Chelonia Auditions September 10, 2011
West African Dance Residency with Andrea Markus October 31-November 13, 2011
“Modern” Nutcracker December 2-3, 2011
December Workshop Performance of Student Choreography December 9-10, 2011
Chelonia – Beloit College's Annual Dance Concert February 2-5, 2012
Kate Corby Residency Spring 2012
American College Dance Festival March 28 - April 1, 2012
Student Produced Concerts Spring 2012

Chelonia Auditions - September 10, 2011

Chelonia is Beloit College's student dance company. Dancers in Chelonia perform student choreographed works as well as faculty and guest artist pieces.

Chelonia Auditions will be on Saturday, September 10 at 1 pm in the Sports Center Dance Studio. Dancers should be warmed up and ready to dance by 1pm
Dancers who are cast will be performing in the December Workshop Performance on December 9 and 10, 2011 well as the Chelonia Dance Concert on February 2-5, 2012.

West African Dance Residency with Andrea Markus
October 31-November 13, 2011

Andrea Markus will spend two weeks with our students teaching classes, speaking with the community, visiting area schools and choreographing a dance for our students to perform in Chelonia 2012.  Andrea Markus was born in Jamaica, West Indies. She received her masters degree in Dance and Dance Education from New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Ms. Markus is currently a teacher of African-based modern dance in the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions. In addition, she is the principal dancer and co-director of Magbana Drum & Dance NYC, a West African-based performance group of percussionists and dancers. Ms. Markus has performed with the Alpha Omega 1-7 Theatrical Dance Company, based in New York City, performing dance works by George Faison, Eleo Pomare, Marshall Romaine, Andy Torres, Leni Wylliams, Gary DeLoatch, and others. She has also traveled to Guinea, West Africa to study dance and drumming with the masters of the national companies Les Ballets Africains and Ballet Djoliba. Ms. Markus has taught West African dance to students in grades K-12 as a master teacher for CREATE! Arts in Education Program, Young Audiences of New York, and for the outreach program of Magbana Drum & Dance NYC. Professor Markus received her B.A. from Ithaca College and her M.A. from New York University.

“Modern” Nutcracker - December 2 at 7pm and December 3, at 2pm, 2011 - Hendricks Center for the Arts

Students and faculty will present a modern take on the holiday classic “The Nutcracker.”  Performances are scheduled for Friday and Saturday, December 2 and 3 in the Hendricks Center for the Arts, Studio Theater.

Workshop Performance of Student Choreography - December 9 and 10, 2011 - 8pm Neese Theater - Admission is Free!

Every December student choreographers offer a free dance concert in the Laura Aldrich Neese Theater. This is a showcase of student choreography from the fall semester.

Chelonia - Beloit College's Annual Dance Concert - February 2-5, 2012

February 2-4, 2012, at 8pm | Matinee on February 5 at 2pm | For ticket information call (608)363-2755

The Chelonia Dance Concert is Beloit College's annual mainstage dance performance. It includes student, faculty and guest artist choreography. It is an eclectic blend of dance styles and always has something for everyone!

Modern Dance Residency with Kate Corby’99
Dates TBA

Kate Corby will spend one week with our students teaching classes and choreographin a new work for our students to perform. Kate is a contemporary choreographer, performer and educator. Her dance theater works have been performed extensively in Chicago, as well as in New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Atlanta, and internationally in Canada, Mexico, Taiwan and Hungary, where she carried out choreographic research as a Fulbright fellow. Corby is currently an assistant professor of dance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she teaches composition, improvisation, contemporary technique and somatics. She re-established Kate Corby & Dancers with Chicago-based dancers Erin Kilmurray, Emily Miller and Anna Normann in 2009. The company was San Francisco-based from 2001-04, performing at the Cowell Theater, ODC Theater, Dance Mission and Venue 9, among other venues. From 2007-09 Corby directed the LIVE ANIMALS Performance Collective in Chicago, showing work at Ruth Page Center for the Arts, Links Hall, Hamlin Park Fieldhouse and Around the Coyote Gallery. Corby received her MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007, where she was also an instructor. In addition to teaching master classes nationally and internationally, Corby has served on the faculties of Beloit College, the Pedagogy Department of the Hungarian Dance Academy and the Dance Center of Columbia College.

American College Dance Festival - March 28-April 1, 2012

This year we will travel to the University of Wisconsin, Madison for the North Central Region Conference.

Every year Beloit dance students and faculty travel to the American College Dance Festival Association's regional conference. Past conferences have been in various cities in Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa. At the conference students and faculty attend classes for 4 days and perform in adjudicated concerts as well as informal performances.

Dances choreographed by Beloit College students and faculty have been repeatedly selected for the gala concert at the end of the conference. In 2011 Closure, choreographed by Beloit dance major Joey Hernandez, was selected for the gala at St Olaf College.  In 2004 Get in the Ring, choreographed by Beloit senior Allisa-Zee Hartmann, was also chosen as an alternate for the national conference. Faculty choreographer Chris Johnson had her pieces, Held/Accountable (2005) and Holding Patterns (2003) selected for the gala and in 2001 Sunken Flight, choreographed by Beloit senior Heather Budd '01, was selected from over 50 works to be performed in the gala performance at the Krannert Center.

Student Produced Concerts - Spring 2012

Dates and times TBA