ALICE SVETIC 262-385-7002
SVETICAF@HOLLINS.EDU
EDUCATION:
June 2021 - August 2022 Hollins University
MFA in Dance, Year Residency Track. Coursework included Ballet technique, Contemporary technique, Improvisation, Somatics, Dance Composition, Dance History, Theory, and Criticism, Dance Studies, Intermedia Arts, and Pedagogy. GPA: 4.0.
Faculty includes: Takiyah Nur Amin, Jeffery Bullock, Rainy Demerson, Amanda DiLodovico, Bill Evans, Eliot Fisher, Alex Ketley, Maurya Kerr, and Melinda Rawlinson.
With Guest Faculty: Key’Aira Lockett and Janice Lancaster
September 2016-May 2020 University of Wisconsin-Madison
BFA in Dance with distinction.
Coursework has included: Ballet, Contemporary, Hip Hop, West African Dance, Asian American Movement, Solo, Group, and Advanced Composition, Improvisation, Laban Movement Analysis, Somatics, Dance History, Dance Production, and Teaching Dance.
Faculty includes: Li Chiao-Ping, Kate Corby, Marlene Skog, Chris Walker, Jin-Wen Yu, Duane Lee Holland Jr., Collette Stewart, and Liz Sexe.
With Guest Artists: Sean Curran, Evan Copeland, Carrie Hanson (The Seldoms), Christian Von Howard, Dyane Harvey-Salaam (Forces of Nature Dance Theater), and Carol Teitelbaum (Merce Cunningham Dance Company).
September 2005-August 2016 Milwaukee Ballet
Full-time student at Milwaukee Ballet School & Academy in the highest level, dancing 17 hours per week of Ballet/Pointe. 1 hour each per week of Pilates, Hip-Hop, and Modern. Attended the six-week Milwaukee Ballet Summer Intensive, Summer 2011-2016.
WORKSHOPS/INTENSIVES:
New dialect winter intensive January 2023
with jesse zarrit, elia mrak, and kayla farrish
THE HAVEN Choreographic mentorship program February-April 2021
with alex ketley and david maurice
Gallim virtual winter intensive January 2021
“dancing with the camera” faculty: andrea miller, ben stamper, Emily terndrup
GALLIM VIRTUAL SUMMER INTENSIVE August 2020 - On scholarship
Faculty: andrea miller, bret easterling, allysen hooks
NEW DIALECT VIRTUAL SUMMER INTENSIVE JULY 2020 - on scholarship
LInk audition festival (virtual) may 2020
Faculty: Loni Landon, ching ching wong, joni mcdonald, courtney mazeika
nod (nuova officina della danza) online workshop june 2020
spenser theberge teaches ballet, improvisation and composition
Gaga/ dancers workshop online may 2020
with billy barry, ian robinson, Michal Sayfan, and Shahar Binyamini
New dialect winter intensive january 2020 - Nashville, TN
with banning bouldin and guest artist rosie herrera dance theater
Sidra Bell’s Module January 2020 - Brooklyn, NY
perry-mansfield performing arts school - college dance intensive august 2019- steamboat springs, co
guest artist alex ketley (the foundry), faculty: dante puleio, chris compton
B12 Festival in Berlin June-July 2019 - on scholarship
workshops with johannes weiland, shamel pitts, anton lachky, leila mcmillan
Gallim Summer Intensive June 2019 - Brooklyn, NY
Gallim Winter Intensive January 2019 - Brooklyn, Ny
San Francisco Conservatory of Dance May-July 2018 on full scholarship - San Francisco, CA
Faculty: summer lee ratigan, alex ketley, alessio silvestrin, christian burns, courtney mazeika, and tristan ching
Vim Vigor Winter Intensive January 2018 - New york city
