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Production Staff:
Director of The 621 Gallery: Chris Hampton
Director/Organizer: Caroline (Kay) Picart
Photography: Cecil and Lena Greek
Music: Davis Houck
Publicity: Big Bend Filipino American Association, Erin Dicesare
Staff Support: Erin Dicesare, Michael Goldsby, Laura Pratt, Robert Powell, Katheryn Wright, Andrew Pangle, Katie Rakestraw
Note to the Audience: Please turn off all cell phones, pagers and other devices that may distract the dancers and the audience. For the safety of the dancers, no flash photography is permitted. Please also note that the production will involve moving from one part of the gallery floor to another part, as one part of the gallery floor will be devoted to live performances, and the other to art video clip viewings. Social dancing during the intermission will also be encouraged. “Bodies in Motion” will involve not only the active movement of the performers, but the audience as well.
Also, please note that prints of visual art, created by Caroline (Kay) Picart, will be available for sale at the event. For a brief overview of some of her work, refer to: http://english.fsu.edu/picart/Honors/art.html
The 621 Gallery, Chris Hampton and Linda Hall, Aurora Hansen, Clyde Diao and the Big Bend Filipino American Association, Cecil and Lena Greek, Davis Houck, Colm McAindriu, Target Copy
Welcome Remarks: Caroline (Kay) Picart
Choreographer: Bruno Collins
Coaching: Mike Dill
Music: “Tanguedia de Amor”
Musical Artist: Astor Piazzola
Dancers: Caroline (Kay) Picart and Mike Dill
Costume Concept: Mike Dill and Caroline (Kay) Picart
Clip 1 from Dharma Dancing (2004), a production funded by grants from Swarthmore College and Florida State University; a published version appeared in Picart, Caroline J.S. “Dancing Through Different Worlds: Virtual Emotions and the Gendered Body in Ballroom Dance.” Qualitative Inquiry 8 (2002): 347–358, and in Picart, Caroline J.S. and Kenneth Gergen (photos by Carson Zullinger). “Dharma Dancing: Ballroom Dance and the Relational Other.” Qualitative Inquiry, 10:6, December 2004.
Director: Aurora Hansen
Choreography by Lini Jackson
Music: Creek dance by a Creek Native American Tribe
Costume Concept: Lini Jackson
Dancer: Lini Jackson
“Anatomy of a Tango Community,” a
performance-talk by Carolyn Merritt
Clip 2 from Dharma Dancing (2004), a production funded by grants from Swarthmore College and Florida State University; a published version appeared in Picart, Caroline J.S. “Dancing Through Different Worlds: Virtual Emotions and the Gendered Body in Ballroom Dance.” Qualitative Inquiry 8 (2002): 347–358, and in Picart, Caroline J.S. and Kenneth Gergen (photos by Carson Zullinger). “Dharma Dancing: Ballroom Dance and the Relational Other.” Qualitative Inquiry, 10:6, December 2004.
Choreographers:
Argentine Tango segment: Gordon Erlebacher, Laurie Grubbs
American Tango segment: Bruno Collins
Ending: Caroline (Kay) Picart
Coaching:
Argentine Tango segment: Gordon Erlebacher, Kay Picart
American Tango segment: Dena Dill
Ending: Caroline (Kay) Picart
Musical Artists: Ostwaldo Pogliere, Yoyo Ma
Dancers: Gordon Erlebacher, Laurie Grubbs, Caroline (Kay) Picart
Costume Concept: Gordon Erlebacher, Laurie Grubbs, Caroline (Kay) Picart
Clip 3 from Dharma Dancing (2004), a production funded by grants from Swarthmore College and Florida State University; a published version appeared in Picart, Caroline J.S. “Dancing Through Different Worlds: Virtual Emotions and the Gendered Body in Ballroom Dance.” Qualitative Inquiry 8 (2002): 347–358, and in Picart, Caroline J.S. and Kenneth Gergen (photos by Carson Zullinger). “Dharma Dancing: Ballroom Dance and the Relational Other.” Qualitative Inquiry, 10:6, December 2004.
Azucar, medley of “Salsa Rueda” and “Salsa Casino” styles (their Website is http://www.azucardance.com/)
INTERMISSION (social dancing—mix of ballroom and tango styles)
Choreographer: Caroline (Kay) Picart, with elements taken from John and Karen Burns and Shirley Johnson
Coaching: Caroline (Kay) Picart
Music: “Dance with Me”
Musical Artist: Debelah Morgan
Dancers: Rahni (“Iowa”) Spencer, Erin Dicesare, Caroline (Kay) Picart
Costume Concept: Caroline (Kay) Picart, Rahni (“Iowa”) Spencer, Erin Dicesare
Clip 4 from Dharma Dancing (2004), a production funded by grants from Swarthmore College and Florida State University; a published version appeared in Picart, Caroline J.S. “Dancing Through Different Worlds: Virtual Emotions and the Gendered Body in Ballroom Dance.” Qualitative Inquiry 8 (2002): 347–358, and in Picart, Caroline J.S. and Kenneth Gergen (photos by Carson Zullinger). “Dharma Dancing: Ballroom Dance and the Relational Other.” Qualitative Inquiry, 10:6, December 2004.
