2021 FSU School of Dance Magazine

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DANCE 2020–2021

CONTENTS 3

Letter from the Chair

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Year in Review

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Nancy Smith Fichter’s 90th Birthday

10 Student Spotlight 12 SoD During COVID 13 Dance Alumni Scholarship 16 Faculty Updates 18 Alumni Updates 30 Maggie Allesee National Center

for Choreography Year in Review Artist in Residency

WORKSHOP FOR

YOUNG DANCERS

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FEBRUARY 5 & 6, 2022 Featuring master classes with Suzanne Farrell & FSU Dance Faculty Ages 10-18 (Intermediate-Advanced)

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CREDITS Dr. James Frazier Dean, College of Fine Arts Anjali Austin Chair, School of Dance Carla Peterson Director, MANCC Editor Dr. La Toya Davis-Craig

Contributors Maddie Kurtz Jessica Comas Dr. La Toya Davis-Craig Designer Amanda Cole, University Communications Principal Photographers Meagan Helman (SOD) Chris Camerson (MANCC)

Cover Photo by Gianna Mercandetti

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LETTER FROM THE CHAIR

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t’s the fall of 2021. First years, sophomores, juniors, seniors, graduate students, faculty and staff in designer and off-the-rack face masks—face-to-face, meeting in one space at the same time—dancing together outside on the lawn behind Montgomery Hall and in the studios. Our community reunited.

We recognized each other through laughter, shapes, sounds, and movements.

The School of Dance (SoD) began its first week of classes with excitement and expectation. Even with the trepidation of gathering together, it was a glorious place to be and an opportunity to reflect on everything we had been through, discovered, lost, gained, feared, learned, lived and breathed.

As I reflected on what felt like the year when all stood still, the reality of how active we were began to materialize. SoD faculty projects and activities included thirteen dance films, ten dance screenings, three choreographic works, over fifteen presentations and panels, seven articles, two books, one exhibition and an opera. Engagements occurred with institutions across the U.S., Canada, England, Scotland, Switzerland and Greece. Our students were actively choreographing, creating dance films and rethinking their creative projects for site-specific locations. The School had over thirty lectures and masterclasses with nationally ranked artists, administrators, philanthropists, organizers and arts-related professionals. The Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography’s 2020–2021 season elegantly shifted to supporting an artist for a one-year Tallahassee-based residency while preparing for its busiest season in 2021–2022. There was also the great delight of honoring Professor Emeritus and former SoD Chairperson, Dr. Nancy Smith-Fichter, by celebrating her 90th birthday via Zoom with current and retired faculty staff, students, alumni and friends worldwide.

Alongside this was support from the FSU College of Fine Arts and Dean, Dr. James Frazier. Their tireless stream of energy, communication, availability and guidance buoyed us through uncharted territory while maintaining our purpose of student-centered learning. Our Friends of Dance Council were also instrumental in sustaining us.

When the need arose they were there to help and supported our dance majors with over $30,000 of internal scholarships.

In all that we do, we “Do it with Love.” And we found new ways of being and doing. Indeed, the outlook for 2021–2022 is exciting and hopeful! Our annual Evening of Dance concert offers excerpts of choreographic works

by George Balanchine, Ronald K. Brown, Dan Wagoner (restaged by Rachel Hunter), and Gwen Welliver. Thirdyear MFA candidates will present their creative projects in fall and spring with films, site-specific and concert works, and in April, our annual Days of Dance series will close the year.

We do hope you will join us, share the space and take in the experience.

Warmly,

Anjali Austin Chair, School of Dance

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YEAR IN REVIEW 2020–2021 GRADUATES BFA Emily Alderman Taylor Ballard Gabrielle Barnes Casey Copeland Fiona Dorr Cara Eichen Helen Grieder

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Katelyn Hamilton Ellen Kilby Jamin Koster Brooker Koster Peyton Lemen Madison Minkley Havilah Moore

Hannah Peddicord Celine Seiber Ceylon Seiber Aaron Smith Evelyn Washburn Maria White Rian Wood

MFA Leah Bailey Annali Clevenger Courtenay Thorne MA Ariel Douglas Giltrecia Head Scott Lindenberg

Above left: School of Dance Professor Tim Glenn screened his work Triptych and discussed the process of designing, costuming, and choreographing.

Glenn was joined by original cast members, FSU SoD BFA Alums Andra Gold and Kristen Bernier.

Above right: Annali Rose presented her Magic of Metamorphosis: A Journey through Liminality virtually in a three-part feature. In this presentation, three short vignettes featured the themes within metamorphosis: time, transition, and regeneration.

Left: School of Dance Assistant Professors Kehinde Ishangi and Tiffany Rhynard discussed their film-in-progress Not My Enemy.

Not My Enemy paints a picture of the traumatic and dehumanizing impact of the Vietnam War through the experiences of African-American soldiers.

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YEAR IN REVIEW, CONTINUED

The School of Dance was able to present a number of socially distanced alternatives to theatre performances including outside showings, virtual events, and video showings.

VISITING GUEST ARTISTS Ronald K. Brown photo by Matt Karas

Juel D. Lane photo by Travis Geter

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Ariel Douglas presents her developmental study dedicated to Limbo dancers of all levels via Zoom.

The Show Must Go On: A COVID Friendly Student Showing was an event organized by the Student Advisory Council for safely-distanced in-person and virtual audiences. Due to rain, the event transitioned to a well-attended virtual only gathering.

Our BFA Seniors presented their Capstone projects, Boundless: Screen Dance Showings. Under the direction of Associate Professor Gwen Welliver, the Senior class showed creativity and resilience while continuing to make moving art. Congratulations Seniors on your hard work.

Leah Bailey’s Heartwood confronted the disconnect between ballet and the environment. Through film and live performance, six dancers explored balletic traditions set to music from Caroline Shaw’s Orange (2019) performed by the Attacca Quartet. In search of relevance within balletic structures, Heartwood utilized balletic movement to communicate an urgent contemporary issue: human impact on climate change. Her research explores balletic structures that perpetuate the form’s disconnect from relevance in an effort to reimagine balletic movement that communicates contemporary themes.

MFA Alumni Eboné Amos returned with a virtual viewing of the 2019 MFA Thesis Concert, Let the Church Say on February 23. This work is a tribute to the Sunday morning church services Amos attended growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, and examines her position in the world as a young black woman through the essence of cultural Sunday morning service rituals such as A&B selections, testimony, and benediction. In this immersive work the audience participates as the congregation and goes through a journey to celebrate the unity, faith, and liberation of the black church. After the viewing, Amos discussed current cultural implications of the work and answered live questions from guests.

Lian Thorne presented JAM, an exploration of the felt connections between two Black communities from the viewpoint of a Black Barbadian woman. This work is about experiencing and generating movement as a response to dances of resilience of a different culture, particularly, in this case the African American dance form jam skating.

JAM is a physical reaction to how the descendants of enslaved Africans experienced each others’ dances of resilience that developed as a result of slavery.

FSU School of Dance held Looking Back and Thinking Ahead: A Curated Conversation of Black Women in Dance with panelist Assistant Professor Kehinde Ishangi, alum Millicent Marie Johnnie and Melissa Cobblah Gutierrez, and moderated by Dr. La Toya Davis-Craig, in partnership with the Office of the Vice President and The Center for Leadership and Social Change’s Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Week: The Black Women In Our Lives. The event included a video showing of Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s work Give Your Hands to Struggle.

MA Candidate Scott Lindenberg presented Scary Fairies, a virtual fantasy play space and installation built from collaborative fantasy with Ahri (Linxin “Kisa,” Li), Jed (Jeremy Guyton) and Virginia (Maria White).

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HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY DR. NANCY SMITH FICHTER

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Alumni, past faculty and staff, and colleagues from the field joined the School of Dance in celebrating the contributions of Professor Emerita Dr. Nancy Smith Fichter on her 90th birthday. Dr. Fichter served as the Chair for the Department of Dance for 33 years before her retirement in 1997. Her presence has remained with the School of Dance and her philosophy—do it with love—is a mantra we teach our students and return to whenever we face challenges.

Retired faculty Anthony Morgan joined current faculty members Jawole Zollar, Russell Sandifer and Tom Welsh in an informal Forum conversation moderated by La Toya Davis-Craig meant to serve as a way to introduce a new generation of students to the Legacy and Contributions of Dr. Fichter. The Friends of Dance Council, with efforts spearheaded by Joyce Fausone, organized a drive-by birthday celebration where friends could safely wish Nancy a Happy Birthday from their car. The celebration ended with over 100 friends and alumni gathering on a virtual Zoom event to watch a performance of Soundings and past interviews, reminisce about studying under Dr. Fichter, and hear from Dr. Fichter herself.

do it with love.

