A tribute to Iris Garland will be included in the November 21 Internet 2 performance between UCI and NYU. Iris and I worked together on the development of "Dancing in Cyberspace: Creating with the Virtual Body" and I will always appreciate the opportunities for research, creative thought and collaboration that she provided at SFU. Her students were among the first to perform in telematic perfomances between SFU and NYU in 1996. Iris was a great supporter of dance and technology.... Lisa Naugle >To those of you who may have met Iris or knew about some early >developments in dance-tech at Simon Fraser University. > >GARLAND -- Iris Lillian, born June 23, 1935, in Chicago, Illinois, >succumbed to cancer on October 29th at Lions Gate Hospital in North >Vancouver. She will be lovingly remembered and deeply missed by her >husband of 31 years, James Warren Felter. Iris moved to Canada in >1965 to become one of the original faculty members at Simon Fraser >University, where she founded and developed the contemporary dance >program. The Canada Trust Teaching Excellence Award was presented to >her in 1990, and in the following year she received the Simon Fraser >Teacher of the Year Award. Iris introduced dance technology to SFU >in 1995 and developed a course entitled "Dancing in Cyberspace: >Creating with the Virtual Body" for the Centre for On-Line Learning >in the Virtual University. This course was offered over the Internet >and had students in Europe, Australia and North America. Iris was >grateful to have received numerous University and Canada Council for >the Arts grants over the years. She retired as Professor Emeritus in >the School for Contemporary Arts in August of 2000. Outside the >university, she was active in the local and regional dance scenes as >well as in the Dance in Canada Association, where she served as >chairman from 1977-78; she received the Association's Outstanding >Service Award in 1985. In addition to her activities in Canada, Iris >taught courses in contemporary dance for both the Compania Nacional >de Danza and the Frente de Danza Independiente in Quito, Ecuador >(1987). She lectured on the History of Modern Dance in Canada at the >Institut del Teatre y Dansa in Barcelona, Spain (1994), and was >invited to Sydney, Australia, in August 1998, where she taught an >eight-day intensive workshop in Life Forms animation software for >professional choreographers from across Australia under the >sponsorship of the Australia Council. Last year, Iris presented a >four-hour workshop class in Laban Movement Analysis at the >Universidad de Alcalá (Madrid) and completed her research for a >biography of the Spanish Modern dancer, Tórtola Valencia (1882-1955). >She was expanding her knowledge of Spanish, taking Flamenco classes, >and writing when she was overtaken by inoperable cancer earlier this >year. She will be remembered by many for the dance concerts she >directed, for her work as a choreographer, teacher and scholar, and >for her steadfast dedication to the Art of Dance. A Celebration of >Iris' Life will be held at The Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street, in >Vancouver on Sunday, April 27th, 2003. > >As an expression of sympathy in lieu of flowers, a tax-deductible >donation made via cheque in Iris's memory to The Dance Centre, 677 >Davie Street, Vancouver, BC, V6B 2G6, would be greatly appreciated. > > >Henry Daniel >Assistant Professor >School for the Contemporary Arts >Simon Fraser University >Tel: 604 291 3897 >Fax: 604 291 5907 >http://www.sfu.ca/~hdaniel/ > >Attachment converted: Eurydice:GARLAND.doc (WDBN/MSWD) (00023930) -- ===================================== Dr. Lisa Naugle Dance and Technology University of California, Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts, Department of Dance MAB 300 Irvine, California 92697-2775 email: lnaugle@uci.edu tel: (949) 824-3209 fax: (949) 824-4563 http://dance.arts.uci.edu/lnaugle/ --_-1175858214ma-- ---------------------------------------- The Dance-Tech mailing list has recently moved to a new address. To post a message, send email to dance-tech@dancetechnology.org. To unsubscribe, send email to lists@dancetechnology.org, with the words "unsubscribe dance-tech" in the message body. ----------------------------------------
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