PPCC Dance Department
& the
Still/Moving Project







PPCC Dance Department



The Dance Department & the Still/Moving Project:

From social justice events in our current world including: Black Lives Matter, the US Border crisis, and human trafficking, to the wildfires that have plagued California and Colorado; from COVID social distancing to political division, PPCC's Dance Department created four pieces that have been inspired by current events. Performed by High Altitude Dance Ensemble (HADE), PPCC's student audition based company, these four evocative & moving pieces leave the audience thinking, as they are asked to view in movement what cannot always be expressed in words.


Pikes Peak Community College Dance Department:

​The Dance Department at Pikes Peak Community College is dedicated to creating a well-rounded dance artist who is capable of pursuing a variety of diverse paths. We recognize that every person that enters our program is an individual who has different desires, needs, concerns and goals. The program strives to help each student develop, strengthen and further advance technique in a variety of different dance genres, as well as develop critical thinking skills through creative and scholarly processes. We believe that the understanding of the body and the way it moves is a way of knowledge and wisdom that can teach all people (not just dancers) about society, culture and history. Students will discover how to work within groups and how to express their own individuality. Students may study dance for enrichment, fitness, and/or to complete an AA degree with Designation in Dance.


For more information on the Dance Department click the "Learn More" button below or email: Stephanie.Kobes-Newcomb@ppcc.edu.




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Still/Moving (Spring 2021)



Still/Moving: From Borders to Ballots & the Footprints We Leave. . .



Genre: Dance & Visual Art

Choreographed by: Stephanie Kobes-Newcomb in collaboration with the performers

Performed by: Kaitlyn Bertrand, Jaryion Surney & Chris Walters

Music by: “Displacement” & “Persistence” by Rafael Anton Irisarri; “For Teda” by Olafur Arnalds; “Green Grass of Tunnel” & “K/half Noise” by Mum, Rain & Thunder Sound Effects, Newsweek’s Most Powerful Quotes from ‘Notorious RBG’ Over the Years, “Spiegel im Spiegel” by Arvo Part, edited for this performance by Stephanie Kobes-Newcomb

Print Art by: Noel Dolan

Documentary Photography by: Rachel Riley

Installations & Assemblages by: Rowena & Chris Sabetta & Alison Fetchner



Still/Moving Dance Contributions (Fall 2020)



A/part-To/gether



Genre: Dance

Choreographed by: Stephanie Kobes-Newcomb in collaboration with the performers

Performed by: Rylee Scroggs & Chris Walters

Music by: Eluvium, “Individuation”

Video & Editing by: Stephanie Kobes-Newcomb



Divided



Genre: Dance

Choreographed by: Stephanie Kobes-Newcomb in collaboration with the performers

Performed by: Kaitlyn Bertrand (red) & Chris Walters (blue) Sound-score edited for this performance by: Stephanie Kobes-Newcomb with sound-bites from The New York Times Recorded on Zoom



Receding/Reseeding



Genre: Dance

Choreographed by: Stephanie Kobes-Newcomb in collaboration with the performers

Aerialist: Kaitlyn Bertrand

Performed by: Rylee Scroggs & Chris Walters

Music by: Zoe Keating, “Icefloe”

Sound-score edited for this performance by: Stephanie Kobes-Newcomb

Video & Editing by: Stephanie Kobes-Newcomb



Still/Moving



Genre: Dance

Choreographed by: Stephanie Kobes-Newcomb in collaboration with the performers

Performed by: Kaitlyn Bertrand, Amy Pelton, Rylee Scroggs, Chris Walters

Music by: Ludovico Einaudi, “Experience”

Video & Editing by: Stephanie Kobes-Newcomb



Bios of Dance Performers/Artists:



Stephanie Kobes-Newcomb



Chair of the Dance Department &
Choreographer for High Altitude Dance Ensemble






Stephanie Kobes-Newcomb is a teacher, choreographer, and artist. She is the current Chair of the Dance Department at Pikes Peak Community College in Colorado Springs. She holds her Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Iowa State University, graduating with distinction with a major in Journalism and minors in Dance and Sociology. Stephanie has trained and worked in New York City studying under Paul Taylor, David Parsons, Amy Marshall, Nia Love, and Katiti King to name a few. She was a member of 3rd Law Dance Theatre in Boulder for two years and has also choreographed for Ormao Dance Company in Colorado Springs for multiple performances. Stephanie would like to thank her incredible husband and twin boys for their constant support and love AND to her performers for going on this Still/Moving journey with her.​



Kaitlyn Bertrand



Performer & Member of High Altitude Dance Ensemble 2020






Kaitlyn Bertrand is a twenty-three-year-old Dance major who is excited to begin her career. Kaitlyn will earn her Associate of Arts degree with an emphasis in Dance in May 2021 from Pikes Peak Community College (PPCC) in Colorado Springs. She has been a member of High Altitude Dance Ensemble, PPCC’s student audition-based company for the past three years and has performed in works by Stephanie Kobes-Newcomb, Angie Simmons, Jan Johnson, and Ashley Oswald. While in attendance at PPCC, she has taken classes in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Modern, Dance Composition, and Dance for Camera. Kaitlyn was previously a Musical Theatre major and learned how to act and sing before she began her dance journey. She has continued to practice and hone her skills in acting, performing with the local touring troupe, Red Herring Productions. Kaitlyn has also been doing aerial acrobatics for thirteen years and enjoys the idea of defying gravity. She loves to blend all her crafts in order to speak out about politics, social justice, and her own values. Kaitlyn hopes one day to create work that means more than just entertainment and can truly make a difference.

http://www.im-creator.com/free/kaitlynashlee/online_portfolio



Amy Pelton



Performer & Member of High Altitude Dance Ensemble 2020





Amy Pelton has been a dancer for 17 years. She started dancing at Synergy Dance Academy as a recital dancer and then moved on to be a competition dancer in 2001. She is now in her third semester dancing with High Altitude Dance Ensemble (HADE), PPCC’s audition based company. Amy is currently studying to be a preschool teacher and hopes to bring dance into her classroom. Amy is also aspiring to advance her dance career by training in the way of a dance ninja.




Rylee Scroggs



Performer & Member of High Altitude Dance Ensemble 2020





Rylee Scroggs started dancing at the age of three. Out of the sixteen years dancing, twelve of those years were as a competitive dancer. During her high school career, she attended Arts Immersion and Springs Studios for Academic Excellence to focus solely on dancing as her education. In addition to this, every year she would attend a performing arts camp(s) in Colorado, Nebraska, and California with the Young Americans to further her training. In 2019 Rylee graduated from Springs Studios for Academic Excellence and her competition studio of eight years, Dance Unlimited. During this time, she had trained in styles such as tap, ballet, pointe, jazz, acro, musical theater, hip hop, heels, modern, lyrical, contemporary, and composition. This is Rylee’s third semester at Pikes Peak Community College and with the High Altitude Dance Ensemble. While at PPCC, she has studied in Modern, Ballet, Jazz, Musical Theater, Dance for Camera, Dance History and Feldenkrais. In the future, Rylee hopes to move to New York to study Musical Theater and eventually move to Florida in hopes of becoming a Disney World cast member.



Chris Walters



Performer & Member of High Altitude Dance Ensemble 2020






Chris Walters has been involved in many productions, projects, and communities in Colorado Springs since 2015. Chris began dancing with the audition-based student company, High Altitude Dance Ensemble, at Pikes Peak Community College in August of 2018. She has been an intern at Ormao Dance Company and School in Colorado Springs since January of 2019. Chris has hosted multiple open art shows through Ormao’s school and created marketing materials for student repertory shows, classes, and events. Chris is currently teaching creative movement to varying grade levels at Manitou Springs Elementary School, as well as theatre and dance classes at Belmont Center for Performing Arts in Colorado Springs. She plans to pursue a Bachelor of Arts in Dance at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado after completing her Associate of Arts degree with a Concentration in Dance from Pikes Peak Community College.





Still/Moving 2020


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