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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

JEREMY GUYTON FSU School of Dance MFA Student contributes to social justice conversation on collegiate and national level

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eremy Guyton, a current MFA Graduate student in the FSU School of Dance, describes himself as an alchemist, performer, dreamer, choreographer, educator, and new world conjurer.

He was born and raised in Los Angeles, but spent most childhood summers in his greatgrandparents’ backcountry home in Millport, Alabama. It was the marriage of these two different worlds that really laid the foundation for Jeremy’s unique movement and vivid imagination.

Jeremy’s dance training began in the comfort of his living room as he spent countless hours mirroring music videos and absorbing knowledge from well-regarded choreographers such as Jeffrey Daniel, Wade Robson, and Laurie Ann Gibson. Upon graduation from high school, Jeremey relocated to the Mid-Atlantic where he studied theatre at Georgetown University, and while in Baltimore, Jeremy joined a dance crew and quickly found himself enthralled with local club and go-go music. In 2012, Jeremy moved to New Orleans where he enthusiastically adopted second-line footwork and bounce into his movement style. Over time, his home studio evolved to the club dance floor, a rich site where he continues to investigate, experiment and transcribe conversations between the DJ and the dance floor.

Guyton says his art is a call to action. “It demands accountability for the ways in which I move through space. It nudges my imagination to think within and around existing structures to create safe, fantastical spaces for every spirit in our community.”

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During his time at FSU, Jeremy has been exemplary in implementing new ideas as well as organizations.

Throughout his first semester, Jeremy worked with nonmajor students enrolled in Hip Hop courses within the School of Dance, where he made it his mission to connect these students with a number of professional artists. Over the course of the semester Jeremy facilitated two guest artist panels and four virtual cyphers, which brought in thirteen professionals to their virtual classes where artists were able to collaborate directly with students. One artist in particular, was fellow graduate student Dedrick Gray.

Jeremy is one of the founding students in the Department’s Anti-Racist Collective (ARC) working group, which works to strategize in partnership with faculty and administration on creating equitable space within the School of Dance. Alongside SoD students, Jeremy was instrumental in facilitating two community building workshops with the goal of fostering a sense of belonging, along with embodying the departmental value of ‘doing it with love.’

On a national level, Jeremy has been working on organizing equitable space within the dance field at large. Recently, he was commissioned by national dance organization, Dance/USA, to write an article highlighting three artists whose work exemplifies the intersection of dance and social justice. Throughout the article, Jeremy emphasizes how the capacity of dance and movement can catalyze positive social change. Previously, he was the Youth Programs Director at Dancing Grounds (New Orleans, LA) and designed the Dance for Social Change initiative.

This program allows for high school artists to practice dance while simultaneously exploring advocacy issues.

Through this program, students develop skills in creative thinking, communication, collaboration, and leadership.

Guyton has danced with artists such as Solange Knowles, Maya Taylor, Aluna, Chris Emile, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Kristin Sudeikis, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, McKey, Leyla McCallah and Kesha Kiyoko McCrae, KM Dance Project, Junebug Productions, B.U.K.U. Dance Krewe, and Goat in the Road Productions.

Jeremy Guyton performs in a restaging of Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s Haint Blues during the School of Dance’s Evening of Dance performance series. Photo by Meagan Helman.

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School of Dance during

COVID

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DANCE ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP

The Dance Alumni Scholarship is distinguished as the first endowed scholarship in Dance at Florida State University. The brainchild of Sharyn Heiland Shields (MM 1968) and production manager Odette Salvaggio, the fund was established in 1989 and has received gifts from more than 60 alums to date.

More than 20 students have benefited from proceeds from the Dance Alumni Scholarship since its inception in 1989. We asked three past recipients to share the impact that the Dance Alumni Scholarship had on their academic and professional careers. Join us as we journey with Ashley Brown (MFA 2010), Diane Cahill Bedford (BFA 2003, MFA 2010), and Kieron Sargeant (MFA 2019) from their time in the School of Dance to their current successes.

What was the impact of the scholarship on your academic career?

This scholarship impacted my academic career tremendously.

The financial assistance allowed me to travel to West Africa (specifically Senegal and Nigeria) to further my research on African Diasporic Dance Forms and its deep spiritual and ritualistic connection to Trinidad and Tobago/Caribbean Dances. I was also able to travel throughout the United States and Latin America where I presented my research at various conferences. In Canada, I lectured on Caribbean Dance and globally, I have facilitated several movement workshops. I must say thank you to all donors who contributed to ensure that students can have the opportunity to have their academic visions fulfilled during their stay at FSU.

KIERON SARGEANT

Do you have any favorite memories from your time at FSU?

All of my memories happened inside the School of Dance.

I will always value the experience of being continuously mentored by the following faculty members: Dr. La Toya Davis Craig, Dr. Hannah Schwadron, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Gwen Welliver, Anjali Austin, Josephine Garibaldi, Kehinde Ishangi, and Jen Atkins. I really enjoyed working with Dr. Craig in particular. Latoya has given me the tools and wisdom to become the artist I am currently. Her knowledge in the field of arts administration and grant writing is second to none. I will always remember how beautifully Russell Sandifer lit my choreographic work and how he transformed the space for my MFA Thesis Performance.

Finally, I really enjoyed my first semester during which fellow School of Dance alumna Millicent Johnnie was a visiting artist.

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Where are you in your career now?

I am currently doing various teaching gigs at universities locally and internationally. I’m also managing a foundation I recently launched, the Kieron Dwayne Sargeant Dance & Education Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to supporting the artists and dancers of Trinidad and Tobago to achieve excellence in dance and dance education. I am also hosting online lectures and talks with wellknown dance scholars, choreographers and artists on topics surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion, black dance and Caribbean histories, ethnography and choreography. In the fall I will be taking up a full-time professor position.

Do you have any advice for current FSU or FSU Dance students?

Stay true to your craft and continue to invest in your artistic career and life.

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DIANE CAHILL BEDFORD BFA 2003 MFA 2010

developed the dance. The process of creating and designing dance and music collaboratively was such a rich and rewarding experience.

Where are you in your career now?

I am currently finishing up my seventh year at Texas A&M University as an Associate Professor of Dance in our Dance Science Program. I feel very fortunate to mentor the skill, artistry, and creative endeavors of my students. During my time at TAMU, I have traveled across the country and even to Hong Kong to present choreography and/or lectures at multiple conferences. I have remained active in serving multiple professional dance service organizations to give back to the dance community at large. I have also published a preliminary Dance Appreciation text and other articles.

Do you have any advice for current FSU or FSU Dance students?

What was the impact of the scholarship on your academic career?

The Dance Alumni Scholarship was extremely helpful in providing support for tuition, books, and supplies. This scholarship helped me to be able to stay focused on my degree and the creative work I developed rather than needing to find employment outside of the University.

Do you have any favorite memories from your time at FSU? As an undergraduate dance major, I remember the thrill of performing in multiple works from students to guest artists and faculty. One special project I was invited to be involved with was a reconstruction of Ruth St. Denis’s work.

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work, I was fortunate enough to perform this solo at the Ringling Museum.

As a graduate student, I relished in the opportunity to expand my creative research and learn new technological skills I could combine with my choreography.

Faculty member Tim Glenn was an integral part of my fascination and exploration of projection design and dance for camera, both of which I was able to showcase in my MFA thesis concert. I also was involved in filming an evening length dance for camera at the Birdsong sanctuary one summer alongside Tim and many of my close friends in the graduate program. Another project I absolutely loved was implemented by faculty member Lynda Davis in which I was paired with a composition student from the School of Music. We collaborated on his music creation for my solo and I

My advice to current students is to find the balance of enjoying life (time with friends, social activities) alongside a focused, dedicated attention to your studies. For dancers, our creativity and our inspiration have to come from life outside of just dance. Learn to “fill your cup” now, but also to cherish the precious time you have to be completely dedicated to your craft. Go to every technique class, take risks in choreography, learn complimentary skills such as technology, photography, dance science, etc. to give yourself a well-rounded list of experiences and abilities that will become assets to you in the future because you never know exactly what you will up doing. Students should remember to take time to slow down, breathe, and re-collect themselves when everything feels overwhelming.

Remember that the opportunities you have now in school are only there for a finite amount of time before you go out into the world, so remind yourself why you are there, what is your passion, and enjoy the journey!

What was the impact of the scholarship on your academic career?

The scholarship definitely relieved me of a financial burden because I used it to pay tuition. I was able to focus solely on my coursework and not how to pay for my degree.

Do you have any favorite memories from your time at FSU? Some of my fondest memories were with Dr. Nancy Smith Fichter and Lynda Davis. Lynda was always an advocate for me inside and outside of the classroom. She cared about the things that I was juggling in life and understood that I had a different perspective as a graduate student. Dr. Fichter’s directing class was so eye-opening for me as a budding choreographer and I valued her authenticity inside and outside of the classroom.

