BYU 2010 Contemporary Dance Summer Intensive

Adult Contemporary Dance Summer Intensive
Featuring Janice Haws Roberts and Anthony Roberts
July 12-23, 2010

Come experience an immersive two-week dance experience with Janice Haws Roberts and Anthony Roberts.  This two-week workshop will feature a daily two-hour technique class and an afternoon session where students will work on the creative process through composition, improvisation, and technology.  There will be a showing of student work at the end of the workshop.

Participants who take the entire workshop will receive 3 hours of Dance 500R credit.  Those who wish to take just the technique class in the morning will receive 1 credit.  Those attending the three-hour afternoon session will receive 2 credits.

Janice Haws Roberts

Janice Haws Roberts (MFA, University of Utah) serves as chair of the Department of Dance at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.  She danced professionally with Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company (RW) for eight years before being hired at St. Olaf.  Janice toured extensively with RW nationally and internationally—performing both corps and solo roles in the works of Shirley Ririe, Joan Woodbury, Bill Evans, Jamey Hampton, Tandy Beal, Murray Louis, Alwin Nikolais, Kei Takei, Pilobolus, Smith and Shapiro, Doug Nielsen, Jerry Pearson, and Alyson Chase.  Janice is still active as a performer, most recently as a soloist with Keith Johnson and Dancers in Los Angeles.  Janice regularly teaches at the American College Dance Festival and has workshop credits from Arizona to Tennessee.

Anthony Roberts

Anthony Roberts, artist-in-residence at St. Olaf College, has recently focused on integrating information technology and video production into learning environments and performance.  A performer, teacher, and choreographer, Anthony received his MFA from Arizona State University, which focused on dance and computer technology and where he wrote, choreographed, composed, and produced an evening-length, interdisciplinary, and technologically mediated work that explored end-of-life issues.  He has performed with Ririe-Woodbury, Repertory Dance Theatre, Sharir Dance, and Melrose Motion and was chosen to work and tour internationally with Jacob’s Pillow’s Men Dancers: the Ted Shawn Legacy.  His company experience allowed him to perform in the choreographies of such luminaries as Ted Shawn, José Limón, Pilobolus, Garth Fagan, Stephen Petronio, Charles Weidman, Helen Tamiris, Merce Cunningham, Laura Dean, Elisa Monte, Bill Evans, Douglas Dunn, Margaret Jenkins, and Della Davidson.

Janice and Anthony serve as coartistic directors of Companydance at St. Olaf College’s student modern dance company.  Partners in life and dance, Janice and Anthony live in Northfield, Minnesota with their two lovely daughters.