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The Ohio State University Department of Dance is pleased to announce that Alfonso Cervera, assistant professor of dance, has been selected as a 2026…
Fall 2026: Week 8 October 16, 2026
Department News and Events Emergent Precipice: Autumn Concert - Where memory becomes possibility, new ways of moving take form. Emergent Precipice, the…
The Ohio State University Department of Dance is proud to celebrate Professor Harmony Bench, who has been named the recipient of the 2026 Dance Studies Association (DSA)…
Fall 2026: Week 7 October 12, 2026
Department News and Events Casting Auditions Rep SP27 & School Tour Repertory Performance Dates: April 16-17 2026 on the Theatre, Film, and Media Arts Main Stage…
Fall 2026: Week 5 September 24, 2026
Department News and Events Guest Artist YNOT: Lecture/Demonstration and Showing Fri, September 25, 2026 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Barnett Theatre, Sullivant Hall Join…
Archives and Heartbreaks: Piecing Together the Lost Lives of Baghdadi Jewish Actresses in Early Hindi Cinema
Speaker: Dr. Manjari Mukherjee, President’s…
Fall 2026: Week 4 September 16, 2026
Department News and Events Sizzle Session for Prospective BFA and Minor Students Wed, September 23, 2026 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Zoom Are you ready to ignite your…
From the stage to the page... 🩰📖✨ After a showing of Fabrications at City Center, Professor Daniel Roberts celebrated a signing of "The Artistry of Merce Cunningham: Choreography, Technique,…
Faculty research is fire!
Here is a teaser from Improving Motion Modeling with Dance Expertise for Archiving and Analysis, funded by a 2026 @schmidtsciences Humanities and AI (HAVI) development…
Belonging in Motion How Students Experience Inclusion in Dance in Higher Education Authors Karen Schupp
Arizona State University, United States …
Professors Alfonso Abraham Cervera and Irvin Manuel Gonzalez continue to build national recognition for their collaborative choreographic research with "Las Rosas Que Enter(r)amos…
Professor Zbikowski's company Abby Z and the New Utility premiered "Radioactive Practice" at Domaine d'O – Théâtre Jean-Claude Carrière, as part of the Montpellier Danse festival in France on June…
Ohio State's Department of Dance mourns the loss of Emerita Professor Dr. Sheila Marion, who died on June 22, 2026. Professor Marion served as director of the Dance Notation Bureau Extension for…
Associate Professor Hannah Kosstrin has published her second book, Kinesthetic Peoplehood: Jewish Diasporic Dance Migrations (Oxford University Press, 2026). Kinesthetic Peoplehood…
Season 4 Eposode 1 · A State of Dance
Dancing Diasporas: Tracing Migration Through Movement with Dr. Hannah Kosstrin
You can now listen to the OhioDance Podcasts on …
An anthology conceived and co-edited by Hilary Bergen, Eric Mullis, PhD Dance Student Benjamin Simon, and Sydney Skybetter, "Robot Theaters: Collisions in Performance and Social Robotics" has just…
In the article, Dance Lecturer Joyelle Fobbs Weaver discusses the connections between interoception and balance and shares ways of integrating these concepts with teaching the Pilates method. "I’m…
Charles Anderson, a professor in the Department of Dance and Ohio State's 2026-27 artist laureate, was recently featured in an article by The Columbus…
For the past 15 months I have had the distinct pleasure of being a guest in the Department of Dance in the role of interim chair. During this time, I have learned why the department has long been…
The Program 60 team and the College of Arts and Sciences selected MFA Student Shaela Davis for the 2026 Friend of Program 60 Award. This award, its inaugural year, is being granted to five…
Ohio State's Office of Outreach and Engagement selected Assistant Professor Alfonso Cervera's research project "Transnational Folklórico Exchange: Community-Engaged Knowledge Sharing Between Ohio…
Assistant Professor Kym McDaniel recently received several awards for her films, including a Juror Honorable Mention at the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Best of Theme at the West Virginia…
Balanced Body International published the article "Balance and the Systems That Drive It," by Lecturer Joyelle Weaver on April 25, 2026. The piece explores balance in Pilates training through a…
The Global Arts + Humanities announced MFA Student Shaela Davis and Professor Momar Ndiaye as part of their 2026-27 Society of Fellows Faculty and Graduate Team Fellows awards. …
Under the mentorship of faculty advisors Dr. Hannah Kosstrin and Eddie Taketa, BFA Student Lindsey Beatty presented her research, "FIGS (Feminal InGlorius Surrender) An Embodied Study of Personal…
MFA Student Celia Benvenutti is the recipient of this year’s Graduate Award in Religion, Spirituality, and the Arts from The Ohio State University’s Center for the Study of Religion. The award…
PhD Student Zihao Yuan received an honorable mention for the arts at the Edward F. Hayes Advanced Research Forum on March 6th, 2026 for his oral presentation, "Recentering the Cultural & Gender…
CUNY Dance Initiative announced performances of Assistant Professor Gerson Lanza in "To Dance Is To Be Free."