ASHLEY BROWN

Where are you in your career now?

I work for Prospect Schools Network where I am a high school performing arts instructor (teaching dance and technical theatre) and performance coordinator. I am also the network dance coordinator and oversee professional development for all dance teachers in the network. I also started a production management company, Heartworks Productions, to consult and support artists from concept to stage. Last but not least, I work with an organization, Shining Light, that takes an arts impact workshop into jail and prison facilities. I created a TEDx Performance for TEDxColumbia University 2019 to share my experiences.

MFA 2010

Do you have any advice for current FSU or FSU Dance students?

Don’t be afraid to advocate for yourself in the ways that you want to matriculate your dance degree. There are so many options at FSU and even more career trajectories afterwards, so find the way(s) that work for you. You have great training and professors at your fingertips and can apply your experiences in numerous ways.

HELP GROW THE IMPACT! Make a gift to the scholarship fund today.

ONLINE dance.fsu.edu/support MAIL FSU Foundation 325 W. College Avenue Tallahassee, FL 32301 Make checks payable to “FSU Foundation” with “Dance Alumni Scholarship” in the memo line

FOR MORE INFORMATION

on giving to FSU Dance, or to discuss legacy giving, please contact: JESSICA COMAS Director of Development FSU College of Fine Arts (850) 645-0701 jcomas@fsu.edu

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FACULTY UPDATES

FAREWELL DOUG CORBIN

WELCOME IRVIN GONZALEZ The School of Dance welcomes to the Faculty, Dr. Irvin Gonzalez. We are so excited to have Irvin join us and we look forward to the richness of knowledge he will add to the course offerings.

Irvin Manuel Gonzalez, Ph.D. (he/him/his) is a recent graduate of the University of California, Riverside in the Critical Dance Studies Program. His research analyzes quebradita, a Mexican/Mexican American social dance form. Gonzalez considers how immigrant, queer, and working-class quebradita dancers construct mexicanidades to navigate trans/national politics. He examines how affective affiliations between quebradores/as/ xs, on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, are embodied to forge belonging as strategy. In doing so, Gonzalez theorizes the body as an archive of movement that brown dancers use to resist xenophobia/homophobia and the instability of neoliberal economies. He is a founding member of Primera Generación Dance Collective (PGDC) and a board member for Show Box Los Angeles (SBLA) and the Dance Studies Association (DSA).

As a dance artist, he revels in the potentials of collaborations. Gonzalez emphasizes how people connect to produce new aesthetics and affectivities, often looking to dismantle notions of the “solo artist” by highlighting how bodies are always already ancestrally-connected and linked to one another through emotions and experiences. Focusing on the investigation of ‘mexicanidades’ as a communal formation, his collective, PGDC, fuses their various trainings and dance knowledges (modern, postmodern, jazz, cumbia, quebradita, salsa, and contact improvisation) to develop ways of moving that speak to the concept/ualization of mestizaje. As such, PGDC highlights the plural desires that stem from different notions of brownness and brown belonging.

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Congratulations to Associate Professor Douglas Corbin on his retirement from the FSU School of Dance. Doug joined the SoD family in 1996 and has contributed in amazing ways not only as a musical accompanist to the ballet and contemporary classes but through an extensive list of course offerings helping our students understand the importance of musical theory and dance. Doug’s work with students on thesis concerts, capstone projects, special showings, and other creative works will surely be missed.

Corbin is a dance musician specializing in music for training, acclaimed for his work with numerous teachers, companies and schools, including the Ailey School, David Howard, Steps, Twyla Tharpe, Merce Cunningham Company, American Ballet Theatre and the American Dance Festival. He has made dozens of recordings for technique class, and led workshops on music for dance throughout Europe, Asia and South America. He holds BA and MA degrees from Hunter College, City University of New York.

Doug was offered and accepted a position in Oldenberg, Germany at the Oldenburgisches Staatstheater with Ballettcompagnie Oldenburg.

We wish you all the best in this next phase of your life. Continue to “Do it with Love.”

NANCY SMITH FICHTER SCHOLARSHIP DONORS The School of Dance would like to thank the donors to the Nancy Smith Fichter Scholarship fund for their generosity and dedication. Our programs, students, and faculty are achieving greatness because of their support.

Ellen A. Ashdown

Jeanne R. Keen

Stan S. Bobo

Debra F. Levin

Martha A. Brim & Kenneth W. May

Cricket & Douglas Mannheimer

Caroline F. & Dennis J. Caine

Marion B. & Walter L. Moore

Kathryn K. Cashin

Leslie Neal

Barbara B. Cooper

Patsy J. Palmer

Deborah A. De Correvont

Carla Peterson

James P. & Gayle M. Doherty

Patricia H. Phillips

Amy E. & Robert E. Dowling

Sherrill W. & James W. Ragans

Grayal E. Farr

Courtney J. Samanen

Joyce-Ann B. & Richard C. Fausone

Marshall E. Swiney

Patricia Fenda

Vincent E. Thomas

Beverly B. Frick

Steve Urse

Barbara J. & Keith A. Gordon

Mary L. Ward

Diane Guida

Kathryn White Austin

Dennise M. Hewlett

Cathy L. & Eugene S. Wright

Kimberly M. Holt

Jawole Zollar

Janet M. & Peter F. Hughes

Listing represents donors who made gifts between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021 to the Nancy Smith Fichter Scholarship Fund at the FSU Foundation. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. Should you have any corrections or questions, please contact the College Advancement Office at 850-645-0701.

For a complete list of donors to the Nancy Smith Fichter Scholarship Fund since its inception in 1999, visit dance.fsu.edu/nancy-smith-fichter-scholarship-donors/.

To make a gift, visit give.fsu.edu/nancysmithfichter.

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

Photo by Lynn Lane

DIANE CAHILL BEDFORD “The FSU SOD shaped me into the artist and scholar that I am today. Without the wonderful training I received, the opportunities to teach in both movement and lecture genres, and the ability to develop my interests and abilities in a wide variety of skills, I would not be as prepared as I am today to teach in a university. I am forever thankful and grateful for the individual mentorship I received during my time at FSU.” Diane Cahill Bedford serves as Clinical Associate Professor in the Dance Science Program at Texas A&M University (TAMU). She holds an MFA in Dance Performance and Choreography (2010) and a BFA in Dance and English Literature, Magna Cum Laude (2003) from Florida State University. Her choreography has been accepted for performance by the WestFest Dance Festival in NYC, Southern Vermont Dance Festival, Austin Dance Festival, Brazos Contemporary Dance Festival, CORPS de Ballet International, as well as Fieldworks and The Dance Gathering in Houston, TX. Diane has also presented her choreography at the American College Dance Festival, San Jacinto College, Fort Wayne Ballet, The Tallahassee Ballet, and the FSU Opera.

In addition to her creative work, Diane has presented on various aspects of dance pedagogy at conferences for the National Dance Educators Organization (NDEO), The International Association for Dance Medicine and Science (IADMS), CORPS de Ballet International, National Dance Society, The Texas Dance Improvisation Festival, The Texas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (TAHPERD), The Transformational Teaching and Learning Conference at Texas A&M University and San Jacinto College. Diane has served in a number of service leadership positions within these various organizations including Performance Chair for the TAHPERD Conference.

Currently, Diane serves as the Membership and Outreach Committee Co-Chair for CORPS de Ballet International.

In 2016, Diane published a preliminary textbook titled Dance in Many Forms with Kendall Hunt. Her journal articles covering dance photography and textbook review have also been published in the National Dance Society Journal.

She has been awarded over $25,000 in grant funding from the Academy of Visual and Performing Arts at TAMU for various artistic projects, and she received the Global Education Grant to engage students in learning excursions outside of Texas. Diane received the Richard Stadelmann Faculty Senate Service Award from Texas A&M University in 2017 for her work in developing the cultural discourse undergraduate requirement at TAMU. Diane has performed with Jana Hicks Repertory in NYC, Dance Repertory Theatre, The Tallahassee Ballet, and was selected for a reconstruction of Hanya Holm’s Jocose at the American Dance Festival. She has also had the opportunity to perform in works choreographed by Jawole Zollar, Gerri Houlihan, Jane Weiner, Terry Creach, Darshan Singh Bhuller, Andy Noble, and Lynda Davis. Diane previously taught dance and directed Outreach Programming for FSU, Charleston Ballet Theatre, Fort Wayne Ballet, New England Ballet Theatre, and Ithaca Ballet. Additionally, she served as Professor of Dance at San Jacinto College South where she directed the San Jac Dance PAC. 18 | F SU SCHOOL OF DANCE

Photo by Meg Stahl (Peculiar Ochre Alexis Zaccarello)

ROSS DANIEL “Graduating from FSU School of Dance has involved me with a valuable community of movers and shakers in the field of dance and beyond. This community is powerful and is making change in every space we enter. Love y’all!”