“Argentine Tango,” an improvised performance piece by Gordon Erlebacher and Carolyn Merritt
Clip 5 from Dharma Dancing (2004), a production funded by grants from Swarthmore College and Florida State University; a published version appeared in Picart, Caroline J.S. “Dancing Through Different Worlds: Virtual Emotions and the Gendered Body in Ballroom Dance.” Qualitative Inquiry 8 (2002): 347–358, and in Picart, Caroline J.S. and Kenneth Gergen (photos by Carson Zullinger). “Dharma Dancing: Ballroom Dance and the Relational Other.” Qualitative Inquiry, 10:6, December 2004.
Director: Aurora Hansen
Choreographer: Paula Shulthiess
Costume concept: Paula Shulthiess
Dancers: Paula Shulthiess
Choreographer: Bruno Collins
Coaching: Mike and Dena Dill
Musical Artist: Secret Garden
Dancers: Caroline (Kay) Picart and Mike Dill
Costume Concept: Caroline (Kay) Picart and Mike Dill
Clip 6 from Dharma Dancing (2004), a production funded by grants from Swarthmore College and Florida State University; a published version appeared in Picart, Caroline J.S. “Dancing Through Different Worlds: Virtual Emotions and the Gendered Body in Ballroom Dance.” Qualitative Inquiry 8 (2002): 347–358, and in Picart, Caroline J.S. and Kenneth Gergen (photos by Carson Zullinger). “Dharma Dancing: Ballroom Dance and the Relational Other.” Qualitative Inquiry, 10:6, December 2004.
Director: Aurora Hansen
“All That Jazz”
Choreography by Paula Shulthiess
Music: from the film version of Chicago
Costume concept: Paula Shulthiess
Hats created by: Andrea Shulthiess
Dancers for this performance: Jennifer Guppenberger, Lini Jackson, Katie
Knight, Monica Magnan, Megan Patterson, Amber Purvis, Paula Shulthiess
Biographical Profiles:
Photo by Cecil Greek
Dr. Caroline (Kay) Picart, director and dancer, is a philosopher and former molecular embryologist educated in the Philippines, England, and the U.S. She is currently an Associate Professor of English and Courtesy Associate Professor of Law at Florida State University. She is the author of eight books (see http://english.fsu.edu/faculty/kpicart.htm) , one of which is the forthcoming From Ballroom to DanceSport: Aesthetics, Athletics and Body Culture (State University of New York Press, 2005), and the contracted Inside Edge: Creating DanceSport Champions (University Press of Florida). She has been trained as a ballet dancer for 16 years, and has training in Philippine and Korean folk dance, as well as Hawaiian dancing, and has been involved with ballroom, as a competitor and performer since 1991, across England, South Korea and various parts of the U.S. She has won numerous gold, silver and bronze level awards in Arthur Murray and Fred Astaire competitions; she has trained with champions like Shirley Johnson, Bruno Collins, Dena Dill, and Michael Chapman. She has been an invited performer in several national events, such as "Performing the Interactive Body and Virtual Emotions in Ballroom Dance," an invited lecture-performance, Performing the World: Communication, Improvisation and Societal Practice, Sponsored by the Taos Institute and Performing for the World, October 12-14, 2001, Montauk Yacht Club, Long Island, New York. She is currently in training for the Millennium DanceSport competition in June 2005 with Tony Prado, who owns Queen City Ballroom in Charlotte, NC. Kay is also a visual artist, and has exhibited, commissioned and sold work in the Philippines, South Korea and various parts of the U.S. Currently, Kay is working on integrating her visual art with her interests in ballroom dance and in autoethnographic and creative writing, which has resulted in one of her books, Inside Notes from the Outside (Lexington Books, 2004). She has produced five video shorts, all through grants from the Institute of Race & Ethnicity, University of Wisconsin; the Pennsylvania State University; St. Lawrence University; Florida State University, and Swarthmore College. Her work has been featured in Qualitative Inquiry (2002), a prestigious journal in Sociology and Psychology; an innovative and groundbreaking book co-edited by Carolyn Ellis and Arthur Bochner, Ethnographically Speaking: Autoethnography, Literature, Aesthetics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002); and a video short, Dharma Dancing, was featured via WFSU-TV. An annual TV program she directs and scripts, via the sponsorship of FSU’s Global Gatherings, through the help of Mafe Brooks, has been ongoing since 2001, and is scheduled to be taped at a live show on April 8, 2005, at Florida State University’s International Student Center. Kay constantly performs for various local fundraising benefits, such as the recent AIDS benefit sponsored by MAC, and numerous U.S. Amateur Ballroom Dancing Association events; her next set of performances, in collaboration with the Big Bend Filipino American Association and the Tallahassee Dance Company is set for May 14th; details to be announced.
