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Donna Faye Burchfield, professor of dance and the director of Hollins' program, teaches internationally, most recently with the American Dance Festival in Moscow and Seoul. She has been choreographing and performing her own work since 1979. Her work has been commissioned by Center Stage, North Carolina State University, Contemporary Dance Fort Worth, circa (1990), and New Works Project. She was the recipient of the 1992-93 and 1993-94 Artist Project Grant in Dance, given by the North Carolina State Arts Council for her choreographic work. Before coming to Hollins Burchfield was at Duke University, working since 1984 for the American Dance Festival (ADF). She is also dean at ADF, which enrolls more than 500 dance students and professionals from around the world each summer.
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Jeffery N. Bullock, associate professor, began his performing career with the North Carolina Dance Theater following graduation from the North Carolina School of the Arts. He continued his performing career with the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle and the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater. Later, he joined the contemporary dance company Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, touring the United States and Europe. He was also a featured performer in the 1986 Paramount Motion Picture The Nutcracker with PNB, and was a featured performer in the 1983 PBS Special Where Dreams Debut: The North Carolina School of the Arts. Jeffery has been a faculty member at the American Dance Festival in Durham, North Carolina since 1998, and in ADF international festivals that have included Russia, Korea, and Mongolia. He earned his M.F.A. in choreography from the University of Iowa.
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Blind Identity 2002
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Ben Pranger, assistant professor, performance and new media, makes abstract collage, sculpture and installations that are obsessive, artificial, and organic. Pranger has shown his work at Hollins University, at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, and in New York. His work has been reviewed in Artforum and Art in America. He has participated in artist residencies at the Fine Arts Center in Provincetown and the Kohler Arts/Industry Program. To learn more about his work, click here. |
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Since 1993 Hollins has hosted over 100 dance professionals as artists-in-residence. These talented artists perform on campus, conduct master classes, and create new works for and with students.
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Mark Haim set the work "Talk Soup" on the Hollins Repertory Dance Company. He was choreographer, teacher, dancer, and artistic director of Mark Haim and Dancers in New York City from 1984 to 1987 and a member of the Companhia de Dance de Lisboa in Portugal from 1987 to 1990. He has performed his evening-length solo, "The Goldberg Variations," throughout the United States and Europe and has choreographed for Nederlands Dans Theater, the Joffrey Ballet, Ballet Frankfurt, Bat-Dor Dance Co., Rotterdamse Dansgroep, TRANS Luxembourg, and other companies in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Haim has been on the faculty at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and guest artist at North Carolina School for the Arts, Cornell University, Ohio University, and Hollins University.
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nicholasleichterdance set the work "No Closer" on the Hollins Repertory Dance Company and Hollins Dance Project. He tours extensively throughout the United States and abroad and has served on the faculty at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and as guest artist at Hunter College, JMU, VCU, and Connecticut College. He has danced in the companies of Ronald K. Brown, Gus Solomons, jr., and Ralph Lemon.
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Shen Wei, described by the Village Voice as "Michaelangelo's David as a sultry rock star," brings his imagined world to life through choreographing, performing, painting, and writing. As a child, from the age of nine, he trained as a performer for the Chinese opera. He was trained in modern dance at the Guangdong Dance Academy. He was awarded first prize for both choregography and performance at the Inaugural National Modern Dance Competition in China. In 1997, as guest artist at Hollins, he did his world premiere of "Small Room" to a standing-room-only audience on campus. |
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Doug Varone and Dancers set "Bench Quartet" and "Strict Love" on the Hollins Repertory Dance Company. Doug Varone and Dancers is recognized all over the world as one of the most innovative young modern dance companies and has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships, including a National Endowment for the Arts grant and Metropolitan Life's Emerging Artist Award. In addition, Doug Varone is a much-acclaimed teacher.
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