PROGRAM ARCHIVES
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SPRING 2019
CHOREOGRAPHER BIOGRAPHIES
Maria Bendickson:
Maria is a freshman intended math major and dance and French double minor from the Washington, D.C. area. This is her second semester performing in DW, and her first semester choreographing. She started dancing in high school where she trained at Joy of Motion Dance Center and Séber Method Academy for classical ballet. She was first exposed to hip-hop on her high school’s dance team where she became captain her senior year. In addition to dance, Maria grew up performing in plays and musicals through community theatres, school, and church. Off-stage Maria enjoys spending time in the outdoors, playing ukulele, and eating gluten free toast.
Emily Burnham:
I’ve been moving around for as long as I can remember, and I’ve moved in many styles of dance, like contemporary, ballet, tap, jazz, and modern. Dance Workshop is one of my favorite parts of the semester, and I’m so excited to finish out my senior year with so many friends in DW. I’m grateful for this opportunity to choreograph and to move!
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Emily Carlson:
Emily Carlson has been choreographing for two years. She is influenced by artists such as Erica Klein and Ian Eastwood and hopes to continue improving within the hip hop and contemporary genres.
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Ivaly Cline:
Ivaly has danced for 14 years. She began with tap in kindergarten, and over time expanded her repertoire to include jazz, lyrical, ballet, and contemporary. At Colorado College, she fell in love with the dance community and declared a dance minor. Stand and Deliver, which focuses on powerful women, is the third piece that she has choreographed in Dance Workshop. She would like to thank the dance community for their love, support, and encouragement throughout her time at Colorado College.
Natalie Cuadrado:
Natalie is an education major and dance minor at CC and has been dancing since she was three years old. Dance has always been a big part of Natalie's life and she hopes to have the chance to keep dancing after graduation. During her time at CC she has choreographed and participated in Dance Workshop many times and is so sad to be performing in her last show! As senior year starts to wrap up, some of Natalie's favorite memories of CC are from DW and she is so thankful to have such a fun and welcoming place to dance.
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Darryl Flimore:
Darryl Filmore is a first-time choreographer, with years of experience in a variety of dance formats and styles. Although her passion lies in hip hop, lyrical and contemporary works heavily influence her style of dance and choreography. She choreographed for Dance Workshop this semester to push herself out of her comfort zone and try to convey a story through dance.
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Zascha Fox:
Zascha Fox has been dancing for her whole life, growing up in the world of ballet studios, theaters, and dressing rooms, and has brought her love of dance with her throughout her four years at CC. As a member of Dance Workshop, DanSix, Dance Team, and various adjuncts, she has loved the tight-knit community of dancers that have come together to share their love of movement and performance.
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Emma Herrick:
Emma Herrick is an English-film track major at Colorado college. Though she doesn’t have much of a background in technical dance (save for the ~extensive~ ballet classes she took in kindergarten), she loves to boogie her way around town. She has done dance workshop all four years of her CC career, and this year she choreographed a piece alongside her two best friends Natalie Watrous and Elena Perez.
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Ethan Knowles:
Ya bey! I’m Ethan from The Bahamas. I’ve choreographed this piece in the interest of providing participants (and by extension viewers) with a richer understanding of the Caribbean – one which extends beyond shallow touristic representations and recognizes diverse linguistic and artistic facets of the region. Steps displayed range from the ubiquitous ‘whine’ (a smooth gyrating of the hips) to a variety of movements that come natural to me whenever I listen to Trinidadian Soca, Jamaican Dancehall, or Bahamian Rake ‘n Scrape. It goes without saying how much I value Dance Workshop as a platform that allows me to facilitate intercultural exchange on campus and I am honored to be a part of it in a continued effort to promote peaceful understanding through discourse and shared expression.
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Soren Kodak:
Soren Kodak was born and raised in Colorado. He began dancing in high school and started with Lindy Hop and Swing dance. Since then he has explored other styles such as Breakdance, Ballet, Contemporary, and Blues Fusion. Along with dancing he has exposed himself to many kinds of movement based activities such as gymnastics, parkour, and martial arts. As a choreographer he is fascinated by the junctions between these “nontraditional” forms and dance. His work has pulled from these various movement backgrounds and experiments with how they can be combined.
