VITAE
CatherineMarie A. Davalos
1763 Tulare Ave. Richmond, CA. 94805
In Residence at:
Saint Mary's College
1928 Saint Mary's Road
Moraga, CA. 94575
925-631-4824
EDUCATION
M.F.A. Dance Performance/Choreography, 1995, California State University, Long Beach,
Most Outstanding Graduate, College of the Arts.
Thesis Project: From Women's Mouths
Project Report title: From Women's Mouths: a Choreographic Exploration of Mexican Identity.
B.A. Philosophy and Dance, 1985, California State University, Long Beach, With Great Distinction.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Saint Mary's College of California, Full-time Faculty, 1997-present. Director of Dance 1997-2005. Initiated and developed all curriculum for the dance program.
Saint Mary's College Dance Company (SMCDC): an advanced modern dance technique class and choreography workshop. Students work on dance technique through various movement combinations, compose and rehearse student choreography, guest choreography, and Davalos' choreography. The company tours the Bay Area and travels to campuses hosting the American College Dance Festival. They perform on campus for both Campus Ministry (Liturgical Dance) and the Performing Arts Department. Courses included in this area are Dance Production, Dance Company and Apprentice Dance Company. The apprentice company works at a beginning and/or intermediate level.
Dance History: courses include Dance History I: Ballet and Dance History II: Modern and Contemporary Dance. The work is a two semester process involving the development of concert dance from the roots of ballet to the modern world to current practices.
Dance Criticism and Analysis: courses include Dance in Performance and Exploring the Performing Arts, (this course is team-taught). Dance in Performance students' travel to the Bay Area to see several concerts throughout the semester and discuss the work using the tools of criticism and analysis. In Exploring the Arts, the professors choose a topic for discussion, e.g., Romanticism, Modernism, and relate all of the performing arts to the topic.
Dance Appreciation: courses include Perceiving the Performing Arts, SMarts, and various technique classes, e.g., Introduction to Dance, Beginning and Intermediate Modern Dance. Technique classes cover various styles of dance and students attend at least two dance concerts in the Bay Area. Perceiving the Arts is a team-taught course in which students develop an appreciation and a deeper understanding of the performing arts through lecture and by attending Bay Area productions.
Dance Theory: courses in choreography, technique, and performance taught during various January Terms. Students explore the theory behind the art of making dances, discuss the choreographic process in relation to each others' works and those of professional concerts seen as a class. Other topics of theory include Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, dance and video technology. The term culminates in a showing of student choreography.
Collegiate Seminar: courses include Greek Thought; Roman, Early Christian, Medieval Thought; Renaissance 17th and 18th Century Thought, 19th and 20th Century Thought.
These courses explore the Western Canon within a chronological timeframe. The Seminar leader is not expected to be an expert in the material, but to facilitate a discussion of the texts. Essay writing is the other critical component of the course.
California State University, Long Beach, Department of Dance, Part-time Faculty, 1996-97.
Viewing Dance: an introduction to contemporary dance as a theatrical art form. Discussions, concerts, and papers relate to the factors of culture, gender, sexuality, aesthetics, and modernity, and how these intersect the work we view.
Orientation to Dance: a course designed to give the dance major career options in the performing arts.
Beginning Modern Dance: a technique class, open to all students at CSULB. Students work on dance technique through various movement combinations to live musical accompaniment.
Repertory: a course which premiered Teotihuacan: Where Goddesses Play, choreographed for dance majors.
Modern Dance Teacher, Community Dance Project, 1995-97.
Teaching Assistant, Design for Dance: Lighting, M.A. in Dance, with an option in Dance Education, summer session, 1995.
Secondary Teaching:
Orange County High School of the Arts, Classical and Contemporary Dance in Residence at California State University, Long Beach, 1993-94. Modern Dance Teacher, including Modern Dance Technique for high school and university students, Repertory and Performance.
Whitney High School Dance Teacher, Cerritos, CA, 1986-93.
College Preparatory Program. Initiated and developed curriculum, including Modern Dance Technique, Advanced Modern Dance Technique, Beginning Ballet, Choreography, Production and Performance, Dance History, prevention and Care of Dance Injuries. Curriculum designed to enable students to make successful transition from high school to the university. Choreographed Annual Student Concert. Taught five classes with approximately 120 students per semester.
Elementary Teaching:
Palms Elementary School, Dance Teacher, Lakewood, CA, 1995-96.
