Dance

Array ( [0] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 94611 [post_author] => 62 [post_date] => 2021-05-26 16:58:10 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-05-26 20:58:10 [post_content] => As Department Chair, Doug brings over 20 years’ experience teaching at High Point University.  He is a long standing member of AEA, the Actors Equity Association.  He teaches multiple levels of acting in the department of theatre and dance, as well as directing and performing in the production season.  Doug has directed over 20 productions during his tenure with the department.  His directing credits include Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson, Rogers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Working by Stephen Schwartz, and Periphery by Ed Simpson, These Shining Lives by Meanie Marnich, The Diary of Anne Frank by Wendy Kesselman, and The Amish Project by Jessica Dickey.  Acting credits include Pa Joad from The Grapes of Wrath, Pozzo from Waiting for Godot and Joe Keller from All My Sons.     Doug also enjoys nurturing and encouraging young aspiring artists and has worked extensively with the Lexington Youth Theatre directing multiple productions including Peter Pan, Beauty and The Beast, Annie, and The Sound of Music.    Doug earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Florida State University/Asolo Conservatory, a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Rockford University, a Master of Divinity from Concordia Seminary, and certification to teach the Meisner Method of Actor Training from Larry Silverberg’s True Acting Institute.  [post_title] => Doug Brown [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => douglas-brown [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2023-08-03 15:56:07 [post_modified_gmt] => 2023-08-03 19:56:07 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://www.highpoint.edu/?post_type=faculty-staff&p=94611 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => faculty-staff [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [1] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 94524 [post_author] => 62 [post_date] => 2021-05-26 13:52:58 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-05-26 17:52:58 [post_content] => [post_title] => Lindsey Howie [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => lindsey-howie [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2023-08-02 12:59:03 [post_modified_gmt] => 2023-08-02 16:59:03 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://www.highpoint.edu/?post_type=faculty-staff&p=94524 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => faculty-staff [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [2] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 98385 [post_author] => 53 [post_date] => 2021-06-03 16:14:11 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-06-03 20:14:11 [post_content] => Emily Crofford (Winston-Salem, NC) was born a mover, became an athlete by design, and a dancer through intuition. Emily is an investigative artist and educator interested in exploring the intimate connection dance offers both performers and viewers. She has taught contemporary and jazz dance techniques, dance appreciation, dance pedagogy, conditioning, yoga, and creative movement to a vast spectrum of students across several states. She teaches at High Point University and Winston Salem State University and has also taught at Elon University, Salem College, and the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She appeared in the official music video for I Don't Wanna Talk (I Just Wanna Dance) by the Glass Animals and was selected as one of Dance Project's Artists in Residence for Fall 2018. Her choreography has been featured at several Cleveland Dance Showcases, American College Dance Association conferences, and Tobacco Roads Dance Productions' In Concert '19. Emily has worked with numerous choreographers, including performing with Christine Bowen Dance, Chris Yon, and was part of the Corciano Festival, 53' Agosto Corcianese, in Corciano, Italy. Emily has been a part of the Wake Forest Dance Festival for the past two years and has also worked with the Greensboro Dance Film Festival. Additionally, her research seamlessly integrates somatic and conditioning practices into dancers' training. Emily earned her MFA in Dance with a concentration in choreography from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her BFA in Dance Education, an education minor from Kent State University. She is also a certified Yoga teacher through the Yoga Alliance and a Certified Elite Trainer through the International Sports Sciences Association, becoming certified in Strength and Conditioning, Personal Training, and Nutrition.  [post_title] => Emily Crofford [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => emily-crofford [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2023-10-05 15:30:06 [post_modified_gmt] => 2023-10-05 19:30:06 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://www.highpoint.edu/?p=98385 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => faculty-staff [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [3] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 98343 [post_author] => 53 [post_date] => 2021-06-03 16:11:12 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-06-03 20:11:12 [post_content] => Christine Bowen Stevens has performed, taught, and choreographed in various classical and contemporary venues throughout the eastern United States, performing professionally for various dance companies for years.  She received her dance training from Duke University, the North Carolina School of the Arts, and holds an MFA in Dance and Choreography from UNC-Greensboro.  She has served as a dance educator in public schools, higher education, and the private sector for over 25 years.  She has taught master classes at University of Vermont, American College Dance Association Conferences, National High School Dance Festivals, and Southeast Committee of the Cecchetti Council of America's Ballet Workshops.  Christine has presented work in the Small Plates Choreography festival, in New York, with Queen City Jazz Company, and the North Carolina Dance Festival. She currently teaches various dance technique and theory classes along with choreographing for various dance performances on campus.  Her movement researched is based off efficiency and clarity of technique; achieved through repetition, pattern training, and releasing of unnecessary tensions. Along with her dance training, Christine is a Pilates instructor and loves to share her passion of finding balance physically and mentally. 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Her choreography has been performed at festivals along the East Coast and she spent a year co-directing and choreographing for Buen Viaje, a multigenerational and multi-ability dance company that performed throughout New Mexico.     Along with choreography, Michele enjoys writing dance reviews and historical and cultural aspects of western contemporary dance. Her local and national concert reviews and other dance writing can be found in Dance Chronicle, World Dance Reviews Online, and The News and Record.     She holds a BA from Franklin & Marshall College and an MFA in Choreography from University of North Carolina Greensboro. She has instructed at several universities in areas such as contemporary and ballet technique, yoga, kinesiology for dancers, contemporary dance history, and writing for dance. Outside of teaching theory and technique courses, advising the university’s chapter of the National Honor’s Society of the Dance Arts, and choreographing for the dance concert within High Point University’s Department of Theater and Dance, Michele continues to create and produce work in North Carolina and teach yoga as a registered yoga teacher in the Triad community.   [post_title] => Michele Trumble [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => michele-trumble [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2023-10-05 16:30:56 [post_modified_gmt] => 2023-10-05 20:30:56 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://www.highpoint.edu/?p=98655 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => faculty-staff [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [5] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 137996 [post_author] => 53 [post_date] => 2021-09-10 10:37:35 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-09-10 14:37:35 [post_content] => Shawn Bowman-Hicks, MFA, is delighted to be part of the High Point University Department of Theatre and Dance community!  Her teaching and choreographic experience has also included appointments at Salem College, Wake Forest University, The Ohio State University and ranges from New Mexico to China.  Her teaching is informed by her performing experience and extensive study of dance techniques and somatic practices, specifically that with Eric Franklin in London, which lead to her certification as a Franklin Method® level II educator. Shawn integrates functional biomechanics through lively, rich explorations of imagery with anatomical study and movement explorations into her teaching approach to any genre of movement practice and study. This summer Shawn also became a research dance instructor for IGROOVE. https://news.wfu.edu/2023/02/23/3m-nih-grant-will-fund-next-steps-of-research-on-dance-brain-health/ The project received a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to help researchers take the next steps in nearly a decade to investigate that dance can promote cognitive health. She has enjoyed working with an older population through teaching and volunteering. Shawn’s faith and family drive her craft where she passionately believes dance is for everyone and encourages others to pursue dance and movement in their lives. 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