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Blue Moves performing ''Breaking the Bones''
"Breaking the Bones: A Plea for Tibet"
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Blue Moves performing ''Breaking the Bones''
"Breaking the Bones: A Plea for Tibet"
with Teachers, Winter Institute
ArtSmart Arts Integration Institute for Teachers
teaching in classroom
ArtSmart Residency, Buena Vista Enhanced Option
Nashville Skyline ''Storm'' cover
Nashville Skyline
 

Amanda Cantrell Roche
Dance - Modern
Nashville, TN
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Representation: Amanda Roche
General Services: School Residencies, Workshops/Retreats, Commissioned Work, Other Residencies, Freelance Writing

Additional Artist Web sites:
  www.bluemoves.org
www.nashvilleskyline.org
 
Classroom Experience:
  Grade Level: K-5, 6-8, 9-12, College
Past Experience:

Buena Vista Enhanced Option, Nashville, TN

Croft Middle School, Nashville, TN

Meigs Middle School, Nashville, TN

University School of Nashville

Eakin Elementary, Nashville, TN


Experience in Public Art:
  Type of art: Community-based

Community art participation:
 
  • "See Me" Dance and spoken word, created for Nashville CARES World AIDS Day, December 1, 2009. For seven weeks, I worked with a mixed group of dancers, with training ranging from minimal to advanced, and movers who were HIV positive, as well as a local poet to co-create a 13 minute dance and spoken word piece profiling AIDS in Uganda. Based on the research and music compiled by Dr. Gregory Barz, Ethnomusicologist, Vandberbilt University.

 

  • "Breaking the Bones:  A Plea for Tibet" modern dance premiered in March of 2008 at the Renaissance Center in Dickson, TN and has been performed elsewhere, including Nashville Peace Coalition's Peace Day Festival in June of 2009, as well as One Human Race 4 Justice's "Know Tibet" benefit in June of 2008, both in Nashville, TN. This dance also includes a narration, and tells the story of Tibetan spirituality, and the oppression they have suffered since the Chinese invasion in 1949, and their committment to non-violence. Narrative alters between excerpts of an interview with a Tibetan exile, and a historical narrative which I wrote and which was performed by F. Lynne Bachleda.

 

  • Blue Moves Modern Dance Company. Over the years I have choreographed dozens of pieces for this company, which I co-founded, and for whom I continue to choreograph, perform and serve as one of several artistic directors.

 

 

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