TRANSITION PROJECTS

Friday, February 19, 20010 at 5:00pm
Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 7:30pm
Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 2:00pm
Dance Studio Theatre, PEBE 132

Pre-Show:
Reflective Energy
Choreographer:
Alyssa Noel Ramey
Music Performed by: Lorne Mills, William
Swayze, Robin Vining
Lighting Design:
Mark C. Ammerman
Costume Design:
Alyssa Noel Ramey
Performer:
Alyssa Noel Ramey
Performance:
Finding a Final Resting Place
Choreographer:
Jessica Mumford
Music by:
Mirror and Library Chat by
Michael Andrews, published
by Elgonix Music BMI
courtesy of Everloving
Records. Bees by Animal
Collective
Lighting Design:
Mark C. Ammerman
Costume Design:
Jessica Mumford
Set Design:
Jessica Mumford
Performer:
Misty West
Unearthed
Choreographer:
Music:
Lighting Design:
Costume Design:
Performer:

Angela Rosenkrans
Misty by Erroll Garner, Cry
Me a River by Julie London
Aaron McGloin
Patricia Jones
Jessica Jones

Far From Home
Choreographer:
Music:
Lighting Design:
Costume Design:
Set Design:
Performer:
In the Snowfields
Choreographer:
Music:
Lighting Design:
Costume Design:
Set Design:
Performer:

Aaron McGloin
The Penalty, El Zocalo,and
Brandenburg by Beirut
Aaron McGloin
Aaron McGloin
Aaron McGloin
Jenna Ramey
Mary Fitzgerald with creative
input from Lucio Abruzzi
Want Me by Alexander
Balanescu
Carolyn Koch
Lucio Abruzzi, Mary
Fitzgerald
Mark C. Ammerman
Lucio Abruzzi

10 minute intermission
Siren
Choreographer:
Music:
Lighting Design:
Costume Design:
Performer:

Carley Conder
Piazzolla: Buenos Aires Hora
Cero by Gidon Kremer
Aaron McGloin
Celine Syslo
Celine Syslo

7±2
Choreographer:
Music:
Lighting Design:
Costume Design:
Performer:

Carley Conder
Fugitif by Swod
Aaron McGloin
Nicole Grabianowski,
Galina Mihaleva
Nicole Grabianowski

Four Green Events
Choreographer:
Lucio Abruzzi and Dancers
Music:
toh-koh by Radicalfashion,
We Have a Map of the Piano
by Mum, Receiver by
Michael Gordon
Lighting Design:
Aaron McGloin
Costume Design:
Lucio Abruzzi
Set Design:
Lucio Abruzzi, Mark C.
Ammerman
Performers:
Mandy Franco, Alyssa
Gersony, Chelsey Hauk,
Jessica Jones, Katie
McCaskill, Caitlyn
McNamara, Samantha
McHale, Jenna Ramey,
Celine Syslo

Notes:
Reflective Energy is a reflection on a process of
which, in turn, is the final product. Inspired by the
painter, Jackson Pollock, the paint traces the
dancer’s movement on a 9’x12’ canvas. Reflective
energy builds on change that is unseen. In this
piece, the musicians participate in a “mirror game”
with the dancer as she paints.
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.
Unearthed: I came to know myself as a woman;
the glorious things about myself that I never
relished. I shed my chains when I shed you and was
no longer ashamed to be me. I now experience the
world recklessly through my senses.
Far From Home is about a young girl whose
imagination offers the comfort, safety, and stability
that her home life lacks.

In the Snowfields: The track "Want Me" is used
with permission by composer Alexander Balanescu.
The track can be found on his album "Possessed"
through Mute Records Ltd. For more information
visit www.balanescu.com
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)
7 ± 2: This solo explores the nature and mechanics
of memory. The mental processes of repetition,
accumulation, coding material, and deconstruction
are reinvented through movement projects. The
solo takes place in a series of episodes that mirror
how this individual objectively views her life
events.

Four Green Events is an investigation of the
dynamic spectrum that the color green symbolizes
in our society.
Biographies:
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. He would like to

thank his professors and peers at ASU as well as his
mom and dad, brother, Aaron, and puppies Charlie
and Zero for their unconditional love, support, and
encouragement throughout the past four years.
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 and Fred Darsow Dance.
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.
Nicole Grabianowski was born and raised in
Parker, CO. She began her training at Millers
Dance Studio in Aurora, CO where she continued to
train until graduating in 2006. Throughout high
school, she was in the Lemon Sponge Cake Junior
Contemporary Ballet Company based in Boulder,
CO. She currently attends ASU and is pursuing a
B.F.A in Dance, a B.S. in Finance and the
International Business Certificate. Nicole has had
the opportunity to dance for Karen Schupp, Nina
Watt, and Aaron McGloin Dance. She has enjoyed
every minute of this great experience and wonderful
dancers and looking forward to expanding her
career nationally.

