The Dance Annual 2010
Galvin Playhouse Theatre and Plaza
Friday, March 5, 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 6, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 7, 2:00 p.m.

Opening Events: Galvin Plaza
Toil
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Mary Fitzgerald
Jenna Kosowski
Jatchas, Pulse Width by Aspects of
Physics
Mark C. Ammerman
Jacqueline Benard
Melissa Canto

Galvin Playhouse Theater
Five Star Spirit (2010)
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How It Begins (2009)
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Galina Mihaleva
Mandi Karr, Emily Zakrzewski

Jake (2009)
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5:30
Emily Newman
Janelle Fehser
Davey Trujillo
Emily Newman
Latefia Bradley, Miguel Castro,
Janelle Fehser, Emily Newman,
Amanda Pool, Jessica Promisson,
Chelsi Tryon

Copy and Paste (2009)
18:00

Ashleigh Leite
N.E.R.D. and Original Sound
Design by Pavel Zustiak and
Ashleigh Leite
Carolyn Koch
Jacqueline Benard, Galina
Mihaleva
Jessica Mumford
Lucio Abruzzi, Melissa Canto,
Nicole Grabianowski, Jessica
Jones, Amy Klem, Samantha
McHale, Emily Millizer, Laura
Pellegrino, Madeline Wilcox, Tara
Wrobel

5:00
Tara Wrobel
We’re Gonna Make It and The
Clockwise Witnes by DeVotchka
Mark C. Ammerman

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over and over. (2009)
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6:00

Rebecca A. Ferrell
Ghost I by Nine Inch Nails
Jacqueline Benard, Galina Mihaleva
Todd A. Raviotta
Randi Frost

8:00

Lucio Abruzzi
All My Friends by LCD
Soundsystems
Aaron McGloin
Lucio Abruzzi, Jacqueline Benard,
Galina Mihaleva
Anthony Gonzales, Amanda Karr,
Samantha McHale, Emily Millizer,
Laura Pellegrino, Gina Ricker,
Madeline Wilcox, Tara Wrobel,
Emily Zakrzewski

Ten Minute Intermission

Where Are The Animals? (2009)
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Siren (2010)
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13:30

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6:00

Sammy Stephens, Jr.
Robert Kaplan, Sammy Stephens, Jr.
Travis Mesman
Davey Trujillo
Jacqueline Benard, Galina Mihaleva
Divine
Divine
Alex Aguire, Angel Castro, Randy
Gillie, Paige Mayes, Lorin
Nuvayestewa,Samantha Schneider,
Tara Wrobel

7:00
Carley Conder
Piazzolla: Buenos Aires Hora Cero
by Gidon Kremer
Aaron McGloin
Celine Syslo
Celine Syslo with Lucio Abruzzi,
Jessica Jones, Samantha McHale

Finding a Final Resting Place (2010)
Choreographer:
Music:

Rite of Liberation (2009)

Ashlee Ramsey
Phil Harris
United Nations website; Animal
Stories by Rudyard Kipling;
Brutal: Manhood and the
Exploitation of Animals by Brian
Luke
Carolyn Koch
Jacqueline Benard, Galina Mihaleva
Ashlee Ramsey, Whitney Waugh

9:00

Jessica Mumford
Mirror and Library Chat by
Michael Andrews, published by
Elgonix Music BMI courtesy of
Everloving Records. Bees by
Animal Collective
Mark C. Ammerman
Jessica Mumford
Jessica Mumford
Misty West

Video Works (in Lobby)
In This Life
Performer/choreographer: Randi Frost
Editor: Randi Frost
Camera work: Charles Frost
Music: Dave Douglas
3+3
Choreographers: Laura Pellegrino and Madeline Wilcox
Camera: Laura Pellegrino and Madeline Wilcox
Performers: Laura Pellegrino and Madeline Wilcox
Editors: Laura Pellegrino and Madeline Wilcox
Sound: Laura Pellegrino and Madeline Wilcox
Mirrors and Layers
Directed and edited by: Rebecca Blair Hillerby
Performance and dance choreography by: Rebecca A. Ferrell
Music: The Sectional Quartet
Reflective Energy
Alyssa Noel Ramey

if i make it to the middle, will you meet me there?
Choreographer/Performer: Laura Pellegrino
Camera: Mic Croitoru and Kasey Fletcher
Editor: Laura Pellegrino
Special Thanks: Christina Bircher

beliefs about homosexuality within the African American
community.