Dates: 5/14/2026 - 5/15/2026
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70 years ago, this Jewish choreographer predicted our epidemic of loneliness and isolation
‘Rooms,’ which premiered in 1955, was inspired by the Lower East Side tenements of Anna Sokolow’s youth…
The Ohio State University has selected Anderson, professor in the Department of Dance, as its 2026–27 Artist Laureate.
Anderson will begin a one-year appointment on July 1, 2026.
Columbus Dance Theatre commissioned PhD Student Sidra Bell for a new work for their professional ensemble company. In residence from March 30-April 4, 2026, Bell worked with them on a new piece…
BOOST dance festival featured PhD Student and Graduate Fellow Zihao Yuan's newest solo work with other Seattle contemporary dance artists, March 27 - 29, 2026 @ eXit SPACE | NOD Theater.
Congratulations to MFA Dance Candidate jiara sha as LIMINAL (LMNL) selected her dance film, "s o f t e d g e s m a l l d a n c e" for their dance film festival presented by Orange Grove Dance +…
Dr. Valarie Williams and Ambre Emory-Maier served as consultants for the George Balanchine Trust during Paul Boos' staging of the iconic ballet, Serenade, on the Cincinnati Ballet for…
The Department of Dance at The Ohio State University is proud to share that Assistant Professors Alfonso Abraham Cervera and Dr. Irvin Manuel Gonzalez have been invited to present their evening…
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The Dance Preservation Fund was established in 1994 to further the recording of dance, supporting projects dealing with Labanotation or other notation systems, movement analysis,…
Alighting from the Air
Tamara Karsavina, Dancer and Writer
By Emerita Professor Karen Eliot
Published by Oxford University Press
Hardcover
Published: 16 March 2026
240 Pages |…
The Office of Outreach and Engagement selected Assistant Professor Alfonso Cervera for a 2026 Community Engaged Scholar Award for outstanding achievement in producing engaged scholarship and…
BFA in Dance Students Malaika Burke, Anya Huth and Tess Scearbo presented their work at the 31st Annual Richard J. and Martha D. Denman…
The College of Arts and Sciences selected Associate Professor Abby Zbikowski to receive a 2025-2026 ASC Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award, which recognizes outstanding performance in all three…
Quilan “Cue” Arnold (MFA 2016) won Best Short Experimental Film (US) at the Dance Camera West Fest in January 2026 for his film "Lowelyfe Ep. 1 'The Only Way Out Is Through.'" Dance Camera West is a…
Title: Cold War Legacies: American Illiteracy of the Postcolonial Aesthetics of Spectacle in Chinese Dance Dramas
Journal: Dance Research Journal …
Zoey November on Her Inspirations, Collaborations and Her Capstone Project
CityPulse, Your Guide to Columbus
Ohio State Department of Dance MFA Candidates Zoey November and Mary…
How can AI motion models capture the nuance, expertise, and history that dance artists hold in their bodies? Improving Motion Modeling with Dance Expertise for Archiving and Analysis…
The Ohio Arts Council recognized MFA Dance Alumni Alisha Jihn (MFA 2025) and Joshua Manculich (MFA 2017) with Individual Excellence Awards for "outstanding accomplishments by artists in a variety…