Jessica Jones began dancing at a small studio in
Las Cruces, NM. Here, she performed with the Las
Cruces Chamber Ballet and was involved with the
annual production of "The Nutcracker". Jessica then
moved to Chandler, AZ and became a part of her
high school dance company. Kinesis Dance
Company gave her the chance to choreograph,
perform, and be a leader when she became the
president her second year. Jessica will be graduating
with her BFA in dance from Arizona State
University, and is currently the vice president to the
Herberger School of Dance Student Advisory
Board. She also had the opportunity to be the
Artistic Director of the Fall 2009 Undergraduate
Show. While studying at ASU, she was fortunate to
work with many excellent artists including Alex
Ketley, Bradley Michaud, Kristen Tovson, Ashleigh
Leite, and of course, the wonderful faculty of ASU.
Jessica has also had the chance to be a company
member of Instinct Dance Corps, Temenos Dance
Collective, and Aaron McGloin Dance. She looks
forward to the spirals of her future career as a dance
artist.
Aaron McGloin was born and raised in Arizona,
and graduated with honors from ASU with a BFA
in Dance (Choreography). Over the past few years
he has had the privilege of performing with
companies such as Dance Arizona Repertory
Theater, Scorpius Dance Theatre, Temenos Dance

Collective, CONDER/Dance, and AMEBA
Acrobatic and Aerial Dance of Chicago. He was the
winner of the Arizona Choreography Competition
in 2006, has been awarded merit scholarships to
attend the Bates Dance Festival in both 2006 and
2008, and recently won Dance Magazine's Video of
the Month - Critics' Choice Award. The Chicago
Tribune has called his choreography "quirky" and
"whimsical" and has been compared to work by
great artists such as Susan Marshall. His work has
been commissioned by Scottsdale Community
College Moving Company, Scottsdale Arizona Jazz
Ensemble, Paradise Valley Community College,
Scorpius Dance Theater, CONDER/dance, and
AMEBA. He is the artistic director of Aaron
McGloin Dance, Arizona's newest professional
dance company. Check them out at
www.aaronmcgloindance.com.
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
Alyssa Noel Ramey began her dance career over
eighteen years ago. Since then she has been in love
with many different forms including modern, ballet,
jazz, lyrical, contemporary, tap, and hip hop. After
many years of trainning at her home town studio in
northern California, Patty's Studio of Dance, Alyssa
began to branch out and study at San Francisco
Dance Center, ODC Dance Commons, ShawlAnderson Performing Arts, and the EDGE as her
obsession for dance grew. Alyssa has studied under
the direction of Mary Fitgerald, Karen Schupp, and
Shouze Ma, only to name a few, during her time
here at ASU. She has also worked with
choreographers in LA and San Fransisco like Gina
Starbuck, Janice Garrett, Reginald Ray-Savage, and
Christina Woodard. She currently is completing her
BFA in Dance at ASU and will graduate in May
2010. Alyssa's choreography has earned her lots of

recognition at many competitions in Arizona and
California including several overall awards. She
has been awarded the Just for Kix Award for
Outstanding Choreography at Spotlight Dance Cup
in 2008. Alyssa also was a recent finalist for the
Arizona Young Artists' Competition with her self
choreographed solo Sense of Touch. Though her
time is almost finished at the Herberger Institue
School of Dance, Alyssa’s outlook on dance has
been greatly impacted by the facutly and staff and
would like to thank everyone for their hard work
and strong efforts to mold us into the dancers we are
today.
Jenna Ramey was born and raised in Fort Smith,
Arkansas. She began dancing at Western Arkansas
Ballet at the age of seven and went on to dance in
their pre-professional company for six years. Jenna
left Arkansas in 2006 to attend ASU where she is
now pursuing her B.F.A in Dance as well as a B.A.
in Journalism and Mass Communication with an
emphasis in Public Relations. Jenna dances with
Tempe-based contemporary dance company, Aaron
McGloin Dance, and has seized numerous
university- based performance opportunities in her
time at ASU.

Concert Production Staff
Department of Dance Production Staff
Chair/ Artistic Director
Simon Dove
Production Manager
Carolyn Koch
Technical Director
Mark C. Ammerman
Costume Designer
Galina Mihaleva
Costume Manager
Jacqueline Benard
Sound Engineer
William Swayze
Transition Projects
Artistic Director
Set Designer
Costume Designers
Sound Designer
Production Stage Manager
Facility Manager
Assistant Stage Managers
Light Board Operator
Sound Board Operator
Stage Crew

Claudia Murphey
Mark C. Ammerman
Jacqueline Benard
Galina Mihaleva
William Swayze
Tara Wrobel
Randy Gillie
Ashley David
Tristan Platt
Jessica Sage
Members of DCE 294
Kristen Barrett,
Corinne Bocchino,
Mary Ford; 294, THP
201 Gerald Munn,
Valentin Navarro,
Timothy Sorek