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.Cynthia DuFault.
Associate Professor
(9/1/2022)
02. Teaching
summer guest teaching
&
04. SERVICE
college-related public Service
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PerrY-Mansfield (P-M) PERFORMING ARTS SCHOOL
STEAMBOAT SPRING COLORADO
2016-2020
An Overview of Experience as P-M Summer Dance Faculty, 2016-2020 as well as of the
P-M Professional College Intensive Auditions, Funding, & Experience of SUNY Potsdam Students, 2018-2019
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P-M SUMMER DANCE FACULTY EXPERIENCE
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ABOUT P-M
A nationally recognized legacy of excellence in dance education, the ability to study with some of the nation’s finest dance professionals, and the opportunity to be featured in multiple original dance works – all in the most spectacular and inspiring setting imaginable. With a faculty to student ratio of 8:1, dancers receive unparalleled personal attention and reach incredible levels of achievement. This is dance at Perry-Mansfield!
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2020 SUMMER P-M FACULTY EXPERIENCE
The Summer Programs were canceled due to COVID-19.
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2019 SUMMER P-M FACULTY EXPERIENCE
Pre-Professional Intensive - Taught Media Dance SEE VIDEO
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Young Artist Intensive - Choreographed The Art Of Sunbathing for the Evening of Dance, which was then revised and performed at SUNY Potsdam during the 2019-2020 school year. Taught Media Dance SEE VIDEO
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2018 SUMMER P-M FACULTY EXPERIENCE
Pre-Professional Intensive -Taught Movement for Actors, Improvisation, and Ballet.
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Young Artist Intensive - Taught Modern and Ballet and choreographed for the Evening of Dance, Shinrin-Yoku (a revision from SUNY Potsdam's Spring 2018 Faculty Dance Concert and a topic of discussion in my 2019 TEDx presentation).
SEE VIDEO
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Emerging Artists - Taught Ballet
OVERVIEW OF P-M 2018
2017 SUMMER P-M FACULTY EXPERIENCE
Pre-Professional Intensive - Taught Composition and Ballet. Choreographed two works Folklore and Ragtime in collaboration the Strings Music Festival, bringing to the summers in Steamboat Springs, Colorado innovative programs of distinctive classical and popular contemporary music and a summer festival.
Young Artist Intensive - Taught Modern and Ballet
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Emerging Artists - Taught Ballet
2016 SUMMER P-M FACULTY EXPERIENCE
Pre-Professional Intensive - Taught Composition and Ballet. Choreographed Handel Suites for the Evening of Dance
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Young Artist Intensive - Taught Modern and Ballet. Choreographed O'West: A Tribute to Agnes De Mille's Rodeo (1942) where she found her inspiration at P-M and at the Carpenter Range (near P-M) in the mid-to-late 1930's
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Emerging Artists - Taught Ballet
OVERVIEW OF P-M 2016
P-M COLLEGE INTENSIVE AUDITIONS & FUNDING FOR SUNY POTSDAM STUDENTS
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2019 P-M SUMMER DANCE INTENSIVE & SUNY DANCE STUDENTS
In summary, two of our SUNY dance students were accepted into the Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School and Camp College Professional Intensive in June 2019, Brooklyn Collier ($500 P-M scholarship) and Julia Schwartz ($250 P-M scholarship). Donors from the P-M community and the SUNY Potsdam Department of Theatre and Dance also contributed an additional $1,000 each for tuition and travel for Brooklyn and Julia. They joined twenty other exceptionally talented dancers from across the United States to study in the heart of the Rocky Mountains and with amazingly talented artist. SEE MORE
COLLEGE EVENING OF DANCE
2018 P-M SUMMER DANCE INTENSIVE & SUNY DANCE STUDENTS
Thirty-five of our SUNY dance students attended the Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School and Camp College Professional Intensive audition on April 12th, and three students, Sarah Olsen ($250 scholarship), Caitlyn Lane, and Genevieve Oritz ($250 scholarship) were accepted. They joined twenty-one other exceptionally talented dancers from across the United States to study in the heart of the Rocky Mountains and study with amazing artists. SEE MORE
Genevieve Ortiz (SUNY Potsdam exchange student from Puerto Rico & 2018 P-M scholarship recipient.)
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