Accomplishments: Department of Dance
Beth Mehocic (Dance) had her composition for solo cello, Somewhere Between D and C# recorded by Ovidiu Marenescu for a collection of new works titled Moto Bello. Moto Bello is the third collection in the Moto series recorded by Trio Casals for Parma Recordings on their Navona label. The album is due to be released in January.…
Catherine "Cassy" Turner, Arnold Huang, Ali Ross, Kesley Taelor, and Geneva Winters (all Physical Therapy), with assistance from Dolly Kelepecz-Momot (Dance), co-authored “Investigation of the Cardiovascular Endurance of College Dancers,” which compared cardiovascular endurance before and after a fitness and exercise education session, and…
Beth Mehocic (Dance) recently joined the PARMA recording artist roster. The work of this composer-in-residence includes more than 100 works for various large and small ensembles, She also is a poet, visual artist, filmmaker, and author. In addition to being performed throughout the United States, Japan, China, and Europe, several of her pieces…
Margot Mink Colbert (Dance) was honored to have been invited to participate in 51ԹϺ’s first annual Summer Proposal Writing Institute, which took place in June. Five workshop sessions culminated in a grant submission to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a project in the dance department. “100 Years and Beyond: Contemporary Ballet in the…
Margot Mink Colbert and Dolly Kelepecz Momot (both Dance) toured “Echoes and Tales,” a program of original dance works performed in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the Dansekapellet Theatre in June. The performing company included 51ԹϺ Dance major graduates Kaileigh O’Neill, Shannon Redfield, and Hailey Wood; New York choreographer…
Richard Havey (Dance) took nine students from the bachelor of fine arts (BFA) dance program to perform in Kiel, Germany, at an international dance festival in June. He taught jazz dance workshops and the students performed his choreography and their own student works from April's BFA student concert. He also taught in Frankfurt/Stuttgart and at…
Louis Kavouras (Dance) wrote a chapter case study illustrating the building of an assessment culture on campus for the recently published Assessment in Creative Disciplines: Quantifying and Qualifying the Aesthetic. The chapter is centrally placed with seven illustrations and is used as an example of excellent assessment.
Peter Jakubowski (Dance) has been engaged to design the new signature work for the Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH). The work he is doing is choreographed by Thaddeus Davis and Tanya Wideman and will premiere in Washington, D.C., this month. Its topic is the Harlem renaissance and how the rebirth of DTH, which had closed its doors for a few years,…
Kevin Kemner (Architecture), Jenifer Utz (Life Sciences), Louis Kavouras (Dance), Daniel Bubb (Academic Assessment), and Lindsay Couzens (Academic Assessment) recently made a presentation at the Association for the Assessment of Higher Learning Education's annual Assessment Conference in Lexington, Ky. The presentation demonstrated how a series of…
Louis Kavouras (Dance) and Katherine Duke, a Hawkins dance representative, performed "Early Floating," a modern dance classic choreographed by famed choreographer Erick Hawkins in 1961, at the Modernism Symposium at 51ԹϺ's Judy Bayley Theatre. The duo also spoke onstage with scholars and professors from around the world. They were the only…