VI Festival Internacional de Mujeres y Danza a Morelia

A bit about the conference I’ll be attending on the local news (ps: yes, that’s me in the picture):

Morelia, Michoacán (OEM-Infomex).- Natalia Reza, jefa del departamento de danza en la Secretaría de Cultura de Michoacán (Secum), anunció la proximidad del VI Festival Internacional de Mujeres y Danza (FIMUDANZA) Cuerpo en Tránsito, el cual estará en Clavijero prácticamente todo agosto.

Read more here: Link.





Ormao Dance Company to present 'In the Round,' works from different choreographers

See the work of five choreographers in one show this weekend.

The Ormao Dance Company will perform “In the Round” at the company’s Black Box Theater, a performance featuring multiple choreographers showcasing their own pieces.

“I think that that’s the meat of the show, is that we have five different choreographers’ perspectives,” said Janet Johnson, the company’s artistic director. “Dancers get to dig into lots of different kinds of ideas and ways of moving and ways of constructing choreography, and the audience gets to experience a lot of different things.”

Set in the Black Box Theater, the performance will have an intimate feel, Johnson said.

…

Douglas’ piece will be followed by work from Rosely Conz about motherhood.

“The stories of these moms and finding the universality in that, but also the really tender, beautiful nuggets that are specific to each of those moms,” Johnson said. “So that’s sort of a thread through the whole thing.”

- Read the entire article here: The Colorado Springs Gazette

Ormao Dance Company offering discounted tickets to students this weekend

Ormao brings the beauty of live dance performances to our community, offering performances in the intimate Ormao Black Box Theater. Audiences seated in the round choose their vantage point, offering an intricate dance between viewers and performers. 

The shows, performed this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, will have a significant amount of UCCS Theater and Dance representation. UCCS professors dancing/choreographing include Rosely Conz, Tiffany Tinsely-Weeks, Mary Ripper-Baker, and Cheri Orr. UCCS alumni include Caleb Hall, Hollyn Pinar, and David Foster. 

In-the-Round features five choreographers with lives and narratives uniquely their own. Brazil-born and current UCCS Dance Professor Rosely Conz brings themes of motherhood, immigration, and identity to the evening. Larry Keigwin, Artistic Director of Keigwin+Company (New York City) and Co-Director of Green Box Arts brings the jazz club atmosphere in a revival work for the company. Maddie Douglas features her first choreographed piece for Ormao influenced by the styles of Victor Quijada (Rubberband Dance), Ohad Nahrin, and many others. Colorado Springs-born choreographer Jordan McHenry offers a piece of tenderness about rejuvenation and re-entry. NYC-based choreographer Tiffany Mills whisks audiences away into a dreamscape reinvented with Ormao Dance Company.

Rosely Conz: Brazil-born and current UCCS Dance Professor
Larry Keigwin: Keigwin+Company (New York City) & Co-Director of Green Box Arts
Maddie Douglas: Colorado Springs freelance artist and LINES training program graduate 
Jordan McHenry: BFA, MFA- CC Dance Professor & Arts Advocate
Tiffany Mills: Tiffany Mills Company (New York City)
Choreographers: Rosely Conz, Maddie Douglas, Larry Keigwin, Jordan McHenry, Tiffany Mills
Dancers: Mary Ripper Baker, Maddie Douglas, Britt Ford, David Foster, Caleb Hall, Diamond Israel Annē Heller, Cheri Orr, Ashley Oswald, Hollyn Pinar, Hunter Sanders, Juan Sulub, Laura Hymers Treglia, Tiffany Tinsley Weeks, Jesse Whitaker, AJ Winkler, Heather Woolley.

Event Details: In-the-Round by Ormao Dance Company

Dates:
Friday, April 21 at 6 p.m.
Friday, April 21 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 22 at 6 p.m.
Saturday, April 22 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 23 at 4:30 p.m.

Location:
Ormao Black Box Theater, 10 S Spruce St
Colorado Springs, CO 80903

Tickets:
$32 Adults 
$22 Senior, Students, Children

Ticket fees included

Tickets may be purchased at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-the-round-tickets-596225054187

UCCS Department of Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA)

About UCCS Department of Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA): The Department of Visual and Performing Arts houses programs in Art History, Film Studies, Museum and Gallery Practice, Music, Theatre & Dance, and Visual Arts. These programs share a mission to explore interdisciplinarity and artistic innovation. Cultivating a thriving student experience is the reason we are here; Our classes remain small and individual mentorship is our mantra.

Dances for my Daughter in Sweden

I am happy that my short film Dances for my Daughter will be screened in Sweden in a few weeks, at the Dansmuseet, as part of the ScreenDance Festival. It represents the beginning of a research on motherhood and dance that has generated two more pieces! (more info coming soon, including links).

