsler (Guest Artist) in
collaboration with Ben Swenson-Klatt
Performers: Ben Swenson-Klatt
Music: Cut the World by Antony and the Johnsons

Forever & Always
Choreographer: Bree Gibbs (Undergraduate)
Performers: P.S. Kalon, Kelli Marie Griffin, Olivia
Person
Music: Sounds of Meditation by Yellow Brick
Cinema

Stage 4
Choreographer: Rachel Dreist (Undergraduate)
Performers: Ian Lah, Abby Okoneski
Music: Heart Skipped a Beat by The XX, Atlantic by
Sleeping At Last, Cold by Jorge Mendez, (edited)

Furtherance
Choreographer: Rebeeca Huang (Undergraduate)
Performer: Rebeeca Huang
Music: Alva Noto, Mur. Typing sounds
Music Editor: Rebecca Huang

Blue
Choreographer: Baylee Lindsay (Undergraduate)
Performers: Emily Bittner, Kendra Gerrish, Baylee
Lindsay, Lindsey Plummer, Alyssa Swanson, Julie
Tucker, Kaylin Winders
Music: Blue (KNY Factory Edit) by Eiffel 65 (edited)

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Program Acknowledgements

The American College Dance Association gratefully acknowledges the generous support of Capezio Ballet Makers
Dance Foundation for their sponsorship of ACDA’s regional and national festivals and Dance Magazine for its
support of the National College Dance Festival; and recognizes the following individuals for their on-going
commitment as Lifetime Members of ACDA:

Elizabeth Ahearn
Judy Allen
Ruth Barnes
Jean Baxter
Jeanne Beaman
B.J. Bray
Lori Bryhni
Mary Cochran
Mary-Jean Cowell
Karen Dearborn
Susan Douglas Roberts
Abby Fiat
Barry Fischer
Lisa A. Fusillo
Amy Ginsburg
Lonny Gordon
Luke Kahlich
Joanne Lawrence
Paula Levine
Li Chaio-Ping
Luis Martinez
Rhythm McCarthy
Ann Sanders
Russell Sandifer
Mark Santillano
Brent Schneider
William Seigh
Andrew Vaca
Holly Williams
Alcine Wiltz
Candace Winters-March
Marcy Jo Yonkey-Clayton

UWSP’s department of Theatre & Dance gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the following:

Tony Bouressa
Diane DeFries (ACDA Executive Director)
Greg Diekroeger
Mark Glatfelter
Anne Hoffman
Patricia Holland, Chair of Department of Music
Marshall Lee
Tawnya Schilt
Sentry Insurance, Theatre @1800

Interim Dean Rhonda Sprague, UWSP College of
Fine Arts and Communication
Nathaniel Springer
Sara Timcak
Heather Trieger
UWSP Department of Theatre & Dance
Student Volunteers
UWSP Health Enhancement Center

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