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Dominican University of California

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Bfa Dance Celebrates 10th Anniversary With King Event, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee Aug 2016

Bfa Dance Celebrates 10th Anniversary With King Event, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

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The 10th year anniversary celebration of Dominican’s LINES Ballet BFA in Dance programs kicked off September 12, with “A Conversation with Alonzo King” in Guzman Lecture Hall.


Insightful Experience At Genheration Discovery Days, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee Aug 2016

Insightful Experience At Genheration Discovery Days, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

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BFA student Erin McKay ‘18 recently gained first-hand insight into how her degree in the arts would help open doors to the corporate world.


Bfa In Dance Student A Rising Star For Spring Showcase, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee Feb 2016

Bfa In Dance Student A Rising Star For Spring Showcase, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

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Inspired as a two-time recipient of The Dizzy Feet Foundation scholarship, Tatiana Barber’s career in the LINES Ballet BFA in Dance program at Dominican took a giant chassé forward. Last January, she was recruited by Mud Water Project creative director My-Lihn Le to perform in the D.I.R.T. Festival at Dance Mission Theater. Tatiana was filmed for a KQED Arts video documentary.


Fulbright Fellowship To Israel Inspires Dance Production, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee Sep 2015

Fulbright Fellowship To Israel Inspires Dance Production, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

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As an alumna of Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA in Dance at Dominican and the founder of a local dance company, Casey Lee Thorne ‘10 returned from a powerful Fulbright Post-Graduate Student Fellowship to Israel with a greater appreciation for the knowledge and expertise that she can provide.


Bfa In Dance Program Presents "Senior Showcase", Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee Apr 2015

Bfa In Dance Program Presents "Senior Showcase", Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

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Seniors in Dominican’s LINES Ballet BFA in Dance program were featured in the “Senior Showcase” at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on April 7. It was the annual celebration of the BFA in Dance Class of 2015, including second-year students from the LINES Ballet Training Program.


Bfa In Dance Program Presents Annual Spring Showcase, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee Apr 2015

Bfa In Dance Program Presents Annual Spring Showcase, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

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When Ivy Patterson came from Massachusetts six years ago to enroll in the LINES Ballet BFA in Dance program at Dominican, she was thrilled with the opportunity to meet and work with LINES Ballet founder and artistic director Alonzo King.


Pianist Kevin Kenner Performs In Guest Concert Series, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee Oct 2014

Pianist Kevin Kenner Performs In Guest Concert Series, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

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Hailed as “one of the finest American pianists to come along in years” by the Chicago Tribune, Kenner has appeared around the world as a soloist with leading orchestras and as a recitalist in major halls. He has won the top prizes in the most prestigious competitions: Tchaikovsky International Competition, Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and the International Chopin Piano Competition, in which he served as a juror in 2010.


Jean-Michel Fonteneau Opens 2014-15 Guest Concert Series, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee Oct 2014

Jean-Michel Fonteneau Opens 2014-15 Guest Concert Series, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

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Fonteneau, professor of Cello at the Conservatory of Music, performied on stage with pianist June Choi Oh, Chair of Dominican’s Department of Music, Dance and Performing Arts. The program, which capped Family Weekend 2014 at Dominican, featured Beethoven's Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 in F Major, Op. 5, No. 1; Grieg's Sonata for Cello and Piano F Minor, Op. 36 and Prokofiev's Sonata for Cello and Piano in C Major, Op. 119.


Bfa In Dance Students Perform At Kennedy Center, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee Jun 2014

Bfa In Dance Students Perform At Kennedy Center, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

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Sponsored by the American College Dance Festival Association, the event showcased dances selected by the adjudicators from each of the regional conferences based on their outstanding artistic excellence and merit, according to its website. The primary objective of the National Festival is to highlight, on a national level, the outstanding quality of choreography and performances being created in campus programs such as Dominican’s BFA in Dance, which has been selected three times to the National Festival.


Bfa In Dance Alumna Earns Fulbright Fellowship To Israel, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee Apr 2014

Bfa In Dance Alumna Earns Fulbright Fellowship To Israel, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

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Thorne is the Founder and Artistic Director of Inside Out Contemporary Ballet (IOCB), a professional dance company in Marin County. IOCB's most recent project, If I Were You, is a long-term international outreach project that enlists the personal experiences and voices of world citizens to illuminate how dance can connect us to our shared humanity


Bfa In Dance Students Perform For "Spring Showcase", Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee Apr 2014

Bfa In Dance Students Perform For "Spring Showcase", Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

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There are now 45 students from 18 states and the District of Columbia enrolled in Dominican's four-year BFA program. They are bussed almost every day from campus, across the Golden Gate Bridge, to the LINES studios in San Francisco then bussed back to campus to attend their college classes.


Bfa In Dance Students Prepare For Senior Showcase, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee Feb 2014

Bfa In Dance Students Prepare For Senior Showcase, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

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The two BFA in Dance students are now preparing for the BFA Senior Showcase at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco on Saturday, April 19, at 2 p.m. followed by the BFA Spring Showcase on Friday, April 25, at 7 p.m. and Saturday, April 26, at 3 p.m. in Angelico Hall


Lines Ballet/Bfa In Dance Students Present Fall Showcase, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee Oct 2013

Lines Ballet/Bfa In Dance Students Present Fall Showcase, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

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With literature as the event’s theme and source of inspiration, guest artist Robert Sher-Macherndl from Lemon Sponge Cake Ballet in Colorado worked with the juniors in Dominican’s BFA in Dance program while Dominican’s seniors worked with guest artist Uri Sands from TU Dance in Minneapolis.