Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. also known as (December 2, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88728 88728-21657053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 2, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

This performance features creative and performance work from Alexa Guidotti, Kristin Hanson, and Alexa Miller, all senior BFA dance majors in the Department of Dance, as they near completion of their time in the program. Each senior performs a solo and presents a group dance featuring additional dance majors.


The Saturday night performance will be livestreamed at https://myumi.ch/DanceWatch

Now situated on U-M's North Campus in a new state-of-the-art facility, the Department of Dance welcomes you to this event, which is among the first performances held in the building and in the performance studio theatre.

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Performance Fri, 03 Dec 2021 18:15:15 -0500 2021-12-02T20:00:00-05:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance also known as
also known as (December 3, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88728 88728-21657853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 3, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

This performance features creative and performance work from Alexa Guidotti, Kristin Hanson, and Alexa Miller, all senior BFA dance majors in the Department of Dance, as they near completion of their time in the program. Each senior performs a solo and presents a group dance featuring additional dance majors.


The Saturday night performance will be livestreamed at https://myumi.ch/DanceWatch

Now situated on U-M's North Campus in a new state-of-the-art facility, the Department of Dance welcomes you to this event, which is among the first performances held in the building and in the performance studio theatre.

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Performance Fri, 03 Dec 2021 18:15:15 -0500 2021-12-03T20:00:00-05:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance also known as
also known as (December 4, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88728 88728-21657854@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 4, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

This performance features creative and performance work from Alexa Guidotti, Kristin Hanson, and Alexa Miller, all senior BFA dance majors in the Department of Dance, as they near completion of their time in the program. Each senior performs a solo and presents a group dance featuring additional dance majors.


The Saturday night performance will be livestreamed at https://myumi.ch/DanceWatch

Now situated on U-M's North Campus in a new state-of-the-art facility, the Department of Dance welcomes you to this event, which is among the first performances held in the building and in the performance studio theatre.

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Performance Fri, 03 Dec 2021 18:15:15 -0500 2021-12-04T20:00:00-05:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance also known as
Dance Performance Improvisation and Performance Practice/ Dance (December 5, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88828 88828-21658609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 5, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Dance Performance Improvisation & Performance Practice classes present their end of semester showings. Please join Professor Amy Chavasse, Department of Dance, and students in Performance Improvisation and Performance Practice classes.

Performance Improvisation— 4:00-4:50
Performance Practice— 5:10-6:00pm.

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Performance Mon, 01 Nov 2021 12:15:15 -0400 2021-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Dance Performance Improvisation and Performance Practice/ Dance
Dance Performance Improvisation and Performance Practice/ Dance (December 5, 2021 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88828 88828-21658610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 5, 2021 5:10pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Dance Performance Improvisation & Performance Practice classes present their end of semester showings. Please join Professor Amy Chavasse, Department of Dance, and students in Performance Improvisation and Performance Practice classes.

Performance Improvisation— 4:00-4:50
Performance Practice— 5:10-6:00pm.

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Performance Mon, 01 Nov 2021 12:15:15 -0400 2021-12-05T17:10:00-05:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Dance Performance Improvisation and Performance Practice/ Dance
Dance Composition Class Showing (December 7, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89281 89281-21661736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 7, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Work from first and second year composition students.

Faculty: Fangfei Miao and Melissa Brading

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Performance Mon, 15 Nov 2021 18:15:18 -0500 2021-12-07T14:00:00-05:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Dance Composition Class Showing
An Unmasking of Thyself (March 25, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93552 93552-21705386@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 25, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Friday, March 25, 2022
7:00 - 9:30 PM
Dance Building, Studio 1
1000 Baits Dr.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Center for World Performance Studies (CWPS) Capstone Presentation, The Imani Talk.

Join us for a night of screen dance films, movement, and reflections.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Mar 2022 19:05:07 -0400 2022-03-25T19:00:00-04:00 2022-03-25T21:30:00-04:00 Dance Building Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion Unmasking of Thyself
It steals into the night with the wind to nourish everything (March 31, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92190 92190-21687770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 31, 2022 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

This concert includes the interdisciplinary thesis performance projects of Master of Fine Arts in Dance candidates Duoduo Wang and J'Sun Howard.

