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The main objective of the UF Summer Dance Intensive is to offer a comprehensive dance and art experience aimed at providing a daily studio practice (technique), opportunities to take part in the creation and performance of a new movement based work, opportunities to learn works from the repertory of The Neta Dance Company, and an opportunity to experience the breadth of possibilities within dance, movement, theatre, art and music in an environment that empowers the students to find their individual artistic voice as part of a community of artists, thinkers and life-long learners. Learn more and register at: http://conferences.dce.ufl.edu/sdf/

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Spring BFA Dance Showcase 2012: FOIL University of FloridaSchool of Theatre and Dance Nadine McGuire Theatre and Dance Pavilion April 12-15, 2012 Contact: Nicole Hamilton Contact Phone: 352-273-0526 Tickets: 352-392-1653 We won’t spoil it but we’re boilin’ something new for FOIL 2012. So oil your engines and we will unravel your minds with our dancing bodies right before your eyes. Don’t leave your imagination behind or your glasses! Join us for a dance, a chance to glance at some space folded and molded in the Spring BFA Dance Showcase 2012 that is produced by the Dance Composition 4 students and dedicated to the creative process of making dances.  The “Comp 4” class will present choreographic works at different stages of development while sharing the production with fully realized works like Shapiro & Smith’s seminal masterpiece, To Have and To Hold.  Senior BFA Dance candidates also fill the Showcase with self-choreographed solos as well as those constructed by UF Dance Faculty Angela DiFiore, Kristin O’Neal, and Neta Pulvermacher. FOIL offers three Programs April 12th -15th in studio G6 of the Nadine McGuire Dance Pavilion across from the Reitz Union. Program A: Thursday 4/12 at 7:00 pm, Friday 4/13 at 7:00 pm and Sunday 4/15 at 2:00 pm.Program B: Thursday 4/12 at 9:00 pm, Saturday 4/14 at 7:00 pm and Sunday 4/15 at 4:00 pm. Program C: Community in Motion, Saturday 4/14 at 4:00 pm Tickets are available for $9 at the University Box Office, 352-392-1653 and Ticketmaster online. Keep your eyes peeled for opportunities to win FREE tickets during the weeks leading up to the production. The FREE Community in Motion show, Saturday April 14th at 4:00 p.m., presents a shared evening of choreographic works from professional dance companies and schools across Florida: YOW Dance, NAO Dance, Dr. Phillips Performing Arts High School, and Valencia College all hailing from Orlando, independent artist Joanne Barrett from Miami and our friends in the Swamp from Santa Fe College presenting a work choreographed by Melissa Canto-Brenner to name a few.

Spring BFA Dance Showcase 2012: FOIL
University of Florida
School of Theatre and Dance
Nadine McGuire Theatre and Dance Pavilion
April 12-15, 2012 
Contact: Nicole Hamilton
Contact Phone: 352-273-0526 
Tickets: 352-392-1653

We won’t spoil it but we’re boilin’ something new for FOIL 2012. So oil your engines and we will unravel your minds with our dancing bodies right before your eyes. Don’t leave your imagination behind or your glasses!

Join us for a dance, a chance to glance at some space folded and molded in the Spring BFA Dance Showcase 2012 that is produced by the Dance Composition 4 students and dedicated to the creative process of making dances.  The “Comp 4” class will present choreographic works at different stages of development while sharing the production with fully realized works like Shapiro & Smith’s seminal masterpiece, To Have and To Hold.  Senior BFA Dance candidates also fill the Showcase with self-choreographed solos as well as those constructed by UF Dance Faculty Angela DiFiore, Kristin O’Neal, and Neta Pulvermacher.

FOIL offers three Programs April 12th -15th in studio G6 of the Nadine McGuire Dance Pavilion across from the Reitz Union.

