Earlier this year while a Fellow at Stanford University, Natalie interviewed A.R. Rahman, the top film music director in India. Her subsequent research resulted in a well-received presentation as summarized by the Consul General of India:

A brilliant young American researcher, Natalie Sarrazin, whose deconstruction of the elements of Bollywood was revelatory, launched into a dissection of the elements of Rahman’s music and how he changed the standard idiom of Hindi film music.

In November, Sarrazin presented her research at an ethnomusicology annual conference in Honolulu, Hawaii. Natalie is reviving and inspiring our Music Specialty in the Arts for Children major.

Associate Professor Juanita Suarez (dance) and the Latina Dance Project (LDP) conducted a dance residency at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in September 2006. Suarez and company also performed at the Mexican Museum of Fine Arts in Chicago and at the Quinzena de Dança de Almada Contemporary Dance Festival in Lisbon, Portugal, in November. Juanita's busy semester concluded with four performances of her work La Llorona at the SUNY Brockport DANSCORE concert.

As co-director for the ImageMovementSound Festival in Rochester, Juanita is currently creating two collaborative works for presentation in spring 2007.

This past fall, Professor Oh Kon Cho (theatre) and Arts for Children students in the Creative Drama and Puppetry courses offered a three-session workshop for second and third graders in the community. The final workshop culminated with the children performing a Coyote Story using the puppets they made. The opportunity provided fun and excitement for the youngsters who visited the college on Saturday mornings.