DanceAbility International's most current, full-length performance is called "Don't Leave Me." The show is available for booking and touring. Contact us for details. Click here to read a review in Oregon Arts Watch. To view photos of "Don't Leave Me", please visit France Bronet's page at the University of Oregon website.
To see our "Don't Leave Me" show, watch the extended version here, or the 4 minute edit here.
To see our "Don't Leave Me" show, watch the extended version here, or the 4 minute edit here.
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| Photo by Michael Kevin Daly |
Alito Alessi, Choreography, Dance and Space Direction, Dancer
For his innovative contributions over the past 30 years in dance, Alito Alessi has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, Hong Kong Choreographer of the Year Award, Fulbright Senior Specialist and official United States Arts Envoy designations, and named an Ashoka Senior Fellow. He founded the DanceAbility method in 1989, which brings together people with and without disabilities through dance. In the 1980‘s, he was also instrumental in leading elements of gender equity and of the modern dance form “contact improvisation” onto mainstream dance stages worldwide.
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| Photo by Ricci Cande |
Frances Bronet, Dance and Space Direction, Design and Construction
Frances Bronet has been developing and publishing work on multidisciplinary design curricula between architecture; engineering; science, technology and society (H&SS); dance; and electronic arts for the past 25 years. She has worked with highly-regarded dance companies such as Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company, The Berkshire Ballet, Doug Verone, and 1999 McArthur Genius Award Recipient Elizabeth Streb. The National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, state and regional agencies have actively funded her research in interdisciplinary pedagogical models. She was awarded the 2011 Distinguished Professor Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, recognizing sustained creative achievement in the advancement of architectural education through teaching, design, scholarship, research or service, and is currently on the ACSA Council of Distinguished Professors. She was also selected by the architectural journal DesignIntelligence as one of the nation’s 25 most-admired educators for 2011. Frances Eugene
Jeffrey Stolet, Music Composition
Jeffrey Stolet is a professor of music and director of the Intermedia Music Technology at the University of Oregon Museum of Modern Art New York Pompidou Center Paris Gifu , Japan Stanford University Austin University of Oregon
Design and Construction Team:
Annie Chiang, Erin Fox, Erik Herman, led by Frances Bronet of University of Oregon Design in Movement.
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| Top (left to right): Jim Ballard, Alito Alessi, Bonnie Simoa Bottom (left to right): Shannon Mockli, Sarah Nemecek, Sarah Ebert Photo by Rob Uehlin |
Dance Ensemble:
Alito Alessi and Karen Daly are official U.S. State Department
‘Arts Envoys’ and have performed and taught in North America, Europe, and
Southeast Asia.
Laura Hiszczynsykj is an Adjunct Instructor at LCC’s Dance
Department, and teaches at the Shedd Institute.
Both she and Jim Ballard
perform in many Shedd Institute productions.
Sarah Ebert is an Adjunct
Instructor at the UO Dept. of Dance, and a Modern Dance Instructor at the Eugene Ballet
Academy
Shannon Mockli
is an Assistant Professor in the UO Department of Dance.
Sarah Nemecek is a
Dance Instructor in LCC’s Dance Department.
Bonnie Simoa is the Director of
LCC’s Dance Department.
Design and Construction Team:
Annie Chiang, Erin Fox, Erik Herman, led by Frances Bronet of University of Oregon Design in Movement.
