Dance at Geneseo

For the past 55 years, the Dance Studies Program has sponsored Guest Artists-in-Residence, creating new works or restaging historic works for the Geneseo Dance Ensemble including:

2024: 

• Dr. Darwin Prioleau creates a traditional jazz work

2023:

• Jon Lehrer, La Follia

2022:

• Dr. Darwin Prioleau creates a traditional jazz work, Kat in the Hat.

2020:

• Guy Thorn creates a traditional Jamaican Dance, They Slice the Air and Reinvent Themselves.

2019:

• Jon Lehrer creates a modern jazz work, Sirenic.

2018:

• Chung-Fu Chang stages a traditional Chinese dance, Wandering River.

2017:

• Molly Christie González stages a Cuban social dance, Candela.

2016:

• Norwood Pennewell creates Rising, a modern work based on Garth Fagan's movement style and technique.
• Mariposa Fernández collaborates with Real World Geneseo to stage First Flame. 

2015:

• Kiara Danielle Brown '01 creates Six Years, One Day, a World War II love story.
• Robin Dunn stages BeyCollage, which blends hip-hop, jazz and house dance styles to music by Beyoncé. 

2014:

• Melanie Aceto ‘95 stages a modern work Merge.
• Merete Muenter ’86 creates a jazz work Cave Paintings/Hieroglyphics.
• Adrienne Hawkins and Nathan Lee Graham Collaborate with Mark Broomfield ’94 on a theatre piece, Feardom.

2013:

• Kylee Pike Fassler ‘04 stages a jazz work Falling on Five (Trip Beat).

2012:

• Jon Lehrer, stages a modern work Murmur.
• Shahin Monshipour teaches Persian Dances.
• Edward J. Murphy, Jr. restages an Irish dance, Tealtaithe Loch.

2011:

• Kylee Pike Fassler ‘04 creates a jazz work, Route 66.
• Joe Langworth ‘88 creates a jazz work, Cut Short.
• Sabatino Verlezza restages a classic modern work, Tobi Roppo.
• Eran David P. Hanlon creates a theatre piece, The Last Coronation.

2010:

• Heather Acomb ‘05 restages her MFA choreographic thesis Ode.
• Bill Evans restages a large ensemble tap piece, Yes, Indeed!.

2009:

• Kylee Pike Fassler ‘04 creates a jazz work, Funny Heartache.

2008:

• Christine Seward ‘04 restages a comic modern piece, Take a Number.
• Meredith Keiser Klus ‘00 restages a modern work, Coming Together.
• Alexander MacDonald ‘08 creates a tap piece, On Common Ground.

2007:

• Thomas Warfield creates a modern work, Gather Here.

2006:

• Tom Ralabate restages a jazz work, Deep Awakening.
• Kylee Pike Fassler ‘04 stages a jazz work Falling on Five (Trip Beat).

2005:

• Mark Santillo creates a modern work, Aaah-Oooh!.

2004:

• Leslie Wexler stages a contemporary dance, Rapid Motion Through Space Elates One.
• Kylee Pike Fassler ’04 stages jazz work, Falling On Five (Trip Beat).

2002:

• Melanie Aceto ‘95 creates an improvisational work Together, We Must.

2001:

• Heather Klopchin ‘95 creates a modern work Reflection.

2000:

• Lesley Tillotson creates Moving Rites.

1999:

• Mark Broomfield ‘94 creates a contemporary piece, Go.
• Melanie Aceto ‘95 and Diana Ricotta ‘95 create A Celebration.

1998:

• Anita Dixit stages Bharatanatyam dances, Ganesha Kauthuvan and Alarippu.
• Rachna Ramya Agrawal stages a Kathak dance Ja Ja Re Kagawa.

1995:

• Ambre Emory-Maier ‘86 restages Michael Uthoff’s, Ode to José.

1994:

• Clyde Alafiju Morgan creates a Nigerian dance, Ijesha.
• Myrna Packer and Art Bridgman create Last Meeting at the Jam House.
• Jacqueline McCausland ‘76 stages In the Spirit of . . ..

1992:

• Nona Schurman stages Doris Humphrey’s, Shakers.
• Anita Dixit stages a Rajasthan folk dance, Jayo Jayo and Bharata Natyam, Dances of India.
• My Hang Huynh creates Vietnamese Dance Suite.
• Fan Yisong restages Chinese Dance Suite.

1991:

• Deborah Carr restages Charles Weidman’s St. Matthew Passion (four excerpts).

1990:

• Nona Schurman stages From Studio to Stage (1957).
• Michelle Buschner creates a jazz work, Give It All You Got.

1989:

• Santo Giglio creates a modern piece, Circle Around The Sun.
• Deborah Carr stages Charles Weidman’s Opus 51 Opening Dance (1938) and Bargain Counter (1936).

1987:

• Deborah Carr restages Charles Weidman’s Christmas Oratorio (1961).
• Ambre Emory Maier ‘86 restages Ann Wilson’s Pre-Classic Dances.

1986:

• Deborah Carr restages Charles Weidman’s Brahms Waltzes (1960).
• Angela Amedore Caplan ‘75 creates Play of Opposites.
• Ambre Emory-Maier ‘86 stages from a Labanotation Score Nona Schurman’s Songs From the Hebrides.

1984:

• Angela Amedore Caplan ‘75 creates Wild Things and Earth Song.

1983:

• Deborah Carr stages Charles Weidman’s Lynchtown (1936).

1982:

• Richard Croskey creates Dance Suite.

1980:

• Jozia Mieszkowski stages Anton Dolin’s Pas de Quatre.