<p>The Spring Quarter will start off packed with exciting events for the UW Department of Dance as it takes part in the international celebration of Merce Cunningham’s Centennial. In collaboration with the<a href="https://www.mercecunningham.org/activities/calendar//"&gt; Merce Cunningham Trust,</a> the dance departments of <a href="https://www.cornish.edu/news/release/cornish_dance_department_announces… College of the Arts</a> and the University of Washington will host a two-week teaching residency for Merce Cunningham Dance Company alums, Douglas Dunn and Holley Farmer. The two acclaimed artists will guide composition students in both schools through an immersion in Cunningham’s innovated and influential practices in chance operations. Farmer and current MFA candidate in dance at the UW, Brian Lawson will also teach technique classes in Cunningham technique.</p>
<p>Students will showcase their original work created over the course of the two weeks at the informal performance, “<a href="/events/2019-04-13/exploring-creative-legacy-merce-cunningham">Exploring the Creative Legacy of Merce Cunningham,” at the Henry Art Gallery on April 13th  at 2PM.</a> Traditional residencies usually involve company members setting choreography that already exists on students. Unique to this residency is that students will explore some of Cunningham’s most innovative and famous dance making structures, investigating first-hand methods to generate unexpected dances in the moment. In addition, the documentary, <a href="/events/2019-04-11/if-dancer-dances-seattle-film-premiere">“If the Dancer Dances,”</a> by former MCDC member Lise Friedman and Maia Wechsler, about the restaging of Cunningham’s work “Rainforest”, will be premiered<a href="/events/2019-04-11/if-dancer-dances-seattle-film-premiere"> at the Henry Art Gallery on April 11th at 7PM</a>.</p>

<p>Last winter, the Department of Dance hosted two dance artists, Ella Mahler and Erica Badgeley through the bst Residency. This Spring, the bst Residency is supporting two additional artists: Angel ‘Moonyeka’ Langley and Jessica Jobaris.<br /> <br />bst is a residency offered by the UW Department of Dance designed to support local dance artist by offering the gift of space and time in our coveted spacious studios when formal classes are not in session. bst offers the opportunity to experiment, make mistakes, revise ideas, and remain focused on the creative process without the pressure that accompanies commissioned works or performance deadlines. <a href="/body-space-time-residency">(Learn more about bst here)</a><br /> <br /> <br />About the 2019 Spring Recipients:<br /> </p>

<p>The Spring Quarter will start off packed with exciting events for the UW Department of Dance as it takes part in the international celebration of Merce Cunningham’s Centennial.

<p>Last winter, the Department of Dance hosted two dance artists, Ella Mahler and Erica Badgeley through the bst Residency. This Spring, the bst Residency is supporting two additional artists: Angel ‘Moonyeka’ Langley and Jessica Jobaris.<br /> <br />bst is a residency offered by the UW Department of Dance designed to support local dance artist by offering the gift of space and time in our coveted spacious studios when formal classes are not in session.

<div>One of our first year MFA candidates, Brian J. Evans stars in a stunning video and article entitled, "Dance to Freedom," by his alma mater, Gustavus Adolphus College. </div>
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<div>"<b>I was asked to be a part of the Make It Count campaign to show another perspective to prospective students and parent(s)/guardian(s) of how Gustavus Adolphus College helped me to cultivate the frameworks needed to make an impact anywhere I have the privilege of being." </b></div>
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<div>View the video and article here: <a href="https://gustav.us/profiles/evans.php&quot; target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://gustav.us/profiles/evans.php&amp;s…; rel="noopener noreferrer">https://gustav.us/<wbr></wbr>profiles/evans.php</a></div&gt;

<div>One of our first year MFA candidates, Brian J. Evans stars in a stunning video and article entitled, "Dance to Freedom," by his alma mater, Gustavus Adolphus College. </div>
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<h3><span>Mellon Creative Artist Fellowship through University of Washington's Meany Center for the Performing Arts and </span><span>Department of Dance, and Floyd and Delores Jones Endowment brings choreographer, Brian Brooks to Department of Dance. </span></h3>
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<p><span>The <a href="https://meanycenter.org/engage/creative-fellowships-initiative">Andrew W. Mellon Foundation</a> awarded the University of Washington a three and a half year, $750,000 grant to pilot a Creative Fellowships Initiative that explores the nature of creative research at a top public research university. Now in its third year, this interdisciplinary initiative advances the field of performing arts by supporting artists in the development of new work and by integrating the performing arts disciplines into the broader curriculum. </span><span>Among these Creative Art Fellows is choreographer, Brian Brooks, who will be spending the upcoming year of creative research in conjunction with the University of Washington's Meany Center for the Performing Arts and the Department of Dance. </span></p>
<p><span> Chair of the Department of Dance, <a href="/people/jennifer-salk">Jennifer Salk</a>, has been the Floyd &amp; Delores Jones Endowed Chair in the Arts for the past three years. Thanks to the Jones Endowment, Brooks will also be reconstructiong his work, <em>Division,</em> on undergraduate dancers to be shown at the <a href="https://artsuw.org/event/prod_id/9634">Faculty Dance Concert in January 2019</a>.This the the first time that <em>Division </em>will be performed by dancers other than members of </span>Brooks's company. </p>

<h3><span>Mellon Creative Artist Fellowship through University of Washington's Meany Center for the Performing Arts and </span><span>Department of Dance, and Floyd and Delores Jones Endowment brings choreographer, Brian Brooks to Department of Dance. </span></h3>
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