Program A: Thursday 4/12 at 7:00 pm, Friday 4/13 at 7:00 pm and Sunday 4/15 at 2:00 pm.
Program B: Thursday 4/12 at 9:00 pm, Saturday 4/14 at 7:00 pm and Sunday 4/15 at 4:00 pm.
Program C: Community in Motion, Saturday 4/14 at 4:00 pm

Tickets are available for $9 at the University Box Office, 352-392-1653 and Ticketmaster online. Keep your eyes peeled for opportunities to win FREE tickets during the weeks leading up to the production.

The FREE Community in Motion show, Saturday April 14th at 4:00 p.m., presents a shared evening of choreographic works from professional dance companies and schools across Florida: YOW Dance, NAO Dance, Dr. Phillips Performing Arts High School, and Valencia College all hailing from Orlando, independent artist Joanne Barrett from Miami and our friends in the Swamp from Santa Fe College presenting a work choreographed by Melissa Canto-Brenner to name a few.

UF School of Theatre + Dance selected to perform at the National College Dance Festival in D.C., May 24-27


The UF School of Theatre + Dance has emerged from the American College Dance Festival (ACDF) Southeastern Conference doubleheader (from last month) with the highest national recognition in college dance! UF Dance has been selected to perform at the NATIONAL COLLEGE DANCE FESTIVAL to be held at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., May 24-27, 2012. For more details about the Festival, visit: http://www.acdfa.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25&Itemid=52.

The winning work was “Wired,” choreographed for UF Dance by Israeli guest artist Yaniv Abraham during Swamp Dance Festival 2011, directed by Assistant Professor Neta Pulvermacher. Exquisitely designed by SoTD students Ryan Bible (lighting) and Erica Bascom (costumes), “Wired” was breathtakingly performed at the American College Dance Festival Southeastern Conference by the following UF dancers: Emma Geisdorf, Joey Loto, Lacey Moore, Kendra Hamann, Sarah Haggerty, Marissa Maxcy, Kyle Mosler, Melissa Mendez, and Whitney Wilson. Whitney Wilson, whose original work “Watched Pots” was adjudicated for presentation at this year’s ACDF Southeastern conference, masterfully served as rehearsal director for “Wired.”

A special thanks from Professor Joan Frosch to all SoTD dancers who participated in the creation, performances of this extraordinary piece of choreography; and to students Fallon Sullivan, Kate Pope, and Lindsey Head who so generously shared their aesthetic insights into the work. A big SHOUT to visiting SoTD faculty Kristin O’Neal and Colette Krugol for safely sheparding our group of 33 UF dancers to triumph at the American College Dance Festival Southeastern Conference.

At this time we remember Paul Favini for his support of the production of new choreographic work for SoTD, his admiration and love for dance, and his steadfast support of the Swamp Dance Fest.

You are invtited to Florida Player’s ‘New Works’ Festival


Friday April 6th at 7:00 p.m.
Saturday April 7th at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
Sunday April 8th at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
Philips Center Black Box Theatre
You may reserve your free tickets at http://floridaplayers.org/ticketing.php

12.21.2012 by Amelia Harris, directed by Colin Hudson
The Bender Method conceived and directed by Joshua Sallers
Front Porch Play, by Andrew Bailes, directed by Kenny Frechette

Florida Players is a student-run theater company that provides opportunities for students to explore the world of theatre and showcase their works in doing so. Florida Players is open to all University of Florida students, regardless of their major and is sponsored by UF Student Government. Florida Players offers students opportunities in all aspects of theatre, including direction, design, performance, and playwriting, as well as leadership positions. Florida Players is also an umbrella organization to Floridance, a dance company.