Duoduo Wang’s work, entitled "A thread in blood", investigates different orientation strategies of the Chinese diasporic identity and culture in the United States. The work carries lifelong memories and experiences of an old lady who immigrated 40 years ago to Manhattan's Chinatown. The cast of Asian American dancers contribute memories of their own cultural-identical strategies in different chapters of life (Birth, Family, Love, Living, and Death) and also explore the unique boundaries between performance and public spaces. Within a public performance, Wang aims to create an open, protected space in which everyone can express their identity, ethnicity, acculturation strategies, and body statements through physical expression.

​​J’Sun Howard’s "A Particular Embraced Affinity of Veering" is an exploration in understanding how to embody Black Fugitivity, which is radical ways in which Black people subvert time, race, gender, and family history to refuse and flee what society puts on us to navigate systematic racism and injustice. By using movement strategies such as the hold/embrace, circularity, and the fragment, "A Particular Embraced Affinity of Veering" captures the quiet urgency and complexity of deciding to refuse and flee.

This thesis concert is being held in partial fulfillment of the Department of Dance Master of Fine Arts degree requirements. The research for this event is funded in part by the University of Michigan Department of Dance, and the Center for World Performance Studies.

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Performance Fri, 01 Apr 2022 18:15:22 -0400 2022-03-31T20:00:00-04:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance It steals into the night with the wind to nourish everything
It steals into the night with the wind to nourish everything (April 1, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92190 92190-21687771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 1, 2022 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

This concert includes the interdisciplinary thesis performance projects of Master of Fine Arts in Dance candidates Duoduo Wang and J'Sun Howard.

Duoduo Wang’s work, entitled "A thread in blood", investigates different orientation strategies of the Chinese diasporic identity and culture in the United States. The work carries lifelong memories and experiences of an old lady who immigrated 40 years ago to Manhattan's Chinatown. The cast of Asian American dancers contribute memories of their own cultural-identical strategies in different chapters of life (Birth, Family, Love, Living, and Death) and also explore the unique boundaries between performance and public spaces. Within a public performance, Wang aims to create an open, protected space in which everyone can express their identity, ethnicity, acculturation strategies, and body statements through physical expression.

​​J’Sun Howard’s "A Particular Embraced Affinity of Veering" is an exploration in understanding how to embody Black Fugitivity, which is radical ways in which Black people subvert time, race, gender, and family history to refuse and flee what society puts on us to navigate systematic racism and injustice. By using movement strategies such as the hold/embrace, circularity, and the fragment, "A Particular Embraced Affinity of Veering" captures the quiet urgency and complexity of deciding to refuse and flee.

This thesis concert is being held in partial fulfillment of the Department of Dance Master of Fine Arts degree requirements. The research for this event is funded in part by the University of Michigan Department of Dance, and the Center for World Performance Studies.

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Performance Fri, 01 Apr 2022 18:15:22 -0400 2022-04-01T20:00:00-04:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance It steals into the night with the wind to nourish everything
It steals into the night with the wind to nourish everything (April 2, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92190 92190-21687772@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 2, 2022 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

This concert includes the interdisciplinary thesis performance projects of Master of Fine Arts in Dance candidates Duoduo Wang and J'Sun Howard.

Duoduo Wang’s work, entitled "A thread in blood", investigates different orientation strategies of the Chinese diasporic identity and culture in the United States. The work carries lifelong memories and experiences of an old lady who immigrated 40 years ago to Manhattan's Chinatown. The cast of Asian American dancers contribute memories of their own cultural-identical strategies in different chapters of life (Birth, Family, Love, Living, and Death) and also explore the unique boundaries between performance and public spaces. Within a public performance, Wang aims to create an open, protected space in which everyone can express their identity, ethnicity, acculturation strategies, and body statements through physical expression.

​​J’Sun Howard’s "A Particular Embraced Affinity of Veering" is an exploration in understanding how to embody Black Fugitivity, which is radical ways in which Black people subvert time, race, gender, and family history to refuse and flee what society puts on us to navigate systematic racism and injustice. By using movement strategies such as the hold/embrace, circularity, and the fragment, "A Particular Embraced Affinity of Veering" captures the quiet urgency and complexity of deciding to refuse and flee.

This thesis concert is being held in partial fulfillment of the Department of Dance Master of Fine Arts degree requirements. The research for this event is funded in part by the University of Michigan Department of Dance, and the Center for World Performance Studies.

