Faculty Experts- Drama/Dance
Name: Gypsy AmesTitle: Costume designer/adjunct associate professor
Department: Drama/dance
Office phone: (719) 389-6721
E-mail: games@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.A. University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Came to CC in: 1984
Courses taught at CC: Stage Costume Design; Rendering for the Theatre
Areas of expertise: Costume design; costume for opera; costume for dance rendering; color theory; fabric modification; history of costume
Major publications:
"Costume for Opera;"
"Color Theory in Design"
Other areas of personal/professional interest: Middle Eastern costume; belly dance; Middle Eastern drumming; costume construction
Any other pertinent information: Teacher; professional designer
Name: Donna Arnink
Title: Professor of drama
Office phone: (719) 389-6637
E-mail: darnink@aol.com
Education: B.S. Edwboro University; M.F.A. Ohio University
Came to CC in: 1990
Courses taught at CC: Scenic Design; Lighting Design; Rendering for the Theater; Stage Make-up; Technical Theater; Director/Designer
Academic or other areas of expertise: Art - have taught right brain "Drawing for Dummies" classes; sculpture and painting classes; creation of murals
Major publications: Creative Theatrical Makeup; several articles on makeup; foam fabrication; carpentry
Other areas of personal/professional interest: Animal rights; arts; architecture; ceramics; acting; construction
Pertinent biographical information: Have designed over 200 theatrical productions; 40 years as a 2D and 3D artist
Name: Peggy Berg (Academic Chair 2009-10)
Title: Professor of dance
Office phone: (719) 389-6471
E-mail: pberg@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.A. Bennington College, 1971/ Dance therapy at Naropa University
Came to CC in: 1980
Courses taught at CC: Modern Dance; Basic Choreography; Yoga; Dance History; "Body Mind and Creativity;" Music and Dance; Dance Improvisation; Languages of Performance
Areas of expertise: Dance therapy, eating disorders, the body/mind connection, dance aesthetics and history, yoga
Major publications: Editor and contributor of "International Dictionary of Modern Dance", Dance critic for several years
Other areas of personal/professional interest: Travel in France (especially by bike)
Name: Thomas Lindblade (On Sabbatical Spring 2010)
Title: Professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6469
E-mail: tlindblade@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.A., University of Wisconsin, 1979; M.A., University of Minnesota, 1982; Ph.D., Stanford University, 1989
Came to CC in: 1982
Courses taught at CC: Literature, Criticism and History
Areas of expertise: Since 1982, he has been an active theatre professional in the San Francisco Bay
Area, directing, musical directing, and conducting over 50 productions for
TheatreWorks, the Magic Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Solo Mio Festival
(Climate Theatre), and California Shakespeare Festival. His most recent
productions were TheatreWorks' Floyd Collins, Smokey Joe's Cafe and Jerry
Christmas (musical director) and You Can't Take It With You (director) and
California Shakespeare Festival's The Tempest (musical director, composer of
original score).
Major publications: Writes extensively on contemporary performance, publishing articles in
Comparative Drama, Theatre Survey, and New Art Examiner on subjects as varied as
John Jesurun, George Coates, Robert Wilson, and David Saunders. He is a
contributor to the anthologies Apocalypse Then and Now (subject: Thornton
Wilder) and The Semiotic Bridge (subject: Robert Wilson), and translated Peter
Szondi?s essay "Ibsen" for Ibsen: Critical Essays. His book Tactical Measures: The Interaction of Drama and Music establishes a cross-artistic critical vocabulary with which to discuss Shakespeare and Wellmer, Brecht and Adorno, Beckett and Schopenhauer, and Wilson and Pavis. Professor Lindblade is a member of the American Society for Aesthetics, the American Society for Theatre Research, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and the International Theatre Institute.
Pertinent biographical information : Serves as an on-site evaluator for the National Endowment for the Humanities and
the National Endowment for the Arts.
Name: Yunyu Wang
Title: Professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6460
E-mail: ywang@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: M.F.A., The University of Illinois
Came to CC in: 1991
Courses taught at CC: Modern Dance; Tai Chi; Ballet; Chinese Meditative Arts; Kinesiology; Choreography; Labanotation; Movement Analysis
Areas of expertise: Research: comparision of dance education in East and West; human movement analysis; minority dance in China and Taiwan; labanotation reconstruction from historical master dance pieces
Other areas of personal/professional interest: Cultural travel to Asia including China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Bali, Indonesia, and Singapore
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