Christopher Newport University
Faculty Member, Theater and Dance
University of California, Riverside, Dance
University of California, Los Angeles, World Arts and Cultures
Thesis Title: MFA Concert: Kolaborasyon | Haiti
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Wendy Rogers
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About
I received my MFA in Experimental Choreography from the University of California, Riverside in June and moved back to NYC where I had lived since 2001. Inspired by the communal living and intimacy that I encountered in the countryside of Haiti and my experiences in the diasporic Haitian folkloric dance community, my work approaches Haitian dance through Western contemporary dance methods such as improvisation, collaboration, juxtaposition, and self-reflexivity. As a white American choreographer I am conscious of my deeply ambivalent position as both outsider and insider within the Haitian dance community. Working collaboratively with dancers and musicians, I mix and recombine movements to evoke my memories, conflicts, and imagination drawn from my experiences within Haitian cultural communities in New York and Miami as well as in Haiti.
I will begin teaching in the Theater and Dance Department at Christopher Newport University this Fall 2011.
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