Arts in Education

Artist in Residence Artists Roster: Dance

• Sue Anderson
• Patrick Kasper
• Jeanne O'Neil
• Bonnie Torrance

Sue Anderson

On the Artist-in-Residence Artists Roster since 1985, Sue has a Bachelor's of Art degree in dance and physical education from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and a Master's degree in curriculum and instruction from Moorhead State College. Sue is currently an Education Assistant Professor at Jamestown College, where she teaches creative arts in the classroom, middle school foundations, and cognitive theory. She has presented for organizations and conventions throughout North Dakota. Her residency objective is to engage students in the thrill and importance of arts experiences that enrich the curriculum stated in the North Dakota Arts Standards.

Sue Anderson
Jamestown, North Dakota
(701) 252-8134
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Patrick Kasper

Positive Motion - Dance/Theater workshop
In the Positive Motion Dance/Theater workshop Patrick shares his energetic personality to motivate and educate his students by combining elements of Jazz, Tap, Ballet, and Hip Hop dance, Percussive Rhythms, Movement for Theater, and Classic Theatrical Choreography. Patrick fuses them together to create a unique experience in order for the participants to attain a new appreciation for dance, theater, and life. Patrick has done hundreds of Positive Motion in-school residences and workshops throughout the world helping teens put fun into fitness and giving them a whole new perspective on what exercise can do for their lives. The classes are always fun, physical, and inspiring for all involved. Students, teachers, and school administrators have praised Positive Motion.

Contact Patrick:
Fargo, ND
(701) 212-5143
Email: patrick.kasper@usa.net
Website: www.positivemotion.net

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Jeanne O'Neil

Jeanne O'Neil has been teaching and performing traditional North American dance for over twenty-five years. In 1995, she began taking her experience into the classroom, sharing reels, simple squares, and circle dances with the children. As part of a residency, Jeanne demonstrates Appalachian clogging, French-Canadian gigue, and Irish step dancing, and helps students to try these different rhythms with their feet. Students will also work together as a group, learning to create the changing geometric formations of North American folk dances.

Jeanne O'Neil
East Grand Forks, Minnesota
(218) 773-3850
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Bonnie Torrance

The focus of the residency will be to help students feel more comfortable in their moving bodies and to build confidence in expressing themselves while moving.  Enhancing the mind, body, spirit connection with fun and interactive warm ups and expressively working through structured improvisations using the elements of space, weight, time, and flow, students will build competencies which cross over into curriculum and daily living.  With the focus on elements and dynamics of movement, kinesthetic learning will build body awareness, motivation, concentration, self expression, and positive interactive skills in the students.

Bonnie Torrance, a native of North Dakota, received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Dance from Texas Woman's University in 1993.  A dancer, choreographer, performer and teacher, with 30 years of experience in her field, she works with a diverse community of people.  Founder of Pinwheel Creative Movement Center in Bismarck and adjunct professor at Bismarck State College, she presently teaches yoga, t'ai chi, and creative movement for children. Her passion is to share the creative process and facilitate freedom of expression through joyful immersion in movement.

Bonnie Torrance
420 Ave B East
Bismarck, ND 58501
Phone: (701) 214-0999

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