| 2006-2007 Choreographic Fellowship Recipients |
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The Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography Announces
2006-2007 Choreographic Fellows Choreographers Tania Isaac/Tania Isaac Dance (PA), Miguel Gutierrez/Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People (NY), Yanira Castro/Yanira Castro Company (NY), Monica Bill Barnes/Monica Bill Barnes & Company (NY), and David Neumann/Advanced Beginner Group (NY) have been awarded Choreographic Fellowships by the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) at Florida State University for the 2006-07 academic year. The recipients were selected through a highly competitive national review process, and will each receive up to $13,000 to conduct choreographic research in the dance and technology facilities at Florida State University. The five finalists successfully articulated how the Center’s laboratory environment would advance their creative development through choreographic research, and detailed innovative ways of sharing their creative process with MANCC’s target audiences (beyond the historical menu of master class, lecture/demonstration or performance). This year’s research topics include Tania Isaac’s exploration of the gaps between first and third world socio-cultural practice, David Neumann’s interest in using the tactics that govern sports as ‘found algorithms’ in determining movement phrases for dance, and Yanira Castro’s investigation of the psychological and biological connections between sleep, gestation and metamorphosis. Common to all projects, is the intimate and engaging nature of their proposed student and community engagement with the research topics being explored. More information on each of the proposed fellowship projects and community entrypoints can be found online at www.mancc.org. The mission of MANCC is to raise the value of the creative process in dance by (1) providing a model of support for professional choreographic creativity within a Comprehensive Research University, (2) providing choreographers access to a stimulating environment where experimentation, exploration and life-long learning are both valued and encouraged, and (3) providing opportunities for the students, staff and faculty, the community of Tallahassee and the national dance field at large to engage with the creative process in dance. MANCC (pronounced man-see), is located in Tallahassee, Florida and shares the dance facilities of Montgomery Hall with the Department of Dance on the Florida State University campus. Montgomery Hall includes seven large dance studios, a 400-seat theater, black box, audio lab, computer and media lab, classrooms, offices, dressing rooms and conditioning studio for dancers. In the 2005-06 season, MANCC hosted Jill Sigman (NY), Yasuko Yokoshi (NY), Eiko & Koma (NY/Cambodia), Philadanco (PA), Uri Sands (MN), Take Ueyama (NY), Bridget Moore (NY), Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer (NY), Anouk van Dijk (Netherlands), Benjamin Levy (CA), KT Niehoff (WA), Adia Whitaker (NY), and Adele Myers (CT). |