Dancers At Work Program B
Dancers At Work Program B
November 17th-18th at 8pm
November 18th at 2pm
Welcome to Marymount Manhattan College Dance Department’s student showing of works in progress. This performance also includes works for our Freshman Bachelor of Fine Arts candidates, choreographed by Chris Houston.
These performances represent the works of students who have an interest in pursuing choreography beyond the classroom experience. Several different levels of choreographic proficiency are represented. Limited in time and space, each choreographer’s rehearsals ran twice a week for a total of four and a half hours, forcing them to work quickly and efficiently; a skill necessary for the professional world of choreography.
The students’ responsibility extends beyond the choreographic process, incorporating all aspects of the production from costumes and sets to publicity and programming.
We are proud of what the students have accomplished and hope you enjoy the results of their hard work.
There will be a 10-minute intermission
PLEASE SILENCE OR TURN OFF ALL CELL PHONES.
ANY VIDEO AND/OR AUDIO RECORDING OF THIS PRODUCTION IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED TO PROTECT THE INTELLECTUAL RIGHTS OF ALL COLLABORATORS OF THIS PRODUCTION; CHOREOGRAPHERS, DANCERS, MUSICIANS, COSTUME AND LIGHTING DESIGNERS.
Land Acknowledgement
We want to acknowledge the land that our institution is on - to recognize the violent history and legacy of the area currently known through colonial knowledge as the United States and known through Indigenous knowledge asTurtle Island. Marymount Manhattan College is situated on the Lenape island of Mannahatta in Lenapehoking, the Lenape homeland.
We pay respect to Lenape peoples, past, present, and future, and for their continued presence in the homeland and throughout the Lenape diaspora. We offer our care and gratitude to the land, water, and air of Lenapehoking and are committed to resisting colonialism and imbalance with Mother Earth. In particular, through this land acknowledgment, and as a dance department, we reaffirm our commitment to working against colonialism.
We would also like to take this opportunity to pay homage to our ancestors, no matter what culture you are from, for it is through them that we are here, living, moving, and breathing to do our creative-pedagogical-scholarly work, i.e., shaping dance for the twenty-first century and hopefully showing how bodies in movement might bring about a future where we can see just and equitable treatment of everyone.
Enjoy the show!
Chair of Dance
Betsy Cooper
Assistant Chair of Dance
Nancy Lushington
Production Stage Manager
Alix Angulo ’27 & Fifi Younker ’27
Choreography Mentors
Tymberly Canale, Jamal White & Janis Brenner
Music Mentors
Dan Cooper & Andy Warshaw
Production Support
Elias Colado ’25, Molly Ouret ’26 & Brooke Barnes ’27
Production Manager/Technical Director
Burke Brown
Costume Coordinator/Costume Designer
Gabrielle Corrigan
Production Sound Design
Dan Cooper & Matt Straub ’18
House Manager/Dance Administrator
Natalie Ng
Running Crew
Addison Whitney, Avery Bartley, Benjamin Stoesz, Carissa Myers, Deybi Aldana, Ella Patterson, Aspen Aragon, Isabelle Julien, Josephine Pearson, Lua Li, Sonia Dove, Willow Solly
The Marymount Manhattan College Dance Department wishes to extend its sincerest thanks to those who have helped to make this production possible.
Peter Naccarato, Interim President
Graham Ciraulo, Vice President for Institutional Advancement
Wilton Fontenette, Assistant Vice President of Advancement Operations
Christine Sneva, Vice President for Student Success and Engagement
Katie Langan, Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty
Richard Sheldon, Associate Vice President for Academic Administration
Mary Fleischer, Chair, Division of Visual & Performing Arts
A special thanks to…
The MMC Dance Department Advisory Board
MMC Campus Safety & Facilities
The Marymount Manhattan College Dance Department Costume Collection is a compilation of costumes designed and built for the Dance Department and is made available to student choreographers and costume designers. The work of several costume designers is represented, including: Tara Antonistanti, Jeanette Aultz Look, Anna-Alisa Belous, Tamara Bliss, Benjamin Briones, Elena Comendador, Jessica Dunham, Michelle Ferranti, Christina Giannini, Teresa Heiland, George Hudacko, Elissa Iberti, Naomi Luppescu, Allyson Kropinack, Anne Mette Moller, Claudia Montez, Mondo Morales, Melianie Schmidt, Caitlin Taylor and Keiko Voltaire.
