VANESSA
M.M.A. NOWITZKY
Performer
/ Creator / Singdancer
innovator of singdancing:
the technique whereby movement affects vocalization to form melodies
Height:
5’4” Weight: 105 lbs
Hair:
dark brown Eyes: dark
brown
singdancer@gmail.com
www.singdancing.com
2001 on- Artistic Director,
choreographer and composer of
The Singdancing Company.
2007 Performed
singdance “The Lone Wild Bird” with Terra Nova Consort member David Rogers on
guitar, for his faculty concert, Southern Oregon University music recital hall,
2006 Performed singdance on trapeze “Emerging
Light,” choreographed by Peg Paver; composed as vocal quartet by V. Nowitzky.
Also in trapeze quartet “Upward” and Icelandic folk song “Hyldu Ísar”. Sun
Standing Still, Winter Solstice Concert, Dancing People Company,
2006 Performed “The Creek” singdance solo
eight evenings in a row to raise awareness about protecting
2006 Performed “The Creek” solo and “Rosary”
quintet with the Singdancing Company. Mondays in July,
22nd annual Ballet in
the Park, produced by Ballet Rogue.
2005 Created
DVD Creekfire using solo “The Creek”
in collaboration with sculptor / videographer Victoria McOmie. Shown at Ashland
Public Library for
2001-04 with
the Singdancing Company, performed singdance quintet “How Why Now” (2001), trio
“Soprano Frogness” (2002), quintet “The Bee in the Garden” (2003), and trio +
violin “Harpys” (2004) It’s About Dance! regional
choreographers’ concert,
2003 with
the Singdancing Company, performed quintet “Whale Song”, Dance Variations, Grants Pass Performing Arts Center, Grants Pass,
OR.
2001 on- Solo
and with the Singdancing Company, showed singdancing compositions and
improvisations in various theaters for productions including Horizon
Institute’s concert in the Angus Bowmer Theater, Suzee Grilley’s Open Stages, Roz Schrodt’s Pillow Concert, Eleven Minutes Max at the Dance Space, Love’s Labors and A Gift from
the Heart.
2000 Produced concert of singdance improvisations with
instrumentalists including Todd Barton, Dennis
Kambury,
Tom Stamper, and singdancer Christine Williams. The Dance Space,
2000 Produced,
conducted and performed in concert Sing
the Body as singer, pianist, contortionist and singdancer. Presented
selections from The Golden Key, a
fairy tale by George MacDonald, adapted as chamber opera with script, lyrics
and music written by Vanessa Nowitzky for harp, string quartet, choir, dancers
and singdancers. California Institute of the Arts,
Displayed
videotape Singdancing Improvisations
in “Art and Biofeedback,” an exhibit for the Biofeedback Society of California,
1998 Composed
and performed music for short film “
1994 Composed
music, wrote script, performed leading role and produced readthrough/
singthrough of original musical Werewolf
Blues with Cygnet Theater at the Ashland New Plays Festival, OR.
1991 Composed
and taught songs for The Magician’s
Nephew, in collaboration with John Mazzei and Thom Little. Directed by
Michael O’Rourke, Actor’s
1990 on Co-created
a cappella duet sometimes known as Ma Cappella, with Aletha Nowitzky; composed,
sang, gave concerts and made tape Immaculate
Conception.
2007 Performed
singing rope act as Ariel’s Shadow in The
Tempest. Director: Libby Appel. Movement director: John Sipes. Composer:
Todd Barton. Singdance snippet: me.
2003-05 Performer in Rogue Opera’s school tour program.
Directed by Bruce Hostetler and David MacKenzie.
2003: Hansel. 2004: The Queen of the Night. 2005: The
Little
Elementary and secondary schools throughout southern
2004 Cousin
Hebe in Rogue Opera mainstage production H.M.S.
Pinafore. Directed by Richard Sheldon.
2002 Portrayed
a leading role in romantic comedy film Love’s
Biggest Idiot by Peter Quince, Miracle Productions, aired at Varsity
Theater,
2001 Danced in Suzee Grilley’s Antibody,
to music by Todd Barton. Daedalus Project,
Shakespeare
Festival,
2000 Performed
Rapunzel in Into the Woods, and
1996 Zaneeta in The Music Man,
directed by Richard Jessup. Rogue Music Theatre,
1995 Third Witch in Macbeth, San Jose Stage Company,
1994 Performed
roles Shirley Talley in Fifth of July,
and singer/ ensemble in The Two Noble
Kinsmen.
Directors:
1990 Performed role of Marylou in A Girl of the Limberlost. Wonderworks made-for-TV movie, PBS.
2007 on Member of Cirque Eloize Talent Bank as
singing trapeze artist
2005 Alden B. Dow Creativity Fellowship, in residence June 13-Aug.
19,
2005-06 Singdancing
class offered through SOU Extended Campus Programs.
2006
Movement and voice coach for The
Jungle Book, directed by Kevin Berg, SOU Theater dept.
2001-04 Singdancing classes offered weekly to
community.
2000-02 Singdancing
classes given to
1998 on Individual singdancing, music and voice
lessons.
1991 on Musical director: Taught songs and coached voice and acting for musical theater productions.
1997-2000 California Institute of the Arts,
B.F.A., Music. Study: music composition, voice, dance
1996-97
1996-2003 Southern
1991-93 Pacific Conservatory of the
Performing Arts,
Graduated the two-year actor training
program.
Modern dance technique and
improvisation (Suzee Grilley, Liz Finnegan, Robin Bryant), Composition (Suzee
Grilley, Jamie Hampton, Sean Curran), Capoeira (Suzee Grilley, Jennifer
Fletcher), Ballet (Suzanne Seiber, Mark Borchelt), Balinese (Nanik Wenten),
North Indian (CalArts), Monkey Kung Fu (Paulie Zink), Aikido (William Davis),
Tai Chi (Nando Raynolds), Yoga (various including Paul Grilley), Trapeze (Peg
Paver)
PRIVATE MUSIC STUDY (teachers)
Voice (Madeline Abel-Kerns,
Ellen McLain, Jacqueline Bobak), Composition and Icelandic Folk Music (Stephen
“Lucky” Mosko), Composition (Michael Jon Fink, Bern Herbolsheimer, Janice
Giteck, Arthur Jarvinen), Harp (Susan Allen), Renaissance song and general
music (Aletha Nowitzky, Robert Lowry)
Juggling- 3-5 balls, 3 clubs
& passing, torches
Music composition (see list
of works on request)
Celtic Harp
Modern dance, trapeze,
capoeira, and yoga
Voice: alto/ soprano for folk,
jazz, modern
and classical, extended
techniques, improvisation,
Icelandic Folk Singing (kvædaskapur)
REFERENCES
Suzee Grilley, modern dance
teacher, former performer with Alwin Nikolais
Peg Paver, co-artistic director
of Dancing People Company
Todd Barton, resident composer
of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, director of music composition at Southern Oregon University
Diane Gaumond Hyrst, artistic
director of Ballet Rogue,
Zhang Hui, Beijing Opera performer
and acrobat,
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