UNCG Symphonic Undertakings: A Tale of Two Orchestras and Unseen Women’s Voices for “Galileo”
UNCG Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kevin M. Geraldi, the first half of the concert featured the Watauga High School Honors Orchestra, from Boone, NC, directed by William Selle. During his introductory comments, Geraldi explained it has become a tradition to invite outstanding youth orchestras to perform on campus and to attend master classes…
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Welcome Clarinetists!
We would like to get to know you and share our vision of clarinetistry, music-making, and collaborative leadership with you!
The clarinet studio at UNCG is like a large family, usually about 35 students, and at least 25 of these are undergraduates. We emphasize the development of clarinet skills, overall physical and emotional awareness, and artistic presence and leadership skills in equal amounts. Dr. Burke and I each have had a lifelong interest in pedagogy and more than 60 years combined of teaching experience.
These pages are under development, so check back soon for more content.
For now, I would like to share links to two places where I have bounced philosophical ideas around. I haven’t been writing much lately, but these will give you an idea of the kind of all-emcompassing education we aim for in the clarinet studio.
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David Sullivan Named Head of Theatre Department
David Sullivan is a theater educator, stage director and producer. He has served as Associate Professor & the director of the Theatre Program at Lehman College – City University of New York in the Bronx and as Chair of the Department of Theatre & Dance at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ. Since 2004 David has directed the Off Broadway premieres of The Atheist, The Blowin of Baile Gall, and Swansong and staged the site-specific “Bloomsday in Bryant Park, NYC” and a “Tribute to Friel” for the Irish Arts Center. He has directed at Origin Theater Company, Irish Repertory Theatre, Irish Arts Center, the Williamstown Theater Festival Act One Company, the Huntington Theatre Company’s Breaking Ground Reading Festival, the Gloucester Stage Company, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Boston Playwrights Theatre, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In 2012 he co-founded Fat Violet Theater, a new play development company, with playwright Ronan Noone and has directed Brendan and The Compass Rose for the 1st Irish Theater Festival (2013 Best Director nomination) for the NYC-based company. David earned an MFA in Directing from Boston University, in residence at the Huntington Theater Company, and holds a Master of Arts in Teaching from Boston University, a Master of Arts in Theatre from Brown University, and a BA in Theatre from Providence College.
Dancers Connect to perform on Saturday, April 13th!
The Dancers Connect program is hosting a final Dancers Connect KIDS CREATE performance on Sunday, April 13 at the Studio Theater located in the Health and Human Performance (HHP) Building at 1408 Walker Avenue Greensboro, NC 27402. Shows at 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm – Tickets are $7 per person.
UNCG Dancers Connect a free creative dance class for students age 7 to 18. The Dancers Connect dance classes focus on creativity, self-expression, and imagination, and promote critical thinking and creative problem solving skills and celebrate dance as a unique medium for expression and communication of ideas. This spring 75 young dance students have had the opportunity to learn from master dance educators be mentored by a dynamic group of twelve undergraduate dance education students and to collaborate with other Guilford County elementary, middle and high school students.
The KIDS CREATE performance is $7 and open to the public and will be held at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro located at 1408 Walker Avenue, Greensboro.
The performance starts at 2:00pm and 4:00pm; tickets: $7.00
Tickets can be purchased from the dance department box office on the day of the show. Box office doors open at 12:00. Seating is limited.
For more information about the program email Dr. Mila Parrish – Dancers Connect Director [email protected] or call Jeff Aguiar – Administrative Associate Department of Dance (336.334.5570) or visit the Dancers Connect web page at https://vpa.uncg.edu/dancers-connect/
Ana Paula Höfling Joins SMTD as Assistant Professor of Dance
The School of Music, Theatre and Dance is pleased to welcome Ana Paula Höfling to the Department of Dance.
Ana Paula is an interdisciplinary scholar, dancer, and capoeirista. Her research bridges the disciplines of dance studies, Latin American studies, cultural studies, and critical tourism studies. She holds an MA in Dance and a PhD in Culture and Performance from the University of California at Los Angeles, an MFA in Dance from the University of Hawai`i, and a BA in Linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley. She is currently an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Latin American Studies at the Center for the Americas at Wesleyan University (2012-2014). She has taught at Wesleyan University, the University of Wyoming, and at the Academia Superior de Artes de Bogotá in Colombia as a Fulbright scholar. Her book Staging Capoeira/Dancing Brazil (Wesleyan University Press, forthcoming), analyzes the role of capoeira and capoeiristas in the process of staging Brazilian “national culture” between the 1920s and the 1970s, focusing on issues of race, class, and authorship. Her new research interests include representations of mestiçagem in early twentieth-century ballet in Rio de Janeiro, and the choreographic production of Eros Volúsia, Mercedes Baptista, and Felicitas Barreto. She is thrilled to be joining the Dance faculty at UNCG as Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2014.
