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Young Artist Residency Program 2018
Back: Ocoee Chapelle, Sophia Diehl, and Daniel Ramírez;
Front: Bárbara Valencia and Symara Johnson
See also the Young Artist Residents
from 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2019.
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 Ocoee Chapelle is a dancer and choreographer from Sharpsburg, Maryland. He is relatively new to the world of dance, but he has a mind for creating. Currently, he is studying dance at Hagerstown Community College where he has had the opportunity to dance with several different chorographers. He dances primarily modern and loves to push the envelope of what dance can be. |
 Sophia Diehl is working toward a BA in Dance and Interfaith Religion at St. Olaf College. She has also studied dance and choreography at Cornish College of the Arts and at the University of Ghana. Her passion for community-based work has led her to teaching creative dance to children and movement workshops for adults. She is energized by exploring the body politic across cultures.
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 Symara Johnson, a Portland, Oregon native, has immersed herself in choreographic studies globally, including the islands of Trinidad and Tobago, studying Caribbean folk dance and traditional Indian dance. She has a diploma in modern choreography at the renowned Beijing Dance Academy. Symara is now a dance major at SUNY Purchase College with a concentration in composition. |
 Daniel Ramírez Martínez is from Xalapa, México. He has a BFA Major in Stage Dance (University of Colima) and BBA Major in Advertising and Public Relations (University of Veracruz). He is secretary of United Folk Teachers from Veracruz, collaborator of several performing arts festivals in México, designs ad campaigns for dance companies, writes his own blog and his hobby is photography. |
 Bárbara Valencia Bladinieres holds a Bachelor’s degree in Performing Arts. She is a Mexican creator and performer who has worked with international choreographers and has taken intensive workshops in Italy, the USA and Spain. She is the director of Rizoma Laboratorio Escénico, an independent project that aims to show, through bodies, film and writing, that all art is political. |
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Bearnstow’s Young Artist Residency Program is a summer-long intensive of excellent dance and dance instruction. The program includes full participation in all workshop classes (8 week-long workshops, 25 hours weekly), instruction and mentoring by an international staff of professional dancers and choreographers, participation in weekly informal performances, and a presentation of their own work (choreographed in the summer workshops) in a formal concert at the end. As they take each workshop with fellow undergraduate and graduate students, many of whom are already accomplished dancers, the Artist Residents gain invaluable insight into the aesthetic of each instructor. They create dances together out of that experience and gradually evolve into a close-knit company of dancers by the end of the summer. The product of their summer-long creative work culminates in a formally mounted concert in the final week of the season.
In return, the residents assist in food preparation and camp facility maintenance throughout the summer, which gives Bearnstow a cadre of capable assistants who can “put their hand to anything.” They are indeed the staff that keeps the camp running. In addition to these duties, our young artist residents have choreographed their own works, designed programs and promotional material, conducted research, devised exotic recipes and served incredible meals, composed sound scores, created dance videos, and have gone on to perform together in other venues. The artistic calibre of our young artists speaks well not only for the institutions from which they come but also for the Bearnstow image of the renaissance dancer.
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In Rehearsal for Final Concert
C’est la vie
An experimental video by Symara Johnson and Bárbara Valencia Bladinieres
Program for Final Concert, presented September 1, 2018
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