DanceUS.org, "an innovative portal for dance professionals, learners and enthusiasts," recently recommended Ohio State's Department of Dance as one of the best college dance programs for 2026 in…
The Museum of African Diaspora invited PhD Student Sidra Bell back for Black History Month celebrations. Her collaborative team will be performing a new version of "O-O-H Child" this Thursday,…
Professor Valarie Williams and Lecturer Ambre Emory-Maier co-authored a book chapter titled “Sociability and Hidden Connections: The Ballet Stage and Ballroom in the Long Eighteenth Century” for…
The Department of Dance is pleased to share that Alfonso Cervera, Assistant Professor of Dance at The Ohio State University, has been commissioned to create a new choreographic work for Bates…
Alumna Marjana Krajač (Ph.D. in Dance Studies, 2024) has been awarded the Annual Award of the Croatian Associations of Dance Artists for Outstanding Choreography for her 2025 work titled
Congratulations MFA Dance Candidate jiara sha and her dance film, "s o f t e d g e s m a l l d a n c e" which was adjudicated and accepted as 1 of 7 films in the American College Dance Association…
Assistant Professor Kym McDaniel's chapter, ACTING QUEERLY: Creative Collaboration in Applied Bioarchaeology, was published in the volume Applied Bioarchaeology: Making an Impact. Co-written with…
The Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC) awarded Alumna Loren Bucek (MA 1980, PhD 2013) a Funds for Artists grant for art making/ painting, exhibiting in the community - e.g., Hammond Harkins…
Video of high school students dancing in Ohio State Dance studios and enjoying the Summer Dance Intensive at The Ohio State University.
June 1-5, 2026, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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The American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) awarded PhD Candidate Alyssa Stover the Selma Jeanne Cohen Conference Presentation Award at the 2025 ASTR Conference in Denver, Colorado November 6…
City Dance Showcase VII features MFA Student Yinqi Wang's work "A Touch of Sin" with other Columbus artists November 22, 2025 at 8 pm and November 23, 2025 at 3 pm. '"A Touch of Sin" is a duet…
Kym McDaniel: Artist, Educator, Intuitive Filmmaker October 22, 2025 at 12:00pm
Kym McDaniel, Assistant Professor of Dance, shares her wide range of experiences with experimental filmmaking, dance…
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Dance Faculty Summer Research and Creative Inquiry Updates Associate…
The Department of Dance is pleased to announce that Assistant Professor Alfonso Abrahm Cervera will present his solo work RP…
"A Touch of Sin," a work by MFA Dance Student Yinqi Wang and his partner Maggie Liang of Omnivore Dance won the 2025 Dance City Festival Chicago Best Choreographer and National Exchange Awards…
Nyama McCarthy-Brown: Everybody is a Dancer
October 1, 2025 at 12:00pm by juliabiller
Nyama McCarthy-Brown, Associate Professor of Dance Pedagogy through Community Engagement, discusses…
MFA Student Shaela Davis self-choreographed a solo entitled "She Is..." for the 5th Annual Baltimore Black Choreographer's Festival, which runs October 10-12, 2025.