Initiated program with Principal, Craig Peck, to develop dance program for all students grades K-6. Classes designed to enhance all aspects of the elementary curriculum through movement exploration. Curriculum also includes dance technique, choreography, and performance.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Saint Mary's College of California, Performing Arts Department.
Department Chair, 2005-2009. Responsible for budget, oversee all department functions, governance and planning, responsible for dance curriculum, recruitment, advising majors and minors. Manage $40,000 budget
Director of Dance, responsible for curriculum, recruitment, advising majors and minors. Director, Saint Mary's College Dance Company, 1998-2005. Responsible for budget, publicity, costuming, and direction of lighting design. Manage $9,000 budget.
Coordinator, New Student Out-Reach, Performing Arts Department, 1998-present.
California State University, Long Beach, Department of Dance.
Rental Coordinator, House Manager, Event Manager, Dance Center and Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theater, CSU Long Beach, 1993-97.
Co-Director and Founder, Community Dance Project, sponsored by the Department of Dance and the CSULB Foundation, 1995-97. Managed $10,000 budget.
Dance Concert Production Coordinator. Orange County High School of the Arts, Classical and Contemporary Dance in Residence at California State University, Long Beach, 1996-97. Managed $12,000 budget.
Department of Dance Liaison for CSU Summer Arts. Coordination of schedules for classes and rehearsals in Dance Center, summer 1996.
Scheduling Coordinator, Southwest Regional American College Dance Festival, CSULB, 1995.
Concert Director, California State University Long Beach, "Contemporary Dance Concert," featuring choreography by dance majors, spring 1995. Managed $3,000 budget.
Concert Director, California State University Long Beach, "Informal Dance Concert," featuring choreography by dance majors, spring 1994 and fall 1994.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Saint Mary's College of California
Department Chair, Performing Arts, 2005-present
Collegiate Seminar Board, 2006 (three year term)
Baccalaureate Mass Liturgical Dance 2000-present
Collegiate Seminar Performances, choreographed two different evenings of dance related to seminar text, Sappho, fall 2005 and Dido spring 2006
Kinesiology Department Search Committee, tenure-track in Sports Management, 2004.
Performing Arts Department Search Committees, NightinGaels Director, Gospel Voices of Saint Mary's Director, tenure-track music position 2001-2002, adjunct faculty in theatre, 2004.
School of Extended Education Search Committee for the Director of the LEAP program, 2002.
Women's Studies Advisory Board, 1998-2001. Curriculum, events, governance and planning committee for Women's Studies Conference/Retreat, One Size Does Not Fit All.
Freshman Advisor and Freshman Cohort Advisor, 1999-2000, 2000-2001 & 2003-2004
School of Liberal Arts, Dean Search Committee and Space Assessment Committee, 2000.
John Hopkins Center for Talented Youth's Odyssey Day, Saint Mary's College. Lecture, demonstration, and open rehearsal with the Saint Mary's College Dance Company, 2001.
CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS
Performer, solo: Blue Monkeys, Bill Evans Teachers Intensive Workshop, August 12, 2006, Centrum Center for the Arts, Port Townsend, Washington.
Master Teacher, Southwest Region, American College Dance Festival, California State University San Francisco, January 17-20, 2007, San Francisco, CA
Master Teacher, Southwest Region, American College Dance Festival, California State University Sacramento, March 15-18, 2006, Long Beach, CA
Master Teacher, Southwest Region, American College Dance Festival, California State University Long Beach, April 6-9, 2005, Long Beach, CA
Master Teacher, Southwest Region, American College Dance Festival, Scottsdale Community College, March 13-17, 2004, Scottsdale, AZ.
Performer, solo: Return, Bill Evans Advanced Dancers/Teachers Intensive Workshop, August 16, 2003, Centrum Center for the Arts, Port Townsend, Washington.
Master Teacher, Southwest Region, American College Dance Festival, Modesto Junior College, May 7-10, 2003, Modesto, CA.
Panelist, "The Art of Adjudication," Master Teacher, Southwest Region, American College Dance Festival, Arizona State University, March 13-16, 2002, Tempe, AZ.
Panelist, "How Designers and Choreographers Collaborate," Master Teacher, Performer, "Faculty Concert," Southwest Region, American College Dance Festival, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, March 7-10, 2001, Albuquerque, NM.
Master Teacher, Northwest Region, American College Dance Festival, University of Utah, March 15-18, 2000, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Choreographer and performer, With Jade in Mouth, (performance with discussion), MALCS, "Cultural Night," Summer Institute 2000, UC Davis, Davis, CA.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE / SCHOLARY PURSUITS
Choreographer: Davalos Dance Company, 1994-present.
