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Dance professor, student create award-winning collaboration

Carole Engblom
May 20, 2003

Sherry Saterstrom, assistant professor of dance, and Allison Lorenzen ?04, are the first winners of the Magnus the Good Award, an endowed award intended ?to encourage undergraduate research in student-faculty collaborations, and to stimulate and encourage the intellectual curiosity of St. Olaf students and faculty,? announced Associate Professor of Religion David Booth who is also director for the Center for Integrative Studies. Saterstrom and Lorenzen?s project, "Environment As Impulse: Dance Improvisation in the Rainforest," continues their work in collaborative dance and extends this collaboration to La Suerte Biological Station in Costa Rica. "In bestowing the award," says Booth, "the selection committee acknowledged Saterstrom and Lorenzen?s commitment to building a relationship with La Suerte, their commitment to exploring the environment through art, and their innovative use of improvisation as a way of learning."

Contact Carole at 507-786-3315 or leigh@stolaf.edu.