Shaela is a…
PhD Dance Student Robin Raven Prichard has received the Outstanding Dance Researcher Award from the National Dance Educators Organization. With more than 5,000 members and two journals, NDEO is…
Assistant Professor in Dance Film + Digital Technologies Kym McDaniel, is an American College Dance Association (ACDA) Screendance Adjudicator this year. As an adjudicator, she presented a virtual…
The Ohio State University enjoys the spirit and support from one of the nation’s longest standing alumni associations (now nearly 600,000 strong) and one of the nation’s largest single-campus…
PhD Student Jeremy Zihao Yuan won the The National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) 2024 Doug Risner Prize for Emerging Dance Researchers for his Journal of Dance Education publication, "A Call…
PhD Student Sidra Bell received a co-commission along with Cleveland based artist M. Carmen Lane (lead artist) from the Museum of African Diaspora (San Francisco). The piece titled "Irresistibly…
September 30, 2025
2 pm - 3:30 pm
Location: Sullivant Hall 247, 1813 N. High Street, Columbus, OH 43210
Speaker: Cindy García, author of "Salsa Crossings: Dancing Latinidad in Los…
PhD in Dance Studies Student Sidra Bell worked with Slovenian director Karmina Sîlec as principal collaborator/movement advisor in collaboration with Beth Morrison Productions and renowned…
The Ohio State University Department of Dance welcomes Cyrah L. Ward (pronounced seer-ah) (she/they) to our faculty in autumn 2025 as an assistant professor of practice. Ward is a…
The Ohio State University Department of Dance welcomes Gerson Lanza Ruiz to our faculty in autumn 2025 as a tenure-track assistant professor. Gerson is an Afro…
PhD Student Sidra Bell will be honored with an artist medal on October 22, 2025 at Edison Ballroom in NYC by Yaddo. Yaddo is the leading nonprofit retreat for artists and writers,…
In Spring 2025, Dr. Irvin Manuel Gonzalez led the Department of Dance’s inaugural course through the Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project (OPEEP). The semester focused on introducing students to…
On June 11, 2025, the Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC) announced the recipients of the first round of its 2025 Artist Projects grants. Grant applications were reviewed and scored by community…
The College of Arts and Sciences Center for Career Success granted MFA Student Mary Storm a Grad Student Career Accelerator Fund Award for the Summer 2025 cycle. Mary received $2,450 to…
PhD Student Sidra Bell premiered her work "Areas of Relief" commissioned by ODC/Dance for the troupe’s “Dance Downtown” program April 10–13, 2025 at the Blue Shield of California Theater at Yerba…
Ohio State Dance mourns the loss of Emerita Professor Ann Lilly, who died on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. She worked for Columbus City Schools and knew Department of Dance founding Chair Helen Alkire…
MFA Student Zoey November won first place for the arts at the Edward F. Hayes Advanced Research Forum on February 28, 2025 for her oral presentation, "Making the Audible Visible: Improving…
UF alumni inducted to Curtain Raisers Wall of Fame
By ELIZABETH CLAUSS
Jun 03, 2025 12:00 PM
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FINDLAY — Five University of Findlay…
Congratulations to PhD Students Yujie Chen, Amy Schofield and recent Alumna Bhumi Patel (PhD 2025) for winning this year's Selma Jeanne Cohen Award presented by the Dance Studies Association (DSA)…
LA’s CANVAS REBEL interviews Assistant Professor Alfonso Abraham Cervera about his work, journey, and artistic practice.
Photos by Lexi Clark-Stilianos
The Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Team at the Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing selected Emily Kaniuka as one of their honorable mentions for the 2025 Outstanding Writing…
Post MFA Scholar Ryan Johnson, Alumna Dianne McIntyre (BFA 1969) and Alumna/Emerita Professor Bebe Miller (MA 1975) will be sharing the stage at the grand opening of the new Doris Duke Theatre at…
Dr. McCarthy-Brown's book Skin Colored Pointes Interviews With Women of Color in Ballet received the 2025 Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular…
Assistant Professor Kym McDaniel installed her 3-channel visual art installation, “Gutted”, at the Ann Arbor Film Festival’s Off The Screen! The installation ran from March 25 to March 30 in…
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Graduate Fellow Montë Murphy won a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for pursuing a course of study which requires advanced foreign language and area studies training. An…
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The Dance Preservation Fund was established in 1994 to further the recording of dance, supporting projects dealing with Labanotation or other notation systems,…
As a member of Doug Varone and Dancers from 1994-2015, Ohio State Dance Assistant Professor of Practice Eddie Taketa served as the company’s rehearsal director and performed as an original…
Congratulations to MFA Students Benjamin Roach, Alisha Jihn and Isa Bowser for being selected by the 2025 American College Dance Association (ACDA) East-Central Conference to attend the 2025 ACDA…
Dance/USA selected Alumnus Ricarrdo Hunter-Valentine (MFA 2024) as a finalist for their Fellowship to Artists Program.