Program Notes

Lucio Abruzzi is currently pursuing his BFA in Dance
(choreography and performance), on scholarship, at Arizona
State University. He has been awarded scholarships to train
with AMEBA Acrobatic and Aerial Dance in Chicago, Illinois
as well as to attend the Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston,
Maine and the Tisch Summer Residency Festival in New York
City. As a performer, Lucio has danced with CONDER/dance,
Aaron McGloin Dance, Temenos Dance Collective and
Scorpius Dance Theatre. He has had the privilege to work with
artists such as Carley Conder, Brad Garner, Aaron McGloin,
Stephen Koester, Stephanie Nugent, Greta Schoenberg,
Ashleigh Leite and Mary Fitzgerald. In March 2009 he was
the winner of the Arizona Young Artists Competition. His
work has been commissioned by local schools as well as
Aaron McGloin Dance and CONDER/dance and has been
performed at Arizona State University, Chandler Center for
the Arts, Tempe Center for the Arts, The Phoenix Art
Museum, and the Bates Dance Festival. Upon graduating in
May he plans to relocate to New York City to pursue a career
in dancing.

Toil: Within a confined field of 200 pounds of flour, Toil
explores the ritualistic, and often overwhelming nature of
physical labor.
Siren: This is the one song everyone would like to learn: the
song that is irresistible: the song that forces men to leap
overboard in squadrons even though they see beached skulls
the song nobody knows because anyone who had heard it is
dead, and the others can’t remember. Shall I tell you the secret
and if I do, will you get me out of this bird suit?
(excerpt from Siren Song by Margaret Atwood)
Finding A Final Resting Place: This piece plays with images
and ideas related to bee swarms. The movement explores both
being a part of a swarm and being surrounded by a swarm.
Bee swarms occur when part of a bee colony leaves the hive
and travels as a swarm in search of a new location to start
another hive. The transition away from the hive is necessary
for the colony's survival, but it is often dangerous. Bees
venture out into the unknown without any idea as to where
they will finally settle to start again.
Rite of Liberation: excerpt of HOlisticMykOnin follows a
young man’s quest to find himself and his place in society.
Agonized by strong barriers against the unification of both his
natural beings, HOlisticMykOnin is the story of a young
African-American male tested by the strains placed on him by
his community. This piece revolves through movement and
performance art, and challenges pre-existing discrimination

Biographies:

Carley Conder is an Arizona native. She received a B.F.A. in
Ballet and an M.F.A. in Modern Dance from the University of
Utah. Carley has been a performing member with Arizona
companies Semaphor Danceworks, Scorpius Dance Theater,
Garner-Gutierrez Dance, Mary Fitzgerald Dance, and Los
Angeles based company Keith Johnson/Dancers. Her
choreographic work has been commissioned by the University
of California - Santa Barbara , Arizona State University,
Brigham Young University , University of Utah , University
of Texas – Pan American, Snow College , and Ballet Yuma.