Vision Series, Finding Equal (quartet), produced by SFDance Repertory, Cowell Theater, San Francisco, CA, December 2007.
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, MALCS Summer Institute and Conference, Borders, Spaces, and Brown-Eyed Girls (30 minute solo version), St. Paul, MN, August 2007.
Works in the Works, Blue Monkeys (solo), Berkeley CA, November 2006.
Raw and Uncut, premiered Blue Monkeys, Footloose Dance Studio, San Francisco, CA, July 2006.
Women on the Way Festival, premiered Dreams Suite, a full evening work with eight dancers, Dance Mission, San Francisco, CA, January 2006.
Women of the World Festival, Bedtime Rituals (duet), Dance Mission, San Francisco, CA, January 2006.
West Wave Dance Festival and Summerfest/Dance, premiered Shatter, Mend, Scatter, Bend (quartet), ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA, July 2005.
Bare Bones 2005, Bedtime Rituals, Sleepless Night (quartet), Western Sky Studio, Berkeley, CA, April 2005.
Dance IS Festival, my soul is very brown, and so is my skin... (quartet), Julia Morgan Center for the Arts, Berkeley, CA, March 2005.
Davalos Dance Company 10th Anniversary Concert Sacral Queens, Latinas, and Dreams, ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA, January 2005.
Women of the World Festival, Aguas Calientes (trio), Dance Mission, San Francisco, CA, January 2005.
Printz Dance Project's performance, Encore 2, premiered Aguas Calientes,
San Rafael, CA, April 2004.
Migrations: Rock, Paper, Song, a shared evening of dances presented by the ODC School and the ODC Theater. Presented two dances: Revised Dido, Clever Queen (7 dancers) and Moon Dance (edited and revised for 5 dancers), ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA, April 2002.
"Pilot 35, Trajectory," a shared evening of choreography presented by the ODC School and the ODC Theater, premiered Moon Dance (with 10 dancers), and facilitator/director for the concert, ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA, June 2001.
Two Dance, co-choreographed with Dana Lawton for the Southwest Region, American College Dance Festival, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, March 2001.
"Pilot 33, Tapestry," a shared evening of choreography presented by the ODC School and the ODC Theater, premiered One Size Fits All, ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA, November 2000.
One Size Does Not Fit All, a new work created for the Women's Studies Conference with the same title, Saint Mary's College, Moraga, CA, October 2000.
Borders, Spaces, and Brown-Eyed Girls, a full evening work presented by the Committee for Lectures, Art, and Music of Saint Mary's College, Le Fevre Theatre, Moraga, CA, October 1998.
"Summerfest/dance '98," an annual festival of the Bay Area's most talented choreographers, premiered The Fainting Room (6 dancers) and performed Return, Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA, July 1998.
"Multicultural Dance Concert," produced by "Off Seventh Street Dancers", premiered Your Cheatin' Heart, and presented Population 345, and With Jade in Mouth, Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theater, CSU Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, April 1997.
"American But Hyphenated," an evening of choreography from the Davalos Dance Company repertory. Premiered Return, Direct Current, Population 345 and presented Persimmon, Legal Alien, and ˇÓrale!, produced by Highways, Santa Monica, CA, October 1996.
"Voices in Motion 5," presented Legal Alien, produced by Samuel Donlavy and Phyllis Douglass, LACE, Hollywood, CA, July 1996
"Davalos Dance Company in concert," premiered Fourth Generation with Borders Spaces and Brown-Eyed Girls, co-sponsored by the Department of Dance, Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theater, CSU Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, April 1996.
Borders, Spaces, and Brown-Eyed Girls, premier, a full evening work produced by Highways, Santa Monica, CA, September 1995.
"Chicks and Salsa '95," Wind-Chill Factor, created for Chicks and Salsa and produced by VIVA, Lesbian and Gay Latino Artists, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA,
November 1995.
"Children's Cultural Festival," performance and workshop, excerpt of From Women's Mouths, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, 1995.
"Mixed Company" an evening of dance featuring the choreography of three CSULB Alumni. Premiered Persimmon, ˇÓrale!, and presented Legal Alien, produced by the Department of Dance and the "Off Seventh Street Dancers," February 1995.
"Fierce Tongues, A Celebration of Latina Art & Artists," presented Persimmon and Legal Alien, produced by Luis Alfaro and Monica Palacios, Highways, Santa Monica, CA, November 1994.
"Durham Blues: Moving to the 21st Century, Student Concert," Doblez performed at the American Dance Festival, Durham, NC, July 1994.