Washington, DC (March 13, 2025) Dance/USA, the…
NBC4 WCMH-TV Columbus featured PhD Student Sidra Bell on the Saturday, March 8, 2025, 6:00 p.m. news for her performance at The Met, her academic work at Ohio State Dance and as an associate at…
PhD Student Sidra Bell's new commission for ODC/Dance Company premieres at the Yerba Buena Performing Arts Center in San Francisco April 10-13, 2025. SF/ARTS featured the work in their March/April…
The Office of Outreach & Engagement selected Activists in Motion (AIM), led by Associate Professor Dr. Nyama McCarthy-Brown, as one of Ohio State’s 2025 Programs of Excellence in Engaged…
The Ohio State University Council of Graduate Students awarded PhD Candidate Alyssa Stover with an Edward J. Ray Travel Award for Scholarship and Service in the amount of $1000…
How Pivoting to Choreographing Full-Time Changed 3 Former Dancers’ Lives, Creative Processes, and Work
by Lauren Wingenroth
Dr. Dixon's essay on dancer Mary HInkson ("Black Body Between the Lines: Mary HInkson Dancing Graham and Transforming White Spaces") and several other dance essays have been published in the…
March 18 - 22, 2025
Developed by Department of Dance Assistant Professors Irvin Manuel Gonzalez and Alfonso Cervera, Pachanga e Poder is community-driven research incubator. The…
Professor Cervera will join FUSION for a three-week residency, during which he will create a new work premiering in Japan in 2025. This piece will explore the intertwined histories of Japan and…
Alexander will be talking to current students at his alma mater Ohio University about a career in the arts.
Waters is a 16-minute video dance filmed at Vatnasafn (the Library of Waters) in Stykkishólmur, Iceland, features an international cast and consists of choreographic material from the…
Creative Lives: Staff Artists & Makers Exhibition
January 14 - January 25, 2025
11:00AM - 6:00PM
Urban Arts Space
Many individuals who take art classes, study the arts, or learn…
June 2-6, 2025, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Columbus OH, 43210
The Ohio State Dance Summer Intensive is a one-week immersive dance experience. The Ohio…
College of Arts and Sciences Dean David Horn appointed Professor of History of Art Andrew Shelton to serve as the interim chair of the Department of Dance effective January 1, 2025.
Shelton…
Dance Magazine recently announced their top 25 dancers, choreographers, directors, and companies to look out for in 2025. These artists are acknowledged as innovative figures shaping the direction…
Dear Department of Dance Community,
As you have heard from the College of Arts and Sciences, I will have stepped down as chair by the time you read this message. This final InForm letter…
The Guardian ranked Associate Professor Abby Zbikowski's company Abby Z and the New Utility's work "Radioactive Practice" the #1 dance performance in 2024. Presented in association with Dance…
The American Society for Theatre Research Annual Conference honored Alumna Wu Menghang (PhD 2024) with the Selma Jeanne Cohen Conference Presentation Award. Wu's award-winning paper, titled "If…
The Office of Academic Affairs awarded $20,000 to support Chair Anderson’s proposal to continue the HATCH (Holistic Approaches to Transformative Choreography) incubator program, an ambitious…
Revisiting Pina Bausch’s World of Love and Longing in Aging Bodies
“Kontakthof,” a pivotal Bausch dance from 1978, is being staged with members of the original cast. They talk about coming back to…
Ohio State Dance congratulates Ph.D. Candidate Yujie Chen for being named one of the 2024-2025 Presidential Fellowship recipients. The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious award given…
The Biggest Surprise at the Met’s Egypt Show? Live Performance Black artists have long claimed ancient Egypt as their own. Now they’re telling their stories in person on the museum’s floor. www…
Associate Professor Abby Zbikowski's company Abby Z and the New Utility earned a 5 star review from the Guardian for her work "Radioactive Practice" presented in association with Dance Umbrella UK…
Ohio State Associate Professor of Dance Harmony Bench and collaborator Kate Elswit, Professor of Performance and Technology at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (University of London),…
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The Ohio State University enjoys the spirit and support from one of the nation’s longest standing alumni associations (now nearly 500,000 strong) and one of the nation’s largest single-campus…
Human Rights on the Move — the first volume in Ohio State Press' new series, On Possibility: Social Change and the Arts and Humanities, was published in June…
Join us in giving a shout out to Ohio State Dance Alum Fen Kennedy (PhD 2019) for winning the 2024 National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) National Award for Outstanding Dance Educator. Dr…
Check out the Department of Dance’s feature in the new University Marketing and Communications' national commercial that is set to air during televised sporting events this fall, including…
Please join us in giving a shout out to Ohio State Dance Alumna Cali Cummings (BFA 2024) for being hired by the Philadelphia Eagles cheerleaders! O-H!