Ross Daniel is a Georgia-born artist based in New York with an MFA in dance performance and choreography from Florida State University and a BA in theatre performance and directing from Georgia College & State University.

Ross is a 2019–2020 New Directions Choreography Lab Fellow at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and a recent participant of the “MANCC Forward Dialogues” at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography where he developed a dance collective with choreographer Sarah Rose entitled Daniel Rose Projects. Ross is a current company member of Third Rail Projects, performing in Then She Fell. He also performs with 277 Dance Projects, Alexis Zacarello (Center for Performance Research A.I.R,) and Katelyn Halpern and Dancers based at SMUSH Gallery in Jersey City, NJ. He Performed on tour with Urban Bush Women in Hair & Other Stories and on tour with Fox and Beggar Theatre, a contemporary circus company based in Asheville, North Carolina. Ross’ work has been presented at Dixon Place (New York, NY), YourMove Dance Festival (Jersey City, NJ), Dumbo Dance Festival (Brooklyn, NY), Triskelion Arts (Brooklyn, NY), SMUSH Gallery (Jersey City, NJ), Studio Le Regard (Paris, France), Diana Wortham Theatre (Asheville, NC), and 621 Gallery (Tallahassee, FL.) Ross has performed at Art Basel (Miami, FL), The Orlando Fringe Festival, The Chicago Fringe Festival.

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Headshot photo by Quinn Wharton Photo by Savannah Lee Sickmon

MICHELLE FLETCHER Michelle Fletcher (MFA, 2008) is a dancer, director, choreographer, dance filmmaker, educator and artist manager living on Lenapehoking land currently referred to as Brooklyn, NY. Upon graduating with her Master of Fine Arts from Florida State University, she lived in San Francisco for seven years. While in San Francisco Fletcher made dances, collaborated with brilliant artists from multiple disciplines and served as Company Manager to the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. In 2014, Fletcher was a Fulbright Scholar at The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance where she taught contemporary technique and dance technology. She now teaches composition for FSU’s ARTS in NYC program. However, this past year due to the pandemic, Fletcher taught a new remote course for FSU’s SoD titled “Professional Practice and Arts Management.” Fletcher serves as a manager to Miguel Gutierrez, Camille A. Brown and Beth Gill. Aside from the stellar artists she supports, Fletcher is pursuing a second Masters in Social Work at NYU Silver. Ultimately she plans to braid her dance background with somatic healing modalities within a clinical therapeutic practice. She is a proud member of Dance Artists National Collective and an artist worker with Creating New Futures Phase 2. CNF’s collective work is aimed toward dismantling harmful systems within the dance field.

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ALORA HAYNES “I appreciate all that FSU meant to me. My time there was magical. I had just lost my mother and was in great need of emotional healing. I received this healing through the love and care of all of the faculty at FSU and the safety of living in Montgomery Hall all day and all night, doing nothing but Dancing and teaching, as a Grad Assistant.”

Born in Austin, Texas, Haynes is the Chairwoman of the Santa Fe College (SF) Fine Arts and Entertainment Technology Department in Gainesville, Florida. She manages the Art, Dance, Music, Theatre, Graphic Design and Digital Media Programs. Outside of her Administrative duties, Haynes is a well-known master teacher, choreographer, and performer in the Southeast, having taught thousands of dancers in over 40 years of teaching experience.

She attended the Alabama School of Fine Arts, where she worked under internationally renowned ballet luminary Dame Sonia Arova and her husband Thor Sutowski. Before coming to SF, she performed as a Soloist and as the Ballet Mistress for the Alabama Ballet under the direction of Arova and Sutowski and with Dance Alive! of Gainesville, Florida.

Ms. Haynes holds a BFA in Dance from the University of Alabama-Birmingham and an MFA in Dance from Florida State University. She has guest-taught throughout the southeast US, in Cuba, with Laura Alonso, and has been employed at colleges and universities including: the University of Alabama-Birmingham; Florida State University; Springhill College; Huntingdon College; the University of Florida; and thirty-three years with Santa Fe College.

Ms. Haynes has been honored on SF’s “Wall of Fame” in 2000–01 for her contributions to the college. She received the NISOD Excellence Award from the International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence for the installation of the Santa Fe Summer Dance Institute, as well as the 2016 Roueche Excellence Award for Leadership and Innovation, for the installation of the Young Dancer’s Workshop at SF, as well as other programs for Music and Theatre.

In 2005, Ms. Haynes was an Executive Producer of the film Dance of My Heart a feature documentary about her friend and co-worker Alberto Alonso. The film received the highest of reviews from The Edmonton Film Festival, the Havana International Film Festival and numerous other festivals throughout the state of Florida and is now in worldwide distribution.

In 2013, Ms. Haynes was asked to conceptualize a year of annual programming, utilizing her professional contacts, to be produced at the Jackson N. Sasser Fine Arts Hall and build a community-wide audience. She began a series she entitled the Master Artist Series, whereby well-known artists from the visual arts, dance, music and theatre not only come to entertain audiences, but they also engage in master classes with the SF Fine Arts students. The most recent success of the Master Artist Series was the re-staging of the ballet Carmen Suite, performed by guest artists Sarah Lane and Cory Stearns of American Ballet Theatre, accompanied live by The Gainesville Orchestra. Up until this performance, this ballet had not been performed with a live orchestra since 1967. Restaged by the late Alberto Alonso’s wife, Sonia Calero, the ballet played to two sold-out audiences.

Other active memberships include the Florida Higher Education Arts Network and the Board of the Gainesville Orchestra. Ms. Haynes is a proud advocate for all artists and Arts organizations with passion to support the arts in education.

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KEHINDE ISHANGI Photo

by Keiko Guest

“I would not be the artist-educator I am today had I not had the experiences I did while an MFA candidate at FSU. I came in with a myopic view of the profession and left seeing the field of dance as a beautiful kaleidoscope full of possibilities.”

Kehinde Ishangi is a dance artist, educator, and scholar. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Dance Pedagogy from Brenau University and a Master of Fine Arts in Dance from Florida State University (FSU). In 2017, Ishangi joined the tenure-track faculty at FSU in Studio Practices and Dance Science. As Assistant Professor, she directs the Dance in Paris Summer Study Abroad Program and co-directs the Science and Wellness services within the School of Dance. Ishangi is a Level 3 Franklin Method® Educator, certified GYROTONIC ®, GYROKINESIS®, STOTT PILATES™, and CoreAlign® Instructor. She formed The Ishangi Institute to further her research and application of movement science.

Ishangi is an international solo artist. Within the United States, she has performed with Ballethnic Dance Company, Terspsicorps Dance Theatre, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble, KM Dance Project, among others. While residing in Paris, France, Ishangi was a performing artist with Compagnie James Carlès and Compagnie Georges Momboye. She has danced the diverse repertoire of Martha Graham, Alwin Nikolais, Gerri Houlihan, Christopher Huggins, Jawole Zollar, Milton Myers, Ron Brown, Nejla Yatkin, IréneTassembédo, Thomas Pazik, Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Talley Beatty, George Momboye, among others. Ishangi performed Boschimanne: living curiosities with KM Dance Project at the 2019 National Performance Network conference and Ancestors at the 2020 Festival International de Danse de Ougoudouga in Burkina Faso. In addition, Ishangi’s performance experience includes the French film Fais danser la poussière, as well as the celebrated theater production Sea of Common Catastrophe premiering in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Ishangi held a Visiting Professorship at Tulane University, spent three years on the faculty of L’Académie Américaine de Danse de Paris, France. In addition, Ishangi used her training as a Movement Scientist during the collaboration of Les éscailles de la mémoire performed by Jawole Zollar’s Urban Bush Women in the USA, and Germaine Acogny’s Jant-Bi in Senegal, West Africa. Ishangi’s pedagogical approach aims to integrate functional anatomy within studio practices. In April 2021, she published in the anthology (Re:)Claiming Ballet curated by Adesola Akinleye discussing her research on functional anatomy and transcending the physical aesthetic of Ballet.

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LAWRENCE JACKSON “The MFA in Dance program at FSU afforded me the opportunity to refine my artistic voice while acquiring holistic knowledge of multiple perspectives in pedagogical practices and dance scholarship. The close faculty mentorship and numerous opportunities to produce and present scholarly and creative work gave me the opportunity to cultivate the knowledge, skills, and confidence necessary to work as a leader, teaching-artist, administrator, and artist-scholar.”

Lawrence M. Jackson is an Associate Professor and serves as the Associate Chair of Dance, Director of Graduate Studies in Dance, Artistic Director of the Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre, Dance Alabama, The MFA Dance Concert and Dance Collection within the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Alabama. Within the Dance program, Jackson teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in Jazz, Contemporary, Dance History, Pedagogy, Freshman Seminar, Improvisation and Choreography. In addition to his duties within the Department of Theatre and Dance, Jackson also serves the College of Arts and Sciences as Chair of the Diversity Committee and as a Distinguished Teaching Fellow. Jackson is also the current President of the Alabama Dance Council Executive Board.

