UC Berkeley
Dance & New Media

Session1	June 20 - June 25, 2010 CLOSED
Grades	9 - College Freshman
Tuition	$1200
Audition	No Audition Required

Tuition includes room and meals
Grade entering in Fall 2010

Dance & New Media Camp/Workshop Details

Director: Lisa Wymore
Choreographer: Sheldon B. Smith

The beauty of the body in motion in relationship to culture and personal experience, otherwise known as Dance, easily lends itself to creative exploration. Choreographers have recently become interested in integrating new media and dance as a way to tell different kinds of stories. Choreographers Lisa Wymore and Sheldon Smith are leaders in this field and students involved in the Dance and New Media workshop will have the opportunity to not only improve their technical dance craft in daily classes, but will experience choreographic strategies such as abstract narrative, improvisation, text, song and manipulation of digital image/data in relationship to live performance. In this dance camp students will have daily classes in both modern dance technique and improvisation, followed by instruction and exercises in new media technology and daily lab classes where students will create their own work for a final presentation. This workshop will push the envelope of dance performance in the digital age and expand your imaginative and creative abilities.

The floor has been preset with points of contact that turn on various cameras that have been positioned around the studio. Dancers can choreograph separate pieces and by viewing TV monitors can join another dancer or a group of dancers in a piece that looks like everyone is dancing together. It has incredible potential to widen the scope of choreography setting new vistas for contemporary dance. This will be one part of the workshop and dancers will work in the media studio every day. In addition, dancers will take class in modern technique and choreography each day. There will be a screening of some of the pieces created in the workshop at the "work in progress." We think this is going to be an exciting new opportunity to pioneer new horizons of dance.

* Additional Camp/Workshop Information

Students will be housed at Residence Hall Unit 1 and Residence Hall Unit 3 on the UC Berkeley campus.
Students check-in between 1 - 2:30pm on the first day of camp.
Flights should arrive into Oakland International(OAK) on the First Day of camp between 10am and 12pm.
Flights should depart from Oakland International(OAK) on the last day of camp after 6pm.
Transportation is available to and from Oakland International(OAK) for $30 each way.

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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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Dates, Directors, and Faculty subject to change without notice. The faculty is comprised of college professors representing their schools and professional industry artists. Images are of USPA programs, but may not represent actual program or location. Photos by Tito Deverya (UCLA TFT), and Lauren di Matteo.

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