The Overlook Dance Studio at Ent Center for the Arts is teeming with graceful bodies on a freezing weekday night.
Professional dancers from Ormao Dance Company mingle with student dancers from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs as they contort, glide, stretch, lip sync, gesture and even sing in preparation for an April show titled “Uncharted.”
Read the The Gazette article here.
Produced by Rosely Conz and Ormao Dance Company
Dusty Loo Bon Vivant Theatre - Ent Center UCCS
April 3-6
Thursday to Saturday at 7:30pm
Saturday at 2pm
Sunday at 4pm
An original evening of dance in the Dusty Loo stage. Directed by Assistant Professor of Dance Rosely Conz, this will be our collaboration with Ormao Dance Company when professional dancers and students will perform side by side in the works of choreographers Chuck Wilt, Janet Johnson, and Rosely Conz.
This event is sponsored by the Kirkpatrick Family Fund, Bee Vradenburg Foundation, Ormao Accelerator's Circle, Purple Mountain Group at Morgan Stanley, and El Pomar Foundation.
University of Colorado Colorado Springs students and VAPA faculty receive free admission. Contact the Ent Center Box Office at 719-255-8181 or tickets@uccs.edu to reserve your complimentary ticket. General admission is $22.75 ($20 + $2.75 ticketing fee).
To purchase tickets visit the Ent Center ticketing page at loom.ly/I-S4H_s
For more information contact Rosely Conz at rconz@uccs.edu.
Our short documentary will be exhibited on April 12th, 2025 (Saturday Matinee session), 1-3pm, as part of the Grand Mesa Short Film Festival in Cedaredge, Colorado at the Grand Mesa Arts & Events Center.
I am honored that “Jongo Abroad: Traditions in Transit” has been accepted by Life in Motion: A Colorado Dance Film Festival and will be exhibited on February 22nd, 2025 at Move! Dance Space & Arts Center.
I am honored to be published by the academic journal, Conceição/Conception, a peer-reviewed publication that is part of the Graduate Program in Performing Arts at the Institute of Arts at UNICAMP. The article discusses the Black Body in Jongo as a living archive - more here.
Join us for the December Community Class as part of the Dance Diversity program at Ormao!
”This month, we're excited to have Rosely Conz guiding us through the energizing and community-building movement of Brazilian Jongo, a form of expression using singing, dancing, and drumming. Over time, Jongo has become a staple of resistance, a way for communities to peacefully gather and support causes they believe in”.
No Experience Necessary
Register through your online portal or go to www.ormaodance.org to learn more!
This week I am working on a new screendance with Merge Dance Company at Texas State University. Thanks to Ana Baer for the invitation! More soon!
Documentary Jongo Abroad was accepted for the Black Lives Rising Live|Virtual dance film festival.
I am so honored to have contributed to this book. Thanks, Karen Schupp and Sherrie Barr for this opportunity! (more about my article the on Academics & Publications link)
Stories We Dance / Stories We Tell - Essays on Dance in Higher Education
Hello, Chicago friends! This is a map of Ethos IV. This Friday and Saturday!
Tickets here!
Friends, I am performing in Chicago on April 19th and 20th, at The Dance Center Columbia College Chicago.
Wonderful work by Ayako Kato, with Asimina Chremos, Carl Gruby, and many other great artists.
Check out a preview here.
More information here.
Tickets here.
Getting ready for our workshop at Bemidji State University this Saturday
Come see me and my colleagues this Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Centennial Campus Theater in Colorado Springs, CO. This piece is a collaboration between Ormao Dance Company and the Pikes Peak State College Dance Department. Tickets here.
Hello, folks - It is my great pleasure to invite you to this Artist Talk with the wonderful Helanius J. Wilkins. Free but registration is required here: link.
The event will happen at the UCCS Ent Center for the Arts on November 16, 6:30 pm, in the Osborne Studio Theater.
Hello friends, I cannot express how happy and grateful I am to share this event with you all. Please, invite friends and students!
Morelia, Michoacán (MiMorelia.com).- La Secretaría de Cultura de Michoacán (Secum) y el Festival Internacional de Mujeres y Danza (Fimudanza), invitan a la mesa de diálogo sobre proceso creativo de videodanza, a realizarse el próximo miércoles 9 de agosto a las 16:00 horas, en el Centro Cultural Universitario (CCU) de la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (UMSNH).
Read more here: Mi Morelia.
What I've been doing for the past few days? Filming, dancing, presenting, teaching, and getting to know incredible artists and people in Morelia, Mexico, during the Festival Internacional de Mujeres y Danza.
Thanks to the Centro Cultural Clavijero, Natalia Reza and the Secretaria de Cultura del Estado de Michoacan, Ana Baer, Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, Rocío Luna Urdaibay, from the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (UMSNH), and all who made ir happen.
#fimudanza
#cuerposentránsitoinstalacióndevideodanza
#SansSouciFestivalofDanceCinema
#UCCS
Morelia, Mich.- A partir del día 5 de agosto y hasta el 25 del mismo mes, se llevará cabo la sexta edición del Festival Internacional de Mujeres y Danza (Fimudanza), en el Centro Cultural Clavijero.
Read more here: link.
A bit about the conference I’ll be attending on the local news (ps: yes, that’s me in the picture):
Morelia, Michoacán (OEM-Infomex).- Natalia Reza, jefa del departamento de danza en la Secretaría de Cultura de Michoacán (Secum), anunció la proximidad del VI Festival Internacional de Mujeres y Danza (FIMUDANZA) Cuerpo en Tránsito, el cual estará en Clavijero prácticamente todo agosto.
Read more here: Link.
While in Brazil for the Summer (well…”winter” here), immersing myself in Afro-Brazilian culture to further my abilities as a professor at UCCS, as well as my research agenda.
Thank you to Comunidade Jongo Dito Ribeiro and capoeira De Valor / Mestre Ferpa.
