Sister, Choreography by Mary Chase
L to R: Amnih Abotteen, Amanda Beittel, Mariclaire Gamble
Photo by Mark Rutkowski
Artistic Directors: Lyn Wiltshire and Holly Williams
Performances:
B. Iden Payne Theatre
December 6 & 7 @ 8:00 PM
Free Admission
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Synopsis: Our award-winning student dance company presents Twyla Tharp’s The Fugue*, and cutting-edge, contemporary choreography in a variety of new works by faculty, students, and guest artists. Dance Works in Progress performed by Dance Repertory Theatre is a collaborative performance reflecting a shared commitment to artistic integrity, creative exploration and the enrichment of original work. Watch a sneak preview in this informal showing of what will be fully staged by members of DRT this spring in Lived Experience!
* Choreography by Twyla Tharp, © 1999 Twyla Tharp
Lyn Wiltshire was touched by dance at a very young age growing up in New York City and her career fits the model of passion and fervor surpassing credentials. She has trained and performed with many notable teachers and dance companies, including the Dance Theatre of Harlem and toured nationally and internationally with The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. To her credit she has performed in film, television and with symphony orchestras around the country. Her path to academia has been by way of "the school without walls", choreographing and teaching until finally her reputation preceded her. As an Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Texas she is a dance educator, administrator and director. Beyond her work at UT, Lyn has presented workshops, master classes and lectures in London, Portugal, Taiwan and all over the U.S. and Hawaii. Her choreography has been commissioned by companies in Texas, Indiana, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, New York and California and through this network presented to Canadian and European audiences. During her time at the University, Lyn has directed and choreographed for the UT performing ensemble Dance Repertory Theatre and in 2004 and 2006 the ensemble premiered her work in Innsbruck, Salzburg and St Johann, Austria for performances in the Young Tanzsommer Festival. In 2004 she became the Artistic Director of L'A.R.T Dance Project .She is privileged to take this opportunity provide direction and bring her expertise to the dance project. She is the recipient of Choreography Awards and Masters Fellowships for Choreography and Dance and is on the registry of the National Choreography Plan. She synchronized a five year affiliation between the Department of Theatre and Dance and the Glenda Brown Choreography Project as one of the departments Summer Intensive Programs. Through her efforts, the first MFA in Dance at UT was initiated in the department. In addition, she has served on the Dance Advisory Panel for the Indiana Art’s Commission, Louisiana Division of the Arts and has adjudicated pre-professional companies throughout the mid-west. She was an adjudicator for Regional Dance America’s National Festival to be held in Pittsburgh, PA in 2007.
Holly Williams has performed nationally and internationally with the companies of Mark Morris, Laura Dean and Jose Limon. In Morris' company she performed in the original casts of L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, The Hard Nut, Going Away Party, Love Song Waltzes, New Love Son Waltzes, and in numerous other works. Ms. Williams' choreography for the Houston Grand Opera, Dallas Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Austin Theatre Alliance, Dallas Theatre Center and the concert stage have won her national acclaim. She has presented concerts of her own work in Austin and at the Merce Cunningham Studio in New York, and her choreography has been commissioned by companies in California, Texas, Louisiana, Kansas and Oklahoma. In recent years she has created new works for the State Street Ballet of Santa Barbara, the American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive, the Universidad de Las Americas in Pueblo, Mexico, Contemporary Ballet Dallas, Ballet Austin Senior Young Artists, and Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth. In summer 2004 her dance/video work "Bolero" made its international debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland and her signature work "Black Magic" toured to Innsbruck, St. Johann and Salzburg, Austria as part of the Tanzsommer Festival. She served as a 2004 dance panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C. and as a panelist for the 2006 American Masterpiece program of Dance/USA. She has a B.A. from Barnard College/Columbia University and an M.F.A. from Texas Woman's University, from which she received the 2001 Distinguished Alumnae Award in Dance. At the University of Texas she currently is Senior Associate Chair and directs the M.F.A./Dance program.
Choreographers: Mary A. Chase, Yebel Gallegos, Julie Nathanielsz, Twyla Tharp, Holly Williams, Lyn C. Wiltshire
Dancers: Amnih Abotteen, Katarina Arneric, Amanda Beittel, Meg Brooker, Mary A. Chase, Ashley DePalermo, Carly Entress, Erin Finger, Jessica Gallardo, Yebel Gallegos, Mariclaire Gamble, Sarah Goocher, Lisa Kobdish, Emily Larson, Erin Lee, Kara Liotta, Elissa Marshall, Cori Miller, Amanda Oakley, Megan Rushing, Michelle Stuckey, Erin Sullivan, Samantha Vazquez, Emily Walker, Krystal Wigfield