As a scholar, Jackson has published in scholarly journals in the field of Black Dance. Most notably, he authored, co-edited and published a special edition devoted to Black Dance in the Journal of Pan African Studies, the second occurrence in history, where an academic journal edition was committed solely to Black Dance.

Professionally, Lawrence devoted several years with the internationally acclaimed modern dance company, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble. Additionally, he has performed as a guest artist in a variety of concert dance venues. Most recently, Jackson performed I Walk with Spirit at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. Choreographically, Jackson has produced over 95 original choreographic works. Most recently, Lawrence choreographed an off-Broadway production, Separate and Equal, which was subsequently nominated for an AUDELCO Award for Best Choreography. Lawrence is currently choreographing an off-Broadway production Shooting Star, that will premiere at Theater 59E59 in September 2022.

Jackson has served as a guest artist/choreographer/master teacher at the University of Michigan, California State University Northridge, University of Nevada Las Vegas, University of Florida, University of Wyoming, Alabama State University, Brenau University, University of Northern Colorado, West Virginia University, Western Wyoming Community College, Dancer’s Workshop, Ballet Society of Colorado Springs, Red Mountain Theatre Company, Gus Giordano Dance School, Men in Motion, Wichita School of Performing Arts, American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive, Alabama Dance Festival, Chicago National Association of Dance Masters, International Association of Blacks in Dance, Florida Dance Festival, Tennessee Dance Festival, Alabama Dance Festival, American College Dance Association, Academic and Performing Arts Complex, University of Alabama Opera House, Gulf Coast Dance Alliance, Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre, Snowy Range Summer Dance Festival and West Virginia University Summer Dance Festival.

Lawrence also serves as a Faculty Mentor for the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference, Grant Reviewer for The National Endowment for the Arts, Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, The UA Research Grants Committee and The Alabama State Council on the Arts. In the past six years, Lawrence has received funding from the Alabama Touring Artists Program to tour Dance concerts throughout rural communities within Alabama, exposing underserved communities to the art of dance.

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ZAKIYA ALTA LEE “The Florida State University Department of Dance nurtured my fearlessness. I received the space to explore myself fully and unapologetically. As an up-and-coming business leader I know that my time at FSU gave me the foundation to intelligently yet boldly take risks that have the potential to make a massive impact in the world.”

Zakiya Alta Lee is a woman who never stops moving! Her love for movement led to her acceptance into the prestigious Florida State University School of Visual Arts and Dance. After two years at FSU, Zakiya was given a scholarship to train at the acclaimed Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York and returned to the Dance Department a stronger performer!

After receiving a BFA degree in dance and a minor in business, Z decided to take a break from the theatre and explore the world of sports entertainment. Zakiya was invited to join the NBA Atlanta Hawks dance team, eventually becoming a team choreographer/captain, coach for the Jr. Hawks dancers, and overall ambassador for the organization. Little did Miss Lee know that this experience would be the catalyst to kickstart her company Z Pro Prep®, an intensive training camp for individuals who desire to be entertainers on Pro NFL/NBA teams.

After Zakiya’s time in Atlanta, she spent four years in Los Angeles where she filmed three national commercials, two films, and a television show. During this time she also executive produced and sold her first television pilot to E! entertainment. Z’s many years of performing have taken her to cities such as St. Petersburg, Russia; Prague, Czech Republic; Monterrey, Mexico; Taipei, Taiwan and various cities in China.

Currently, Zakiya is completing her executive MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business while expanding Z Pro Prep® into multiple cities and exploring new B2B markets. With client placements on professional sports teams such as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers, LA Lakers, Atlanta Hawks, and NY Jets (just to name a few), Z is determined to reach as many women as possible to encourage and uplift all while spreading the message that, “You Are Enough!”

Zakiya is truly a woman of God whose light shines no matter the circumstance. She is determined not to stop until she has achieved all her goals!

Life motto: “You are enough!” • Purpose: “To Uplift Women”

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Headshot photo by Art Morrison

Photos by Meagan Helman

JENNIE PETUCH “Florida State University School of Dance has offered me the opportunity to grow creatively and technically as an artist. SoD has provided the technology resources to continue my creative exploration in discovering innovative ways for movement invention behind the camera. These tools have made it possible to film dance underwater with go pros, in the skies with drones, and highlight movement with interactive projections. I was nurtured as a student and now as a colleague, I am supported as a professional, with life-changing experiences, opportunities, and collaborations.”

Jennifer Akalina Petuch (MFA, 2017) is currently Adjunct Faculty and Staff at Florida State University’s School of Dance. Originally from West Palm Beach, Florida, Petuch graduated magna cum laude from the University of South Florida (USF) achieving a Bachelor’s in Dance Studies. At USF, she danced in several notable pieces including Gretchen Warren’s, Les Sylphides and Doug Varone’s, Sacre du Printemps. While attending FSU, she performed works such as Tim Glenn’s, RIDE; Joséphine Garibaldi’s, Land of the Pick and Choose; and a Tedx Talk in Spring of 2015. Her MFA thesis resulted in a two-year collaboration with the FSU Computer Science faculty and students creating an original interactive Augmented Reality software for the stage called ViFlow.

Petuch became a certified Pilates Mat instructor by Balanced Body, Inc. Petuch has taught a variety of classes including Survey of Dance Technology, virtual seminars on Dance Filmmaking, and Projection Design for Dance. Her work with multiple universities include creating choreographic works featuring large scale projection designs, setting works with interactive projection designs, master classes, and producing a full-length virtual concert presenting her recent works for Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Department of Theater and Dance.

Petuch has worked with Corps de Ballet International as their Technical Coordinator and Facilitator, Videographer, and Editor; produced over 15 projection designs for South Georgia Ballet, Tampa City Ballet, Louisburg College Dance Company, Ballet Florida, Florida Atlantic University; and created a large-scale projection installation in 2020 at the ExCineLab at the Tallahassee Community College.

Petuch was Co-Director with Annali Rose (MFA, 2021) on their underwater dance film, Liminality, which has received National and International recognition and been screened in over 25 film festivals since 2020. This work has received “Best Film Production,” “People’s Choice Award” (Inspired Dance Film Fest Australia), “Most Innovative Dance Video” (Espoo Digi-Dance International), “Best Cinematography” (Rethink Dance Film Festival), “Best Dance Film” (Experimental, Dance & Music Film Festival), “Best of Show” (2020 Newgrounds: A Collection of Dance Films), and others.

Petuch has been featured on FSU and local news stations and in local newspapers recognizing Liminality’s success and for her community work of cinematography, editing, filmmaking for local companies like The Tallahassee Ballet and Theatre with a Mission.

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SARAH ROSE

Headshot Photo by Ross Daniel Photo by Alexandra Lance

“The School of Dance connected me with an invaluable cohort of peer artists and mentors who continue to provide energy, feedback, and support to my life and work. My time at the School of Dance allowed me to experiment in a deep and fundamental way that I would likely not have accessed outside of the context of Montgomery Hall.”

Sarah Rose earned her BA from Princeton University (2014) and her MFA in Choreography and Performance from Florida State University (2019). She has shown her choreography in the eastern United States from Vermont to Florida. Most recently she created 12 hours (Feb, 2020) at SMUSH Gallery in Jersey City, New Jersey. Across the pandemic she has maintained a personal movement practice of taking long walks and then improvising. She is currently contemplating a return to creating set movement material, craving something certain after a year+ of uncertainty. In addition to her own work, she collaborates with Ross Daniel on choreographic work under the name DanielRose Projects. The pair met at FSU and began collaborating in 2017. Together, they investigate place through multiple media (movement, sculpture, sound) simultaneously. Most recently they created four shores (October, 2020). This pandemic project was based on their embodied experience of the four parallel shorelines of the Hudson and East Rivers. Sarah is also a guild certified Feldenkrais practitioner.

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KIERON SARGEANT “All of my memories happened inside the school of dance. I will always value the experience of being continuously mentored by faculty members ... I really enjoyed working with Dr. Craig in particular. La Toya has given me the tools and wisdom to become the artist I am currently. Her knowledge in the field of arts administration and grant writing is second to none. I will always remember how beautifully Rusell Sandifer lit my choreographic work and how he transformed the space for my MFA Thesis Performance. Finally, I really enjoyed my first semester during which Millicent Johnnie was a visiting artist at the school of dance. That semester was everything and more.”

Kieron Sargeant is a Trinidadian-born interdisciplinary artist, choreographer, dancer, and dance researcher emerging out of the African-Caribbean tradition. For the past 20 years, he has been involved in documenting, assessing and analyzing dance traditions of the Caribbean, and establishing a canon of dance teachings and workshops, informed by his research, to popularize the ancestral survival of movement traditions between the Circum-Caribbean and Western Africa.

