The Ohio State University Department of Dance’s 50th Anniversary concert lined up nicely with my senior year of college. Given the circumstances, I expected to have a very different experience with the concert than I did. With my performance track record at Ohio State, I guess I shouldn’t be shocked that I was placed in…
Sometimes I get really exhausted by making a lot of work about war, so I have to take a break with something ridiculous. Enjoy my dance film created for Mitchell Rose’s Dance Film II class entitled @duckiedancer123 Film: Laura DeAngelis Dancer: Jordan McDowell Music: Dean Martin, performed by Rosemary Clooney
It was an honor to be commissioned to document The Ohio State University’s World War II Study Program, through the history department and College of Arts and Sciences. Photos can be seen interspersed on my portfolio. Below is the documentary film I made as a culmination of four total months of learning, researching, traveling and creating.…
Two and a half months have passed since my great Europe excursion. I haven’t written this yet, mostly because I was procrastinating, but partially because I wanted to let the effects of my travels settle into my stationary life. I thought I might let some of the lessons slip, but as I sit here sipping…
We go every few years, and every time we go I feel more and more Italian and more and more like I need to learn Italian, ASAP. After six weeks of traveling from city to city, strange country to strange country, landing in Fiumicino and ascending to our relative’s apartment almost felt like going home.…
In the last four years, despite gradually learning that I am not inherently a performer, I realize how much I have grown as a performer. A few weekends ago, I saw the fruits of this growth when Laura Rodriguez invited me to perform with LRod in Columbus’s Onda Latina Open Mic night at the Wild…
Hey, I wrote a twenty-one page research paper this semester! This doesn’t really relate to dance or photography or film in any way, but I worked way too hard on this for only my professor to read it with scrutiny, so I post it here with a vestige of hope that one of you will…
Two hours to shoot and edit a film, go: Not much else to say about this. Bring a dancer to class was the only instruction. Immediately upon entering we were told to make a dance film. No prep, just do. Of course given the circumstances it isn’t a masterpiece, but here’s what we have! Film:…
30 seconds of coverage – a quick exercise for Mitchell Rose’s Dance Film II class Performed by Jenna Ellingson
Oslo, Norway. We learned about the strategic positions of Norway in our World War II classes. We as children at heart learn about the mystical aura surrounding Norway through fantasy like Disney’s Frozen. But it is entirely another thing to visit the place. Oslo is an incredibly down to earth place. It’s hardly a city,…
Berlin is not Germany, but Berlin is Berlin. This summer, I visited a lot of places, but I took the opportunity to live in Berlin. After five fulfilling, final days with the World War II Study Tour, the rest of my comrades departed and I spent an extra week on my own exploring Berlin. The…
Great perogies, cheap market goods, and a complicated history all categorize Krakow, Poland. My first thought when I entered the city? “Wow, how the hell did this place survive the war”. Although, by the end of the study tour I found myself thinking that about all historic European landmarks. Regardless, Poland took us all by…
Have you ever seen Midnight in Paris? It’s the romantic manifesto to the magic of Paris and its rich artistic history. A key part of Owen Wilson’s ethereal dream of Parisian beauty is that Paris is best in the rain. Well, perhaps for all his brow furrowing, there is some truth to Mr. Wilson’s ramblings.…
On June 6th, 1944, Angelo Paradiso crossed the English Channel at twenty-one years old to fight valiantly for the Allied cause with the 90th infantry on Utah beach. On May 14th, 2018, I crossed the English Channel at twenty-one years old under very different circumstances to remember the sacrifices made by men and women of…
I wrote this paper for Hannah Kosstrin’s Dance History, Theory, and Literature II class. As I travel through Europe studying the Second World War, with the knowledge that tomorrow we will be entering Berlin, I found that the dialogue about the inheritance of this modern German culture is becoming more and more relevant. Pina Bausch and…
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