2012-2013 Annual Report
previously choreographed for SUU’s 2012 Journeys concert. Gifford worked new students into the piece which was chosen as one of SUU’s submissions to the American College Dance Festival Regional Conference which SUU hosted in March 2013
Support Faculty and Staff Excellence and Development =_ZZY\^ PKM_V^c ]MRYVK\Vc M\OK^S`O KXN \O]OK\MR Q\KX^] The primary goal of the Provost’s fund for faculty scholarly support is to promote faculty efforts to develop as teachers, scholars and artists. In 2012-13, the procedure for administrating this fund was decentralized from the Provost’s office and moved ^Y ^RO MYVVOQO ]MRYYV VO`OV aS^R O`KV_K^SYX ^KUSXQ ZVKMO Lc
faculty within similar disciplines. Over the past five years, CPVA has averaged seven (7) faculty members receiving funding. With this administrative change, twelve (12) faculty received funding support for 2012-13 as outlined by the presentations, projects, exhibits and performances listed below: x.\ .YX AOSXQ_]^ Z\O]OX^ON K ZKZO\ Contemporary Actors as Evidence in seminar at the annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), Toronto, ON, Canada x.OKX =RK_XK 7OXNSXS KXN .\ 5OS^R ,\KN]RKa Z\O]OX^ON
Transformative Education through Cross-Cultural Collaboration for the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC’s) Annual Meeting. The theme of the conference was Creative and Performing Arts at Public Liberal Arts Colleges held at Shepard University, Shepardstown, West Virginia x:K_V 9MKWZY +]]YMSK^O :\YPO]]Y\ KXN -RSOX CSXQ AKXQ
Assistant Professor, performed in HereAfterHere: a self-guided tour of eternity. The production was a professional multi-disciplinary dance theatre production directed by Tandy Beal with music composed by John Scovill with Ellen Bromberg and Denise Gallant creating the video, Salt Lake City, Utah x,\SKX =aKX]YX +]]S]^KX^ :\YPO]]Y\ aK] SX`S^ON ^Y Z\O]OX^
When is Too Much, Too Much as part of a panel strategy for preventing burnout within the technical theatre industry at the United States Institute of Theatre Technology (USITT) Annual Conference and Stage Expo in Milwaukee, Wisconsin x.OXS]O :_\`S] Z\O]OX^ON Engaging Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Learners in the High School Technique Class at the Teaching Somatic-Based Dance Technique Conference, Brockport, New York x.\ 4KWO] 7K\MRKX^ Z\O]OX^ON Challenging & Provocative Work in the Higher Education Classroom at the Association Arts Administration Educators Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana x.\ 6cXX @K\^KX _^SVSdON Z\YTOM^ P_XN] ^Y
support documenting and archiving her performances through a percussion recording project x.\ +XN\Oa 7K\`SMU Z\O]OX^ON Whistler vs. Ruskin: Asian vision and its reception in Victorian
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London and Jeff Hanson presented The Old Guys Have Already Stolen our Best Ideas: How contemporary design looks to the past for new direction as an on-going collaboration with Renmin University, Beijing China. They also each mounted an exhibition of recent works for Renmin’s art gallery x4K\\YN ,\Kc NO]SQXON ^RO ]MOXO\c PY\ ^RO Z\YN_M^SYX The Long Christmas Dinner produced by the Opera Hub Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
Contribute to state, regional, and community needs as a social and economic catalyst In 2012-13, under the leadership of President Michael T. Benson, administrators from the Utah Shakespeare Festival and the Southern Utah Museum of Art (SUMA) combined capital campaign projects to propel both projects to completion. The new Shakespeare Theatre, SUMA, the Festival’s Artistic Production Facility, along with the existing Randall L. Jones Theatre, will comprise the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Center for ^RO +\^]
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from the Sorenson Legacy Foundation. The Center will share her legacy of love for the arts and her vision of the transformative power of art in improving quality of life, particularly when it touches the lives of children. Blalock and Partners Architectural Design Studio was selected PY\ ^RO Z\YQ\KWWSXQ KXN NO]SQX ZRK]O YP ^RO WSVVSYX NYVVK\
project. The project is well under way with groundbreaking taking place during the University’s Founders Day Celebration, March 2014. It will take approximately twenty-four (24) months to build the Center. The extensive construction project will provide an economic boom to the entire region. The Beverly Taylor Sorenson Center for the Arts will dramatically enrich the cultural life of Cedar City and its surrounding region. It will create a year-round destination for thousands of visitors thus enhancing SUU as a major contributor to state, regional and community need as a social and economic catalyst.
Harness and integrate our unique geographic location in the SUU educational experience The diverse landscape of southern Utah provides sustaining