In 2019, he received his MFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from FSU and continues to be one of the leading voices in the emerging field of African-Trinidadian dance practices. His views were recently included, along with other noted African-diaspora choreographers, in “Decolonizing Dance Writing: Who is Writing for?”—an assessment on the standard of dance review writing in Black Dance. In 2020, he was selected to join the coordinating team of the Emerging Black Choreographers Incubator as a Mentor, hosted by the Mojuba! Dance Collective (MDC) based in Ohio, USA. As a student, he committed to making closer connections between dance in the Caribbean and the wider global dance community.

Kieron assisted in the successful coordination of the first ever international audition for the recruitment of MFA and MA candidates for the school through his connection with the Contemporary Choreographers Collective Festival (COCO) in Trinidad and Tobago.

In 2020, he was awarded a place in the Helen Pickett Choreographic Essentials Program along with a Dance Fellowship from UNESCO to South Africa. His mission was further amplified last year when he founded and launched the Kieron Sargeant Dance and Dance Education Foundation of Trinidad and Tobago—a new platform for artists/dancers to nurture their creativity, inspire their environments and empower themselves and the future of the arts industry in Trinidad and Tobago. He is also currently working in conjunction with the Tabanka Dance Ensemble (Norway), to host an ongoing Online Lecture Series of in-depth talks, sharing of knowledge and connecting with African and African-influenced dancers in that part of the world.

Both his artistic practice and research spans the fields of concert dance, modern Caribbean dance, contemporary Caribbean dance as well as their social and commercial applications. In May he was awarded a National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) 2021 Professional Development Scholarship towards Professional Development opportunities with the NDEO. He has also been recently confirmed in the position of Visiting Assistant Professor of Contemporary Dance Forms of the African Diaspora (Fulltime) in the Department and the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Iowa (UI). At UI he will be responsible for teaching contemporary dance practices grounded in the dance cultures and aesthetics of the African diaspora and developing courses both within the department’s general education curriculum in Diversity and Inclusion.

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CHERI STOKES “My mentors in The School of Dance provided a supportive and nurturing environment which allowed me to realize my full artistic potential. Their feedback and encouragement prepared me to take risks that I would have never thought were possible prior to pursuing my MFA. These mentors continue to be an integral part of my growth as an artist in the field.”

Cheri L. Stokes, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, received her MFA in Choreography and Performance from Florida State University. She received her BA in Dance Studies with a K-12 North Carolina Dance Teaching Licensure from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her performance background spans the genres of West African, Afro-Contemporary, Contemporary and Hip-Hop dance forms. Her choreographic research examines the ways in which facets of social vernacular dance forms, specifically Hip-Hop and Dancehall, have influenced her contemporary practice and art making.

Additionally, Cheri’s expertise includes over ten years of dance education and over five years of arts administration. She has had the pleasure of rehearsal assisting notable choreographers such as Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Okwui Okpokwasili (2016 MANCC Residency). Presently, Cheri is a part of the Urban Bush Women administrative family serving as the Associate Producer of Special Projects.

Since 2018, Cheri’s artistic project entitled, The Living Room Series, has provided intimate works in progress salons for New York City-based performance artists, which she co-curates with her artistic collaborator Love Muwwakkil. She has been a guest teaching artist at Florida State University, Austin Peay State University, and at Elon University. An excerpt of her latest work, Da Block was featured in the MODarts Collective Thread Festival in March (2021) and she will be performing in the upcoming STOOPS Festival in Bed-Stuy Brooklyn in July. In March of 2021 she received the Stephen Petrionio Retreat and Restore dance residency and is the new recipient of the June 2021 Silent Partners Grant.

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Headshot Photo by Bridgette Whitaker Photo by Kaitlyn Christensen Sacco

JADE TREADWELL “I will forever honor the impact of the faculty relationships developed through the FSU School of Dance. These relationships have continued to encourage and support me professionally in my journey in academia.

I seek to exemplify this level of mentorship with my students as they embark on dance careers in pedagogy and performance.”

Jade Treadwell is a dance artist based in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. She is an Assistant Professor of Dance in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). Professionally, she has performed with Staib Dance, ClancyWorks and as a freelance performer throughout Atlanta; the D.C., Maryland, Virginia area; and Florida. She received BFA and MFA degrees in dance performance and choreography from Florida State University. While at FSU, she was a member of Dance Repertory Theatre under the direction of Lynda Davis where she worked with artists such as Dan Wagoner, Tim Glenn, Gerri Houlihan, Susan Marshall, Alex Ketley, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar of Urban Bush Women.

As a Certified Personal Trainer through the American College of Sports Medicine, she employs foundations of anatomy, kinesiology, and conditioning principles into her creative approach as an educator. She currently researches movement screens and injury protocols in undergraduate dancers as a PhD candidate in Exercise Science at MTSU. As a choreographer she is inspired by historically-informed storytelling of African American culture, music, community, spirituality, and elevating the significance of women in these spaces. This summer, Jade will present a new choreographic work at the Frist Art Museum of Nashville for Kara Walker’s Cut to the Quick exhibit opening.

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TAMARA WILLIAMS “The school of dance provided me with powerful tools and understanding to enter and succeed in the dance world. A curiosity in dance was planted in me and that has driven my career through performance, teaching, choreographing, writing, and more. I’m grateful for the strong foundation and always remember to “deepen where I am before going to the next...””

Tamara Williams is an Assistant Professor of Dance at UNC Charlotte. She earned her BFA in Dance from FSU in 2006 and received her MFA in Dance from Hollins University in collaboration with The American Dance Festival, The Forsythe Company, and Frankfurt University. Her choreography has been performed nationally and internationally including Serbia, Switzerland, Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, Mexico and in Brazil. In 2011, Williams created Moving Spirits, Inc., a contemporary arts organization dedicated to performing, researching, documenting, cultivating, and producing arts of the African Diaspora.

Williams has trained intensely in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil in Silvestre Technique and African Brazilian dance. She is a 2012 recipient of the Artist Residency Fellowship at the Dance & Performance Institute in Trinidad, a 2013 recipient of the Harlem Stage/Aaron Davis Hall Fund for New Work grant, and a 2014 and 2015 Community Arts Fund Grantee by the Brooklyn Arts Council. In 2015, Moving Spirits, Inc. was accepted as Company-in-Residence at the Jamaica Center for Arts & Leadership in Jamaica, Queens. Williams was a 2015 and 2017 Turkey Land Grove Foundation recipient in which she participated in two seven-day dance writing residency in Martha’s Vineyard, and a 2015 Fall Space Grant recipient, awarded by the Brooklyn Arts Exchange. She is a recipient of a Digital Making Grant from the College of Arts and Architecture and several Mini-Diversity Grants and Chancellor Diversity Grants from UNC Charlotte’s Diversity Fund. She also received two Faculty Research Grants to further her studies of African American ring shout traditions in the Carolina’s low country and its roots in Iṣẹṣe l’agba traditions of the Yorùbá people in Nigeria. Williams is the 2019–20 recipient of the College of Arts + Architecture faculty Board of Governors Teaching Award. She is also a collaborator in a collection of short dance films sponsored by the National Center for Choreography Akron; the cohort includes Cara Hagan (Boone, NC/Australia), Ananya Chatterjea (Minneapolis, MN), Paloma McGregor (New York, NY), poet Jacinta V. White (Winston-Salem, NC) and dramaturg Sharon Bridgforth (Los Angeles, CA). Williams has received several Culture Block grants from Mecklenburg County’s Arts and Science Council to offer free African Diaspora dance and music programming for communities around Charlotte.

Williams’ book, Giving Life to Movement (2021, McFarland Publishing Co.), analyzes African-Brazilian dance histories and cultures. Her monograph, The African Diaspora and Civic Responsibility: Addressing Social Justice through the Arts, Education and Community Engagement, is currently under contract with Lexington Books. The monograph investigates how African American, African-Brazilian, Haitian, and Latine artists and scholars address civic responsibility and injustices through the arts. Her article “Reviving Culture Through Ring Shout” was published in The Dancer-Citizen and it investigates Ring Shout dance traditions created by enslaved African in the United States. Her book chapter “Dance: A Catalyst for Spiritual Transcendence” is forthcoming in the book, Fire Under My Feet: History, Race & Agency in African Diaspora Dance, under contract by Routledge.

Williams has created several community programs in New York City and Charlotte, NC providing opportunities for underserved communities to learn and practice dances of the African diaspora; histories and cultures which are strategically neglected in US education systems.

