Beatrice Ayi (2010) currently lectures at the Department of Dance studies, School of Performing Arts, University of Ghana after receiving her master’s degree in Labanotation from Ohio State University. Her extension services, besides lecturing, include serving as a resource person for dance workshops such as those organized by the Ghana Education Service for its Cultural Officers, summer programs organized for foreign students, as well as choreographer and resource person for a number of Junior and Senior High schools competing in District and Regional Cultural Competitions.
Darrah Carr (2010, based in New York City, is currently active in both the Irish and modern dance communities as a choreographer, dancer, educator, and writer. Darrah Carr Dance, performed recently at venues ranging from Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival to the Bank of Ireland Arts Center in Dublin. Current New York City performance highlights include: a guest performance with The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, NBC’s “The Today Show,” Celebrate Brooklyn, The Duke Theater on 42nd Street, and the company’s Tenth Anniversary Season at the Irish Arts Center. Darrah is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Dance Department at Hofstra University.
Caroline Sutton Clark (2010) is a freelance choreographer, teacher, and performer based in Austin, TX with a background in butoh. She is developing her doctoral studies from her work as an interviewer collecting oral histories from dancers, and her series of interviews with dancers from the Erick Hawkins company was recently accepted into the collection of the New York Public Library Dance Division oral history program.
Melanie Dalton (2010) is a lecturer/instructor of dance at North Carolina A&T State University where she teaches Body Works I and II, Dance Appreciation, Dances of Africa and the Caribbean, Blacks in Western Theatrical Dance, Dance Company and Repertory, and Jamaican Dance and Culture. As Assistant Director of the E. Gwynn Dance Company of NCA&T State University, she is responsible for teaching and training the dancers, reconstructing choreographed works, and preparing the Company for performances. Melanie is currently studying dance in Jamaica, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Ghana, Guyana, and Cuba.
Jayne King (2010) presented workshops and papers at the conferences of the National Dance Education Organization, the American College Dance Festival Association, the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science, and the Congress on Research in Dance. In Spring 2008 Jayne received a grant from the American Masterpieces program of the National Endowment for the Arts to direct the cross-border reconstruction of Anna Sokolow’s Frida, an international exchange with the Escuela Nacional de Danza in Mexico City. She received a second American Masterpieces grant to return to Mexico City this July for the reconstruction and subsequent United States premiere of Sokolow’s Mural.
Loretta Livingston (2010) is a Los Angeles-based choreographer who makes dance theater works and site-specific performance events in urban spaces, often with video projections, live music, voice and text. For the past several years, she has been working with dance artists in Seoul, Singapore and Istanbul. Her interest in international collaboration is in meeting at the ground of a defined content area and producing a performance vocabulary shaded by differences in cultural aesthetics, often provoked in pronounced ways by the culturally specific use of time. Loretta is an Associate Professor of Dance at the University of California, Irvine.
Julia Ritter (2010) was appointed Chair of the Department of Dance at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in July 2010. In 2009, she was a guest artist in the Dance Program at the Federal University of Vicosa in Brazil. In 2008, Julia was the recipient of a Fulbright Senior Specialists Award for her creative research in Istanbul. She is presently continuing a cross-cultural collaborative project with Turkish choreographer Ayrin Ersoz, focusing on the reasons why we dance.
Thom Hecht (2008) is currently a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University in affiliation with the Committee on Women, Gender and Sexuality, where he conducts historical research in the Radcliffe College Archives at Harvard's Schlesinger Library. Thom's recent scholarship is published in peer-reviewed journals ("Theatre Arts Journal: Studies in Scenography and Performance" and the "Journal of Performing Arts Leadership in Higher Education"), and he is the co-editor (with Dagmar Fischer) of "Dance, Movement & Spirituality" (published by the German Society of Dance Research).
Christine Knoblauch-O'Neal (2008) is working with the Tudor Trust developing the Tudor curriculum for dance programs in higher education. Her research area is the restaging of the Tudor ballets which act as a form of preserving the Tudor legacy and will inform the next generation of Tudor dancers. She will be presenting a paper on her early research at the CORPS de Ballet International conference at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in June. Christine recently performed her original solo "Me to Them, and Back Again" at the faculty concert Dance CloseUp.
Hari Krishnan (2008) teaches on the faculty of the department of dance at Wesleyan University and is Artistic Director of Toronto-based company inDANCE. Since June 2010, Krishnan has choreographed and performed at the LaMama's Dance Festival in New York City and the Musuem of Fine Art in Dallas, taught and mentored contemporary dance duets in London and Luton, UK, taught a choroegraphic residency in Singapore, curated an international dance symposium at the Royal Ontario Musuem in Canada, bringing in scholars and dance artists from all over the world specializing in solo dance in from South India and beyond.
Tara Munjee (2008) presented at the LIMS Symposium ("Efforts in Cyberspace: Teaching LMA online), BMCA Somatic Pedagogies Conference ("Contacting the Fundamentals: Using Contact Improvisation to Enliven Bartenieff Practice"), and at the NDEO annual conference ("Complex Space: Spatial Utilization in American Contemporary Dance and Culture"). Tara has also explored her interest in space as a research project through choreography, presenting a solo "Place in Space" in the Dance for The Planet Festival in Dallas, April 2010.
Tamara Ashley (2006, Director of Digital Dance, UK), Nina Martin (2006, faculty at Texas Christian University), Valerie Alpert (2006, artistic director of VADCO and faculty at the College of Lake County), and Nona McCaleb (2006, teaching assistant in Dance and Women’s Studies at TWU) presented a collaborative panel at the 2010 World Dance Alliance Global Summit in New York City.
Joan Frosch (2006) is Professor of Dance, affiliate faculty of the Centers for African Studies and Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. She received the EMPAC (RPI) film commission for her latest production "Nora" (2008) to be broadcast on PBS in 2010. www.movementrevolutionafrica.com/nora. Professor Frosch is also director and producer of a feature documentary on African experimental choreographers entitled "Movement (R)evolution Africa: a story of an art form in four acts" broadcast in Germany, Austria, and Italy. www.movementrevolutionafrica.com
Valarie Williams (2006) serves as the Ohio State University Associate Curricular Dean for Arts & Humanities, the Director of The Ohio State University’s downtown Urban Arts Space, and is Professor of Dance. As a Certified Professional Notator and Teacher, Valarie is currently compiling interviews and historical research concerning the emergence of Labanotation in the twentieth century.
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