5 CHOREOGRAPHERS
5 DANCES
5 MAGICAL OUTDOOR LOCATIONS
RED ROVER
Thank you to all who attended and participated!
NEW WORKS BY BAY AREA CHOREOGRAPHERS
Brittany Brown Ceres
Janice Garrett
Brenton Cheng
Hope Mohr
Bliss Kohlmyer Dowman
...AND COMPOSERS
Edward Schocker
Daniel Berkman
Cobi van Tonder
Presented by the Department of Drama and the Dance Division Co-sponsored by SICA and Stanford Lively Arts
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Red Rover Performance Sites
1. Terman slope and pond...Brittany Brown Ceres
2. Clark Center courtyard...Janice Garrett
3. Mudd Building Bamboo Grove...Brenton Cheng
4. Canfield Courtyard...Hope Mohr
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Shumway Fountain...Bliss Kohlmeyer Dowman
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Red Rover is presented in conjunction with a new course in the Dance Division, “Figure/Ground: Site-Specific Dance Performance in Alternative Environments,” taught by Stanford dance faculty member Diane Frank. The course explores the history of site-specific work, the use of alternative spaces for performance, and various processes for creating performance art in response and relation to the environment. Student dancers in the course will perform choreographed material on the paths leading to and from the performance sites.
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About the Artists
Daniel Berkman i is a San Francisco based composer, multi-instrumentalist and electronic musician. Daniel has composed dance scores since 1998 in collaboration with such choreographers as Sara Shelton Mann, Lizz Roman, Cheryl Chaddick, Kunst-Stoff, Matt Lawrence, Stacy Printz Project, Heidi Schweiker, and many others. Daniel is also an innovator of the Kora (West African harp) and has three recordings to his credit: “Heartstrings” (1996), “Feverdreams” (1998) and “Calabashmoon” (2005). He releases his debut electronic CD in 2008 under the moniker “Colfax.” Web site
Hailed by dance critic Allan Ulrich as a choreographer with “genuine craft and individual sensibility” (Voice of Dance, 7/03), Brittany Brown Ceres is the founder of Dance Ceres. With an MFA from SUNY, Purchase College and an MA from Stanford, she currently teaches choreography at SF School of the Arts and City College. Ceres is a three-time awardee of the Mary Edith Clifford Award for Choreography. Her work has been produced in the San Francisco Bay Area, New Zealand, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Vermont, and Oregon. She directed the WestWave Dance Festival from 02-07, managed ODC Theater from 03-06 and currently manages a SF-based start-up, widgetbox.com. Web site
Brenton Cheng is a movement researcher and performer, based in Oakland, CA. He is on the faculty at Moving On Center, University of San Francisco, and the Integrated Movement Studies Laban certification program, and teaches internationally in France and Russia. He graduated from Stanford in 1993 with an MA in (Bio-)Mechanical Engineering and a passion for exploring the body moving. Web site
Janice Garrett is an internationally active choreographer and dance educator who currently directs her own San Francisco Company, Janice Garrett and Dancers. Honored in 2004 as one of Dance Magazine’s top “25 to Watch,” Garrett has choreographed more than 20 original works for her company as well as receiving commissions to create dances for companies and performance groups throughout the US and Europe. A former member of Dan Wagoner and Dancers, she has been a guest artist at universities across the US as well as for international dance companies that include London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Rambert Dance Company, DV8 Physical Theatre, and Matthew Bourne’s Adventures in Motion Pictures. Her grants include support from the James Irvine Foundation, Meet the Composer, Zellerbach Family Foundation, W.A. Gerbode Foundation, and William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, among others. Web site
Bliss Kohlmyer Dowman began her training in Wooster, Ohio. She danced with The Canton Ballet throughout high school, attended the Juilliard School, and then graduated from Dickinson College with a BA in Dramatic Arts. In New York, she danced with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, the Sean Curran Company, and Alex Beller. In San Francisco, she has danced with Janice Garrett and Dancers, Robert Moses’ Kin, and the San Francisco Opera Ballet, among others. Currently on faculty at the ODC School and a lecturer at UC Berkeley, Bliss has taught master classes at the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, Arizona State University, San Francisco State University, Cal Poly University, Stanford University, and elsewhere. She has been artist-in-residence for the San Francisco Arts Education Project and is a certified pilates instructor. Along with Kara Davis, she established project agora in 2006, co-producing two evenings of work at Dance Mission.
Hope Mohr (Stanford '94, Columbia '02) returned to her native Bay Area to focus on her own work after performing for many years around the world with a number of pioneers of postmodern dance, including Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, and Douglas Dunn. She trained at San Francisco Ballet School and on scholarship at the Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown Dance Studios. She formed her own company, Hope Mohr Dance, in 2007. Web site
Edward Schocker’s music is a mixture of alternate tuning systems and unique instruments, combined with theater/opera. He holds an MA in composition from Mills College, where he founded The Music For People & Thingamajigs Concert, the only annual event in the Bay Area devoted to music for made/found instruments and alternate tuning systems, now in its tenth year. He was won numerous international awards and now lives in Tokyo and in Oakland, CA.Web site
Cobi van Tonder (South Africa) is a composer/performer/media artist. Cobi van Tonder completed a BHons in Music at the University of the Witwatersrand and a National Diploma in Jazz and Musical Theatre. Van Tonder creates over a multifaceted range of media, focusing on the performance of real-time, physical movement-driven electronic and electro-acoustic music. Her works and collaborations have been exhibited and performed in South Africa, London, Stuttgart, Toronto, Ogaki, California, Antarctica, New York, and Seoul. Van Tonder is currently completing an MFA Art Practice degree at Stanford University. Web site