https://payneperformanceprojects.squarespace.com/portraiture daily 1.0 2022-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1583939835843-DXZ7Z3I0NWXZ1II25EQF/image-asset.jpeg Payne Performance Projects - Self Portrait-Selfie in New York City Hello and welcome to my website. Please see the “read me” section to learn more about my professional pursuits. I am a creative human being and I love learning about people, places, movement and the body. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1583939835843-DXZ7Z3I0NWXZ1II25EQF/image-asset.jpeg Payne Performance Projects - Self Portrait-Selfie in New York City Hello and welcome to my website. Please see the “read me” section to learn more about my professional pursuits. I am a creative human being and I love learning about people, places, movement and the body. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1575407932192-LOA5TQF3GD9NSWOMTSKE/HERESiesFG19-Web-1.jpg Payne Performance Projects - HER-E-Sies (2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1575407846046-Q89UB7YMW3SKYCD5RBN7/HERESiesFG19-Web-22+%281%29.jpg Payne Performance Projects - HER-E-Sies (2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1575408367347-WUO6AUF3EUFVFMEGD1T3/HERESiesFG19-Web-18.jpg Payne Performance Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1575408038393-UI2HVD5X2VRC7DKURZEY/KiaOraFG19-Web-24.jpg Payne Performance Projects - Kia Ora (2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1575408298399-2N5VDFRF5P0LVXUNLR5S/KiaOraFG19-Web-6.jpg Payne Performance Projects - Kia Ora (2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1575407707841-9L6LO92MFR112XT1OGPE/KiaOraFG19-Web-16.jpg Payne Performance Projects - Kia Ora (2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1575407972269-GFRGTZW9VBCUKCC81RIQ/KiaOraFG19-Web-21.jpg Payne Performance Projects - Kia Ora (2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1575407545226-678US3MBP9WJ84BL0QA3/KiaOraFG19-Web-1.jpg Payne Performance Projects - Kia Ora (2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545073325502-IR28UV8DMRF6POYRNRWE/wearable+art.payne.kulasa.jpg Payne Performance Projects - SOAR PROJECT 2018 PERFORMANCE OF SOAR PROJECT-INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION BETWEEN VISUAL ARTIST HEATHER HERTEL AND DANCER/CHOREOGRAPHER URSULA PAYNE. FEATURING CREATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM GUEST ARTISTS LINDSAY VIATORI, SAM ELIZONDO, KATIE KULASA, NATALIE GOFORTH, AND OLIVIA NELLIS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545074188817-W5UUASN8RMR1JJXBL247/25.jpg Payne Performance Projects - Sail Cloth Art and Dance Collaboration (2017) Site-Specific performance inside the Bayfront Maritime Museum in Erie. Sailcloth Art and Dance Collaboration project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1548612799109-JCDFAQHSWM3TZVVO6RZZ/13.jpg Payne Performance Projects - Bayfront Maritime Center in Erie 2017 This hour long site specific work was performed in September 2017 at the Tall Ships Erie festival. This series of works expands my artistic practice beyond the theater stage and it provides a symbiotic relationship of art-inspired dance and dance-inspired art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1548613525033-D8JA2S5T9FKZS6EL9K1J/i-2NvhVPt-X2-katie+mood+swings+and+other+bull.jpg Payne Performance Projects - Mood Swings and Other Bull 2017 This dance was created in collaboration with my repertory class to explore contemporary women’s protest movements, representations of women around the world in protest, and n particular the women’s protest march on Washington, DC in 2017. Gestural symbols used to communicate protest ideas were embedded within the movement vocabulary of this dance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545074448686-PJOE2J0EFSAUPYPWGHY8/i-mtJWxV8-X3-mood+swings+and+other+bull.circle.jpg Payne Performance Projects - Mood Swings and Other Bull 2017 This dance was created to explore contemporary women’s protest movements and gestural symbols that communicate protest ideas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545075878195-6HA3GTQ25VVFTPV2IV6M/soar.stage.ben.jpg Payne Performance Projects - Soar Performance Project 2018 This version of SOAR was adapted for the proscenium stage and performed in the Slippery Rock