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Milka Djordjevich (CA)

Ronald K. Brown (NY)

Ben Akio Kimitch (NY)

Urban Bush Women Partnership Fellow, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation g1(host): lostatsea August 8–15 Rescheduled May 15-24, 2022

Living Legacy Artist The Equality of Night and Day August 26–31 To be rescheduled for Spring 2022

Will Rawls (NY)

Returning Choreographic Fellow, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation CORPS October 3–13 To be rescheduled remotely in fall ‘21

Visiting Artist Untitled October 24 – November 4

Gerald Casel (CA)

Returning Choreographic Fellow, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation [siccer] November 22-30

Visiting Artist, with New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project Production for Dance support Not About Race Dance November 14–24

Maura García (OK)

Joanna Kotze (NY)

First Nations Performing Arts Partnership Fellow, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Ꮟ ᎠᏂᏬᏂ They Are Still Talking September 25–30 Site-visit with Emily Johnson To be rescheduled

Visiting Artist, with NEA support ‘lectric Eye December 6–19

In addition to creative residency support, MANCC is also hosting two artists and their collaborators to work on the substantial archive materials that MANCC houses as a result of their multiple residencies over the years.

Citizen of the Yup’ik Nation, Emily Johnson and Indigenous archivist/librarians Nicole Wallace, who is of mixed-European ancestry and a descendent of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa-Ojibwe and Colette Denali Montoya-Sloan, who is from the Pueblo of Isleta tribe of American Indians and a descendant of the San Felipe Pueblo are engaged in a research project that seeks to imagine a living archive that would allow for new forms of scholarship and inquiry—ones that build upon relationships (both human and more-thanhuman) in dynamic exchange, rather than isolating intellectual endeavors within individual narratives.

Puerto-Rican/Brooklyn-based artist Yanira Castro will begin fall planning for her spring 2022 archive residency and is proposing to work with artist, archivist, and curator Cori Olinghouse, San Juan-based artist, scholar, writer/editor nibia pastrana santiago, Chicago-based Gibran Villalobos working at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the School of the Art Institute, and Visiting Scholar at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, NYC, Ana Candida Carneiro.

Spring season 2022 residency artists are currently being finalized; for up-to-date information, please visit mancc.org We acknowledge that the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University is located on land that is the ancestral and traditional territory of the Apalachee Nation, the Muscogee Nation, the Miccosukee Tribe of Florida, and the Seminole Tribe of Florida 2020– 2021 MAG A Z INE | 31

2021–2022 SEASON

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MANCC is proud to support the following artists as part of its 2021–2022 season:

CLUTCH!

Jones improvising in the studio.

FSU Alumnus Choreographic Fellow • June 2020– March 2021 As MANCC’s year-long FSU Alumnus Fellow, Darrell Jones spent his residency furthering his archival research around the work of his late father, Dr. William R. Jones, who was an internationally recognized and celebrated activist, scholar, philosopher, theologian, and educator. While at MANCC, Darrell worked through these physical lines of inquiry, while also navigating his father’s office space, which houses an extensive archive encompassing authored books and articles, a large selection of research books, taped lectures, and 35 years of teaching materials around mechanisms of oppression and the intersectionality of race, gender, and class. He also met regularly with Katie McCormick, Associate Dean of Libraries for Special Collections and Archives at FSU, and Rory Grennan, FSU Manuscripts Archivist, to continue discussions surrounding this vast archive, and participated along with MANCC in the AAR/SBL Southeastern Regional Annual Conference. Darrell maintains a personal interest in cataloging these materials as a creative tool with applications in movement research and as a model in embodied archival processes. The process of archiving his father’s work with his own creative applications is concurrent with these conversations around choreographic archival materials.

JOANNA KOTZE ‘lectric Eye

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DARRELL JONES

Visiting Artist • December 8-16, 2020 Joanna Kotze came to MANCC in December 2020 to work on her film called Nothing’s changed except for everything with Tallahassee-based video artist and MANCC Media Specialist Chris Cameron and remotely with New York-based musician/composer Ryan Seaton. This film takes solo movement from her larger project, ’lectric Eye, that she has been working on for the past two and a half years, to tell a digital story of personal and collective loss and the human body’s potential for persistence, resistance, and power. In December 2021, Kotze will return with her group of collaborators to continue creating ’lectric Eye. This ensemble residency, originally scheduled for spring 2020, had been postponed due to the pandemic. An evening-length piece, ‘lectric Eye highlights collaboration between movement and music while exploring how humans keep going, day to day, surrounded by conflict and bias, yet celebrating connections and beauty while fighting to put one foot in front of the other.

Joanna dancing in an empty parking garage while filming Nothing’s changed except for everything.

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This residency was funded, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts.

KOTA YAMAZAKI WITH MINA NISHIMURA I, Ghost, The, Other, You

Visiting Artists • December 12–20, 2020 Kota Yamazaki and Mina Nishimura returned to MANCC in December 2020, this time to work as a collaborative pair on their new piece, I, Ghost, The, Other, You. Having been in residence together before to focus on Yamazaki’s Darkness Odyssey trilogy, this residency marked a shift in how they’re thinking about their relationship and work as a collaborative duo. This new work investigates their fractal and ever-changing bodies that can embrace each other’s different histories, perceptions, and internal landscapes, while re-calibrating their relationship as intimately connected people within the complex and holistic structures of nature.

This residency was supported, in part, by Bennington College and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with support for the Embedded Writer from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Yamazaki and Nishimura engaged in research underneath a live oak tree on campus.

NETTA YERUSHALMY Movement (Working Title)

Visiting Artist • January 4–11, 2021 Netta Yerushalmy came to MANCC to further explore solo material for her work Movement (working title) with plans to return for an ensemble residency when it is safe to do so. Yerushalmy worked with a range of movement sources that proliferate across genres, cultures, and time periods. Yerushalmy’s residency with her ensemble was originally scheduled for April 2020 but had to be postponed due to COVID-19 (now rescheduled for January 2022). In conversation with the artist then around what would be most useful to help further her work in the absence of an ‘on the ground’ residency, MANCC provided remote support over a two-week period with rehearsal fees, rehearsal space, and editing and archiving of rehearsal documentation.

Yerushalmy rehearsing in the studio.

Remote support and the solo residency were made possible, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts.

EMILY JOHNSON

Archive Residency • Ongoing MANCC is currently engaged with Emily Johnson and Indigenous archivists/librarians Nicole Wallace and Colette Montoya-Sloan to design the Center’s first archive residency. Working with MANCC’s Media Specialist through 2021, Johnson and her collaborators are considering amassed documentation from Johnson’s seven MANCC residencies since 2009.

Johnson, Nicole Wallace, George Lugg, and the MANCC staff on a Zoom call.

This inaugural archival residency is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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ARTIST RESIDENCY MANCC

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HOSTS YEARLONG, MULTIFACETED ARTIST RESIDENCY

Falling not up or down. Finding the edge before the edge. Problem solving in the body. ‘S’ words.

These are just some of the concepts that emerged during Darrell Jones’s visit to Professor Tiffany Rhynard’s Body and Social Justice class in March.

As MANCC’s first ever yearlong residency, FSU Alumnus Choreographic Fellow Darrell Jones engaged with both the School of Dance and FSU communities across multiple avenues from September 2020 to March 2021.

Furthering his archival research around the work of his late father, Dr. William R. Jones, who was an internationally recognized and celebrated activist, scholar, philosopher, theologian, and educator, Darrell spent his residency split between the studio and the archives. The first Director of the Black Studies program at FSU, Dr. Jones dedicated his long career to the analysis and methods of oppression, and to working with others in their anti-oppression initiatives. A fundamental part of his work was the exploration of religious humanism and liberation theology.

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ther’s office space, which houses an extensive archive encompassing authored books and articles, a large selection of research books, taped lectures, and 35 years of teaching materials around mechanisms of oppression and the intersectionality of race, gender, and class.

Throughout his residency, he met regularly with Katie McCormick, Associate Dean of Libraries for Special Collections and Archives at FSU, and Rory Grennan, FSU Manuscripts Archivist, to continue discussions surrounding this vast archive, as well as transfers of archival materials.

Darrell maintains a personal interest in cataloging these materials as a creative tool with applications in movement research and as a model in embodied archival processes. The process of archiving his father’s work with his own creative applications remains concurrent with these conversations around choreographic archival materials. On the overlapping processes he explained the physicality, “It’s a kind of quick pass, maybe five to 10 seconds per paper and so things like that were really helpful for me. It’s a physical process, that I spend this much time with the material, I understand that in

“Our time with Darrell ignited a deeper curiosity around archival research, both of artifacts and of the body. What is it that my body does/has done/is always doing that has since been labeled or archived as something? I am grateful to Darrell for sharing about his process engaging with his father's archive; it has added to the ways I conceive legacy and ancestral work.”

-Jeremy Guyton, MFA Candidate ‘22

Above: Jones and John Cole, a doctoral student in FSU’s Department of Religion, look through archival materials from Dr. William R. Jones’ work.