with shannon gillen and vim vigor company
The Seldoms Summer Intensive August 2017 - chicago, il
Thodos Dance Chicago Summer Intensive July 2017 on full scholarship - chicago, il
Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School - college dance intensive June 2017- steamboat springs, co
guest artist: banning bouldin (new dialect), faculty: chris compton, tammy dyke-compton
PERFORMANCE:
· Midwest rad festival - Kalamazoo, Michigan - march 2023
histories - 12-minute self-choreographed solo researching queer memory, desire, shame, and hope
· Fall dance performance - Hollins university - roanoke, va - november 2022
new lyricism - self-choreographed 7-minute solo
· Traces: embodied ephemera from here to there - eleanor d. wilson museum - roanoke, va - june 2022
MFA thesis performance. 30-minute solo work followed by 10-day multi-media gallery installation
· Spring dance performance - Hollins university - roanoke, va - may 2022
rebuild - janice lancaster - 10 min. quartet
what are you gonna do with that bag of puke? - melinda rawlinson - 14 min. trio, featured artist
· Fall Dance performance - hollins university - roanoke, va - november 2021
broken memories - elizabeth becker - 10 min. solo work
the arena - key’aira lockett - 12 min. sextet, featured artist
· The princes dance - katy pyle of ballez - july 2021 - milwaukee, WI
· FLOE - the seldoms- January 2020 - Wisconsin Union theater, Madison, wi
· RANGE - alex ketley - august 2019 - perry mansfield performing arts school
· WHY NOT SWAN! - Performance Project with Anton Lachky- July 2019- B12 Festival, Berlin, Germany
· Dolce Stil Novo - Li Chiao-Ping Dance - December 2018- madison masonic center, madison, wi
· Consider it not so deeply. - Marlene Skog Dance Company - August and November 2018- Ruth Page Center for the Arts, Chicago
· Departure (or, the end) - Choreography by alex ketley - july 2018 - san francisco conservatory of dance
· pascal Etudes - choreography by alessio silvestrin - july 2018 - san francisco conservatory of dance
· UW-Madison Dance Department Faculty Concerts, February 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020
choreography by guest artists sean curran, the merce cunningham dance company, and forces of nature dance theater
choreography by faculty members jin-wen yu, li chiao-ping, collette stewart, karen mcshane-hellenbrand, kate corby, and liz sexe
· UW-Madison Dance Department student Concerts- 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020
choreography various student peers
CHOREOGRAPHY:
· Fall dance performance - hollins university - roanoke, va - november 2022
change / coil - 10-minute group work set on 10 undergraduate dancers
· Traces: embodied ephemera from here to there - eleanor d. wilson museum - roanoke, va - june 2022
MFA thesis performance. 30-minute solo work followed by 10-day multi-media gallery installation
· spring DANCE PERFORMANCE - Hollins university, roanoke, va - may 2022
tiny birds - 8-minute duet set on dancers devonn mckenna and kelley holt (mfa ‘22). Researched friendship, kinship, and play.
· draftworks: a sharing of reimaginings - Hollins university, roanoke, va - april 2022
histories - 11-minute self-choreographed solo work researching queer memory, desire, shame, and hope.
