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UC Berkeley
Dance & New Media
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Directors and Faculty
Lisa Wymore
Program Director
Lisa Wymore began her graduate study at the Unversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she was awarded a Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship, an Outstanding Achievement Award, and a Moe Family Award for her creativity. After graduating with an M.F.A. in Dance in 1998, she moved to Chicago and began her career as dancer, choreographer, and teacher. She was a faculty member within the Northwestern University Dance Program from 2000 to 2004, where she was the Faculty Advisor for the Northwestern University Dance Ensemble, the touring and outreach company of the Dance Program, and twice was the Co-Artistic Director of Danceworks, the annual Northwestern University faculty choreographed concert. Lisa is an award-winning choreographer and was invited to travel to Vietnam to work on the Artistic Voices Across Cultures in Collaboration project. Wymore is the Co-Artistic Director of Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts; a dance-theater-performance group based in San Francisco. The company's work has been presented by numerous national and international festivals including: the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Summer Solstice Celebration; Dance Chicago; the Performing Arts Chicago PAC/edge Festival; the Dublin Fringe Festival, in Dublin, Ireland; the Minneapolis Spark Festival; the Earagail Arts Festival in Donegal, Ireland; and the [Kon.[Text]] Symposium in Zurich, Switzerland. Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts has won numerous awards including Best Interdisciplinary Performance and Best Use of Technology at the Chicago PAC/Edge Festival 2004 and was nominated for two 2006 Isadora Duncan awards (San Francisco Dance Awards) for Best Choreography and Best Design.A recent project, Parking Space, was a site-specific community based dance performance which took place in a local parking lot in the city of Los Banos, California.Sheldon Smith
Choreographer
Sheldon B. Smith, Co-Artistic Director of Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts, received his B.A. in Dance from The Colorado College and his M.F.A. in Dance from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. He has been making dance, music and video art for close to twenty years. Prior to his move to Berkeley in 2004 he was a vital member of Chicago's experimental performance community. He has received generous funding from a Theater Bay Area sponsored CASH grant, the National Performance Network, the Chicago DanceMakers Forum, the Illinois Arts Alliance, and the Cultural Affairs office of Chicago. He was also the recipient of the winter 2006 Counterpulse, SF Artist Residency. His dances have been seen throughout the Midwest, Alaska, Colorado, and California, as well as in Philadelphia and New York City. He is currently a lecturer in the dance department of Mills College.
Location Information
Founded shortly after the gold rush when there were only 31 states the University of California is the flagship university of one of America's most preeminent universities in the world. It is home to 20 Nobel laureates. UC Berkeley is long known as a leader in economic and social innovation and ground-breaking research. With distinguished landmarks - the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, Cable Cars, Coit Tower, Mt. Tamalpais, and beautiful beaches - within easy reach it's a natural choice to inspire a next generation of artists.
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