Right: Jones and Ralph Lemon hold a rehearsal on Zoom.

terms of the dance practice and timing and how I stretch or condense the time of the material or my time with the material. And some of those things I tended to translate into a physical practice and working with the boxes, so there was this relationship that started to develop with the boxes.”

Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion online conference, hosted by FSU. This year’s conference theme was Religion, Health, and Disease: An Online Conference Where Interdisciplinary Lines Intersect.

A longtime collaborator with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (Urban Bush Women), Bebe Miller (Bebe Miller Company), and Ralph Lemon, Darrell is currently involved in several gatherings around ‘living’ archives. Lemon joined the residency remotely for a week of collaboration in January.

“I can’t describe in terms of hard shifts or changes, but it feels like there’s been evolution...evolution in terms of what the project is. Some of the things I had imaginations about how they would look, and that shifted. Some of the things I wasn’t quite sure about how they would look, and so that was more of an emerging than a shift of what I thought it was.”

With Darrell working in both the dance studio and proscenium theater and with Lemon on zoom, they explored improvisational material and the use of a multi-camera feed.

On March 12–14, Jones and MANCC participated in the

As Darrell continues to work inside of these multiple lines of inquiry, he notes on the shifting of the project,

To learn more about Darrell’s residency and its many components, please visit mancc.org/artists/darrell-jones.

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90 YEARS OF DANCE

The School of Dance is preparing to celebrate the anniversary of 90 years of dance on campus and 60 years of professional degree programs. In honor of this anniversary, the school welcomes stories, photos, videos, and reflections from alum in preparation for a wonderful week of Welcome Back Alumni events. If you would like to contribute a memory to the event, submit to fsusod@gmail.com.

Please include your current name and name as a student if different, year entered into the program, and major.

90/60 ALUMNI REFLECTION MICKIE “HELEN” (ALFORD) AKENSON In the fall of 1967, at age 27, I began the masters program at FSU. Carol Lee had recently joined the faculty and taught a required course dealing with philosophies of art. Here I was introduced to Suzanne Langer’s Problems of Art. This course, along with Dr. Smith’s course on History of Dance, made all of my former dance experiences arrange themselves into a fragile, quivering order...

A Dr. Smith Experience: I did a creative thesis based on “the total theater experience.” I wanted to paint an abstract design on the leotards and tights of the dancers. Dr. Smith and I were discussing the matter in her office and we did not know what type of paint could be used. She picked up the phone, dialed some numbers, and the next moment she says: “Nik, this is Nancy Smith and I have a graduate student who wants to paint a design on leotards and tights—what type of paint would you suggest?” I remain in shock to this day!!!! The leotards were a bit stiff but the dancers were great sports and Percepts was completed and performed.

It was the age of light, color, sound ,shape, form—total theatre—and Dr. Smith choreographed a piece to songs from The Beatles’ Lonely Hearts Club Band. I danced in the section, “Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds.”

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Dear Friends, As we emerge from a global pandemic that has forever changed our lives, I reflect on the value of the arts and the need for our continuous support. Whether artist or audience, we all need art in our lives.

Art helps us to understand ourselves, our world, and how we fit into this web of humanity. Art educates, humanizes and heals. It challenges us and unites us. Given all the suffering in the past year, activating the power of art is perhaps more important now than ever before. Therefore, I am particularly honored and humbled to be serving as President of FSU’s Friends of Dance in this historical moment.

We cannot possibly move forward without first thanking our outgoing President, Amy Lowe. Despite the many challenges we faced this year, Amy not only kept this organization afloat, but she kept it thriving. Under Amy’s leadership, Friends of Dance awarded over $30,000 in scholarships. We offered emergency financial assistance to students who were hit especially hard by the pandemic. We hosted our annual Young Dancer’s Workshop, albeit in a virtual format this year, and with over 100 participants ranging in age from 11-17, we were able to raise $15,000, all of which is designated to support students with travel grants and other assistance.

We must also acknowledge the exceptional innovation and dedication of School of Dance Chair, Anjali Austin along with her entire faculty and staff. Under Ms. Austin’s leadership, the FSU School of Dance safely kept its dancers moving, thinking and creating during the worst of pandemic, and even found ways to keep its audience engaged through virtual experiences. The dedication and professionalism exhibited by the FSU School of Dance over the past year has positively renewed our organization’s desire to support them. We are committed now more than ever to offer our assistance.

As we look forward to a new year with a renewed sense of responsibility as artists and supporters of the arts, I invite you to join us in becoming a member of the Friends of Dance. In doing so, your contributions directly impact the education of the students at FSU’s School of Dance. With each opportunity that our support offers, these students expand their educational experience and artistic exposure. Therefore, as a Friend, you are not only supporting the students in the here and now, but you are also supporting the future of the arts.

The Friends of Dance members look forward to new shared experiences with the School of Dance in the coming year, and we sincerely hope you will join us.

With Warmest Regards,

Bobbie Fernandez Friends of Dance President

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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

FRIENDS OF DANCE

FOD MEMBERS The School of Dance would like to thank the 2020/2021 Friends of Dance members for their continued generosity and dedication. Our programs, students, and faculty are achieving greatness because of their continued support.

IMPRESARIO $1,000+

PRODUCER $500–$999

Nancy Carroll Abbey & Stuart Abbey

Barbara & Hector Aguirre

Tony Archer & Dan Taylor

Jeffrey Joyce

Nancy Smith Fichter & Robert W. Fichter

Annie Schmidt

Jim & Betty Ann Rodgers

Nick & Becky Shepherd Ivis M. Swan

PRINCIPAL $250–$499 Anjali Austin

Myron & Judy Hayden

Russell Sandifer

Tony & Kate Gelabert

Wayne & Heather Mayo

Rick & Joyce Fausone

David & Debra Lachter

Kathryn K. Cashin

Beverly Barber

Meagan Helman

Jonathan Klepper & Jimmy Cole

Aurora M. Torres-Hansen

Santiago & Laurie Molina

Amy & Bryan Lowe

Grayal E. Farr

Maureen & James A. Briede

Lynn Hogan & Robin Fowler

Rob & Robin Stuyverson Andy Welch

SOLOIST $150–$249 John & Michele Ackermann

Juan & Jessica Comas

Sharon Davis

Eric & Roberta Fliss

Gerri P. Houlihan

Doug & Cricket Mannheimer

Bernard & Patty Phillips

Kathryn Scott

Adele Trahan

Ellen A. Ashdown, Ph.D.

Lynda J. Davis

Kathryn Eggert-Scheidegger

Larry J. Gerber

Patricia Knowles

Daniel & Becky Miller

Nancy & Michael X. Redig

Terry & Sarah Sherraden

CORPS $50–$149 Helen “Mickie” Akenson

Eleanor Dietrich

Steve Urse

Stephen MacNamara

Cari Martin-Freiberger

Jerry & Anne Draper

Tom & Jeannie Pierce

Wayne E. Sprague

Margaret Mead-Finizio

Barbara Cooper

Joy M. D’Elia & Tommy Bledsoe

Tom Welsh & Sue Carpenter

Lynda deMarsh-Mathues Gayle & Doug Seaton

Meredith & Elsa McKinney

Amelia Pelton

Listing represents donors who made gifts between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021 of $50 or more to the Friends of Dance Fund at the FSU Foundation. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. Should you have any corrections or questions, please contact the College Advancement Office at (850) 645-0701.

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BECOME A FRIEND Friends of Dance, the community patrons group for the School of Dance, are ambassadors for dance in the local community and foster relationships with the School of Dance. Your Friends of Dance membership not only supports students and their exciting art, but you also make possible special performances, opportunities for visiting artists, and financial assistance for professional conferences and dance festivals. Quite simply, we depend upon our Friends of Dance to maintain our national rankings and highest of professional standards.

We would like to invite you to be a friend and support our young artists. Your membership will be an integral part of building their future. To join or renew, please visit give.fsu.edu/friendsofdance.

Your membership makes a difference.

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“The past academic year has made me become a better human, as well as an artist. It makes me affirm the goal I want to pursue in the future; becoming a dance filmmaker that tells the critical story. My dreams and goals would not be possible, without this generous support from scholarship sponsors like you. Thanks again for this opportunity!”

Lixin Li MA ‘22

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SCHOOL OF DANCE COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS

SEASON SCHEDULE An Evening of Dance November 19 & 20 MFA Presentations October 30 | Kisa Li February 4 & 5 | Danie Etienne February 25 & 26 | Dedrick Gray & Calypso Haddad April 1 | Jeremy Guyton & Rafael Tillery

Youth Programs February 5–6 | Young Dancers Workshop February 6 | Auditions for Summer Dance Intensive June 12–25 | Summer Dance Intensive Days of Dance April 15 & 16 | April 22 & 23

dance.fsu.edu Photo: Meagan Helman | Dancer: Ryker Laramore