sarah-marie belcastro
Dance Curriculum Vita, summer 2021
smbelcas(at)toroidalsnark.net
Presentations and Publications:
- Dancing Mathematics and the Mathematics of Dance, with K.
Schaffer, Math Horizons, February 2011, pp. 16--20.
reprinted in The Best Writing on Mathematics 2012, Ed. Mircea Pitici,
Princeton University Press, pages 79--92.
- Laban's Choreutics and Polyhedra, January 2009 Joint Mathematics
Meetings, MAA Session on Performing Mathematics
- Dancing mathematics and the mathematics of dance, with Karl
Schaffer, January 2008 Joint Mathematics Meetings, MAA Special
Presentation
- Lecture/Demonstration for Cathy Nicoli's Merging Minds and
Motion class on the interplay between mathematics and choreography,
April 2006
Choreography:
- 2 min. solo included in Karl Schaffer's modern dance piece The
Daughters of Hypatia: Circles of Mathematical Women, February 2012
- Swirly Suite in Four Parts: glow, joy, dawn, and moonlight:
modern, 9 dancers, 10 min., March 2001
- Perpetuum Mobile: modern ballet duet, 3.5 min, March 2001
- Fire Piece v1.5: modern ballet about intellectual passion, 6
dancers, 3 min., March 2000
- Crystalline Meringue: ballet trio, 3 min., March 1999
Performances:
- performance by video in The Daughters of Hypatia: Circles of
Mathematical Women (K. Schaffer), February 2012
- Ale'Ale' (R.
Keane-Bamsey),Pink (B. Meadows), Swirly Suite
(belcastro), Perpetuum Mobile (belcastro), March 2001
- Superheroes (R. Keane), Sweet Country Music (D. Buhr),
March 2000
- Crystalline Meringue (belcastro), Sexual Personae (S.
Plymesser), March, September 1999
- Spring (G. Sandvik), Quirky Puppetmaster (S. Plymesser),
Web of Relationships (C. Herndon), March, October 1998
Education:
- Advanced Ballet, Five
College Dance Department (Rodger Blum) 2006 - 2021
- Transnational Fusion, Five
College Dance Department (Donna Mejia) Spring 2010
- Silvestre Technique, Five College Dance
Department (Donna Mejia with Rosangela Silvestre) Fall 2007
- Intermediate Modern, Five College Dance
Department (Jim Coleman, Cathy Nicoli) 2005 - 2006
- CCM Prep Adult
Int. Ballet (Jonnie Lynn Jacobs-Percer, Elaine Eckstein) Sept. 2002 - May
2005
- Intermediate Modern, Bowdoin College (Lisa Hicks) Spring 2002
- Orchesis Dance
Company, University of Northern Iowa, Sept. 1997 - May 2001
- Choreography Co-Chair, Sept. 1999 - May 2000
- Beginning Swing Dance (Kathleen Kerr), Spring 1999
- Beginning/Intermediate Ballroom Dance (Kathleen Kerr), Fall 1998
- Beginning Tap (Georgia Sandvik), Fall 1997
- University of Michigan, M.A. 1993; Ph.D in Mathematics, May 1997
- Advanced Ballet (Judy
Rice), Jan. 1991 - April 1997
- Beginning Tap (Community Rec&Ed), Summer 1996
- Ballet (Ruth
Leney-Midkiff), Summer 1995
- Intermediate Ballet (Gay
Delanghe, deceased), Fall 1991
- Haverford College, B. S. 1991; Majors in Mathematics and Astronomy
(1987-1991)
- Advanced Ballet (Cherie Noble, Lisa Collins, Linda
Caruso-Haviland)
- Intermediate Modern (Linda Caruso-Haviland)
- Beginning Jazz Dance (Henry Roy), Intermediate Jazz Dance (Beth
Hirschhaut-Iguchi)
- African Dance (Jeannine Lee)
- Academy of Ballet/Dubuque City Youth Ballet
(Tatiana Bechenova, Marina O'Rourke), 1976 - 1987
Master Classes:
- Richard Chen See (Taylor technique), April 2016
- Taylor 2, April 2015
- OhioDance Festival, 2 classes (Diane
Germaine, Nusha Martynuk) October 2002
- Taylor
School, 1 class (Andy LeBeau, retired from PTDC in 2005), June 2001
- Brendan McCall, May 2001
- Hank Adams, February 2001
- Royal Winnipeg Ballet, October 2000
- Paul Taylor Dance Company (with
Patrick Corbin, now leading CorbinDances), October 2000
- Lindy Hop Workshop (Lance Benishek, Judy Olson), February 1999
- National Ballet of Canada, 2 classes
(Level 3 and Level 4 adult), July 1998
- Pushkin Dance Company, February 1998
- Nai Ni Chen Dance Company,
February 1998
- Taylor
2, June 1997
- Janis Brenner and Ching Gonzalez of Meredith Monk Ensemble, October
1996
Academic
Classes:
Advanced Choreography, Spring 1991
Independent study course with final paper, to develop and produce "Reclaiming
Freedoms," an 8-min. piece for duet, solo and trio, using ballet, modern, and
hip-hop.
Approaches to Dance: Themes and Perspectives, Fall 1990
This course reviews the fields of dance history, criticism, philosophy, and
ethnology.
Supervised Work in Dance, Spring 1990
Independent study course to develop and produce "In Celebration of Wings", a
5-min. modern ballet for 6 dancers.
Dance Composition I, Fall 1988