Kevin S. Warner will present Ten Steps Toward Deeper Arts Integration: Lessons from the Field at the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) conference in New York City this June. He consults and presents nationally on arts integration and the arts as whole-school reform.
James Hansen was selected to present work in the Yes, Virginia! Dance Festival in Richmond, VA. He invited junior dance major Devon Monin and MFA candidate Lyndsey Vader to perform his dance Frozen. Hansen has also received three commissions this year to create new dances at the Governor's School for the Arts in Richmond, VA, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, and SUNY Geneseo. Most recently, Hansen was accepted into the Goose Route Dance Festival in Shepherdstown, WV.
Last October Hansen conducted the department's first audition at the La Guardia High School for the Performing Arts in New York. Assisted by former Brockport student Jenny Showalter, Hansen taught high school students, recommending six for potential scholarships at Brockport.
Bill Evans was the major teacher at the 40th Repertory Dance Theatre Workshop in June. He has performed solo concerts in Salt Lake City, Mexico City, Bloomington, IN and Phoenix, AZ this year. He was the keynote teacher/speaker at the International Laban Conference at the Mexican National Center for Contemporary Art. In addition to creating two new works, he will serve as adjudicator for the ACDFA Conference in Little Rock and as guest artist at Sam Houston State University in Texas.
Juanita Suarez, in collaboration with the Latina Dance Project (LDP), conducted a week-long dance residency in San Marcos, CA in February. This was an event that covered three days, three events and three campuses! Suarez is developing a new work based on Francisco Goya's Los Caprichos entitled El Sueño de la Razon/The Slumber of Reason.
As part of the Vision of Sound series, Suzanne Oliver was invited to create a new work to the highly regarded score Dancing With the Devil, composed by Dana Wilson.
The work featured seven Brockport dancers and has toured Syracuse and Colgate Universities. The work will have its Rochester premiere in April.
Oliver's article Alignment in Early Movement Education is due to be published in the March 2009 issue of JOPERD.
Dr. Darwin Prioleau, department chair, spent a busy summer teaching workshop intensives. In June she taught modern at the Stephen's College summer intensive in Columbia, MO. She was also commissioned to re-set Woman: Claiming Courage, Breathing Spirit for the advanced dancers. Then Darwin flew to Dallas, Texas to teach a jazz workshop for Dallas Black Dance Theatre where she created a new piece A Bit of Swing. Prioleau's newly commissioned piece for the Kent Dance Ensemble in Ohio, Beggar for the Blues, will premiere in April.
At all of these venues, Prioleau continued to recruit candidates for the department's graduate program.
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Lyndsey Vader has been selected the Outstanding Graduate Student in the School of Arts and Performance for 2009. This award is based on an outstanding GPA as well as a strong performance component in one's discipline. She has performed extensively at Brockport including her own High Fructose Fix which premiered at Dance/Hartwell this month.
Heather Roffe (MFA '08) was recently accepted into the Garth Fagan Dance Company. Her own choreography has been presented in New York City and across New York state; Minneapolis; Richmond, VA and at Jacob's Pillow, MA. 
Dan Walczak (BFA 07) has joined Gallim Dance as a company member. Dan has performed at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, ACDF, ADF, the Bates Dance Festival, the International Dance Festival, as well as several venues at The College at Brockport and in Rochester, NY. 
Kelly Ferris (MFA '07) received a tenure track assistant professor position at Southern Mississippi University. She was a teaching assistant and adjunct lecturer while at Brockport. 
Abstracts by Danielle Selby and Audrey Ouellette were accepted for presentation at the upcoming National Conference on Undergraduate Research in April. Ouellette will present Transforming Words to Movement: Choreography from a Distance while Selby's presentation is entitled Untapped Choreographic Resource.
Adrienne Wilson (MFA '07) recently was hired as the director of the dance minor program and a member of the BFA in musical theatre faculty in the Department of Theatre at Auburn University in Alabama. Her areas of expertise include: musical theatre choreography, modern, jazz and tap.
Internationally recognized choreographer Dianne McIntyre collaborated with three distinguished Brockport musicians (JJ Kaufman, Khalid Saleem and Greg Ketchum) and 14 Brockport dancers. After two weeks of rehearsals, McIntyre's Club emerged as a representation of the various groups in which people, consciously or otherwise, participate. The work premiered at the November DANSCORE concert. Graduate student Kirsten Howard was Ms. McIntyre's assistant. Under the direction of Jacqueline Davis, the project received support from the New York State DanceForce and McIntyre's 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship.
The New York-based Keigwin + Company presented a one week residency culminating in three concerts on campus. Larry Keigwin selected 19 Brockport dancers to perform in two of his repertory pieces. The dancers quickly learned the works and performed with the company on campus at the end of February. Keigwin's work has been presented at New York City Center, Lincoln Center, American Dance Festival and other prestigious national venues. 