Don’t miss your chance to see Crossing the Line, Dance 2012


Crossing The Line, Dance 2012
Dates and Times: February 17, 18 @ 7:30pm
February 19 @ 2:00 pm
February 21 through 24 @ 7:30pm
No Performance on February 25
February 26th @ 2:00 pm
University of Florida, School of Theatre and Dance, The Constans Theatre
Admission: $13-$17 University Box Office, 352-392-1653. http://www.ticketmaster.com Info: (352) 273-0526

The University of Florida’s School of Theatre and Dance proudly presents its 2012 mainstage dance concert, CROSSING THE LINE, Dance 2012 directed by Neta Pulvermacher, featuring the award winning dancers of the UF School of Theatre and Dance in a program of faculty works and special commissions by international guest artists, Ann Liv Young and Yaniv Abraham. Check out this preview on YouTube and then come dance with us!!!

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UF School of Theatre and Dance invites you to audition for the UF BFA Dance Performance


Audition for the University of Florida BFA Dance Performance
Friday, January 27, 2012  (8:30 am – 4:00 pm)
Nadine McGuire Theatre and Dance Pavilion
University of Florida

                           The Swamp is Where Art and Artists Grow! 
                               Come Join our Community in Motion!

The UF Dance Program is one of the most innovative dance programs in the United States. We proudly empower our students to become fully engaged artists/citizens of the world. The BFA in Dance Performance and BA in Dance Studies are offered. Come create the future with us!

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Ellen Cornfield Guest Artist at the Swamp, November 14th-18th

Ellen Cornfield, a New York choreographer and dancer, and a long time member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company will be in residence at UF for one week, November 14-19 teaching modern technique, repertory, composition and giving a dance history seminar/talk.   Joey Loto, who is a BFA dance major, will serve as the residency coordinator for this residency.   His contact information is:  “Loto,Joseph A” <joeyloto@ufl.edu>.

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University of Florida, School of Theatre and Dance: BFA Dance Auditions 2011-2012

The Swamp is Where Art and Artists Grow!
     Come Join our Community in Motion!

The UF Dance Program is one of the most innovative, cutting-edge dance programs in the United States.  We proudly empower our students to become fully engaged artists/citizens of the world.

Audition Dates for the Dance Program**
Friday, October 14, 2011  (8:30 am – 4:00 pm)
Friday, January 27, 2012  (8:30 am – 4:00 pm)

**All applicants must individually apply to the University of Florida through UF Admissions by November 1, 2011

Audition Includes:
• Ballet, Modern, West African, and Improvisation classes
• The presentation of a 90-second solo choreographed by the applicant.
• A personal interview with a member of the dance faculty.

To complete your application to the dance program please register on line:
http://www.arts.ufl.edu/theatreanddance/ProsStudents/dance_audition_reg.aspx

For more information contact:
Dr. Joan Frosch at: jfrosch@arts.ufl.edu
352-514-1100
Prof. Neta Pulvermacher at: neta@ufl.edu
352-273-0522

New World School of the Arts Welcomes New Dean of Dance

New World School of the Arts has selected Mary Lisa Burns as its new dean of dance to head the high school and college dance programs.  NWSA was created by the Florida Legislature as a Center of Excellence in the visual and the performing arts.  An educational partnership of Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Miami Dade College and the University of Florida (College of Fine Arts).

“It is an honor to be succeeding Dean Lewis, and I look forward to working with everyone at New World School of the Arts to continue to build upon this legacy of excellence in training and nurturing talented young dancers and choreographers. I envision a program which, based on our outstanding curriculum of dance training, continues to create exciting experiences for our students and which expands opportunities for them professionally in the 21st century.”

Mary Lisa Burns, a dance educator and administrator, comes to Miami from New York City where she was Director of Education for the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, overseeing the Cunningham Studio’s accredited Professional Training Program and spearheading its Educational Outreach program. A faculty member of the world-renowned Merce Cunningham Studio since 1988, she was also a part-time faculty member of the Dance Department of Barnard College for fifteen years and danced professionally in the Companies of Kenneth King, Brenda Daniels, Gina Gibney, and others. Ms. Burns holds an MFA in Dance from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a BA from Barnard College/Columbia University.