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Thursday, November 21, 2019

COISO 2019


VIRUS TEAM

Jorge Luis Morejon was invited a second time to be one of the judges in the COISO 2019 Dance Competition at University of Miami. The competition took place on November 21, the day before Thanksgiving Recess. Next to him on this picture are the winners of the competition, the Virus Team, from the Asian Students Club.  The Competition was based this time on feelings. Every team was given a feeling to be developed through their dance. Several element of the dance pieces presented were evaluated; among them were: entrance, exit, audience response, choreography, costume, music, facial expression, use of the space, and creativity. The university is the arts hub of South Florida; just the day before, there were performing on campus the Frost Symphony at the Guzman Center; there was an opera at the Clark Theater; the Miami Motion Dance Team was dancing at the Shalala Student Center, and Kaos Hip Hop Team's Dance event organized an event that included the Miami Hurricanettes Dance Team and the Sensations and the Cheerleaders and Sensations Dance Team.

Monday, November 18, 2019

Faculty Spotlight: Jorge Luis Morejon

On June 7th, Cristy Gonzalez, who manages the blog and social media presence for Undergraduate Admission at University of Miami, contacted Jorge Luis Morejon. She invited him to share with UM's prospective student population his story on education and teaching. Thus, Jorge was interviewed  by Faculty Spotlight via email. He responded a series of questions and send them to Faculty Spotlight from California where he was dancing.  After returning to Miami, he met Cristy and the photographer to get the photos done on July 8th at 10:30 a.m, at UM. The article came out on November 18th, 2019. The link above, shows the interview.