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Performance Fri, 01 Apr 2022 18:15:22 -0400 2022-04-02T20:00:00-04:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance It steals into the night with the wind to nourish everything
Smiling Cowards Folding Cards (April 7, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92189 92189-21687767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 7, 2022 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Content Advisory: Parts of this show are created for adults only. Viewer discretion is advised due to themes, audio, and images of natural disaster impacts, explicit violence, death, suicide, racism, sexism, sex, prostitution, and drugs.

This performance features the choreography and performance work of Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance seniors as they near completion of their degree. Lydia Dunn, Stephanie Gennusa, Rowan Janusiak, Mariah Stevens, Kevin Wang, and Sasha Yakovenko will each present a solo and a group dance, featuring additional dance majors.

Stephanie Gennusa examines and challenges the capitalistic urge to attach self-value to one’s labor and productivity in their group work, we all fake it till we die. Gennusa’s solo, Have We Met Before?, utilizes multimedia techniques to explore the multitude of different ways to view one body in time and space.

Rowan Janusiak shares their journey of body reclamation and dissonance in their solo, frangible virility. They investigate what it means to be perceived by the world when you don't want to be perceived at all. Janusiak’s group, the motive behind the game is self-protection, grapples with the phenomenon of how closely pleasure and violence exist in our bodies: questioning ideologies society has created around pleasure, specifically the stigmitization of sex and how pleasure can be reclaimed as a force for transformative activism.

Tal Ayala Kamin explores the intersection of tradition, community, and individuality in Echad Mi Yodea, a group work defining the importance of knowing where you come from in order to know where you are going. Her solo, Yes, focuses on the evolution of self, through the use of spoken word and media projection.

Mariah Stevens’ work, Unity within Diversity, is an afrobeat hip hop fusion dance celebration, woven with hints of contemporary, vogue, and street dance. It emphasizes the power of togetherness, as individual differences join forces to create something amazing. Her solo investigates themes of healing, restoration, and contentment.

Kevin Wang’s solo, a space to call my own, explores the purpose of personal space and examines how much space we have. Wang’s group, I am us, investigates the relationship between a person and their respective communities in order to answer the question: Who do we represent?

Sasha Yakovenko’s two dances can be conceptualized as an analysis of his own mind and experiences. His solo, The Fool on the Hill Stares to Kilimanjaro, is centered around ideas of loss and failure due to one’s own folly and imperfections. Yakovenko’s group, Burning Down the House, presents a dark, satirical perspective on American culture; where sexuality and white-goodness are presented in various forms of media to distract from the darkness that forms the foundation of societal stability and rots away at the core of the world.

The Friday night concert will be available for livestreamed at https://myumi.ch/DanceWatch

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Performance Mon, 07 Mar 2022 18:15:19 -0500 2022-04-07T20:00:00-04:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Smiling Cowards Folding Cards (April 8, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92189 92189-21687768@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 8, 2022 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Content Advisory: Parts of this show are created for adults only. Viewer discretion is advised due to themes, audio, and images of natural disaster impacts, explicit violence, death, suicide, racism, sexism, sex, prostitution, and drugs.

This performance features the choreography and performance work of Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance seniors as they near completion of their degree. Lydia Dunn, Stephanie Gennusa, Rowan Janusiak, Mariah Stevens, Kevin Wang, and Sasha Yakovenko will each present a solo and a group dance, featuring additional dance majors.

Stephanie Gennusa examines and challenges the capitalistic urge to attach self-value to one’s labor and productivity in their group work, we all fake it till we die. Gennusa’s solo, Have We Met Before?, utilizes multimedia techniques to explore the multitude of different ways to view one body in time and space.

Rowan Janusiak shares their journey of body reclamation and dissonance in their solo, frangible virility. They investigate what it means to be perceived by the world when you don't want to be perceived at all. Janusiak’s group, the motive behind the game is self-protection, grapples with the phenomenon of how closely pleasure and violence exist in our bodies: questioning ideologies society has created around pleasure, specifically the stigmitization of sex and how pleasure can be reclaimed as a force for transformative activism.

Tal Ayala Kamin explores the intersection of tradition, community, and individuality in Echad Mi Yodea, a group work defining the importance of knowing where you come from in order to know where you are going. Her solo, Yes, focuses on the evolution of self, through the use of spoken word and media projection.