Her work has been supported by the City of Tempe, Arizona
Commission on the Arts, Maricopa Community College
District, and Target Arts Grants. She is the Founder and
Artistic Director of CONDER/dance, a professional
contemporary dance company (www.conderdance.com).
Mary Fitzgerald has been active in the professional dance
community as a performer, choreographer, teacher and
bodyworker for many years. She was a member of Kei Takei¹s
Moving Earth for nearly ten years, performing and teaching
internationally. Ms. Fitzgerald also has danced for A Ludwig
Dance Theatre, Fred Darsow Dance and numerous
independent choreographers. She has been a guest artist at
several dance programs in the United States, Europe, Japan,
India, China, Colombia, Mexico and Israel. Currently she
serves on the faculty in the School of Dance at Arizona State
University, where she has received two Distinguished
Teaching Awards. Ms. Fitzgerald regularly presents her own
choreography in the local community, and is a 2005 winner of
the Arizona Choreography Competition, and a 2006 Artists
Project Award from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Her
work has received support from the Ministry of Culture in
Mexico, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Phoenix
Office of Arts and Culture and the Herberger Institute for
Design and the Arts (www.maryfitzgeralddance.com).
Rebecca A. Ferrell a native of Richmond, Virginia, is a dance
educator, performer, and choreographer. She received her
B.F.A. in Dance and Choreography from Virginia
Commonwealth University where she graduated Cum Laude
in 2004. Rebecca’s dancing has taken her around the country
and she has worked with many established choreographers
including Tere O’Connor. Rebecca’s own work has been seen
at VCU Dance, ASU Dance, Grace St. Theater, The Firehouse
Theatre, The Carpenter Center, Sycamore Rouge, The
McGuffey Theater, Art 6, Gallery5, Tempe Center for the
Arts, Scottsdale Public Art, PHX Gallery, St. Catherine's and

ODU, where she was selected to take part in the Regional
Choreographer’s Showcase. She has had the privilege of
teaching and choreographing at numerous schools in the
Richmond area including The Collegiate School, Maggie L.
Walker Governor's School, The Governor's School for
Humanities and Visual and Performing Arts and Richmond's
leading performing arts high school, Henrico County's Center
for the Arts. Rebecca has also had the privilege to both
produce and choreograph Romeo + Juliet for Will Power To
Youth Richmond, an nationally awarded arts program
dedicated to the growth of at risk youth. Rebecca has been
delighted to be a dancer, teaching artist and board member
with the Z Mullins Dance Company since 2006. She is
currently the Artistic Director of FDance, an organization
dedicated to her own choreographic endeavors including
dance films. She is currently a MFA Dance student and
teaching assistant at Arizona State University
Ashleigh Leite is originally from Scottsdale, Arizona. She
graduated from SUNY Purchase with a BFA in Dance
Performance in 1997 and joined Stephen Petronio Company
where she served as Assistant Director/Rehearsal Director and
a dancer for over nine years (1997-2005). Her own work has
been presented by Danspace Project (NYC), Joyce SoHo
(NYC), Dance New Amsterdam (NYC), The Chocolate
Factory (NYC), The Joyce Theater, Lower Manhattan Cultural
Council, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (Becket, MA), Same
Planet/Different World Dance Theater (Chicago), Desales
University and the dancenOw/NYC Festival (NYC). This
year, Ashleigh has created new works for CONDER/dance
(Tempe, AZ), SCC’s Instinct Dance Corps and her own
company of dancers. Ashleigh teaches technique and repertory
at universities and conservatories all over the world and
teaches regularly at Dance New Amsterdam and Bill Young’s
studio in New York City. Ashleigh has recently relocated back
to the valley with her family and is currently on faculty at

