Help send Queens College to ACDA

We Need Your Assistance

The Queens College Dance Program is taking ten students and two faculty members to American College Dance Association Conference (ACDA) and we need your help to make it a reality!

ACDA is an amazing opportunity for students and faculty to engage in four days of performances, workshops, panels, and master classes. ACDA also provides an opportunity for students to have their dance works adjudicated by a panel of nationally recognized dance professionals in an open and constructive forum.

The Students

With your help the following ten students will go to ACDA :
Akilah-Aziza Gordon                Malcolm Griffin
Ariana Spinelli                              Nicole Vazquez
Dianne Kissoon                           Paula Katsanos
ilianna Ayala                                  Ravenn Haynes
Jiemin Yang                                   Robyn Cascio

Requesting Help

Queens College and the Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance had huge budget cuts the past two years, which is why we are reaching out to you for help.  We need to raise $4,330 by March 1, 2016, to attend the conference, which is in Brockport, NY from March 9 – 13, 2016.

* $1,800 will cover registration fees for ten students and two faculty members, as well as adjudication fees to perform two dances.
* $2,390 will cover lodging in a hotel for five nights ($199 per person x 12 people)
* $140 will cover gas for the van

Anything you can give is greatly appreciated!!!!

The Works

We will perform two works in the adjudicated concert and one in the informal concert. The works are:
* "Even Out" by Jiemin Yang (graduates May 2016)
* "You Can Keep Your Sorry" by Ilianna Ayala (graduates May 2016)
* "No Mercy" by Ashley Pinckney (graduated 2015) and Dianne Kissoon (graduates May 2016)


Even Out
Choreography: Jiemin Yang
Dancers: Akilah-Aziza Gordon, Ariana Spinelli,
Elise Walters, Jiemin Yang

You Can Keep Your "Sorry"
Choreography: Ilianna Ayala
Dancers: Ilianna Ayala, Ashley Pinckney, Nicole Vazquez

No Mercy
choreograrphy: Ashely Pinckney & Dianne Kissoon
Dancers: Ilianna Ayala, Maxine Sackey, Ashely Pinckney, Dianne Kissoon

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Rehearsal photos by Julen
www.julenphoto.com

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History

The Queens College Dance Program participated in ACDA for the first time in 2011. It was a transformative experience for many of the students. In writing about their experience students said:

“Going to the conference gave me the opportunity to really discover and examine who I am, not only as an artist, but as a person. Being exposed to a different atmosphere really gave me the opportunity to make choices and take chances I otherwise would not have been able to.”
- Alicia Mason (screened Moe, an animated dance short, at ACDA 2011)

“I felt privileged to have been able to take my piece and show it outside of Queens College. Performing the dance in a completely new territory was an entirely unfamiliar audience validated my piece. It really put everything we do and learn here at Queens College in perspective. It helped me to see where we fit in the dance world and also how diverse we are (in a good way!)”
- Samantha Beneventano (presented her work, Leave Me Where I Am, at ACDA 2011)

“This trip has given me the confidence to pursue a professional dance career once I become a Queens College graduate. Being surrounded by dancers from Taiwan, Arkansas, California, Illinois and Kansas, demonstrated to us, as Queens College students, that not only are we amazingly talented, but also excitingly unique in the best way possible.”
- Letticia Camacho (presented her work, Cold Case Love, at ACDA 2011)