{"id":4268,"date":"2024-07-11T16:20:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T20:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/magazine\/?p=4268"},"modified":"2024-07-11T16:22:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T20:22:36","slug":"college-news-spring-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/magazine\/2024\/college-news-spring-24\/","title":{"rendered":"College News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Visiting Assistant Professor Richard Oaxaca (GRS \u201916, contemporary dance) and Mikayla Heinrich-Wong (CWR \u201923), a master\u2019s student in dance, in the recent CWRU Department of Dance production of Martha Graham\u2019s Cave of the Heart<\/i>. | Photo by Brad Petot<\/p><\/div>\n


\nDancing into History<\/span><\/h2>\n

A famed ballet has unprecedented staging on camp<\/span><\/h3>\n

Last fall, ancient Greece came to the College of Arts and Sciences when the Department of Dance staged an unprecedented production of<\/span> Cave of the Heart<\/span><\/i>, Martha Graham\u2019s retelling of the myth of Medea. It was the first time the 1946 ballet was performed by an ensemble outside the famed Martha Graham Company, underscoring the strengths and reputation of the pioneering department.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Cave <\/span><\/i>was one of the company\u2019s most significant ballets,\u201d said Dance Professor<\/span> Gary Galbraith <\/b>(CIT \u201986; GRS \u201988, dance), who had danced a lead role in the ballet as a principal dancer with the Graham company. The ballet \u201cwas one of Martha\u2019s favorites,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Case Western Reserve University secured permission to stage the work as part of the celebrations leading up to the Graham Company\u2019s centennial in 2026. Galbraith\u2014 who restaged the ballet with alumni and graduate student dancers at the Mather Dance Center\u2014used the original sets, designed by the sculptor Isamu Noguchi.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI said to the dancers, do you realize how much blood, sweat and tears are on these sets?\u201d Galbraith said. \u201cBut they really took on the full weight of all that history.\u201d <\/span>Karen Potter <\/b>(GRS \u201989, dance), a dance professor and department chair, created replicas of the original costumes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The student dancers also consulted with faculty in the college\u2019s Department of Classics to understand the story of Medea, a woman who kills her own children to punish her wayward lover. \u201cMartha [Graham] said the story was about the curse of jealousy,\u201d Galbraith said. She \u201cputs the evil up front and center.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He said campus audiences responded in a big way and wanted to discuss the experience with him\u2014as did the dancers. \u201cMany students are just now starting to talk to me about how much the production has affected how they think about the power of dance,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve told the dancers \u2018you\u2019re giving the audience an amazing gift.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Cave of the Heart <\/span>will return to CWRU\u2019s Mather Dance Center in the fall. Check dance.case.edu for details. To view a video about the production, visit <\/span><\/i>bit.ly\/CWRU-CaveBallet2023<\/span><\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2014By Jennie Yabroff<\/p>\n

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art\/sci, etc.<\/span><\/h2>\n

Erin Benay, <\/b>PhD, an associate professor of art history, has received Ohio Humanities Council funding with Zygote Press for their collaboration, Pressing Matters. The initiative is a participatory printmaking, visual literacy and self-advocacy program that involves CWRU students and Cleveland-area residents.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gabriella Celeste, <\/b>JD, an adjunct assistant professor in anthropology and policy director of the Schubert Center for Child Studies on campus, was named to a state task force by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine. The new Ohio Juvenile Justice Working Group will propose ways to transform the state\u2019s juvenile justice system, with a focus on reforming diversion, detention, corrections and reentry programming.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Daniela Calvetti<\/b>, PhD, the James Wood Williamson Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, was recently elected a fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association as a top scientist with outstanding achievements in the area of Bayesian scientific computing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dale Dannefer<\/b>, PhD, the Selah Chamberlain Professor of Sociology, was elected president of the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (SLLS) for a two-year term starting in September. The SLLS is an international organization of researchers conducting large-scale longitudinal studies of factors shaping processes of growing up and aging between and within societies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jacqueline Nanfito,<\/b> PhD, an associate professor of Spanish, recently translated two works: Familiar Settings (Ambiente Familiar), a collection of short stories by Maivo Su\u00e1rez, a Chilean-Argentine writer, and Errant Destinations (Destinos Errantes), a collection of travel essays by Andrea Jeftanovic, a Chilean-Jewish author.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lindsay Turner<\/b>, PhD, an assistant professor in English, has published The Upstate, a collection of poems about southern Appalachia at a time of change and development.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thrity Umrigar<\/b>, PhD, a Distinguished University Professor in English, has published The Museum of Failures, a novel about family secrets and the power of forgiveness.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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