Mariah Stevens’ work, Unity within Diversity, is an afrobeat hip hop fusion dance celebration, woven with hints of contemporary, vogue, and street dance. It emphasizes the power of togetherness, as individual differences join forces to create something amazing. Her solo investigates themes of healing, restoration, and contentment.

Kevin Wang’s solo, a space to call my own, explores the purpose of personal space and examines how much space we have. Wang’s group, I am us, investigates the relationship between a person and their respective communities in order to answer the question: Who do we represent?

Sasha Yakovenko’s two dances can be conceptualized as an analysis of his own mind and experiences. His solo, The Fool on the Hill Stares to Kilimanjaro, is centered around ideas of loss and failure due to one’s own folly and imperfections. Yakovenko’s group, Burning Down the House, presents a dark, satirical perspective on American culture; where sexuality and white-goodness are presented in various forms of media to distract from the darkness that forms the foundation of societal stability and rots away at the core of the world.

The Friday night concert will be available for livestreamed at https://myumi.ch/DanceWatch

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Performance Mon, 07 Mar 2022 18:15:19 -0500 2022-04-08T20:00:00-04:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Smiling Cowards Folding Cards (April 9, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92189 92189-21687769@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 9, 2022 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Content Advisory: Parts of this show are created for adults only. Viewer discretion is advised due to themes, audio, and images of natural disaster impacts, explicit violence, death, suicide, racism, sexism, sex, prostitution, and drugs.

This performance features the choreography and performance work of Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance seniors as they near completion of their degree. Lydia Dunn, Stephanie Gennusa, Rowan Janusiak, Mariah Stevens, Kevin Wang, and Sasha Yakovenko will each present a solo and a group dance, featuring additional dance majors.

Stephanie Gennusa examines and challenges the capitalistic urge to attach self-value to one’s labor and productivity in their group work, we all fake it till we die. Gennusa’s solo, Have We Met Before?, utilizes multimedia techniques to explore the multitude of different ways to view one body in time and space.

Rowan Janusiak shares their journey of body reclamation and dissonance in their solo, frangible virility. They investigate what it means to be perceived by the world when you don't want to be perceived at all. Janusiak’s group, the motive behind the game is self-protection, grapples with the phenomenon of how closely pleasure and violence exist in our bodies: questioning ideologies society has created around pleasure, specifically the stigmitization of sex and how pleasure can be reclaimed as a force for transformative activism.

Tal Ayala Kamin explores the intersection of tradition, community, and individuality in Echad Mi Yodea, a group work defining the importance of knowing where you come from in order to know where you are going. Her solo, Yes, focuses on the evolution of self, through the use of spoken word and media projection.

Mariah Stevens’ work, Unity within Diversity, is an afrobeat hip hop fusion dance celebration, woven with hints of contemporary, vogue, and street dance. It emphasizes the power of togetherness, as individual differences join forces to create something amazing. Her solo investigates themes of healing, restoration, and contentment.

Kevin Wang’s solo, a space to call my own, explores the purpose of personal space and examines how much space we have. Wang’s group, I am us, investigates the relationship between a person and their respective communities in order to answer the question: Who do we represent?

Sasha Yakovenko’s two dances can be conceptualized as an analysis of his own mind and experiences. His solo, The Fool on the Hill Stares to Kilimanjaro, is centered around ideas of loss and failure due to one’s own folly and imperfections. Yakovenko’s group, Burning Down the House, presents a dark, satirical perspective on American culture; where sexuality and white-goodness are presented in various forms of media to distract from the darkness that forms the foundation of societal stability and rots away at the core of the world.

The Friday night concert will be available for livestreamed at https://myumi.ch/DanceWatch

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Performance Mon, 07 Mar 2022 18:15:19 -0500 2022-04-09T20:00:00-04:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Flights of Fancy (April 14, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92191 92191-21687773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 14, 2022 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

This performance features the choreography and performance work of Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance seniors as they near completion of their degree. ElleAnna Casterline, Olivia Johnson, Tal Kamin, Sarah Madnick, Abby Niemi and Arianna Stadler will each present a solo and a group dance, featuring additional dance majors.

ElleAnna Casterline’s group and solo dances portray the dichotomy between vulnerability and isolation through the empowerment of the internal self and the deception of the external. This work curates collaborations between screen dance, music production, and performance, demonstrating the multifaceted experience of mental and emotional awareness after loss.