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
It is with profound pride and immense joy that I reflect on the extraordinary accomplishments of The Ohio State University Department of Dance over the past…
Ohio State Dance welcomes Postdoctoral Scholar Sinjini Chatterjee to the department in autumn 2024. Chatterjee holds a PhD in Critical Dance Studies from the University of California, Riverside…
The Department of Dance, within the College of Arts and Sciences, seeks an Administrative Assistant to join our team. The College of Arts and Sciences is the largest college and the academic heart…
Ohio State Dance welcomes Kym McDaniel (she/her) to our faculty in autumn 2024 as a tenure-track assistant professor of dance film and digital technologies. McDaniel is an experimental…
"Música" stars Rudy Mancuso, Camila Mendes, JB Smooth and many more, including Ohio State Dance Post MFA Scholar Ryan Johnson. This romcom takes the viewer through a rhythmic…
Ohio State Dance Assistant Professors Dr. Irvin Manuel Gonzalez and Alfonso Cervera have each been awarded with funding from the Ohio Hispanic Heritage Project Grants to help with the development…
On April 11, 2024, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced their appointment of both Ohio State Dance Post MFA Scholar Ryan Johnson and Associate Professor…
By Jane D’Angelo Brianna Rhodes is one of the choreographers highlighted in the 2024 OhioDance Festival concert Apr. 27 during the festival weekend, Apr. 26-28. We chatted with her about her dance…
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The Dance Preservation Fund was established in 1994 to further the recording of dance, supporting projects dealing with Labanotation or other notation systems,…
Congratulations to the following BFA students who presented their research at the 29th annual Denman Undergraduate Research Forum as part of THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE session at Pomerene Hall on…
Congratulations to MFA in Dance Student Lucy Dillon who won an award for her talk at the Edward F. Hayes Advanced Research Forum (formerly the Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum) on March 1,…
The Ohio State University's Artist Laureate Dr. Nyama McCarthy-Brown will bring her new production "Dancing Stories: Comings, Goings, and Finding Home" to Ohio State's regional campuses in Lima…
March 29, 2024
9:45AM - 4:15PM
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College Day is a free in-person and online event for high school students,…
June 3-7, 2024 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sullivant Hall
1813 North High Street
Columbus OH, 43210
The Ohio State Dance Summer Intensive is a one-week immersive dance experience. The Ohio…
GREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL ANNOUNCES 2023 RECIPIENTS OF ARTISTS ELEVATED AWARDS
A national jury has selected the five recipients of the Greater Columbus Arts Council’s (GCAC) $25,000…
The Department of Dance at The Ohio State University seeks to hire a Postdoctoral Scholar in Dance, supported by the Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Themes initiative and the College of Arts…
Kate Elswit (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) and Harmony Bench (The Ohio State University) are leading a dance data project on choreographer Alvin Ailey, commissioned by the Whitney…
The Department of Dance seeks a moving image specialist in dance with a demonstrated artistic practice and a vibrant and recognized body of work commensurate with the rank of Assistant Professor…
Students give new life to Shakespeare’s side characters
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September 19, 2023
What does it mean to belong? What does it mean to…
Ohio State department develops students’ technological skills
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BFA Auditions October 27 - 28, 2023 February 2 - 3, 2024
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The Selma Jeanne Cohen Award aims to encourage graduate student members of the Dance Studies Association (DSA) by recognizing excellence in dance scholarship. Awards are based on the originality…
Awarded annually to the best English-language dance studies article published in the last year, the Dance Studies Association (DSA) Gertrude Lippincott Award recognizes excellence in the field of…
We hope this letter finds you well. As I complete my first year as chair, I remain honored to serve such a vibrant department and community. As you will read in this issue of InForm, there have…
