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Final advice to young dancers: Be excited about learning something new. Find your investigative creative spirit. Play.   Make dance happen wherever you are. Take time to focus on your breath everyday.   Be versatile and flexible. Leave judgment behind. Spend time on finding awareness; it is the first step toward change. Remember that the mirror is only a reflection of you. Be generous with your love.   Eat well and don’t smoke, anything. Study Laban and Bartenieff movement studies --- it will blow your mind and change your life. And if you are so inclined, eat chocolate (the Aztecs, my ancestors, knew what they were doing here).

Cathy Davalos

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Dara Stevens-Meredith is presenting her MFA Thesis, "Concrete Rose" this Friday and Saturday at 7:30 PM @ Temple's Conwell Dance Theater.

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Melisa Putz Clark will premier her newest evening-length dance performance entitled when ashes fell from my eyes at Temple University’s Conwell Dance' Read about MFA student Melisa Clark's Thesis, "when ashes fell from my eyes" at Conwell Theater March 13th and 14th!

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Hi there! Love this blog. I'm a post-undergrad dancer living/working in Minneapolis, and would love to come to Philadelphia this summer to check out Temple / learn more about the community. I'm very much thinking of pursuing a masters at the university in the future. Are there any workshops going on through the university / in the city that you could recommend? Thanks! -- Scott

I hope you don’t mind my posting this publicly, because it’s a great question and the answers have some good resources

Gah - sorry for the ridiculous delay!  Thanks for the compliment :)  I hope you still love our blog after we accidentally ignored your question for months!  Philly has an amazing dance community AND is only 90 mins from NYC and 2.5 hours from DC.  Check out PhiladelphiaDance.org for starters.  Two faculty members who frequently have workshops are Kariamu Welsh (a very special kind of Afro-contemporary, usually at the Painted Bride Art Center), and Kun-Yang Lin of Kun-Yang Lin Dancers.  The Annenberg also brings in a lot of master classes through it’s Dance Celebration series (run by an alumna of ours who also has her own company).  Some of those are on our campus, but we have lots of other guest artist master classes as well.  I’d also be more than happy to arrange a class visit in our department.  I also just put our speaker series schedule on the Boyer College Website.  Just shoot us an email at [email protected].  We just can’t offer class visits during finals/breaks.

Hope to see you!

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Congratulations to our 2013-2014 Boyer Dean's grant recipients!

PhD students Elisa Davis and Kemal Nance

Graduating MFA students Deborah Wince, Jae Hoon Lim, and Marion Ramirez

BFA students Nicole Gauthier (Alec Moss)

Best of luck with your projects!

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Congratulations to Guillermo Ortega, MFA 2012 on being selected as one of two local artists for the PHL/Budapest Bilateral Artists Exchange!  

Guillermo Ortega Tanus; Photo by Joanna Austin