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The Masquerade Ball
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Feb16

The Masquerade Ball

posted by Madeleine Sardina

On Feb. 11, SFUAD students came ready to dance at The Masquerade Ball, adorned in masks and dressed in their finest.

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Dancing in the Gym
  • Dance
Sep19

Dancing in the Gym

posted by Lauren Eubanks

Jackalope photographers are out and about, capturing life on and around the SFUAD campus.

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Spring Dance Concert
  • Dance
Feb27

Spring Dance Concert

posted by Charlotte Martinez

The Greer Garson Theatre Company is gearing up again for a this year’s Spring Dance Concert 8 p.m., Feb. 27-28 at the Armory for the Arts Performing Center. Featuring dance majors from SFUAD’s Performing Arts Department, as well as non-majors and guest performers from Moving People Dance Theater, the program this year ranges from experimental contemporary to punk rock.

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Body Traffic
  • Dance
Nov07

Body Traffic

posted by Charlotte Martinez

LA dance company Body Traffic comes to Santa Fe for a two-week residency to teach master classes in local studios and perform for the Santa Fe audience Nov. 7- 8.

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Playing With Fire
  • Dance
  • Film
Oct30

Playing With Fire

posted by Nick Martinez

In addition to being the director of Photography for “Oasis Motel,” the new drama from Shoot the Stars, junior Amy West has been teaching herself to fire dance. Jackalope Magazine recently sat down with her to talk fire dancing, her filmmaking and performing for yourself. Jackalope Magazine: What brought you to SFUAD? Amy West: I am originally from Petaluma, Calif., in the San Francisco Bay Area.   JM: Oh, that explains the hippy vibe. AW: Yeah, exactly. (laughs) I’m definitely a northern California girl at heart. I went to an art college fair at my high school, and I was interested in getting out of California. I know it’s a little counter intuitive, and I figured there’s probably a shit ton of film students out in California, and Santa Fe looked like it would be a different experience and give me a different perspective.   JM: I’m assuming you were a dancer before you began fire dancing— AW: I was not!   JM: OK, so how did fire dancing start? AW: I have a best friend back home who goes to Reed College in Oregon, which is like a super hippy liberal college, and they have a fire dancing team. We got together over winter break of my sophomore year, after she’d been doing it for a while, and we made a video together. While we were making it, she was like ‘hey you should do this too,’ and I was like ‘Oh my God I want to.’ I had done color guard in middle school and there’s a prop called staff that she bet I could [use]. So we went and got a curtain rod, and I just started playing with it and my friend said ‘you you can do this,’ so I...

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More Modern
  • Dance
Sep18

More Modern

posted by Amanda Tyler

The dance program at Santa Fe University of Art and Design has spent its existence continuously transforming in order to offer the students a more solid dance education. The newest addition to this burgeoning department is modern and ballet teacher Banu Ogan. After growing up in the ballet world, Ogan was introduced to the philosophies of modern choreographer of Merce Cunningham, with which she fit seamlessly. The Cunningham technique is an approach to modern dance which explores the use of direction and space, and emphasizes the creation of choreography independently from the music. “Physically, it really suited me and my personality. And I loved the daring involved with it,” Ogan says. “The way they worked with chance operations and all of the elements coming together on opening night—he dancers not hearing the music, seeing the sets, wearing the costumes until the premier of the dance—I thought that was the coolest thing that I’d ever heard.” She danced for the New York-based company for seven years before teaching the technique at Juilliard and Marymount Manhattan College. Ogan also has been traveling the world to teach workshops and stage Cunningham pieces for more than a decade. All of this experience coming to SFUAD means the dancers will be receiving pure Cunningham modern technique classes that can be applied to their broader dance curriculum. As for her first two weeks at SFUAD, Ogan speaks about her students with an encouraged and eager tone. “They’re really open and interested in learning and that is all a teacher can ask for. So I feel like there will be a really nice exchange between my teaching and their learning,” Ogan says.   In coming to Santa Fe, Ogan has opened opportunities not only for SFUAD’s dancers, but also for herself. While living in...

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Ready To Dance
  • Dance
Sep11

Ready To Dance

posted by Amanda Tyler

The first week of school usually consists of meeting classmates and reading through countless syllabi. In SFUAD’s dance department however, rehearsals are already in full swing. With the dancer’s first performance this weekend as a part of The After Hours Alliance Festival of Progressive Arts, and their second just two weeks later in celebration of Greer Garson’s 110th birthday, all seven dance majors have schedules full of rehearsals and brains full of choreography. Shannon Elliott, the chair of the dance department, described a vibrant, eclectic group of five new students. With three new women and two new men, all with different dance backgrounds, hailing from various parts of the country, the diversity and collective experience of the department only seems to be growing. “It’s nice to have this new energy, and just a new comradery that I see occurring. Them working together not only in class, but also in rehearsals,” Elliott says. There are also two new faculty members contributing to the further growth of the department. Banu Ogan, who will be teaching both ballet and modern classes, taught at Juilliard for almost an entire decade after her career with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. A new ballroom class that will address swing, tango and salsa will be taught by Mike Garcia, a prominent figure in the Santa Fe dance scene. “I think it’s great to actually have them here and to see who the dance majors are,” says Elliott. “And to begin conceptualizing how we can move this group forward together.” Elliott also has plans to bring in guest choreographers not only to make original works, but also to teach master classes and set existing pieces on the dancers. With only a week of the new school year under their belts, this upcoming semester is already...

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Rise Above
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May13

Rise Above

posted by Luke Montavon

SFUAD Performing Arts presents its end of semester dance recital.

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Driven to Dance
  • Dance
Feb27

Driven to Dance

posted by Amanda Tyler

“I don’t wanna be a doctor, I don’t wanna be a teacher. I want to be a dancer. And it’s going to happen,” SFUAD dance major Alexandria Chavez says.

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Be Our Guest
  • Dance
Feb20

Be Our Guest

posted by Amanda Tyler

This semester at SFUAD, the dance majors will be given not only numerous performance opportunities, but also the chance to learn from guest choreographers. In the first month of school alone, both Miguel Perez and Gail Gilbert have set foot in the dance studio to create new works for the dancers.

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Dancing To Her Diploma
  • Dance
Feb14

Dancing To Her Diploma

posted by Amanda Tyler

Come May 2014, Maria Weckesser will become SFUAD’s first dance graduate.

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Future of Dance
  • Dance
Jan30

Future of Dance

posted by Amanda Tyler

Shannon Elliott, head of SFUAD’s dance department, takes a deep breath, double checks her computer screen for details and lists off yet another event that the dance majors will be participating in this semester. Her plans to keep the dancers busy and give them performance opportunities has already taken off.

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