Earlier this year, adjunct assistant professor Dan Froot performed in “Shlammer” at the Dance Theater Workshop, New York. The work is an avant-vaudeville epic that critiques
the contemporary performance of manhood.
“On the Way to Melting,” a six-dance suite by lecturer Maria Gillespie, was presented last spring at Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica.
Professor Allen F. Roberts, associate professor David Gere, and four graduate students—Sandra Chatterjee, Claudia Hernandez, Raquel Monroe, and Joann Staten—participated in a four-day Make Art/Stop AIDS workshop in Calcutta, India, earlier this year.
David Roussève, professor and department chair, has been awarded a 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship in the category of choreography. Roussève will use his fellowship to research and develop an evening-length, multidisciplinary dance/theater work, tentatively titled “Bittersweet.” The work will explore the notion of “bittersweet”—a moment in which one might experience the greatest of both joy and agony—in particular as
a metaphor for African American history and for life itself. The work will be created in Los Angeles for a cast of seven dancer/actors who reflect the ethnic, cultural, and artistic
diversity of Los Angeles.
David Roussève, photo by Carol Petersen | |
ANTONIO LYSY
Antonio Lysy has been named professor of cello in the Department of Music. He has been associate professor at McGill University, Montreal, and visiting professor at the International Menuhin Music Academy, Gstaad, Switzerland.
Lysy has performed extensively as a soloist with such orchestras as the Royal Philharmonic and Philharmonia Orchestra, London; Camerata Academica, Salzburg; Camerata Lysy, Gstaad; Zurich Tonhalle; the Zagreb Soloists; Orchestra di Padova e il Veneto; Israel Sinfonietta; City of London Sinfonia; and in Canada with the Montreal, Toronto, Québec City, Saskatoon, and Windsor symphony orchestras, as well as the Thirteen Strings of Ottawa.
He has collaborated with distinguished conductors such as Yuri Temirkanov, Charles Dutoit, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Sandor Vegh, and Kees Bakels. He has recorded for CBC Radio, BBC Radio, Classic FM, and other European radio networks, and for the Claves, Dinemec Classics, Fonè, and Tring International labels. His live recording of solo cello
repertoire by Bach, Berio, Henze, and Walton was released in June 1999
on the Pelléas label.
Antonio Lysy
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JENNIFER STEINKAMP
Jennifer Steinkamp has been named a professor in the Department of
Design | Media Arts. She is an
internationally-exhibiting installation artist who works with new media and video in order to explore ideas about architectural space, motion, and
phenomenological perception.
During 2003-04, Steinkamp exhibited at the 8th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey and installed an art piece for the Anthenaeum in Caltech, Pasadena. She is part of a visual music exhibition co-sponsored by the Hirshhorn Museum at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles. In addition, she will be creating sets for the opera “Tannhäuser” at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. She has artwork in the permanent collections at The San Jose Museum of Art; MoCA, Los Angeles and North Miami; The Staples Center, Los Angeles; The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; The Fremont Street Experience, Las Vegas; The Experience Music Project, Seattle; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The W5 Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland; Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Madrid,Spain; Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas; and Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
Jennifer Steinkamp | |