Lydia Dunn’s group explores the state of daydreaming; elegant choreography pairs with an airy and uplifting setting that is beyond reality. Dunn’s solo, In The Cold Light of Day, feels intimately personal as a quieter, darker setting accompanies movement created out of a practice of introspection and finding new approaches.

Olivia Johnson showcases how addiction creates tension in a family and thrives through fakery in A Scoop of Neapolitan. Her interactive and interdisciplinary solo, Inevitable but Voluntary, dives into the belief that in a broad sense of life, fate and free will work together to create reality.

Sarah Madnick’s solo evokes the empty stress of her quaint hometown as a place to find quiet space to unpack the unavoidable and overwhelming emotional pile-up of everyday life. Madnick's group explores the rollercoaster of feeling misplaced and the complicated dynamics of returning to your childhood home after you no longer live there.

While experimenting with jazz-funk and sensual choreography, Abby Niemi and her dancers spread messages of self-worth, positivity, and affirmations through songs by Anderson .Paak and Rihanna.

In her group work, Arianna Stadler explores the naivety of young love and the excitement of possibility while juxtaposing this with a mature disillusioned relationship. Stadler investigates the lengths to which grief and extreme misery can be expressed through satire in her solo.

The Friday night concert will be available for livestreamed at https://myumi.ch/DanceWatch

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Performance Mon, 07 Mar 2022 18:15:19 -0500 2022-04-14T20:00:00-04:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Flights of Fancy (April 15, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92191 92191-21687775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 15, 2022 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

This performance features the choreography and performance work of Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance seniors as they near completion of their degree. ElleAnna Casterline, Olivia Johnson, Tal Kamin, Sarah Madnick, Abby Niemi and Arianna Stadler will each present a solo and a group dance, featuring additional dance majors.

ElleAnna Casterline’s group and solo dances portray the dichotomy between vulnerability and isolation through the empowerment of the internal self and the deception of the external. This work curates collaborations between screen dance, music production, and performance, demonstrating the multifaceted experience of mental and emotional awareness after loss.

Lydia Dunn’s group explores the state of daydreaming; elegant choreography pairs with an airy and uplifting setting that is beyond reality. Dunn’s solo, In The Cold Light of Day, feels intimately personal as a quieter, darker setting accompanies movement created out of a practice of introspection and finding new approaches.

Olivia Johnson showcases how addiction creates tension in a family and thrives through fakery in A Scoop of Neapolitan. Her interactive and interdisciplinary solo, Inevitable but Voluntary, dives into the belief that in a broad sense of life, fate and free will work together to create reality.

Sarah Madnick’s solo evokes the empty stress of her quaint hometown as a place to find quiet space to unpack the unavoidable and overwhelming emotional pile-up of everyday life. Madnick's group explores the rollercoaster of feeling misplaced and the complicated dynamics of returning to your childhood home after you no longer live there.

While experimenting with jazz-funk and sensual choreography, Abby Niemi and her dancers spread messages of self-worth, positivity, and affirmations through songs by Anderson .Paak and Rihanna.

In her group work, Arianna Stadler explores the naivety of young love and the excitement of possibility while juxtaposing this with a mature disillusioned relationship. Stadler investigates the lengths to which grief and extreme misery can be expressed through satire in her solo.

The Friday night concert will be available for livestreamed at https://myumi.ch/DanceWatch

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Performance Mon, 07 Mar 2022 18:15:19 -0500 2022-04-15T20:00:00-04:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Flights of Fancy (April 15, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92191 92191-21687774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 15, 2022 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

This performance features the choreography and performance work of Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance seniors as they near completion of their degree. ElleAnna Casterline, Olivia Johnson, Tal Kamin, Sarah Madnick, Abby Niemi and Arianna Stadler will each present a solo and a group dance, featuring additional dance majors.

ElleAnna Casterline’s group and solo dances portray the dichotomy between vulnerability and isolation through the empowerment of the internal self and the deception of the external. This work curates collaborations between screen dance, music production, and performance, demonstrating the multifaceted experience of mental and emotional awareness after loss.

Lydia Dunn’s group explores the state of daydreaming; elegant choreography pairs with an airy and uplifting setting that is beyond reality. Dunn’s solo, In The Cold Light of Day, feels intimately personal as a quieter, darker setting accompanies movement created out of a practice of introspection and finding new approaches.

