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Dancers At Work Program B

Dancers At Work Program B

April 21st - 22nd at 8pm

April 22nd at 2pm

Welcome to Marymount Manhattan College Dance Department’s student showing of works in progress. This performance also includes two works for our Freshman Bachelor of Fine Arts candidates, choreographed by Monique Smith, and our Bachelor of Arts candidates, choreographed by Jazlynn Goudy.

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

Nancy Lushington

Assit. Chair of Dance

Catherine Cabeen

Production Stage Manager

Sydney Erwin ’23

Choreography Mentors

Tymberly Canale & Nancy Lushington

Music Mentors

Dan Cooper & Andy Warshaw

Production Support

Elias Colado ’25, Molly Ouret ’26, & Rebekka Ryan ’23

Production Manager/Technical Director

Burke Brown

Costume Coordinator/Wardrobe Supervisor/Costume Designer

Gabrielle Corrigan

Wardrobe Assistants

Erica Johnston & Kessler Vogel

Lighting Designers

 

House Manager/Dance Administrator

Kristine Maria Gonzalez, M.A. ’16

Running Crew

Ava Bagan, Azrielle Smith, Briona Bojorquez, Dani Silver, Eden Araten, Emily O’Neil, Gaby Sanchez-Trueba, Jazmin Lakin, Kalliyan Johnson, Nisa Tatum, Nova Persio, Rebecca Sherr, Sophia Wright, Sophie Hutchinson

 

The Marymount Manhattan College Dance Department wishes to extend its sincerest thanks to those who have helped to make this production possible.

President Kerry Walk, Ph.D.

Graham Ciraulo, Vice President for Institutional Advancement

Wilton Fontenette, Assistant Vice President of Advancement Operations

Kathleen LeBesco, Interim Vice President for Student Success and Engagement

Peter Naccarato, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty

Richard Sheldon, Associate Vice President for Academic Administration

Katie Langan, Chair, Division of Fine & 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.