Ballet Arizona. A special thank you to Lucio Abruzzi, the
Student Advisory Board and Simon Dove for this
wonderful opportunity.
Jessica Mumford, a native of Kalamazoo, MI, recently
received her MFA in Dance and Interdisciplinary Digital
Media at Arizona State University. Jessica currently dances
with both Aaron McGloin Dance and CONDER/dance, and
runs a video documentation and editing business. Jessica's
current choreography, media work, and movement research
utilizes knowledge from her studies in both dance and
psychology. Her work with movement and media includes
dance for camera, audio/visual installations with movement
sensing, mediated objects, wearables, and dance and music
performance with movement-based control of media. During
her dance career, Jessica has had the opportunity to perform
with artists such as Nora Chipaumire, Ashleigh Leite, Mary
Fitzgerald, Karen Schupp, Todd Ingalls, and Steven
Iannacone. In efforts to bring her work to the greater Phoenix
community, Jessica is collaborating with four fellow artists to
direct and manage a non-profit organization for media art
called urbanSTEW. The goal of this urbanSTEW is to explore
the symbiosis between the artistic process and technology
development. www.urbanstew.org
Ashlee Ramsey is currently pursuing an MFA in Dance from
Arizona State University and has been granted a Teaching
Assistantship from the School of Dance at the Herberger
Insitute for Design and the Arts. Originally from North
Carolina, Ms. Ramsey’s professional career has included
directing and producing roles in three dance and site-specific
concerts in Greensboro, North Carolina, as well membership
in the touring companies John Gamble Dance Theatre and
CTS Dance. While Ms. Ramsey enjoys the opportunity to
present her work in the Dance Annual, she also looks forward
to presenting an interdisciplinary site-specific work, which
will be shown on campus on April 22, 23, 24, 2010.

Sammy Stephens, Jr. is a Hot Springs, Arkansas native. He
moved to Arizona to pursue a Master of Fine Arts in Dance at
Arizona State University. His undergraduate studies at the
University of Arkansas at Little Rock consisted of theatre,
dance, and health science. Theatrical credits include Hair, The
Wiz, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Spunk. He was most recently
seen in Black Theatre Troupe's Revenge of a King. Sammy
performed an excerpt of Jose Limon’s The Exiles at ASU and
at the Congress on Research in Dance conference in NY.
Sammy has danced and instructed hip-hop/urban dance for 10
years. He also danced with The Tidwell Project, a modern
dance company in Little Rock, AR and founded Floor
Rockers, a hip-hop dance company at UALR. In addition to
facilitating workshops and master classes in Arkansas, Florida,
Tennessee, and Arizona, he teaches Urban Movement
Practices and hip-hop at ASU, Mesa Community College, and
The Dance Loft. His service on the annual national judging
panel for Jamfest! Competitions allows him to travel to many
areas of the country. Sammy expresses special thanks to his
sister, mother, and father for their love.
Tara Wrobel is an Illinois native, currently pursuing her BFA
in Dance at Arizona State University. Dance has been a
passion of hers since she was five years old. While performing
in Illinois, Tara received a Miss Showbiz award and placed
6th in the top 10 at a national competition. She also received
many awards while attending dance conventions in the
Midwest. As a performer she been blessed to work with artists
such as Ashleigh Leite, Jodi James, Jessica Mumford, Melissa
Canto, Randi Frost, Becky Ferrell, Sammy Stephens, and
Lucio Abruzzi. As a choreographer she has presented work at
Arizona State University and is currently creating a piece for
the Spring Undergraduate Concert. After graduating next
spring, Tara plans to travel and pursue a career as a
performer.

Concert Production
School of Dance Production Staff
Director/ Artistic Director
Production Manager
Technical Director
Costume Designer
Costume Manager
Sound Engineer

Simon Dove
Carolyn Koch
Mark C. Ammerman
Galina Mihaleva
Jacqueline Benard
William Swayze

Dance Annual Staff
Artistic Director/Curator Simon Dove
Curatorial Advisory Board John Mitchell (faculty), Melissa
Canto (grad student), Lucio Abruzzi (undergrad student)
Set Designer
Mark C. Ammerman
Costume Designers
Jacqueline Benard, Galina Mihaleva
Sound Designer
William Swayze
Production Stage Manager Carolyn Koch
Assistant Stage Managers Ashley David, Tristan Platt
Light Board Operator
Chris Petersen
Sound Board Operator
Jessi Gortor, Jason Stahl
Stage Crew
Randy Gillie, Davey Trujillo, Misty
West, Hannah Williams, Tara
Wrobel, Members of DAH 294
Miguel Castro, Molly Myers;THP
201/301 Hannah Habros, Dave
Hernandez, Clark Hill, Grady Horn