Olivia Johnson showcases how addiction creates tension in a family and thrives through fakery in A Scoop of Neapolitan. Her interactive and interdisciplinary solo, Inevitable but Voluntary, dives into the belief that in a broad sense of life, fate and free will work together to create reality.

Sarah Madnick’s solo evokes the empty stress of her quaint hometown as a place to find quiet space to unpack the unavoidable and overwhelming emotional pile-up of everyday life. Madnick's group explores the rollercoaster of feeling misplaced and the complicated dynamics of returning to your childhood home after you no longer live there.

While experimenting with jazz-funk and sensual choreography, Abby Niemi and her dancers spread messages of self-worth, positivity, and affirmations through songs by Anderson .Paak and Rihanna.

In her group work, Arianna Stadler explores the naivety of young love and the excitement of possibility while juxtaposing this with a mature disillusioned relationship. Stadler investigates the lengths to which grief and extreme misery can be expressed through satire in her solo.

The Friday night concert will be available for livestreamed at https://myumi.ch/DanceWatch

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Performance Mon, 07 Mar 2022 18:15:19 -0500 2022-04-15T20:00:00-04:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Ancestral Haiku (September 23, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96830 96830-21793381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Friday, September 23 | 8:00 PM
Dance Building, Studio 1
1000 Baits Dr.
Free and open to the public

Seating is limited. To reserve your seat in advance, fill out this form: https://forms.gle/mLt2CFEBgUMGtLci9
or email cwps.information@umich.edu

SMTD+CWPS, a new partnership between the School of Music, Theatre & Dance and the Center for World Performance Studies will present an interactive performance that weaves together live original music, dance, video projection and original artwork. Part performance, meditation, and ritual, *Ancestral Haiku* explores Black Ancestry, the Middle Passage, and engages the work of poet/scholar Mursalata Muhammad. Detroit jazz legend Marion Hayden and Legacy join dance artist and U-M faculty Robin Wilson, with artwork and video installation by M. Saffell Gardner.

*Ancestral Haiku* also considers spiritual restitution as a way to alleviate spiritual suffering and begin the process of community healing. In particular, the use of buttons in visual media, soundscape and as interactive objects reflect West African religious practices carried over to African-American slave culture. Seen as objects of ritual and meaning, buttons connect the ancestral world with our own.

The Bass speaks in the hands of Marion Hayden. Mentored by master trumpeter Marcus Belgrave; Hayden began performing jazz at the age of 15. She has performed with such diverse luminaries as Bobby McFerrin, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Geri Allen, Regina Carter, Steve Turre, David Allen Grier, James Carter and Nancy Wilson.

Her creative practice centers around her ensemble Legacy which performs original and narrative driven compositional works within the framework of improvised music with an emphasis on African diasporic music and Detroit composers. She is a co-founder of the Grammy nominated ensemble Straight Ahead- the first all-woman jazz ensemble signed to Atlantic Records.

Widely recognized as an advocate for the preservation of cultural and artistic legacy, Hayden was honored with the prestigious Kresge Artist Fellowship, the Spirit of Detroit Award and the 2022 Ron Brooks Award from the Southeast Michigan Jazz Assoc. She has served as Panelist or Consultant for Chamber Music America, the McKnight Foundation, Charles Wright Museum of African American History and South Arts. A passionate educator, Hayden holds jazz faculty positions at University of Michigan, Oakland University and the Geri Allen Jazz Camp- the first all-woman jazz residency.

Robin Wilson sees teaching, artmaking, and activism as easy companions – giving voice to untold stories and giving tools for others to speak their truth. She sees no contradiction between making art, teaching others to discover the artist within, teaching others to understand their history and connection to the greater good and being an advocate for the arts and communities. A founding member of New York’s Urban Bush Women, Robin is a Professor of Dance at the University of Michigan with an MFA in Choreography from Temple University. Her work explores the influences of the African Diaspora in historical and contemporary dance/culture, public scholarship and social justice through community engagement, and most recently, documenting the oral histories of black dancers in Harlem during the Black Arts Movement of the early 1970s.

