<p>Last week, second-year MFA candidate in dance, <a href="/people/abdiel-jacobsen">Abdiel Jacobsen</a>,<span> known professionally as Abdiel, </span>was featured in the New York Times! Read the article, "<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/arts/dance/abdiel-jacobsen-hustle-ce… Walk in Their Heels: Meet the Hustle Evangelist,</a></span><span>" by Margaret Fuhrer.</span></p>

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<p dir="auto">Congratulations to <a href="/people/frances-herr">Fran Herr</a> on being awarded the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://artsci.washington.edu/news/2022-06/arts-sciences-fab-four-2022?… of Arts &amp; Sciences Dean's Medal in the Natural Sciences!</a></span> Fran graduated with a double degree with majors in mathematics and dance.</p>
<blockquote><p dir="auto">"In her UW dance courses, “Fran’s joy in learning is a gift to those around her, elevating discussions and prompting deeper thinking,” says Rachael Lincoln, associate professor of dance. Herr participated in three Department of Dance performances on film during COVID, and choreographed a work for the 2022 Dance Majors Concert using mathematics — specifically a solution to the Tower of Hanoi puzzle — as her inspiration. The result, says Lincoln, was “a layered and metaphor-rich dance."</p>
<p dir="auto"><a href="https://artsci.washington.edu/news/2022-06/arts-sciences-fab-four-2022?…; target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="button">Read the full article here</a></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alexandra Bradshaw-Yerby</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (MFA ’18)</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">has been named </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Utah Higher Education Dance Educator of the year award from Utah Dance Educators Organization (UDEO)-- the Utah Chapter of National Dance Educators Organization (NDEO). </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alex has a way about teaching that allows the class environment to feel extremely inviting and safe. Along with being wise and having expertise about the body, Alex is always open to discussion and helping everyone with their own kinesthetic awareness in becoming smarter dancers. In her classes, it feels like a real dance laboratory where exploration and growth is deeply encouraged. Alex shows immense care for every single student, and goes above and beyond for them in any ways she can. Everyone at SUU is so inspired by her humility, love, and passion for dance, and it ultimately becomes contagious."</span></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Darcie Miles, UDEO Newsletter</span></p>
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<p><a href="/sites/dance/files/documents/udeo_newsletter_2020_-_online_version.pdf">Read the full newsletter here. </a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bradshaw-Yerby formerly danced with Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company (RWDC), touring annually throughout the United States and abroad. In fact, several UW Dance alumni have worked with RWDC in the past, including Jo Blake (MFA </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">’17) and most recently, Fausto Rivera (BA’13) who joined the company this past June of 2020.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Charlie Neshyba-Hodges is a dance and architecture alum who graduated </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">summa cum laude, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">was a Mary Gates Research Scholar, and a Husky Promise Student. He is also a celebrated dance artist who received Best Male Dancer by the European Critics’ Choice Awards in 2003, and the Astaire Award for outstanding male dancer in Twyla Tharp’s </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Come Fly Away. </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">After graduating, Charlie did a lot of work with underprivileged children  in CA and then entered the ArtCenter College of Design, majoring in product design with a concentration in design for social innovation. He has designed a new toy for 6+ year-olds that looks delightful. </span><a href="https://www.archamelia.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.archamelia.com/</span></a></p&gt;
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Read Hodge’s statement about the toy below: </span></p>
<h3><b>Archamelia; The House of a Thousand Stories</b></h3>
<h4><b>Exercising Creativity, Building Imagination</b></h4>
<h5><b>Inventor Statement:</b></h5>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The audience saw me as a dancer. They watched as I used my body to express for them what couldn’t be said with words. This was done in full view, with only one shot. They saw me chase perfection in everything I did, quietly agreeing that how I recovered from my myriad mistakes inevitably carried more weight. They applauded when I won the European Critic’s Choice Award as Best Male Dancer of the Year, and again when I won the Fred Astaire Award as the Best Male Dancer on Broadway. But for the audience, the experience was really a culmination sandwiched between a rising and lowering curtain. In truth, that single performance was born from hours, days, weeks, months, years of accumulated practice, perseverance, failure, and effort. </span></p>