University Faculty and Guest Artist Concert at the BCCC Succop Theater in Butler, PA. Photo Credit: Ben Viatori. October 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545075897547-U0EC64UF5T3C56TCD25D/soar.ursula.tree.jpg Payne Performance Projects - Soar Performance Project 2018 This site-specific performance was presented at the Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska in Lincoln, NE. This is a photo of Ursula Payne taken by Harry Sanchez. October 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545077606113-8F7JCKFA8ALYVQD3LJEU/soar.ursula.reflection.3.jpg Payne Performance Projects - Soar Site-Specific Performance Project This is an image of Ursula Payne in Soar taken by photographer Michael Reinmiller. October 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545077789689-L9NAXE8PRPIAGTCY8B6M/soar.group.treehug..jpg Payne Performance Projects - Soar Site-Specific Performance Project 2018 Group surrounding a tree outside of the Sheldon Museum of Art on the campus of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, NE. Photo Credit: Michael Reinmiller Spring 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545077936045-PPL6GRYLA669R46RJW01/soar.wall.trio.jpg Payne Performance Projects - Soar Site-Specific Performance Project 2018 Trio against the wall of the Sheldon Museum of Art on the campus of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, NE. Photo Credit: Michael Reinmiller October 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545078175099-81MO2OCYYEVPW99T9H2B/soar+ursula.jpg Payne Performance Projects - Soar Performance Project 2018 Adapted for the concert dance stage. This photo features the group with Ursula Payne crossing downstage. Photo Credit: Ben Viatori October 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1546105161954-XSR6IGJX8HJ1I3K22YQV/Rachel.dance.labco.jpg Payne Performance Projects - Under Lock and Key 2008 Under Lock and Key is a 25-minute dance for four commissioned by Labco Dance Company in Pittsburgh, PA. This work examined aspects of women’s relationships including passive abuse that can lead to violence within domestic relationships. At the time I was making this work I had completed a 40 hour domestic training course through the Crisis Shelter of Lawrence County in New Castle. This dance premiered in Pittsburgh, PA at the New Hazlett Theater. The photo features Gwen Hunter Ritchie, and SRU Alumni Rachel Renock and Meredyth Casey. Choreography by Ursula Payne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1546106381701-K4Y2XUHD0Y281XF29D48/dance+alloy-ursula.jpg Payne Performance Projects - Things You Miss 2011 This is a photo of Ursula Payne in rehearsal with members of Dance Alloy for their 35th anniversary celebration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1546106539070-VKHPBBD8GIUYQLJU6U46/IMG_4830.jpg Payne Performance Projects - Things You Miss (2011) choreographed by Ursula Payne This is a photo of Gretchen (Moore) Hurd performing in the piece, Things You Miss, for Dance Alloy’s 35th anniversary celebration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1548963085002-KQQUQLPN11USKMTJSWCC/IMG_4936.JPG Payne Performance Projects - Invisible Dialogues (2005) The solo Invisible Dialogues was made possible through a Pennsylvania Council of the Arts Fellowship Award of $5,000. Original Sound Score composed and performed by Dave Eggar. This dance was inspired by my travel Ethiopia, Egypt and Brazil, in addition to my research into African folkloric traditions, and cultural/gender based dialogues that are passed on from generation to generation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1548963206915-5R31TZ86JGJ1UPI5PXI0/IMG_4934.JPG Payne Performance Projects - Invisible Dialogues (2005) This photo was taken in performance at the Ailey Theater in NYC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545079498949-QRY91AHJDC1W7609GH5Q/photo%27s+from+iphone+5+essence+to+uganda+611.JPG Payne Performance Projects - Lincoln Center Out of Doors Ursula Payne performing for Mills and Payne Dance in NYC. August 1997 Photo Credit: Tom Mills https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545078837021-VMP0DTP4BV7TT2JPCP0T/boys+working+on+a+notation+score+-+Copy.jpg Payne Performance Projects - Teaching in Uganda Students learning Motif Notation at