Josh Durfey, MacKenzie Pedersen, Tatem Credille and Redge Palmer in SUU’s I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, fall 2011. Photo by: Asher J. Swan
Music (Continued) Dr. Lynn Vartan has performed on two recent CDs, The Music of Chinary Ung, Volume 3, Bridge Records, 2011, and 10 Freedom Summers, A Tribute to the Civil Rights Movement by Wadada Leo Smith, 4 CD set, May 2012. She was a performer for the Los Angeles International New Music Festival, May 2012, and was singled out by the music critic for The Los Angeles Times. “solo snare drum was fabulously performed by Lynn Vartan.” The SUU Percussion Ensemble won a “call for tapes” for the 2012 Utah Music Educators Conference and was the featured performer at this convention. Theatre Arts & Dance Kay Andersen served as an adjudicator for the American College Dance Festival Association West Region at San Jose State University, CA. In May 2012, Dean Shauna Mendini and Kay shared western dance forms with the Wuhan Conservatory in Wuhan, China, teaching modern dance, 64
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tap dance and dance for musical theatre. He also taught in the MoveIt summer intensive dance workshop for Ririe-Woodbury of Salt Lake City and other classes in Mexico. Paul C. Ocampo taught ballet class for the American College Dance Festival at the University of Utah March 2012. Wendy A. Sanders presented at the National Dance Education Organization Conference this past fall in Minneapolis, MN. The conference focus was: Collaborations: Different Identities, Mutual Paths and the presentation in conjunction with dance professors from Utah Valley University explored the challenges and solutions for collaboration and communication between designers (costume and lighting) and choreographers. Peter Sham saw the Original Cast Recording of his Lend Me a Tenor The Musical released after its critically successful run in London. The production was nominated