Thursday, October 18 at 7:00 p.m, Palace Theater, Hamilton
In Danced Translations of Hamilton, a multimedia dance performance, Visiting Assistant Professor Amanda Lee investigates the meaning and responsibility of community through the experiences of 3 generations of Hamilton women. While Hamilton, NY is shaped by its unique geographical location, many of the community’s concerns are universal. Professor Lee staged a prototype of this show at the international Festival Off d’Avignon in July 2018.
https://hamiltontheaterdocuments.wordpress.com/portfolio/danced-translations-of-hamilton/
http://www.avignonleoff.com/programme/2018/lee-amanda-mes18/
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Amanda Lee is Visiting Assistant Professor of French and Women’s Studies at Colgate University. In 2018, she choreographed and performed in the international Festival Off d’Avignon in France, and earned her Certification from the American Ballet Theatre in the National Training Curriculum, Levels I-III.
While at Colgate she staged a dramatic reading of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé, featuring a reconstruction of the “Dance of the Seven Veils.” Previously, she has performed in works by Leverage Dance Theatre under the direction of Dianna Barrios, Common Thread Contemporary Dance under the direction of Jennifer Medina, the Slaughter Project under the direction of Cecil Slaughter, and Missouri Ballet Theatre under the direction of Adam Sage. Ever expanding her movement horizons, she also performed with experimental performance artist Thomas Brady and aerial dance choreographer Monica Newsam at SATORI in St. Louis, Missouri. She trained in ballet and modern dance at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Washington University in St. Louis, as well as the Center of Creative Arts (COCA), attending summer intensives at the Martha Graham School and the Big Muddy Dance Company. Her article “The Romantic Ballet and the Nineteenth-Century Poetic Imagination,” out in Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts, vol. 39.1, won the 2017 Center for European Studies First Article Prize.