EDC Alumni Performing in NYC
Ann Sterling Dale had her choreographic debut in NYC recently! Both Andi Work and Kara Griffin performed in two sections from Ann Sterling’s senior seminar piece in the Amalgamate Artist Series. Keep up with the EDC Alumni on our alumni page!
Diego Carrasco Schoch
Diego Carrasco Schoch just completed a mini residency with the Elon Dance Department this Monday and Tuesday! He worked with Ballet V, Modern V, Choreography II, and taught a whole department improvisation class. The dancers and faculty cherish his perspective and vast knowledge about movement and performance! What a valuable past two days!
A Chicano originally from Southern California and now based in Raleigh/Durham, Diego Carrasco Schoch, is a dance artist with 20+ years experience as a performer, choreographer, educator, and guest artist. He was a Principal Dancer at the Milwaukee Ballet (1991-2003) and a Soloist with the North Carolina Dance Theater under the late Salvatore Aiello (1987-1991).
He has created original dances for a variety of organizations and venues, including most recently, nine choreographies, re-stagings, and collaborations for the School of Dance at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) as a member of the Contemporary Dance Faculty (2008-2011). His duet, A Place Apart, was a featured artwork for a Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts and Education (LCI) Aesthetic Education Workshop. He is a recipient of a Wisconsin Arts Board Individual Artist Grant and a Breathe Faculty Professional Development Grant from the Kenan Institute for the Arts.
An Assistant Repetiteur for the Salvatore Aiello Trust, he helped stage Sal’s Clowns and Others for the Milwaukee Ballet in 2010. Prior to joining the faculty at UNCSA, he was an Assistant Professor of Dance for the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is an alumnus of the North Carolina School of the Arts, holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and received his BFA from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
This fall he will be dancing in his new solo Ode as part of the North Carolina Dance Festival. For more information about Diego, visit www.diegocarrascoschoch.com.
Dancing in the Landscape
Elon Dance Company’s site-specific concert “Land of Our Birth” directed by Jason Aryeh, our newest full-time faculty, was a huge success this past weekend! Congratulations to Jason and Jen Guy Metcalf on their stunning choreography and to the dancers who performed. Bravo!
Rehearsals for Dancing in the Black Box start this week. Just over a month before opening night!
Hot off the Press!
Elon Dance Company’s 2011-2012 Performance Season Brochure is hot off the press!
Please click this link to view the brochure – - EDC 11-12 Season Brochure and let us know what you think. 
Departmental – New Day
Our weekly departmental meetings will be on TUESDAY’S, 4:15-5:15 starting in the Fall. Please check your Elon email for more information.
Happy Graduation!
Our first full class of B.F.A. Dance Majors are graduating today along with our first Independent Major in Dance Science! Congratulations to William Commander, Ann Sterling Dale, Jenna Farley, Erin Fitzgerald, Kara Griffin, Bridgett Kelly, Alex Pepper, Margaret Ralston-Asumendi and Andrea Work!
This class was the first to go through all four years of our B.F.A. in Dance Performance and Choreography and each one exhibits creative, technical, and leadership excellence! We will miss them but are so excited to follow thier careers. Please check this site often to read about thier professional adventures as newly minted Elon B.F.A. Alumni!
Bridget Kelly!!
Bridget Kelly is graduating with an Independent Major in Dance Science in May.Please click this link to read a wonderful article about Bridget and her research. Also, a big congratulations to Bridget for securing full-time employment at Dance Medicine Clinic in Connecticut!!
ACDFA Fast Approaching!
We’ll be hosting the 2011 Mid-Atlantic Region Conference of ACDFA in less than two weeks!! March 23 we’ll welcome 435 participants and LehrerDance, our guest company featuring our alumnus Immanuel Naylor!
Press photographs of LehrerDance
“A Ritual Dynamic” LehrerDance’s signature piece
2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
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Crunchy numbers
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 4,100 times in 2010. That’s about 10 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 20 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 21 posts. There were 69 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 98mb. That’s about 1 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was July 26th with 103 views. The most popular post that day was Seniors.
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Some visitors came searching, mostly for elon dance company, elon dance, acdfa elon, elon university dance, and elon dance auditions.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
Seniors June 2010
Student Profile January 2010
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Photo Gallery January 2010
About December 2009
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