Aurora Torres-Hansen, the Managing and Artistic Director of the Tallahassee Community College Dance Company, is a native of the Philippines. She began her dance training with the world renowned Bayanihan Dance Company. She studied in the Philippines under Greta Monserrat Aguilar, Joji Feliz Velarde and in Stuttgart with Dame Lucy Gray. At the age of 16, she received the Youth for Understanding Scholar Award as an exchange student in Wall Lake, Iowa. Aurora continued her studies at Iowa State University’s Orchesis I and II and toured with the Iowa State University Dance Touring Company. Upon graduating, she moved to Ulm, West Germany with her husband Gordon and continued her studies with the Ulm Opera Ballet Company and the Royal Ballet School. She received the highest honors for testing with the Teachers International Dance Association in London.
Upon returning to the United States, she developed the movement education curriculum for Florida Southern College’s Enrichment Program where she taught for 12 years. She has also taught at Polk Community College, the recreation departments for Lakeland and Winter Haven, the Highland School of Dance and developed the geriatric movement exercises for the School Board of Polk County. She was the director of Dancers’ Theatre based at Polk Community College for 11 years.
In 1990, she moved to Tallahassee, and has been active in many civic and community activities. Aurora is also the choreographer of INDAK PILIPINO, a folkloric dance company based at FSU through the Filipino Student Association. She currently sits on the boards of the Sickle Cell Foundation, Asian Coalition of Tallahassee, Big Bend Filipino American Association, and the Cultural Resources Commission. She is the center supervisor at Lawrence Gregory Community Center at Dade Street, and the movement specialist for the Trousdell Gymnastics Center ballet and jazz classes.
Azucar Salsa Group is a registered student organization at Florida State University that was founded in 2000. They were the first to introduce salsa to Tallahassee and have taught and performed casino style salsa all throughout the state of Florida. Hi-Leen, Jose, Kelly, Jesse, Roger and Shannon will be performing a blend of L.A. and Casino style salsa.
Erin Di Cesare is a Masters Student at Florida State University. Her interests include film theory, women's studies, and postcolonial theory. She was introduced to ballroom dancing about a year ago but has been dancing on and off since she was three, and also enjoys dancing a range of styles, such as hip hop, jazz, and salsa.
Michael (Mike) Dill is the owner of the Tallahassee Fred Astaire dance studio; a seasoned performer, he has won numerous awards in various pro-am competitions.
Dr. Gordon Erlebacher got his Ph.D. in Plasma Physics at Columbia University in 1983. He spent 13 years at the NASA Langley research Center and at ICASE (Institute for Computer Applications in Science & Engineering). He came to FSU in 1996 and joined the department of Mathematics and the School of Computational Science & Information Technology. His research interests include fluid turbulence, scientific visualization and internet technologies. Gordon started ballroom dancing in 1988, and competed in International style, smooth and Latin. He started again in 2003 after a 7 year break. During recent trips to Mexico, he developed a passion for Argentine tango.
Dr. Laurie M Grubbs, PhD, ARNP has been on the faculty at the Florida State University School of Nursing since 1987, and has worked as an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner in Adult Medicine since 1982. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Florida State University in 1973, a Master of Science in Clinical Nursing from the University of Florida in 1982, and a PhD in Nursing with a minor degree in Exercise Science from the University of Florida in 1991. Her research concentration is in the area of health promotion/disease prevention for obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and stroke, particularly in women and minorities. Encouraged by a colleague, she began ballroom dancing in 2003. During a recent trip to Mexico, she was introduced to the Argentine Tango and fell in love with the dance. Laurie also enjoys country dancing and recently had her first public exhibition with a professional dancer.
Carolyn Merritt is a doctoral fellow in the Visual Anthropology program at Temple University, where she is focusing on the anthropology of dance/ human movement. Her dissertation research will be a multi-sited study of Argentine tango communities in the U.S. and Buenos Aires. Carolyn holds a BA with honors in Modern Languages from Trinity College. She was trained in classical ballet and modern, and currently performs with AlleyInk in Philadelphia. Carolyn was recently accepted to Temple’s Society of Fellows in the Humanities, and was awarded a research/travel grant to support preliminary fieldwork in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Rahni “Iowa” Spencer is a long time resident of Tallahassee. She graduated from University of Iowa with a degree in Theatre Arts. Her experience working in dance includes artistic management and choreography. As the radio personality Iowa (WHTF, Hot 104.9), she co-created and ran the “Hot Squad” dance team. Rahni has been dancing since early childhood and was introduced to the world of ballroom dancing through her high school Spanish class. Currently she enjoys freestyle social dancing. This is her second choreographed ballroom performance.