Colorado Dance Conference

Today I represented UCCS at the Colorado Dance Conference (as well as with some recruitment efforts), which is organized by CoDEO, the Colorado Dance Education Organization.


Sans Souci Brasil in the Media

G1 Globo: Festival internacional de Videodança Sans Souci reúne profissionais de diferentes países em Campinas; confira programação (https://g1.globo.com/sp/campinas-regiao/noticia/2022/11/24/festival-internacional-de-videodanca-sans-souci-reune-profissionais-de-diferentes-paises-em-campinas-confira-programacao.ghtml)

ClickOnDance: O evento trará nomes importantes que compõem o cenário da videodança, dentre eles, Julia Ziviani, diretora do Grupo Dançaberta, professora colaboradora do Programa de Pós- graduação Artes da Cena da Unicamp e uma das idealizadoras da Edição Brasil; Rosely Conz, do Colorado (EUA); Rocio Luna, do México; Gabriela Tropia, da Inglaterra; Leonel Brum, de Fortaleza (CE); Lilian Graça, de Salvador (BA); Dudude Herrmann, de Casa Branca (MG); Silvina Szperling, da Argentina, dentre outros. (https://www.clickondance.com/festival-internacional-de-videodanca-sans-souci-3a-edicao-brasil/)

Campinas.com.br: Festival Internacional de Videodança Sans Souci Brasil movimenta Campinas
(https://campinas.com.br/agenda/festival-internacional-de-videodanca-sans-souci-brasil-movimenta-campinas/)

Sans Souci Brazil 2022 - 3rd Edition

Sans Souci (do francês, significa despreocupado) é o nome do Festival Internacional de Videodança que acontece pela terceira vez no Brasil. A terceira edição brasileira reúne em Campinas profissionais de diferentes países e inclui atividades para o público. Durante a semana, o público e profissionais da dança poderão prestigiar a exibição de 32 videodanças brasileiras, além de palestras, residências, performances, mesas e oficinas presenciais em três locais: no Sesc, no Espaço Dançaberta e na Adunicamp (os dois últimos em Barão Geraldo). A programação completa está em https://www.sanssoucibrasil.com/. Esta edição tem apoio do ProAC Festivais. O evento traz a Campinas nomes importantes do cenário da videodança, como Rosely Conz (Colorado - EUA), Rocio Luna (México), Gabriela Tropia (brasileira que mora na Inglaterra), Leonel Brum (Fortaleza, CE), Lilian Graça (Salvador, BA), Dudu de Herrmann (Casa Branca, MG) e Silvina Szperling (Argentina).

Correio Popular - Festival de dança movimenta Campinas até domingo

Afro-Brazilian at Ormao Dance Company

Sharing the post from Ormao Dance Company:

We're honored to host Rosely Conz for Afro-Brazilian Dances! Côco de Roda is a dance from the State of Alagoas in Brazil. It is a highly energetic, rhythmic, and inclusive form of dance. All are welcome!

Rosely has studied, performed and taught both nationally and internationally! She is currently an Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) and is excited to share her knowledge and experience with our community!

Go to www.ormaodance.org to learn more!

Colorado Springs dance, art, music festival celebrates land, raises awareness of water crisis

Experiences will feature Ormao and other Colorado-based dancers and choreographers performing works specifically created for the Coyote, including Justice Miles’ flamenco offering in the Coyote teahouse; dancers in plastic-bagged tutus; Laura Treglia’s movements with a string of clothing; and Brazilian Rosely Conz, an assistant professor of dance at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, doing work that speaks about immigration.

Read the entire article here: The Gazette.

Credit: Mary Ripper Baker

Balé em Foco - Percursos Formativos

Vamos conhecer os assuntos abordados e professores/artistas que estarão conosco?

Rosely Conz é bailarina, coreógrafa e criadora de danças para câmera. Ela possui graduação em Dança e Mestrado em Artes da Cena pela Unicamp e MFA em Dança pela University of Colorado at Boulder, EUA. Sua pesquisa foca no uso de métodos somáticos e processos de decolonização em dança na educação superior. Além disso, Rosely cria e produz danças para câmera tratando de temas como imigração e migração, além de maternidade. Seu filme "Uprooted" (2019) foi aceito em festivais nos Estados Unidos, Brasil, México, Irlanda, África do Sul e Portugal. Rosely é professora assistente na University of Colorado Colorado Springs nos EUA (a partir do segundo semestre de 2022), onde continua sua pesquisa acadêmica, criativa e pedagógica.

Se interessou? Os encontros da primeira fase serão às sextas no turno noturno e sábado, manhã e tarde entre os meses de agosto e outubro

E ainda uma segunda e terceira etapa de criação autoral e partilha entre os meses de outubro e novembro.

Deu vontade? Fique atento!