· FALL DANCE PERFORMANCE - Hollins university, roanoke, va - november 2021
ARRIVAL AT THE GATES - 10-minute solo work researching beginning-ness, introductions, and queer utopia
· DEPARTURE DANCES - may 2021
self produced, directed and performed evening length solo concert - run time 50 minutes
location: backspace gallery at the uw-madison art lofts
originally set to premiere may 2020 as bfa senior project, cancelled due to covid, revived one year later
· Danceworks chicago’s virtual dancechance - 2021
departure dance (today) - 5-minute dance film - february 2021
landing - 8-minute dance film - september 2021
· 2021 midwest rad festival - kalamazoo, mi - march 2021
lullaby - official selection for virtual performance and artist Q&A
· 2020 SHAPE choreography festival - salt contemporary dance company - december 2020
lullaby - first place prize in solo category
· UW-Madison alumni festival - September 2020
“lullaby” - 10-minute, self-choreographed solo - in three acts
music by tim hecker, flavien berger and maria callas
2020 ShAPE choreography festival - first place in solo category
selected to be performed live at the 2021 rad festival in kalamazoo, mi
“Beam / Beast” - 8-minute solo danced by artist tye trondson - in two acts
music by maggie koerner and gazelle twin
· From topic to topography: mapping issues through movement - November 2019
“TINT” - 5-minute solo presented at the chazen museum of art, with live music by kelby kryshak
final performance of carrie hanson’s interdisciplinary arts course
· UW-Madison’s “H’Doubler Student Concert”- April 2019
“Fixed” - 8-minute duet, akiwele burayidi and kaitlin verchimak
original music composed by aaron gochberg
· UW-Madison’s “Kloepper Student Concert”- December 2018
“of double” - 10-minute group composition with six dancers
music by aphex twin, frederic chopin
· UW-Madison “from within”- H’Doubler Student Concert, April 2018-
“In the Lack” - 7 minute collaborative duet with megan schimke
“Afterhours” - collaborative group work with cohort
· UW- Madison “Kloepper Student Concert” December 2017
“Agree Machine” - solo, sound score by alice svetic
“I’m Not Gay, I’m Faking It” - with kaitlin verchimak
TEACHING / FACILITATION:
· hollins university - july 2023 - guest teaching artist for Mfa summer program. taught 2-day workshop titled “queer ballet practices” - 2, 1.5-hour ballet classes centering how diverse bodies converse with, queer, and contemporize the classical ballet canon.
· Midwest rad fest - march 2023 - invited to teach “queer ballet practices” workshop at national festival to 25 advanced dancers
· hollins university - spring 2023 - adjunct faculty in dance. taught 4-credit course movement studio 2: contemporary dance. intermediate contemporary dance course for dance majors and non-majors.
· hollins university - fall 2022 - adjunct faculty in dance. taught 4-credit course movement studio 1: Ballet . mainly for non-dance majors.
· hollins university - july 2022 - guest teaching artist for Mfa summer program. taught 2-day workshop titled “queer ballet practices” - 2, 1.5-hour ballet classes centering how diverse bodies converse with, queer, and contemporize the classical ballet canon.
· UW-Madison- November 2021 - Guest artist in dance 311: Contemporary dance technique course, hired by jin-wen yu
· Danceworks chicago’s digital dancechance - august 2021
guest moderator for community zoom event
· dance with al - december 2020 - present - free and donation based community class series on zoom
open class for a diverse community of movers to gather and research movement, emotionality, and performance in a non-competitive space
· UW-Madison- Spring 2021 - teaching assistant for professor jin wen yu’s 300-level contemporary dance course
· UW-Madison- fall 2020- classroom and choreographic assistant for karen mcshane hellenbrand - first year workshop course
· UW-Madison- Fall 2019 - Grader for Natalie Zervou’s course Dance 168: Dancing Gender
· Performing Ourselves- Madison, WI, 2018- 2020. Dance Instructor for youth elementary through high school ages 5-17
· UW-Madison- Fall 2018- Teaching Assistant for professor Chris Walker -100-level Contemporary dance course
· milwaukee ballet- winter 2018 - substitute teacher for pre-ballet class, ages 4-5
AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS, HONORS:
dane arts - madison, wi
DANG! artist grant May 2021
hollins university
fellowship in dance - awarded january 2021 upon acceptance into mfa program
University of wisconsin-madison :
Graduated with academic distinction may 2020
Dean’s list Fall 2016- Spring 2020
School of Education Scholarship, awarded by the dance department 2019-2020 school year
Li Chiao-Ping Award, awarded by the dance department Summer 2019
Lydia Z Shafer Scholarship , awarded by the dance department 2018-2019 school year
Summer Study Award, awarded by the dance department Summer 2018
Barbara Walz Scholarship, awarded by the dance department 2017-2018 school year
Perry Mansfield Scholarship, awarded by the dance department Summer 2017
WIsconsin Dance council:
wisconsin dance council scholarship, to attend Link audition festival and new dialect summer intensive - summer 2020
Wisconsin dance council scholarship, to attend the san francisco conservatory of dance summer intensive - summer 2018
Shorewood High School- Graduated June 2016
Awarded the Philip W. Gross Scholarship in June 2016 for high potential, interest in academic study, and need.