SIDC Upcoming Performances

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Ellen Bartel MFA, CMA, RSME, Moving For Life™ cancer exercise specialist, and is an award winning independent choreographer and an established dancer and teacher in Austin, Texas. She is the program director of Somatic Movement Education Training at Austin Community College and. has recently served as the Interim Education Coordinator and Assistant Instructor at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in NYC, also as a facilitator of creative and somatic approaches to grief while in NYC and in Austin, and previously has been a peer review dance panelist and Creative Ambassador both for the City of Austin. Over the past couple of decades Ellen has been recognized as a creative force in central Texas receiving accolades such as “Dance Mobilizer,” from the Austin Chronicle, “Fortunate 500” (top 500 people to know in Austin) from Austin American Statesman, a Critic’s Choice Award for “Dancing through the Pain,” and was also in the running for multiple “Best Of” nominations in the Austin Chronicle. 

Ellen has been a dance educator for over three decades teaching in Central Texas and New York and instructing locally at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas State University, Saint Edwards University and Austin Community College. She integrates contemporary dance techniques such as Humphrey-Limón, release technique, and Bartenieff Fundamentals into her beginning and intermediate modern classes. Ellen is also an experienced improvisor, and teaches improvisation as a tool for choreographic inquiry and as a performance practice. Currently she is an adjunct professor at Austin Community College and continues to choreograph original work and teach independently in Austin.    

Richard Hall is a musician, composer, animator, and music educator based in central Texas. His main interest is performing live laptop “art” music in concert settings. Richard has performed at several national and international conferences and festivals including those sponsored by the College Music Society, the National Association of Composers USA, the Association for Technology in Music Instruction, the International Society of Improvising Musicians, the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors, and the Texas Society of Music Theorists. His music has also been featured at conferences by the National Flute Association, the Society of Composers, Inc., the Vox Novus 60x60 Contemporary Music Project, the Electronic Music Midwest Festival and the International Computer Music Association as wells as the Sonic Art Oxford Festival in England and the LOOP Video Art Festival in Spain. His electronic music has been used at art museums in many major US and European cities. He has also created several animated Digital Art works that have been featured in numerous national and international performances.  

Richard has received numerous commissions throughout the country, scored several independent films, written for television series, documentaries and theatrical productions and has pieces published by Dorn Publications and GoFish Music. His 2019 piece Desert Waves, Wilderness of Water for saxophone and electronics and 2014 score for the Spanish film drama "Viva La Reina De La Muerte" both won medals from the Global Music Awards, a peer reviewed, prestigious international music competition. In 2020, he was co-composer for the screen-dance film, "THULE," which won Best Original Score at the Frostbite Film Festival and in 2011, his music score for the theatrical production "Electra," won an award for Excellence in Musical Score from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. His music has also been recorded by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra for ERM Media and the Wild Basin Winds with the Emmy award-winning children's group The Biscuit Brothers. He is also the recipient of several ASCAP Plus Awards grants. His musical collaborations with dancers have been featured in Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, Romania, Scotland, Guatemala, Egypt, South Korea, India, Iran and Berlin, Germany. He has published software and book reviews for the South Central Music Bulletin for which he was also the music graphics editor.  Richard is currently a Senior Lecturer of Music at Texas State University-San Marcos. His teaching duties include Composition, Electronic Composition, Music Technology, and Humanities.  He also directs the Texas State Mysterium for New Music Ensemble. richallmusic.com   

Reagan Wells is a dancer and aspiring teacher in the San Marcos area. Reagan earned her Associate of Fine Arts from Kilgore College and is currently working on obtaining a BFA in Dance with a teacher’s certification from Texas State University. Reagan grew up within the walls of a dance studio and quickly found a home in the art form. In high school she served as captain for her drill team and was an All-State dancer at the 2018 TDEA convention. While at Kilgore College, Reagan had the honor of being a “World Famous Kilgore College Rangerette” on the seventy-ninth line. While on the team, she performed abroad in Italy and England as well as appeared in the 92nd Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade performing choreography by “NAPPYTABS” and two Goodyear Cotton Bowl games. Reagan is studio and intensive trained in tap, jazz, ballet, contemporary, and hip hop. Reagan’s main passion is in teaching and choreographing. Reagan has had the opportunity to choreograph and teach for several studio groups, soloists, and high school drill teams and these works have been performed across the East and South Texas areas. Reagan’s main hope is always build genuine connections through the art and storytelling of dance.