The Valdosta Daily Times — VALDOSTA — Less than a decade ago, when Catherine Schaeffer led the first group to the annual American College Dance Festival Southeastern Regional Conference, she took seven student dancers.
As VSU prepares for its eighth trip this week with 17 students attending this year, VSU Dance is now a bachelor of fine arts program, and Schaeffer has earned VSU’s award for excellence in teaching award.
At the conference, the dancers will be adjudicated on performance, take dance workshops, and see other performances. Schaeffer will teach a dance somatics session.
VSU student dancers will perform Schaeffer’s choreographed “Original Nature: Breath, Pace, Emptying, Flux,” a reworking of her “Shinshin Soitsu — mind-body same one.” “Original Nature” dancers are Rose Buis, Cassandra Ivey, Samantha Lee, Rachel Lockhart, Brittany Lord, Katrina Reid, Maggie Woodard.
Two VSU dance students present original choreography.
Katrina Reid performs her solo choreographed work, “Broken Reflection.” She began working on this piece last fall and has daily prepared it for this week’s conference.
Cassandra Ivey choreographed “Remembering Herndon Avenue,” which features dancers Denise Coleman, Lauren Hallford, Patricia Nealey, Larae Phillips, and Lacey Harper. Ivey began working on this dance last year, making adjustments to perfect the choreography with a group of dancers.
Before leaving for the conference, these dances will be performed at VSU Tuesday afternoon.
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VSU Dance performance prior to the annual trip to American College Dance Festival Southeastern Regional Conference.
When: 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 3.
Where: Sawyer Theatre, VSU Fine Arts Building, corner of Oak and Brookwood.
Admission: Free.
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