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Sheron Wray (born 1970 in England) is a dancer, teacher, choreographer and theatre director. She studied under Jane Dudley〔( Interview ) in memorial of Jane Dudley at londondance.com〕 at the London Contemporary Dance School, later performing with the London Contemporary Dance Theatre and the Rambert Dance Company, and forming her own company JazzXchange in 1992. She presently is associate professor of dance at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine. As a performer, she is best known for her Jane Dudley's ''Harmonica Breakdown''〔(Article ) about Wray and ''Harmonica Breakdown'' documentary〕 and in her own ''Texterritory'', a piece integrating live text message participation from the audience. ''Texterritory'' has been performed in Trafalgar Square as part of London's 2012 Olympic Bid, the Soho Theatre, New York University and other international venues. She was awarded a NESTA fellowship in 2003. ==Background== Sheron's foundation and background is modern dance and is grounded by her training at the London Contemporary Dance School in Graham technique. Other strong influences are Matt Mattox's approach to jazz, West African dance, and Afro-Cuban dance. She danced with London Contemporary Dance Theatre Rambert Dance Company. Repertoire included works by Mark Morris, Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane, Anthoy Tudor, Paul Taylor, Ohad Naharin, Dan Wagoner and Jane Dudley. Sheron is widely known for her role as the leading performer and legal custodian of Harmonica Breakdown (1938), choreographed by Jane Dudley. As custodian she continues to restage the work globally. In the UK as the artistic director of JazzXchange Music and Dance Company she created over 30 works including collaborations with Wynton Marsalis, Derek Bermel, Gary Crosby and Julian Joseph. For the UK's 2012 Cultural Olympiad Festival she was commissioned to choreograph The Brown Bomber, collaborating with composer Julian Joseph, performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Improvisation is central to the approach to creating in collaboration with jazz music and this is extended into the realm of technology. As the recipient of the coveted three-year NESTA Fellowship (National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts) a synthesis of modern dance, jazz improvisation and West African performance aesthetics was conceptualised in the award-winning Texterritory; an interactive performance platform created in collaboration with Fleeta Siegel. The format fractures the fourth wall and allows audience-agency to co-create the performance through their cell phones. It plays with time and proximity as it extends to enables post event engagement. Recent productions (2011) include Texterritory Congo, Digitally Ever Present and Texterritory USA (2008) with NYU's Experimental Theatre Wing. Sheron's engagement with Africa and the African Diaspora began in 2004 with study and research into African and Afro-Cuban dance exclusively taking place on the continent of Africa and the Caribbean. Ghana, Guinea, Senegambia Zimbabwe, Uganda and Cuba have been places of exchange. Her contemporary African works have been seen on the Ghana Dance Ensemble, Discreet Discoveries – an experimental work engaging, dance, music, text and audience interaction and Rhythm in Time with Danza Libre in Cuba for whom she has been a long time visiting choreographer. Additionally, she has directed African-centred physical theatre plays by activist playwright/performer Mojisola Adebayo. Muhammad Ali and Me and Moj of the Antarctic toured both the UK and Southern Africa, 2008–2010. For a non-traditional audience she performed an improvised solo Bodily Steps to Innovation for Tedx in Southern California. It poses cognitive dissonance as a way for the audience to access their creativity. She is an Assistant Professor of Dance – University of California, Irvine and UCI she directs The Ghana Project: an interdisciplinary research project including five different UCI schools (Humanities, Social Science, Education, Arts and Computer Science) and the University of Ghana, Legon. She received her master's degree from Middlesex University in the UK and currently she is undertaking her Doctoral studies at the University of Surrey, funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council. In February 2013 she presented her theory of Multi-logics in West Africa’s Performance at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sheron Wray」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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