News & Notes: Three win Alex Adam ’07 Award for the arts

Sydney Schiff ’10 will use the award to pursue her study of dance. She will train in Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Anatomy and Kinesiology, choreographic workshops and dance technique training, according to a statement from the Lewis Center. She will train at the White Mountain Summer Dance Festival for three weeks and participate in other programs. Schiff will present her choreography in a thesis show at the Berlind Theatre next fall and as part of a music-dance collaboration this May. She is a history of science concentrator pursuing a certificate in dance.

Talia Nussbaum ’10 will continue a project she began working on last summer in Israel. She interviewed and photographed “Israeli youths about the ways in which mandatory military service has affected their personal development and romantic relationships,” according to the Lewis Center. Nussbaum will travel to Central America and Thailand, which are two of the most popular destinations for the soldiers who have finished their service. Her final project will include large digital prints and interview excerpts. Nussbaum is an art and archaeology concentrator pursuing certificates in neuroscience and Judaic studies.

Dominique Salerno ’10 will continue her career in opera, putting the summer funding she will be awarded toward a rigorous vocal-training program. She will spend the summer studying operatic performance, and she will create an “original one-woman show of operatic arias that trace a woman’s life-story” that she hopes to perform in a senior recital this fall, the statement said. Salerno played the role of Cherubino in last year’s University production of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro.” She is a religion concentrator pursuing a certificate in theater and dance.

This is the second year that students have been selected for the prize.