Making NOISE Making MOVES

Making NOISE Making Moves
Making NOISE Making MOVES

Listen into conversations on dance with emerging and established choreographers based in Ireland and the United States.

  1. 28/04/2021

    In Conversation with Mariam Ribón

    Mariam Ribón, originally from Spain, moved to Dublin late 1995. In 2002 Mariam graduated with First Class Honors in her Master in Contemporary Dance Performance at UL. As a professional dancer she has worked with New Balance Dance Co., Daghdha Dance Co., MaNDaNCe, Cois Céim, Opera Ireland, Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Shakram Dance Company and Catherine Young Dance and various dance companies in Spain. ​ Mariam has been the Artistic Director of both Dublin Youth Dance Company and The Irish Youth Dance Festival since 2002. Since then she has overseen a ongoing expanding programme of artistic and educational activity, supporting young dancers and students of dance in a wide variety of areas. Under Mariams directorship DYDC has participated in many high profile local, national and international dance events. Through DYDC, Mariam is continuously exploring opportunities for youth dance in Ireland and she has created cultural links with Debla Danza, Spain 2007, 2008 Flash Dance Company, Czech Republic 2009, 2010, Ludus Dance Company, UK 2010, 2011, Evoke Youth Dance Theatre, Germany 2012, Diverse Space Youth Dance Theatre, US 2012, Malmo Youth Dance Company, Sweden 2013, L’Acadenie des Arts, France 2013, Dance Northern Ireland 2013, Rimini Si Danza, Italy 2017, 2018 and Rise Youth Dance Company and Reach Festival, UK 2019. ​ During 2009 Mariam devised, mentored and supervised the |Tran-si-tion| project with DYDC as part of Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council’s ‘Place & Identity’ Programme of Per Cent for Art commissions funded through the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. She has collaborated with film directors, visual artists, photographers and designers in different artistic endeavours with Dublin Youth Dance Company. She teaches extensively all ages and levels and prepares her young dancers to entering 3rd level dance education in Ireland and abroad.

    20 min
  2. 28/04/2021

    In Conversation with Taryn Vander Hoop

    Taryn Vander Hoop, a lifelong student of movement, is a dancer, choreographer, and international yoga and dance teacher known for her long unique sequences and encouraging spirit. She helps her students find joy in movement and freedom and ease in the body and mind. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a B.S. in Dance, English Literature, and Spanish and moved to NYC in hot pursuit of a career on the stage. Knowing her ultimate goal was to teach she made a 2-year pit-stop at NYU Tisch School of the Arts where she received an MFA in Dance Performance and Choreography. At Tisch, Taryn met her partner-in-crime, Sumi Clements, and they co-founded Summation Dance, an all-female modern dance company, now based in NYC and LA. The company has performed at notable venues, such as Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC), Jacob's Pillow, and Z-Space. For more on the company, check out summationdance.org Her own choreography has been shown at BAC, Danspace at St. Mark's Church, Fridman Gallery, Judson Memorial Church, Loyola Marymount University, Peridance, and commissioned by Rutgers University Summer Dance Series and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Additionally, she has been involved in projects with Gerald Casel Dance, Laura Peterson Choreography, and Sarah Holmes Danceworks, as well as performed the works of Andrea Miller/GALLIM, and Sydney Skybetter/skybetter & associates. Most recently, Taryn has been traveling the country with Summation’s latest endeavor, Highway HabitUS, a multi-phase artistic research project which studies how geography shapes ideology, both politically and culturally, and movement. Taryn received her 200-Hour yoga certification from Yoga Effects, and 300-Hour yoga certification from Laughing Lotus Yoga Center, Aerial Yoga Training from Om Factory, and is a Yoga for Cancer (ycC) certified teacher. Her recent accomplishments include leading 200-hour teaching trainings for Om Factory worldwide, teaching at the Korean National Yoga Conference, Union Square Summer Thursdays, and leading two yoga retreats to India with participants from all over the globe. Taryn also started the first Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training program at Rutgers University, which she co-teaches with Blair Ritchie. In addition, Taryn co-founded Lila Flow Yoga with Patricia Pinto where they host retreats and teacher trainings.

    19 min
  3. 28/04/2021

    In Conversation with Kathleen Isaac

    Kathleen Isaac, founding Director of the Arnhold Graduate Dance Education Program at CUNY Hunter College, is a recent recipient of the Dance Teacher Magazine 2016 Dance Teacher Award for Higher Education and the Leadership Award from the National Dance Education Organization, which she received in Washington, DC in October, 2016. Since launching the graduate dance education program in 2012, she has instituted several initiatives including iDanceEd, Mentoring the Muse Scholars and Alumni LEAD. She is the Dance edTPA coordinator for the School of Education and has presented dance education models for the inclusion of digital devises in dance teaching practice through ACERT (Academic Excellence in Research and Technology) and was the recipient of a FITT (Faculty Innovation Teaching with Technology) grant, and most recently a grant awarding her funds to design and train dance field supervisors in support of dance teacher candidates in the edTPA process. She is an active member of the National Dance Education Organization, and the New York State Dance Education Organization where she served as a board member for five years. She was on faculty at the Dance Education Laboratory for over 10 years, authored the world-renowned Revelations Arts-in-Education interdisciplinary curriculum for the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater and for over two decades has been a leader in dance professional development, advocacy, Pre-K-12 teaching practice, integration of dance and technology and dance assessment in New York City, New York State, nationally and internationally. She serves on the editorial board of the Dance Education in Practice journal and the task force for the Teachers College, Columbia University new Doctorate in Dance Education.

    44 min

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