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D A N C E
Dancers Jacqueline Calle, Rhiannon Laymon, Nikki Morath, Kara Nightingale
and Hannah Winton have been accepted into one or more of these dance
programs: SUNY/Purchase Dance Conservatory, California Institute of the Arts,
Florida State University, University of the Arts, Point Park University, University
of South Carolina.
Two dancers are valedictorians! Hannah Winton is valedictorian at Greenville
Technical College Charter High School, and Mattison Williams is valedictorian
at Greer Middle College Charter High School.
Rebecca Lee set challenging choreographic works on the morning and
afternoon dancers during her residency in February. Ms. Lee, an alumna of the Fine
Arts Center, received her BFA from Columbia College in Columbia, S.C., and her
MFA from Florida State University. She has been a company member with Dance
Repertory Theatre in Tallahassee, Fla., and the Power Company in Columbia, S.C.
She has been a guest artist with Wildwood Ballet and with Christian von Howard
in the Von Howard Project in New York City. Her dances, “Crispitudo Caelum” and
“Isomorphous” were performed in the FAC Dance Concert on April 26.
Rhiannon Laymon and
Nikki Morath in “Chaconne,”
choreographed by Tim Glenn
“Last Dance,” choreographed
by guest artist Tyler Gilstrap
Teri Goddard, a costume designer, designed
and created the costumes for “Chaconne,”
choreographed by guest artist Tim Glenn. Assisting
Ms. Goddard was Meade Inglis, a current Visual
Arts student at the Fine Arts Center. Teri Goddard
created costumes in the past for such dance pieces
as “Mud,” choreographed by Lisa Wheeler, when
her daughter, Danielle Goddard, attended the Fine
Arts Center.
The Fine Arts Center Dance Concert was April
26 in the Wade Hampton High School Theatre at
7 p.m. The repertory included choreography by
Tim Glenn (Associate Professor in the School
of Dance at Florida State University and former
dancer with Nikolais & Murray Louis Dance
Company), Sara Procopio (founding member and
former Artistic Associate of Shen Wei Dance Arts),
Tyler Gilstrap (founding member of Battleworks
Dance Company and featured dancer in such films
as “Across the Universe,” directed by Julie Taymor),
Andrew Kuharsky (Director of the Greenville Ballet)
and Rebecca Lee (Wildwood Ballet and alumna of
the Fine Arts Center).
On Feb. 14 the afternoon dancers had the
privilege of taking a master class with two cast
members from the National Tour of “Billy Elliot: The
Musical” at the Peace Center. The dancers learned
a dance that was a compilation of various sections of the show — it was non-stop
dancing for the entire hour-long class!
Vincas Greene, professor of Dance at Brenau University in Gainesville,
Ga., taught master classes on Jan. 31. He received his MFA from the California
Institute of the Arts and has trained with dance artists Merce Cunningham,
Mark Morris and Gerri Houlihan, among others. He has choreographed more
than 40 choreographic works and three operas.
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“Isomorphous,” choreographed
by Rebecca Lee
“Isomorphous,” choreographed
by Rebecca Lee
“Crash Rhythm,” choreographed by
Tyler Gilstrap. Dancers: Olivia Hopkins
(in the air), Kathy Gale, Addison
Kreisher and Megan Hannon
Meade Inglis, Visual Arts student, and
Teri Goddard, dance costume designer
Dancers took a master class with
members of the cast of “Billy Elliot.”