Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Dance Minors in San Francisco!

I first want to apologize for the tardiness of this blog post. Back in early March during Michigan State University's spring break, four dance minors; Colleen Synk, Tricia Gordon, Kristen Eisiminger and myself traveled to California with Sherrie Barr to present at the 2011 HERA Conference. The conference, which was called "transformations" is part of the Humanities Education and Research Association which calls itself a professional organization for humanities teachers, scholars and museum directors.

My three colleagues and I presented a workshop with the purpose of sharing our strategies of translation that drove our choreographic and dancing endeavors in the 2011 Orchesis Student Dance Concert. The participants of our workshop (who were mostly non-dancers) experienced activities mixing everyday movement and language to understand the different experiences each of us discovered while choreographing and dancing. These experiences varied from working with memories to create movement, to building a community and relationship with those you are dancing with.

The workshop was a complete success and we received a lot of feedback on our ability to articulate exactly what our process was and how we learned and progressed throughout time.
Once the conference was over we were able to explore the city of San Francisco.

Here are some images from the trip that I truly think show the beauty of the city as well as the fun that we had while in (my favorite state of) California.

The whole group before getting on the historic cable cars!
Sherrie's red shoes walking on some interesting pavement!

A view of the nightlife in San Francisco.

Kristen, Colleen and Tricia outside of a graffiti wall in the Castro area of the town near where Harvey Milk had his campaign.

Colleen's delicious looking tofu/avocado salad!

A closer look at the Ghiradelli chocolate we purchased after walking through the gift shop of the factory!

Sherrie and me outside of the cable car!

The whole group at the highest point in San Francisco! This is quite impressive that we made it this far after being so tired and having two injured persons with us!

The four us outside our first REAL glimpse of some green grass!

Welcome to China town!

A really cool breakdancer that we saw outside of our hotel.

Tricia and I getting antsy after going over our speeches for the workshop.

Kristen and a quick glimpse at the beautiful hotel we stayed at, Hotel Whitcomb.


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