<p><span>Congratulations to <a href="/people/drew-callipare">Drew Callipare</a> (Dance, Psychology) for receiving the University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Medal for the Arts division!</span></p>
<p><span>"If there is one thing I can take away from my studies in psychology and dance," said Drew, "it is that people are so diverse and amazing, and I am honored to have met so many great people on this journey!"</span></p>

<p dir="ltr"><span>Congratulations to Louis Patsawee Maliyam for receiving the President's Medalist Award. The Awardees that included Louis and two others, Piper Coyner and Renee Zhang, were announced by the Undergraduate Academic Affairs at the end of January. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Louis is a computer science major and a dance minor. He recently performed in the UW Dance Presents Concert, and will be dancing in the <a href="/events/2020-03-04/dance-majors-concert-program-b">Dance Majors Concert</a> in March. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>&gt;&gt;Read more <a href="https://www.washington.edu/uaa/2020/01/30/2018-19-presidents-medalists-…;

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Graduating senior and Dance and International Studies major, Kevin Lam, has been awarded the Fulbright US Student Program scholarship for the 2019-20 academic year. Kevin is one of sixteen UW students and alumni awarded with this scholarship to study and teach abroad this coming year. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Upon graduation, Kevin will be traveling across the world to be a Teaching Assistant to Taiwan.  “I am feeling overwhelmed about living abroad as a representative of the US. However, I am excited to teach a classroom of elementary school students and engage in conversation with Taiwanese people about identity, arts, politics, and food,” says Kevin.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Congratulations and best of luck to Kevin on his endeavors abroad! </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Read more about the </span><a href="https://www.washington.edu/news/2019/05/30/16-uw-students-awarded-fulbr… style="font-weight: 400;">16 UW Students Awarded Fulbright Fellowships Here </span></a></p>
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<p>The <a href="https://www.facebook.com/uwdsa/">Dance Student Association (DSA)</a>, and the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ADCUW/">Arts Diversity Council (ADC)</a>, two student-led organizations affiliated with the Department of Dance, have come back to school prepared with many exciting events in the Spring Quarter. The DSA hosts a myriad of dance related events throughout the year and raises funds for student scholarships. The ADC is a cross disciplinary student-council that provides support to marginalized students, primarily of color, involved in the arts at UW. Both organizations are instrumental in providing further opportunities for students at the Department of Dance.</p>
<p>On Saturday April 6th, the ADC will offer a free Visual Arts class, “<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/2308219986130655/">Restorative Sketching Workshop,”</a> taught by local artist, Xavier Roache. This workshop is meant to help students to refuel their creative energy and have fun. Roache is a Seattle-based artist of color who is passionate about self expression through visual art and community. He has taught at some of Seattle’s most elite visual art institutions, Gage Academy of the Arts, and Seattle Art Museum.  </p>
<p>Then on April 13th, the DSA will be hosting three, free, master classes that are open to all students across campus. The dance genres being taught include, contemporary, jazz, and commercial style urban dance. All classes will be taught by dance majors and minors in the department.</p>
<p>Finally, on April 19th and 20th, DSA will present its first spring-time show: APEX. APEX, a sequal to the annual DSA fall-time show, INFLUX,  is a student produced and choreographed concert, where twelve students will present a diverse range of work. All proceeds from APEX will go towards the 2019 DSA Scholarships that are awarded annually to select students in the Department of Dance at the end of the quarter.</p>

<div>One of our first year MFA candidates, Brian J. Evans stars in a stunning video and article entitled, "Dance to Freedom," by his alma mater, Gustavus Adolphus College. </div>
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<div>View the video and article here: <a href="https://gustav.us/profiles/evans.php&quot; target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://gustav.us/profiles/evans.php&amp;s…; rel="noopener noreferrer">https://gustav.us/<wbr></wbr>profiles/evans.php</a></div&gt;