Her recent collaborations include What We Ask Of Flesh with INSPIRIT: A Dance Company at Jacob’s Pillow and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Shattered Globes: For Tamara 2020 at the Detroit Dance City Festival and the Midwest RAD Festival and Ancestral Haiku with Detroit bassist Marion Hayden and visual artist Saffell Gardner at the Sidewalk Detroit Festival.

In 1992, Wilson received a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award as a former member of Urban Bush Women for her collective work on the company’s dances River Songs (1984) and Praise House (1990). She continues to perform and collaborate with artists across cultures, bridging communities through dance and scholarship and activism.

M. Saffell Gardner was born in Detroit, Michigan and holds BFA and MFA degrees in painting from Wayne State University. A sculptor, painter and educator, Gardner’s work uses bold forms and personal iconography in centering themes of African American identity, ritual and ancestry. In recognition of his artistic creativity and originality, Gardner was honored with the Kresge Artist Fellowship, a prestigious award to a distinguished group of visual and performing artists.

As a sculptor, Gardner’s work has been described as “visually stunning” and “regal”. “Sankofa” a 12’ sculpture celebrating the Ghanaian concept of “bringing the knowledge of the past forward” has been exhibited at the Chelsea Art Walk, Chelsea, MI, 2020-21 and the Krasl Biennial at the Box Factory in St. Joseph, MI, 2022-23. His sculpture “Lost Kings” was included in the 2021 Regional Biennial at the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

If you require accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777 or cwps.information@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Performance Wed, 14 Sep 2022 15:54:52 -0400 2022-09-23T20:00:00-04:00 2022-09-23T21:30:00-04:00 Dance Building Center for World Performance Studies Performance Ancestral Haiku
Official Dance Building Opening (November 11, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/100387 100387-21799692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 11, 2022 10:00am
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The Department of Dance invites you: our alumni, friends, and community partners, to enjoy a day of dance classes, building tours, and performances that represent many of the various practices we offer at U-M. You are welcome to take any courses listed here or, if you prefer, we invite you to observe any class you wish (chairs will be set up in each of the studios). We look forward to you joining us on this important day in the history of the Department of Dance.

Please contact Maria Paterno (mpaterno@umich.edu) with any questions.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 18 Oct 2022 18:15:18 -0400 2022-11-11T10:00:00-05:00 2022-11-11T16:30:00-05:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Conference / Symposium Official Dance Building Opening
Dance Building Official Opening Celebration & Performance (November 11, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100388 100388-21799693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 11, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The Department of Dance invites you: our alumni, friends, and community partners, to celebrate the official opening of our new dance building with this performance. We look forward to you joining us on this important day in the history of the Department of Dance.

This performance will take place in Studio 1 (Room 1040), with a reception to follow in the Perry Kasper Granoff Studio (Room 1060).

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Performance Tue, 18 Oct 2022 12:15:19 -0400 2022-11-11T19:30:00-05:00 2022-11-11T21:00:00-05:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Dance Building Official Opening Celebration & Performance
midst of a moment (November 17, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99114 99114-21797588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 17, 2022 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The Friday performance will be livestreamed.

Senior BFA students in dance present a joint concert of their choreography at the conclusion of their studies in the dance program. Presenting seniors are Katey Besser, Isabella Payne, Jack Randell, Brooke Taylor.

Tickets are free but required. Available at the door an hour before the show.

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Performance Thu, 03 Nov 2022 12:15:23 -0400 2022-11-17T20:00:00-05:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
midst of a moment (November 18, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99114 99114-21797589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 18, 2022 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The Friday performance will be livestreamed.

Senior BFA students in dance present a joint concert of their choreography at the conclusion of their studies in the dance program. Presenting seniors are Katey Besser, Isabella Payne, Jack Randell, Brooke Taylor.

Tickets are free but required. Available at the door an hour before the show.

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Performance Thu, 03 Nov 2022 12:15:23 -0400 2022-11-18T20:00:00-05:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
midst of a moment (November 19, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99114 99114-21797590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 19, 2022 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The Friday performance will be livestreamed.

Senior BFA students in dance present a joint concert of their choreography at the conclusion of their studies in the dance program. Presenting seniors are Katey Besser, Isabella Payne, Jack Randell, Brooke Taylor.

Tickets are free but required. Available at the door an hour before the show.

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Performance Thu, 03 Nov 2022 12:15:23 -0400 2022-11-19T20:00:00-05:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance