Due to a last-minute schedule change for tomorrow (Wednesday 1/21), the DMC Open Lab hours 9-11am will be cancelled. Sorry for the inconvenience!  I will try to keep the door open if I am able.
Thanks- Sean

3rd Annual "Work'd Winter Intensive" Jan. 2-4, 2015 hosted by Dance Workshop

Come check out three days of great classes at an unbeatable price! Dance Workshop is inviting all to participate and take a variety of classes - 4 classes per day on January 2nd-4th, 2015.  There are two levels: 11-14, and 15+.  $100 for the entire intensive, $40 for one day, and $12 per class.

Leichter Informance

Remember!!
Informance at 10:30am on Monday, 10/13 for the new work Nicholas Leichter is creating for Dance Company during his residency this week/end.  Allesee Dance Theatre

Big welcome

Welcome back!

2014-2015 is under way! 

Here we go dancers!

DMC Open Lab Hours - Winter 2014

DMC Open Lab Hours Cancelled for this morning 9am-12noon

The DMC will be closed this morning during normal "Open Lab" hours 9am-12noon.  Sorry for this inconvenience.

Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre and Dance Welcomes To Sangana Guest Artist Amaniyea Payne

A viable artistic force in dance communities around the world, recognized for her many talents as dancer, director, producer, choreographer, arts educator, costume designer and humanitarian. Known to many in the African Dance genre as a “National Treasure”, Amaniyea have been the recipient of many awards, which speaks to my career achievements.

Her style of dance evolves from natural rhythmic movements based and informed by dances and cultures of the African Diasporas.  She’s studied, performed and toured globally with prominent companies and well known music and dance legends, such as Stevie Wonder, Cab Calloway, Ben Harper, Bunny Wailers and Lindy-hop innovators Norma Miller, Frankie Manning, Momma Lou Parks to name a few and Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago, where she presently serves as Artistic Director.

Ms. Payne have collaborated with artists and arts organizations throughout the Diasporas, focusing on finding new ways to translate dance for the stage while also preserving and respecting traditional parameters for performance.  Having a deep sense of responsibility to honor the legacy of great expressions of dance Amaniyea respectfully continue to aid in the development of the future generations of dancers who will carry the aesthetic and spiritual base of Black Dance. 

Two notable events:

1. A community class is offered Friday, September 27 from 6:30-8pm in Room 3315 in Old Main, 4841 Cass Ave.

2. An Informance (informal performance) of the work Ms. Payne set on the To Sangana company will be held Saturday, September 28 at 12:00pm in the Allesee Dance Theatre, room 3317 in Old Main, 4841 Cass Ave.

Join us!

DMC Open Lab Hours - Fall 2013

These are the Open Lab hours that we are trying to offer. There is still discussion about the Saturday hours - trying to figure out the most useful time.

Please plan on the above. Most changes to this schedule will be posted on the blog.

Faculty & Friends performance SATURDAY ONLY! TICKETS ONLY $5

Rhoden Residency Schedule

Wednesday, 8/28

4:30 - 6:30p AUDITIONS (Studio B)

6:30 - 7:30p Dinner Break

7:30 - 10p      Rehearsal (Studio B)

Thursday, 8/29

9:35 - 11:20a   Master class Ballet 2 (Studio A)

4 - 10p           Rehearsal (Studio B), Dinner break TBD

Friday, 8/30

4 - 10p           Rehearsal (Studio A), Dinner break TBD

Saturday, 8/31

10 - 11:30a    Master class Invited Universities (Studio A)

12:00 - 7:00p    Rehearsal (Movement Studio), Dinner break TBD

Sunday, 9/1  

10a - 6p         Rehearsal (Studio B), Lunch break TBD

Monday, 9/2

10a - 6p         Rehearsal (Studio B), Lunch break TBD

Tuesday, 9/3

1:20 - 2:45p Master class Ballet 3/4 (Studio B),

4 - 10p           Rehearsal & spacing/tech for Informance
(4-6pm in Studio A, 6-10pm in Studio B), Dinner TBD

Wednesday, 9/4

9 - 11:00a      Dancers warm up, rehearse if need be (Studio B)

11:00a             INFORMANCE (Studio B)

12:00p           Lunch w/ Maggie Allesee and dancers (Studio C)

12:30 - 1:30p    Career advice meetings - Dwight and dancers- (approx. 5   

     minutes each) - Studio B

Dance Day Schedule, August 23, 2013

 

Leichter Bio and Picture

WSU Dance Majors - Get excited!

NICHOLAS LEICHTER (Choreographer/Artistic Director) has taught throughout the United States and at festivals in Africa, Asia, Canada, and Eastern and Western Europe, and he has been on faculty at Tisch School of the Arts, (Tisch Dance and Experimental Theater Wing), Bates Dance Festival and the American Dance Festival in Durham, New York, Russia, Korea, and Shanghai. Leichter has created over 25 works for his own company, including Carmina Burana and Rite of Spring commissioned by the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Sweetwash with Eisa Davis for The Duncan Theatre at Palm Beach Community College, and the trilogy of Killa, A Space Funk Invasion and the nationally acclaimed The Whiz in collaboration with Monstah Black. Recent commissions include The Barnard Project, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, University of The Arts, je danse donc je suis in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and The Chicago Dancing Festival. Leichter has been artist-in-residence and guest artist at many institutions including CSU Summer Arts, Sarah Lawrence College, Hollins University, George Washington University, University of Houston, Muhlenberg College, and Idaho State University. Leichter received the 2006 Mariam McGlone Emerging Choreographer Award from Wesleyan University. He has received 2 Choreographer Fellowships from NYFA, (2002, 2008) and the first National Performance Network/Network of Cultural Centers of Color Artist-of-Color Residency Award at Sacramento State, (2008). He received the 2009 Copperfoot Award for Choreography from Wayne State University. Leichter is the 2012 Young Arts Mentor in Choreography, a 2013 Young Arts Master Teacher and a '12/13 Artist in Residence at Pentacle.
 

Founded in 1996, New York City based Nicholas Leichter Dance has performed in over 50 cities in 17 states and 12 countries at venues including The Joyce Theater; the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House with the Brooklyn Philharmonic; The John C. Wright Theater at CSU Fresno; The Duncan Theatre at Palm Beach Community College, FL; The Jefferson Center in Roanoke, VA; Modlin Center for the Performing Arts at University of Richmond; Central Park Summerstage; The Dorothy H. Baker Theater at Muhlenberg College, PA; Reynolds Industries Theater at Duke University; Diana Wortham Theater in Asheville, NC; Bates Dance Festival; The Broadway Center in Tacoma, WA; the Fabuleus International Theater Festival in Leuven, Belgium; Kaohsiung Jazz Dance Congress in Taiwan; Freedance in Ukraine; Time to Dance in Riga, Latvia; Just For Laughs Festival, Montreal, and Dialogue de Corps Festival at the Centre de Développement Chorégraphique La Termitière in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso at the invitation of the United States Department of State. In recognition of his unique approach to contemporary dance, Leichter has received support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The Joyce Theater Foundation, New York City, with major support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Performance Network, New York Foundation for the Arts, Jerome Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, The 92nd Street Y New Works in Dance Fund, the American Music Center Live Music for Dance Program, New York State Council on the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) through the National Dance Project (NDP) with generous support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the MetLife Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts