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1 month ago | 
dance-teacher.com | Hannah Foster
Lesson Plans | Member Exclusives | Teaching Resources Sekou McMiller Teaches Afro-Latin Contemporary Sekou McMiller is equally at home in a downtown underground Latin club as he is in an uptown college dance department. The artistic director of New York City–based SMc Dance Company, McMiller is known for his unique blend of Afro-Latin dance with West African and Western concert styles like jazz and ballet. Also a choreographer, professor, and dance historian, McMiller says that this type of...
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1 month ago | 
hillsdalecollegian.com | Hannah Foster
The inability to separate artistic style from a work’s quality creates unfair criticism of contemporary art. Conservative critics often belittle abstract art and deplore its increasing popularity in the contemporary world. Abstract art may be a difficult style to understand, but that does not necessarily mean the quality of the art is bad. Those who claim all abstract art is bad make a hasty generalization which is often based on preference.
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2 months ago | 
hillsdalecollegian.com | Hannah Foster
Hillsdale College Republicans will celebrate Presidents Day with a Trump impersonation contest Feb. 17 at 8 p.m. in the Searle Center. According to College Republicans Communications Chair and freshman Kathryn Vieceli, faculty will judge the impersonation contest, including Associate Dean of Men Jeffery Rogers. The event is intended to celebrate all that the American presidents have accomplished for the nation.
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2 months ago | 
dancemagazine.com | Hannah Foster
Jennifer Archibald will never ask you to check your emotions at the door. “I’ve never been the person that says, ‘Leave everything out in the hallway and come back into the studio.’ That’s just not realistic to a human,” says the Toronto-born, Brooklyn-based choreographer.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
dance-teacher.com | Hannah Foster
Member Exclusives | Teaching Resources | Technique & Artistry Teaching Flight: Guiding Students in Safe, Artful Harnesses While Dancing Compared to other dance forms, aerial dancing in a harness has little in the way of codification—no governing body certifying teachers, no universally accepted pedagogy. It’s no wonder. Aerial dance is as diverse and unique as things you can attach a rope and harness to. In the case of Nimble Arts in Vermont, that is often tall trees in a forest setting. At...
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
dancemagazine.com | Hannah Foster
The versatility of aerial dance is limited only by what you can attach a rope and harness to. In the case of Nimble Arts in Vermont, that is often tall trees in a forest setting. At Flyaway Productions, in the San Francisco Bay Area, it might be the wall of a law school, an arts center, or, for its politically driven site-specific dances, even outside a prison. BANDALOOP dance company performs dangling off the sides of skyscrapers and cliffs.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
dance-teacher.com | Hannah Foster
Member Exclusives | Teaching Resources | Technique & Artistry Curtain Up! Helping Students Transition Rehearsal to Performance It’s performance time. The prop table is set to a tee, the lights are perfectly calibrated, the costume changes are lined up and ready to go, and your stage manager is poised to open the curtain. Are your students ready for this crucial moment, when they have to take everything they have learned in rehearsal into a performance setting? Some dance students are natural...
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
pointemagazine.com | Hannah Foster
Kellen Hornbuckle attended Houston Ballet summer intensives for six years in a row, being invited back on scholarship. But she didn’t let the artistic staff’s evident interest in her make her complacent. When she was finally ready to make the leap to leave her home studio in Virginia Beach, she felt pressure to use that school year to get into the intensive again and earn her place in Houston Ballet’s second company. “It was kind of an unspoken motivation,” she says of her last year at home.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
pointemagazine.com | Hannah Foster
Christopher Marney is not trying to create the next Royal Ballet. With his revival of London City Ballet—which Marney has relaunched with a 45-performance world tour in 2024—he wants to fill a different niche than the big powerhouse ballet companies do. The original London City Ballet was founded in 1978 but closed in 1996 due to financial struggles. Though it served as the resident company of Sadlers’ Wells, it also toured throughout the UK with none other than Princess Diana as its patron.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
dancemagazine.com | Hannah Foster
Rehearse, try, practice, experiment. These are the verbs of the studio realm: the safe space where dancers learn choreography, work through notes, and polish steps until they are gleaming and ready. But even with extensive rehearsals, what happens next involves an element of unpredictability: presenting the work before a live audience. Something intangible, seemingly magic, has to happen in the translation of a work from rehearsal to performance.