a community college in Kampala, Uganda. Photo Credit: Ursula Payne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1548612649956-XNNCX0IG4AO679K0B1Q2/image-asset.jpeg Payne Performance Projects - Masculine Effect-Video The movement development was informed by my travels to Rio De Janeiro, Salvador da Bahia, and Cochoeira Bahia, Brazil to study Afro-Brazilian dance forms such as Capoeira and Samba. Investigating black women’s spirituality as expressed through the Irmandade de Nossa Senhora da Boa Morte, Sisterhood of Our Lady of the Good Death festival and Candomble worship of Iyas, female spirits of African ancestors. This sisterhood represents African secret female societies and is recognized as the oldest organization for women of African Descent in the Americas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1546014703870-7D85OUKW0Z16TDXB7JZK/image-asset.jpeg Payne Performance Projects - Video Excerpt from the solo For The Love of One This was a twenty minute solo that was performed to live music and choreographed by Temple University Professor Eva Gholson and performed by soloist Professor Ursula Payne. This dance was presented on a shared concert with Philadanco in Philadelphia, PA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1546015168578-S6YDZPHMLHDEGDPF2F38/image-asset.jpeg Payne Performance Projects - DNB (Video) -- Rainbow 'round My Shoulder (1959) by Donald McKayle This is a video of my Master of Fine Arts in Dance project which featured the staging of Donald McKayle’s Rainbow Round My Shoulder from Labanotation Score. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1587519331249-WRGLKUFEPCG4YQBFQENJ/image-asset.jpeg Payne Performance Projects - Kia Ora 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1587519507446-RCK060I7CAUL7NJW89VM/image-asset.jpeg Payne Performance Projects - Moving On 1999 (Mills and Payne Dance) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1587519626864-5YL074SVQB13R63ZCQWO/image-asset.jpeg Payne Performance Projects - Her-E-Sies (2019) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/5c17f27103ce6459610343a4/62bdf9c5e3abe56e2fde328f/1656617413079/ Payne Performance Projects https://payneperformanceprojects.squarespace.com/humannature daily 0.75 2019-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545080186323-4FC7DIK5E3UPT2ZSS0HM/8A.jpg Ursula Payne's travelogue - Egypt I met this family as I was visiting a Muslim mosque. They asked me to take a photo with them. I obliged. November 2004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545080186323-4FC7DIK5E3UPT2ZSS0HM/8A.jpg Ursula Payne's travelogue - Egypt I met this family as I was visiting a Muslim mosque. They asked me to take a photo with them. I obliged. November 2004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545080525672-WYA5FFQVTNGXCI9KZ998/4A.jpg Ursula Payne's travelogue - Egypt My personal guide through the city. She was curious about my experience as a black woman in America who was single and traveling alone. I was curious about her lifestyle, customs and her desire to work as an education guide. We talked about dress codes, dating, and societal expectations for women in the US and Egyptian African Muslim communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545080601381-NSFD9I512SEZ1HWTVWU6/15A.jpg Ursula Payne's travelogue https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545164286206-C52MX45URAYDK1PSBYVS/Illustration+2.ICKL+paper.Payne.studentsmopping..jpg Ursula Payne's travelogue - Teaching in Uganda Ugandan students and I cleaning the space for the dance workshop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545164373588-23U5NHJKWBX6KSRY3ISN/illustration3.ickl.payne.problem+solving..jpg Ursula Payne's travelogue - Teaching in Uganda Ugandan students problem solving with motif notation symbols. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545164477551-4G7R822UP84UX7ZSWJG6/illustration.6.ickle.payne.structured+reading+activity..jpg Ursula Payne's travelogue - Teaching in Uganda Students engaged in a structured Labanotation score reading activity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545164587643-Z3LE9LJMJKZA738CKTR3/illustration.7.ickl.payne.writing+movement+alphabet..jpg Ursula Payne's travelogue - Teaching in Uganda Ugandan student writing out motif notation symbols. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545164984279-XGJ0QV1WSZHXNRAZBIYH/ant+hill+next+to+house.jpg Ursula Payne's travelogue - Landscape of Uganda A house next to an ant hill in Kampala, Uganda. It was the largest ant him I had ever seen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545165121721-JDJELFAIP5ADL1XWQVKO/business+owner.bagaya+-+Copy+%282%29.jpg Ursula Payne's travelogue - Bugaya, Uganda She owned a restaurant in Kampala that specialized in preparing local, healthy, and mostly vegetarian Ugandan food recipes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545165347531-0YQTQTBOLAFIVGSNM2JI/entire+road+from+Stawa+to+cross+road+-+Copy+%282%29.jpg Ursula Payne's travelogue - Kampala, Uganda A long road in the city that the community college was located on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545166032801-M5XRZVDF3QKW6IPZGLPF/on+her+way+to+market+-+Copy+-+Copy.jpg Ursula Payne's travelogue - Landscape of Uganda A Ugandan woman on her way to the morning market. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545166060997-K0079MWEB7WRK7924URP/modern+mud+house+-+Copy.jpg Ursula Payne's travelogue - Landscape of Uganda Modern mud hut architecture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545166267225-3CI8PAPXMSCAN7GFIDY1/baboon+close+up+-+Copy+%282%29.jpg Ursula Payne's travelogue - Wildlife in Uganda Baboon sitting next to the road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545166289884-TBQZJ54KSRA7PCK0YX41/bucks+in+savannah+-+Copy+%282%29.jpg Ursula Payne's travelogue https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545166355720-Y6BKE63X29OLKYFO8AAZ/giraffe+looking+at+me+-+Copy+-+Copy.jpg Ursula Payne's travelogue - Wildlife in Uganda Giraffe was looking at me standing in the road next to the van. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545166370798-LHOZDAQ07WY94UU62TCA/Giraffe+doing+horton.jpg Ursula Payne's travelogue - Wildlife in Uganda Giraffe performing a Horton dance movement-flat back. https://payneperformanceprojects.squarespace.com/blog daily 0.75 2023-05-03 https://payneperformanceprojects.squarespace.com/blog/2018/12/18/grandma-christine monthly 0.5 2018-12-29 https://payneperformanceprojects.squarespace.com/blog/2018/12/29/bodily-presence-and-the-message-of-movement-using-mcluhans-medium-is-the-message-theory-to-understand-the-impact-of-mediatized-environments-on-the-human-body-in-performance monthly 0.5 2019-02-19 https://payneperformanceprojects.squarespace.com/blog/2018/12/29/bodily-presence-and-massage-of-movement-continued monthly 0.5 2019-02-19 https://payneperformanceprojects.squarespace.com/blog/2019/12/4/travel-memories monthly 0.5 2019-12-04 https://payneperformanceprojects.squarespace.com/blog/2019/12/4/body-talk monthly 0.5 2019-12-04 https://payneperformanceprojects.squarespace.com/blog/2020/7/27/my-body-is-a-living-archive monthly 0.5 2020-07-27 https://payneperformanceprojects.squarespace.com/new-cover-page daily 0.75 2018-12-17 https://payneperformanceprojects.squarespace.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545168510638-6WE3W4IY9V8C168F9A77/926016c6916be1a2d08d037b8f846ef7.png Contact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1545168320012-YOM8RLLVBIOV00XHTN37/May+downloads+2017+104.JPG Contact https://payneperformanceprojects.squarespace.com/read-me daily 0.75 2019-02-26 https://payneperformanceprojects.squarespace.com/paynes-conceptual-photography daily 0.75 2019-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1575499032517-N8G1DDP33ONJO5G7A4AO/closeup.white.treetrunk.4.6+%281+of+1%29.jpg Payne's Conceptual Photography Shenango River Series 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1575499090750-PD6OP0ERCQW5S4GZ8Q7U/fast+shutterspeed.color.4.14+%281+of+1%29.jpg Payne's Conceptual Photography Dancer waiting to go onstage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1575499110162-TO55KY6BBFWKKGZGZWWU/trees.ice.black+%281+of+1%29+%281%29.jpg Payne's Conceptual Photography Shenango River Series 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c17f0dc31d4df7582372c33/1575499068893-9S9MOLNB2KDR1K8RZSDG/shallow.depth.of.field.women%27schurchlinedance.group.+%281+of+1%29.jpg Payne's Conceptual Photography Line Dance Practice at St Paul Baptist Church. 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