Creative Scholarship
Evening-Length Dance and Aerial Work
2015 | Summer Soirée II
Collaborative Event with Fresno Dance Collective, Fresno Philharmonic, and Fresno Arts Museum
*Top 20 Cultural Arts Events, The Fresno Bee
2015 | Wooden Princes Fairytale
2015 | Acts of Affordable Care
2014 | Summer Soirée I
Collaborative Event with Fresno Dance Collective and Fresno Philharmonic
*Top 20 Cultural Arts Events, The Fresno Bee
*People’s Choice Award- Cultural Arts Event
2014 | Raw Meat & Dignity
*Top 20 Cultural Arts Events, The Fresno Bee
2013 | Soft as Animal
*Top 20 Cultural Arts Events List, The Fresno Bee
Soft as Animal Review The Fresno Beehive
2012 | Eternity Project
San Francisco Fringe Festival: ”They were young, fresh, and talented… the only professional modern dance company in Fresno. So it was fun to see what they came up with outside of the scene that has developed here in the City. They all obviously really loved what they were doing onstage, which was a reminder to me of why people dance in the first place, and why I go see dancers. I think that gut feeling sometimes gets lost here. I was glad I went. This is what is great about the fringe – being totally surprised by something new..” Vox Theatricum
2010 | The Frog Prince, a modern dance adaptation
Dance Works
2017 | River Water
group dance and aerial work set on select students at Fresno City College
2017 | 7 Years
co-choreographer for duet dance work
2017 | Site-Specific Event Performance
staged a group structured improv for Private Summer Arts Fundraising Event
2017 | Chicken of the Sea
group dance work set on select students at Fresno City College
2017 | Fight Song
group dance set on high school theatre students, Fresno County Superintendent of Schools
2016 | Lived
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group dance set on high school theatre students, Fresno County Superintendent of Schools
2014 | Raw Meat & Dignity/ Once Upon Another Time
solo dance performance and choreography
2012 | Narrow Escapes
group dance work set on select students at Fresno City College
2012 | Levels of Intimacy
group dance work set on select students at Fresno City College
2011 | Eternity Project: Dominion|War|Anointing
group dance guest performance
2011 | Fits! Together
duet dance work
2010 | Intermittent Restraint
solo dance work, group dance work
“Querin’s solo dancing was breathtakingly athletic, with crisply executed turns and inventive petite allegro.” – Manuel Mendoza The Dallas Morning News
“Amy Querin’s “Restraint,” danced beautifully by Meghan Cardwell-Wilson, explores the idea of freedom within boundaries. The movements start out controlled but not tense, with the dancer remaining in one area to perform a phrase, and then moving to another area of the stage to perform another. Gradually, the line between the phrases and the transitions blurs as the movements become more carefree. Cardwell-Wilson captivates the audience with her generous use of space and commitment to the movement; it is easy to get caught up in the beauty of her dancing and momentarily forget the idea about which she dances. Whether or not one comprehends the meaning the piece, the work is visually striking.” – Cheryl Callon/ Theatre Jones
“Before intermission, Amy Querin turned the night toward irony with the dynamic solo Restraint. Performed by Meghan Cardwell-Wilson in a black, strapless party dress, it blended modern and classical styles – loose yet disciplined, physically rangy yet fluid.” – Manuel Mendoza/ The Dallas Morning News
2010 | Away is Not a Place
group dance work set on select students at Fresno City College
2010 | Lilac Tree
group dance work
COLLABORATION WITH MUSIC ARTIST NYE MORTON
Lilac Tree is a 60’s flavored remix of adventure and simplicity in love. Based on the old folk song, the dancers are “a little boy and a little girl in an ecstasy of bliss.” They chase each other for capture, spare no exploration, and release each other with reckless abandonment. They are adolescence; They are maturity; They are good; and They are evil.
“there’s such duality in lilac tree. the suggestive and the naive. polished action and raw response. there’s reverence and conflict. age lines are blurred as fluidly as movements change motive.” -Benjamin Hart, Shattered Clay Productions
2010 | Mii Parade
group dance work
2010 | Belonging
group dance work
“A whining helicopter looms over the ground in Amy Querin’s “Belonging.” Six captives in lmy white dress walk, run, leap, or lie in a stupor, their movement leaving a trail of white chalk marks. Two return to the same spot, and fall asleep. Rising, they keep close to each other. At the end, Joseph Orta swings Emily Rodriquez around and around, captur- ing the image of whirling rotator blades as the sound of a plane’s roar fades away.” – Margaret Putnam, Theatre Jones
2008 | Sugar & Spice
group dance work set on select students at Fresno City College
2007 | Properties of Life
solo dance work
2007 | Ebb & Flow
group dance work set on select students at Fresno City College
Theatre Choreography
guest choreographer for select cast members
Play: “Eurydice” Directed by Charles Erven PHOTO
Play: “A Flea in Her Ear” Directed by Debra Erven PHOTO
Original Play: “The Ballad of Chet” by Charles Erven PHOTO
*Top 20 Cultural Arts Events, The Fresno Bee
Play: “Cat in the Hat” Directed by Janine Christl PHOTO
Film Projects
2017 | Amy Querin
solo performance and choreographer for passion project with Alison DuPras
2014 | The Cheryl Noble Disaster
choreographer for collaborative film project with Windsong Productions
2012 | Light Bulb Film Project
film project with high school students funded by Fresno County Superintendent of Schools
2012 | Fences Film Project
film project with middle school students funded by Fresno County Superintendent of Schools
2011 | Draw Close Film
PHOTO
collaborative film project in London
Prison Arts Project
Started by Eloise Smith in 1977 at the California Medical Facility at Vacaville, The Prison Arts Project of the William James Association provides fine arts instruction programs to marginalized people in our society, in particular prisoners and at-risk youth.