Inscrições: 01 de maio a 10 de junho

Início do curso: 06 de agosto

Acesse nossas redes sociais: @bale_em_foco e facebook/balé_em_Foco

Since “The Show Must Go On,” Dance Adapts to the Screen

With theaters closed, dancing for a camera became an alternative to choreographers and dance companies. Screendance is now more popular than ever.

(Original article: Alma College Newsroom)

We don’t need to go in too deep about the many sad ways the pandemic impacted the arts community. You already know about movie theaters closing, live performances being canceled, and artists broadcasting their work online. This might not be “the new normal” forever, but it’s what we’re living through right now — and could be for a long time.

On the positive side, art and media have flourished in new ways during the pandemic. With so much of our time spent in our homes — and with so many people using their computer webcams and smartphones — more people than ever are dancing for the camera. Maybe you yourself have tried to produce a dance video for TikTok!

If so, you should check out an art form that is growing in popularity across the world, screendance. It’s like a deeper version of TikTok videos — an art form that combines dance with performance, visual arts, cinema and media arts to produce something truly provocative, interesting and beautiful. Some colleges and universities offer courses where you can make your own screendances; Alma College, in Michigan, is one of them.

Rosely Conz is a dancer from Brazil, choreographer and dance teacher, who also serves as an assistant professor in the theatre and dance department at Alma. We asked Rosely to share a few things she tells her students about screendance. Here’s what she said.

You’ve probably seen screendances before

Maybe you haven’t heard of screendance, but it’s actually been around for quite a long time. On the first day of her screendance class, Rosely likes to show her students a black and white film by filmmaker Maya Deren and dancer Talley Beatty, which was made all the way back in 1945. They utilize some techniques that were innovative and experimental for the time, like a slow-motion jump. Pretty cool!

These days, screendance lives on through music vídeos, like this one by Sia, commercials, like this one for Under Armour, and other forms of media.

Screendance is for people who love dancing …

Screendance will get you thinking about choreography and dance in ways you never have before. Depending on what you’re trying to say with your screendance, you can move fast or slow, with high energy or low. You can move with strength or fluidity, forward or backwards, in-place or all over your room. Think of your body like pieces in a puzzle, Rosely said — screendance is how you make it all fit together.

… as well as other forms of media!

Like we said earlier, screendance isn’t just about moving your body — it’s integrative with film and media arts. Screendance will make you think about the placement of your camera in ways like, “Is it above my subject’s head, or at their feet?” It will push you to consider the site where you’re filming, like, “How can my subject use the blue paint on that wall to tell a story?”

It will also get you to consider lighting. Rosely herself created a screendance, “Still Here,” at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic that made use of something called a “ghost light” — an electric light that is left energized on the stage of a theatre when the theatre is unoccupied and would otherwise be completely dark. What she was trying to say, symbolically, was that while live shows may not be happening right now, they will return eventually.

Screendance is not exclusive

It may be true that screendance is like a “deeper” version of TikTok videos, but it’s definitely not exclusive or high-brow. Screendance doesn’t turn its back on social media, Rosely says — it embraces social media. Borrowing a phrase from Karl Marx, Rosely says, dancers own the “means of production” like never before, and that translates into some really cool art. As technology has improved through the years, social media users have (perhaps unconsciously) been able to incorporate elements of screendance, like moving the camera around, into their own videos.

What screendance hopes to do — and what we hope you will do — is expand on what you already know, to continue making better and more interesting art!

Do you want to learn more? Read about the Alma College Dance program or contact Rosely at (989) 463-7141 or conzr@alma.edu.

Flatlands Dance Theatre presents "The Solo Series "

Choreographer Spotlight: Introducing Rosely Conz.

Rosely Conz is a Brazilian dancer, choreographer, and educator. She has an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder, an MA in Performing Arts, and a BFA in Dance from the University of Campinas-Brazil. For the past 15 years, Rosely has been performing and choreographing professionally for dance companies both in Brazil and in the USA. Rosely is on a tenure-track position at Alma College in Michigan where she continues her research on how to use dance to get involved in issues of foreignness, belongingness, and immigration.

Conz is working with dancer Molly Roberts to create a piece for "The Solo Series" - streaming online May 1-8. Tickets available at www.flatlandsdance.org/events

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The Solo Series - Flatlands Dance Theatre

Save the Date!

"The Solo Series" Guest Artist Virtual Talkback and Q&A Session
Tuesday, May 4th | 7:00-8:30 pm CST via Zoom

Fifteen guest artists from around the globe set world premiere dance works on the Flatlands Dance Theatre company this spring. Join us for a unique opportunity to hear about their artistic perspectives and ideas about dance and their creative processes and discoveries in a virtual talkback. Moderated by Artistic Director Ali Duffy.

This event is free and open to the public. Visit www.flatlandsdance.org/virtualtalkback for more info and access to Zoom link on May 4th.