Harper Kral:
Harper Kral is a junior organismal biology and ecology major who has been studying various forms of dance since she was 2 and a half. She has a wide range of experience from the more common ballet, tap and jazz to the less common hula, Tahitian, and yosakoi. Her most recent accomplishment was being chosen as an ambassador to Kochi, Japan to participate in the Yosakoi festival and to be certified as an ambassador of this style. She hopes to keep broadening her dance experience and creating pieces people enjoy dancing too.
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Molly Maier:
Molly has been moving and making dance since she was little, and has always used movement as a way to express experiences and emotion. She began setting work formally in high school, and her background includes training in ballet, modern, jazz, tap, and other styles. She enjoys using the Dance Workshop stage as a space to collaboratively explore her and her dancers experiences, and hopes audience is able to see themselves in what she creates.
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Maggie Mehlman:
Maggie is a senior math major from Denver, CO. She took her first children’s movement class when she two and has been dancing ever since! Maggie has trained in ballet, modern, jazz, and tap, and choreography at Denver School of the Arts, Classical Ballet of Colorado, and through summer intensives such as Alonzo King LINES Ballet. Maggie has loved finding a home within the CC dance department over the last four years, and she has learned a lot from the DW community through her role as a co-chair, choreographer, and dancer. She will miss Dance Workshop and all the lovely people who make it great!
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Anabella Owens:
Anabella is a freshman anthropology major and French minor from Syracuse, New York. This is her second semester performing in DW, and her first semester choreographing. She has been dancing on and off since the age of five at Guzman’s Dance Studio, the Ballet and Dance Center, and Syracuse Dance Factory training in jazz, ballet, and hip-hop. Anabella’s love of performance stemmed from her debut musical role as The Rose in Alice in Wonderland. Outside of dance Anabella enjoys weight lifting, reading, and chocolate desserts—specifically ice cream cones perfectly crafted by Maria Bendickson.
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Elena Perez:
Elena is a senior English major from Madison, Wisconsin. She has been dancing since she was three years old, and over the years she has trained in ballet, jazz, contemporary, modern, and tap. This is her third time choreographing for Dance Workshop, and she is so happy to have gotten the chance to choreograph with her friends Natalie Watrous and Emma Herrick. The CC dance community has been a huge part of her experience at CC and she is so grateful for all of the friends and memories. <3
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Sophia Pray:
“I have done what some might call “hippie ballet” since I was a tiny tot, but started getting into other kinds of technical dance when I came to CC, including ballroom. I am motivated by the possibilities of community dancing because the non-verbal connection dance can provide is profound. Dancing with other people is at times incredibly intimate, joyful, and solacing. In creating this dance, I hoped to showcase the joy of communal dancing, and show that dancers don’t always have to take themselves too seriously."
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Eyner Roman:
Eyner is a senior Mathematical Economics major from Lima, Peru. At CC, he is a Peer Intern for the Career Center, a tutor and grader for the Spanish and Mathematics departments, and the student trustee. He has participated in Dance Workshop every semester since the beginning of his freshman year and has choreographed two pieces over four years. He has also performed for DanSIX. He is interested in the field of development economics but wants to pursue dance as a parallel career. If you ever want to go clubbing, hit him up!
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Kate Schroeder:
As a choreographer and dancer, I am often drawn to modern and contemporary dance and ballet, but this semester I wanted to try something new – incorporating and performing in more theatrical inspired movement and pieces. Along with the help of my dancers and inspiration from other renditions, my version of Chicago’s All That Jazz combines fast pace movement, subtle sex-appeal, and a whole lot of jazz.
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Natalie Watrous:
Natalie Watrous is a senior Molecular Biology major from Seattle, Washington who loves to dance! She has studied tap, jazz, ballet, modern, and lyrical. Dance Workshop is the best part of CC ever and she feels lucky to participate again as both a choreographer and a dancer. Natalie wants to thank her co-choreographers, Emma Herrick and Elena Perez, for being incredibly cute, silly, creative, and brilliant as well as the DW co-chairs for all of their hard work, dedication, and love over the years.