Dr. Hannah Kosstrin is a dance historian specializing in Jewish and Israeli dance. She is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Dance and will take over as…
How 3 Universities Are Exploring AAPI Identity, Sharing History, and Inviting Conversation on Campus
By April Deocariza
Dance Teacher Magazine
June 6, 2023
"Sato…
Ohio State Dance welcomes Post MFA Scholar Ryan Johnson in autumn 2023. Johnson (@rkj.dance) is an award-winning artist, scholar and living archive who translates and synthesizes global rhythms to…
Ohio State Dance welcomes Alfonso Cervera (he/they/el) to our faculty in autumn 2023 as a tenure-track assistant professor. Cervera holds an MFA in Experimental Choreography from the University of…
Ohio State Dance welcomes Dr. Irvin Manuel Gonzalez (he/él/they/elle) to our faculty in autumn 2023 as a tenure-track assistant professor. Dr. Gonzalez is an artivist, scholar, community organizer…
Congratulations to the following Ph.D in Dance Studies students who won awards for their talks at the Edward F. Hayes Advanced Research Forum (formerly the Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum)…
BFA Dance Seniors Angela Ciarochi and Vivian Corey presented their BFA Senior Distinction Projects at the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum on March 7, 2023. Corey won Second Place for “Mat…
Associate Professor Nyama McCarthy-Brown is one of three arts and humanities faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences to be selected for the 2023 Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished…
Nyama McCarthy-Brown will enhance impact across Ohio's underserved communities
The Ohio State University has selected Nyama McCarthy-Brown as its inaugural Artist Laureate. She…
Overview
The Dance Preservation Fund was established in 1994 to further the recording of dance, supporting projects dealing with Labanotation or other…
Congratulations to Professor Abby Zbikowski and the cast of "CANNONBALL" for being chosen by American College Dance Association's (ACDA) East Central Conference adjudicators to perform at the ACDA…
March 31, 2023
10:00AM - 4:00PM
In-person at Sullivant Hall and Online via Zoom
College Day is a free in-person and online event for high…
Award-winning choreographer and creative director, JaQuel Knight, visited with Ohio State Dance’s Labanotation class on November 14, 2022. Knight, known for his choreography for notables such as…
Dance Magazine honored Ohio State Dance Alumna Dianne McIntyre (BFA 1969) at a celebration benefitting the Harkness Promise Awards at Chelsea Factory in New York City on Monday, December…
Dance/USA, the national service organization for dance, announced on November 15, 2022 that the second round of Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists (DFA) awarded $905,010 in funding to 30 dance and…
On Friday, December 2, 2022, The New York Times named Radioactive Practice by Professor Abby Zbikowski one of the Best Dance Performances of 2022. Zbikowski's work…
Ohio State Dance Alumna Cailin Manning (BFA 2016) is pursuing a Master's Degree in Screendance at London Contemporary Dance School and her latest film Going Down has been programmed…
We are pleased to announce our next online t-shirt sale with university-approved vendor Golden Star Promotions:
The sale runs now until end of business on December 15, 2022 Payments are made…
Simone Burnett (BFA 2022) was featured in an October 17, 2022 review by The Seattle Times for her performance in Spectrum Dance Theater's Occurrence #11.
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EVENT ADVISORY: Faculty Concert The theme of water for this fall’s Faculty Concert serves as a point of entry to the myriad ways in which we engage with and are in relationship to…
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Review: At Fall for Dance, Resilience Takes Center Stage
By Gia Kourlas
Sept. 30, 2022
“'Breathe it out!' one dancer called out to several others as they roamed…
The 2022-2023 Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme (GAHDT) Society of Fellows faculty cohort includes Dance Professors Dr. Harmony Bench and Crystal Perkins. They are joined…
I wanted to take this opportunity to formally (re)introduce myself to our readers. I am excited for this opportunity to share my vision, background and experience with this amazing university and…
Saturday September 10th, 2022 at 1 p.m.
