This week: Important Messages, Week 8 Ballet & Technique Schedule, Reminders,  Summer 2019 Opportunities, Health & Wellness, Announcements/Shout-outs and Friday’s Rotation Schedule

Important Messages

BFA Ticket Sign Up for Motion: New Dance Works  

Dance Assembly 

Dance Studies Lecture: Bill T. Jones will be on Wednesday, March 13th at 12:30pm in Studio 110

The MacArthur Genius Award winner and renowned international choreographer will share excerpts from his book Story/Time: The Life of an Idea, a reflection on his art and life and a meditation on the demands and rewards of artistic creation.

*BFA’s are required to attend

University Commencement Special-Needs Parking Hangtag

University Commencement will take place on Sunday, May 19, 2019, at HighPoint.com Stadium on the Busch Campus. With more than 50,000 people expected on campuses in Piscataway and New Brunswick, parking on campus will be limited. Therefore, graduating students must register to receive up to two free parking hangtags for themselves and their families or guests. Registration for special-needs parking hangtags is now open. Registration for non-special-needs tags will open on March 25. Learn more here.

Student Registration for FREE Parking Hangtags for yourself and your guests will being on Monday, March 25th at 10am

Important Graduation Information – Undergraduate Students

Undergraduate students who anticipate completing May 2019 degree requirements must apply for graduation by submitting a diploma application online. Please contact the Undergraduate Registrar’s Office at 848-445-2757 and ask for Monica Licourt or Michael Rusen, or email diplomas@registrar.rutgers.edu with any concerns about a diploma application. Please note that completion of a diploma application does not imply that graduation requirements have been met.

Summer Study Abroad in Berlin w/ Theater Professor Christopher Cartmill

May 22-June 11

Theater Department is making spaces available for undergraduate Dance Department students to participate in a 3 week summer study abroad experience in Berlin, Germany

Earn 3 liberal arts credits

Visit includes attending dance, opera and theater performances, with direct contacts with the artists

Also included are a variety of museum visits; all museum tickets/passes pre-paid with tuition

Cost:  $3000

For more information, please contact Christopher Cartmill directly at cjc289@mgsa.rutgers.edu

Save the Date! MFA Thesis Concerts!

Through this immersive performance, conceived and directed by MFA Candidate Kiri Avelar, participats will be guided through several happenings, including film screening, live pop-up performances, and a dance class – all curated to provoke responses for the individual and the community

Wednesday April 10th with performances at 5 and 7pm at El Barrio’s Artspace PS 109, New York, NY. Free Admission. RSVP required

An immersive interdisciplinary dance performance choreographed and directed by MFA candidate Jessica C. Featherson. Featuring original artwork and photography by Mason Gross School of the Arts student Jonathan Adams and Angelica Calderon, and poetry by New York-based spoken word artist Shadenia Sivad.

Saturday, April 13th from 2pm – 5pm at the Zimmerli Art Museum. Free admission. Limited engagement RSVP required.

Week 8 Ballet & Technique Schedule

Reminders

Study Abroad Applications—All Students

Applications for Spring 2020 study abroad applications are due on October 1. Walk-in hours are Monday–Friday, noon–3 p.m., at Rutgers Global–Study Abroad on the College Avenue Campus. Learn more, search programs, and apply here.

Rutgers Learning Centers

To sign up for Peer Coaching Sessions visit: Rutgers Learning Centers – Peer Coaching Sessions

Nicholas Music Center Dance Studio Doors

Attention Students, Faculty, & Staff

Please do not place the door stopper at the top of the door frame. The weight of the door pressing against the wedge will eventually rip the door off the hinges or ruin the alignment (that is, the door won’t close and the swipe access won’t work

Summer 2019 Opportunities

Gibney Dance Company

• Gibney Summer Study

SUMMER STUDY PROVIDES STUDENTS WITH AN IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE IN THE NYC DANCE SCENE OVER FOUR WEEKS.

The program is designed to build a supportive community, expose students to new and challenging ideas and movement styles, and share tools for building a sustainable career in the performing arts.

NYC Summer Study 2019 Dates:
Monday, June 3 – Friday, June 28 &
Monday, July 1 – Friday, July 26

Tuition:
$1,985; Scholarships Available
Application Fee: $50

Apply (Due May 3rd)

• Gibney Summer Intensive

MONDAY JUNE 17 – FRIDAY JUNE 28, 2019
WEEKDAYS,10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
PRICE: $900; $450 DEPOSIT DUE APRIL 5
APPLICATION DUE: MARCH 31, 11:59 PM EST

Enhance your technical ability, challenge your physical artistry, and learn company repertory by Micaela Taylor and Bobbi Jene Smith in an Intensive led by Gibney Dance Company. With a focus on artistic excellence and social integrity, GDC activates dance artists toward their full artistic, entrepreneurial, and socially-minded selves through rigorous physical, intellectual, and interpersonal practices. The Intensive also includes GDC professional enhancement workshops designed to help you develop leadership practices, community action skills, and navigation through your artistic career.

Partial Scholarships Available. Application Due: March 31,11:59 pm EST
Apply for a Partial Scholarship.

Please contact Company Manager Trina Mannino, at trina@gibneydance.org with questions.

Hollins University

Looking for Summer 2019 Internships?! Well you’re in luck! Hollins University is offering Arts Administrative & Production Internships! To apply online visit Hollins University Dance Internships

Alexandra Beller Dances

“Dance / And”, our upcoming Summer Intensive, focuses on the intersectionality of dance, and discovering how embodiment factors into science, psychology, politics, communication, relationships, by collaborating with theater artists, filmmakers, scientists, vocalists, activists, dramaturgs. Can we re-position movement investigation as an essential act of survival?

To register: Dance/And Summer Intensive

SpringboardX

Presented by Springboard Danse and Gibney, SpringboardX aims to bring the same exemplary philosophies and methodologies of dance and dance-making to a broader demographic. We are joined by a brilliant international faculty composed of some of the most extraordinary dance artists of our time. This summer unites Springboard artists Sidra Bell, Elia Mrak, Troy Ogilvie, Or Schraiber, Ami Shulman, Bobbi Jene Smith, VIM VIGOR, and our very own Alexandra Wells, and we are honored to have these remarkable artists sharing their experience for this second annual SpringboardX Skills + Process!

SpringboardX is for the curious professional and pre-professional dancer. There is NO audition process, as SpringboardX was established to emphasize access and community for dancers of all backgrounds.

Bates Dance Festival 

The Professional Training Program enrolls intermediate and advanced dancers, ages 18 and older, who have previous experience and curiosity in the field of dance. Dancers develop technique and strengthen their knowledge-base. Dance-makers have the opportunity to create and dig into composition and process. Teachers refresh and refine skills for the classroom and the studio.

Choose from a wide variety of technique and somatic offerings in the morning. Design your individual experience by taking a 3-week deep-dive into one intensive or mix and match from diverse one-week offerings in technique, process, and pedagogy.

Visit: Bates Dance Festival Professional Training Program 2019 or speak with Brittany Engel-Adams & Kimberly Bartosik who will be teaching at Bates this summer for more information!

Ballet Hispanico

ChoreoLab: Emerging Artist Workshop for the advanced and early professional level dancers