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Governor's
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2005
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Michigan
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People's
Choice Award Nominees
For the first time ever, ArtServe
Michigan is offering you the chance to recognize outstanding artistic
contributions through the Michigan Artist People’s Choice Award, a new accolade
being presented as part of this year’s Governor's Awards for Arts
& Culture.
Now in its 20th year, the Governor's
Awards for Arts & Culture honors outstanding achievement by
individuals and organizations that create, foster and support arts and
culture in Michigan
The
nominees are:
Barbara Selinger,
Dancer, Choreographer, Performer, Teacher, Farmington Hills
James Tatum,
Jazz Pianist, Music Educator, Detroit
Rodney
Whitaker, Jazz Double
Bassist and Music Educator, E. Lansing
The Poll Has Now
Closed.
Thank you for voting!
The
Michigan Artist People's Choice winner and all other winners of the 20th
Annual ArtServe Michigan Governor's Awards for Arts & Culture will be
announced soon.
 Barbara
Selinger's creative visions explore the deepest realm of
her imagination voicing her personal thoughts and feelings relevant to the
human condition. Her original modern dance pieces are inventive and filled
with her physically demanding movement that challenges both dancers and
audiences. Selinger’s choreography stimulates the kinesthetic senses,
expresses emotions through pure physicality, and produces visually
striking images ranging from the humorous to the powerfully dramatic.
Barbara’s creative process continues to explore innovative methods of
choreography through improvisations by both dancers and other
collaborating artists. Her newest multi-media work, which incorporates
projected video images with live dance, has gained enormous audience
appeal. She has created more than sixty major works for Detroit
Dance Collective, a modern dance company she co-founded in 1980,
and has been choreographing and performing since 1973. As well as touring
with Detroit Dance Collective, Barbara also tours her own solo concert,
conducts choreographic residencies in colleges and universities, and is an
adjunct professor, Dance Department, at Wayne State University.
As a recipient of six Creative Artist Grants awarded by the Arts
Foundation of Michigan, ArtServe Michigan and the Michigan Council for the
Arts and Cultural Affairs, Barbara has been able to create, perform, and
produce both her solo works and group pieces for Detroit Dance Collective.
The Collective has presented her works in concerts and performance
demonstrations throughout the State of Michigan and in Detroit as well as
in Chicago and New York City. Her highly acclaimed multi media
choreography was premiered in the 2001 Fringe Festival, Toronto.
She has also studied with many noted professional dancers and
choreographers including Ruth Currier, the Jose Limon Dance Company, Bill
Evans and the Bill Evans Dance Company. In 1987, she was honored as Dance
Teacher of the Year by the Michigan Dance Association, was the 1989
recipient of the prestigious Arts Achievement Award from Wayne State
University and selected as the Farmington Artist in Residence, 1997. (photo
by Tom Kramer)
 James
Tatum is
one of the jazz world's most distinguished stars. He has been involved
with music education and jazz education in the Wayne County Community
College District, Oakland University and in the Detroit Public School
System for the past 32 years. Tatum has performed with Coleman Hawkins
(minor Key of Detroit), Mercer Ellington, and Dr. Billy Taylor. He has
performed on programs with Wynton Marsalis at the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra Hall and at the Charles Wright Museum with special guest, Milt
Jackson (vibraphonist of MJQ).
Recently, Tatum performed for the
National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences 23rd Annual Emmy Awards,
Detroit Chapter, and was honored by Ameritech as a recipient of the
"Living the Dream" Award. Additionally, Tatum was named
"Musician of the Year" by the Michigan State Senate in February
2001 and received a resolution from the U.S. House of Representatives
praising him for his lifelong commitment to promote and establish jazz as
a national treasure in the eyes of all Americans. His most recent
composition, The Great Detroit Renaissance, dedicated to the City of
Detroit, was premiered at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall in March
2001. Currently, Tatum is President and Founder of the James Tatum
Foundation for the Art, Inc.
James Tatum is a professional musician, pianist and composer with a
lifelong involvement in educating the public about Jazz. Thus, in his role
as lecturer and educator he is pleased to present a variety of musical
themes in lecture format including The History of Jazz, African Influences
in Jazz, How to Listen to Jazz and How to Improvise Jazz. These musical
demonstrations, which include education about various instruments and the
human voice in jazz, encourage audience participation and appeal to all
age groups, from pre-school to adult concert attendees and students of
music. (photo courtesy of jamestatum.com)
 Rodney
Whitaker is a Michigan treasure and one of the world’s renowned
bass performers and educators. A Detroit native, he grew up in the city soaking in the
sounds of jazz and classical music and working with the finest musicians
in the city.
Building on his Detroit roots and
enormous talent, Whitaker went on to earn an international reputation as
one of the world’s finest jazz double bass performers.
He completed a seven-year tenure as bassist with Wynton Marsalis’
Sextet and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.
He has toured the world over the last twenty years, collaborating
with legendary performers such as Dianne Reeves, Mulgrew Miller, Diana
Krall, John Lewis, Terence Blanchard, Kathleen Battle, and Roy Hargrove as
well as with leading symphony orchestras.
Now based in East Lansing,
Whitaker continues to remember his Detroit roots, serving many of the
city’s talented students as Director of the Detroit Civic Jazz
Orchestra, Musical Director for Jazz Education at the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra, and Director of the Jazz and Studio Mentorship Program and
summer jazz camp in cooperation with the Arts League of Michigan.
He has also joined Michigan State University’s faculty as
Director of Jazz Studies and has built a leading jazz degree program and
performing faculty. His
legacy of teaching promises to be distinguished, with former students
currently performing with jazz greats such as Wynton Marsalis, Dianne
Reeves, and Stephon Harris. (photo by Keith Major)
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