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Joan Karlen UWSP Student Camera Dance Projects Joan Karlen, Dance Program Coordinator and Professor of Theatre & Dance, specializes in multimedia work for dance. At UWSP she teaches ballet and jazz technique, dance composition, and the Dance Program's Interdisciplinary Seminar. Joan's teaching has been recognized with the student-nominated University Leadership Mentor Award, UWSP's Teaching Excellence Award (twice), and the Who's Who Among American Teachers Award (also twice). In 2003 she received a UW-System Teaching Scholar Award. Joan has presented her video and computer generated dances throughout the United States and in Portugal. She has been a selection jury member for the Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center, NYC, and co-taught a Workshop in Dance Video Editing and was a panel member for the Dance Films Association Forum on Challenges in Designing Dance Video Courses. Her interview on camera dance, media streaming, and blending real time physical art with visual compositions is featured on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Streaming Media site. Collaborative projects include Lines of Resolution (2008) John Little animator; Scars, a multimedia performance work based on cross cultural relationships, composed and directed by Nahla Mattar of Cairo, Egypt.; ZOOM IN, LOOK OUT (Ojo Al Zoom) at the Teatro Presidente Alvear, Buenos Aires, Argentina Video version screened at the Digital Cultures Lab, Nottingham, England. OJO AL ZOOM press links: Ojo al Zoom performance photos,
December 2004 Joan's video collage was premiered at Arizona State University as part of Joan earned dance degrees from The Juilliard School and New York University. She danced professionally in New York and regionally before joining UWSP's Theatre & Dance faculty in 1988. JOURNAL ARTICLES: "Melding Dance and Technology with Exciting Results: A Faculty Profile of Professor Joan Karlen" http://www.uwsa.edu/olit/ttt/karlen.htm "Technology and Dance Bring New Avenues for Artistic Discovery," by Professor Joan Karlen http://www.uwsa.edu/olit/ttt/artstate.htm BOOKS: Using Distance Education Technology: Effective Practices, Contributing Author |
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