The Greater Columbus Convention Center
Ohio State Dance Lecturer and hip-hop and krumping legend Donald Isom hosts another dance battle with…
Applications are open for our Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Dance Auditions and the university's Common Application! The deadlines to apply for the Department of Dance Autumn Auditions are…
Ohio State Dance Professor and Chair Charles O. Anderson and Associate Professor Abby Zbikowski received an enthusiastic review by Dustin K. Britt in Chatham Life & Style
This exuberant dance video is an inspiring showcase of living legends
An answer to the youthful dances typically featured on TikTok, there’s no song to lip-sync, no moves to copy — just pure joy,…
Discerning The Diversity and Multiplicity of Dances within Africa
An Interview with Momar Ndiaye
BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT
Momar Ndiaye is an internationally…
As the academic year winds down, I write with gratitude for the community that got us through. We have transitioned from one of the most challenging periods with new and strange rhythms of…
Ohio State Dance faculty, staff, students, families and friends gathered to celebrate the amazing accomplishments of the class of 2022 at the department's Graduation Ceremony at noon on May 7,…
For Charles O. Anderson, dance wasn’t always a lifelong passion.
As the first of his family to attend college, everyone was rooting for him to find a fulfilling career path…
Ohio State Dance faculty, staff and students celebrated the career of Interim Chair and Professor Susan Van Pelt Petry at the Spring Informance on Monday, April 25, 2022. Petry announced her…
Biennale Festival Director Wayne McGregor selected Alumnus Anthony Milian (BFA 2018) as a dancer for the week-long International Festival of Contemporary Dance in Venice, Italy, which runs July 22…
Ohio State Dance Lecturer Suzan Bradford Kounta organized master classes for students today in cooperation with her company, the Thiossane Institute, where she is artistic director. Kounta was…
Overview
The Dance Preservation Fund (641562) was established in 1994 to further the recording of dance, supporting projects dealing with Labanotation or…
The Ohio State University Department of Dance welcomes Professor Charles O. Anderson who will join our faculty as department chair on June 1, 2022. Anderson is currently associate chair of the…
College Day is a free in-person and online event for high school students, but registration is required.
High school students interested in pursuing dance in college are…
By Damian Bowerman, external relations coordinator for Ohio State Dance
Bessie Award-winning choreographer and Distinguished Professor Emerita in The Ohio State University’s Department…
Congratulations to the following BFA students who presented their research at the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum at Pomerene Hall on Tuesday, March 4, 2022:
Please join us in warm applause for Graduate Associates Forrest Hershey, Michaela Neild and Katie O’Loughlin, recipients of 2022 Graduate Associate Teaching Award. The GATA is Ohio State’s highest…
Professor Momar Ndiaye's piece Daabo from the 2020 Re/Vision concert and Sacred Paths by Second Year MFA Dance Student Ishmael Konney from the MFA Concert, along with an…
Week 1: Monday - Friday, June 6-10, 2022, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. - Summer Dance Intensive
Week 2: Monday - Friday, June 13-17, 2022, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. - Archiving Black Performance Summer Program…
Autumn semester was packed, and while stressful at times, it was full of full out dancing and laughter and rigorous thought. Read this edition of Inform for stories about our faculty and visiting…
Interim Executive Dean David Horn, Dean of Arts and Humanities Dana Renga and Interim Chair Susan Van Pelt Petry surprised Professor Norah Zuniga Shaw at the Spring 2022 Department Gathering held…
Ohio State Dance celebrated the career of Associate Professor of Dance Mitchell Rose at the Autumn Informance on December 8, 2021. Rose announced his retirement from the department at the end of…
Are we Ok? by Professor Daniel Roberts was performed at Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik, Iceland, on November 4, 2021. The project was partly funded but Ohio State's Global Arts +…
Greater Columbus Arts Council Announces Inaugural Recipients of Artists Elevated Awards
A national jury has selected the first two recipients of the Greater Columbus Arts Council’s (Arts Council) …
A year-long series of digital performances, talks, and traces
Nov 01, 2021 – Jun 30, 2022
Wexner Center for the Arts
Dance innovator and intermedia artist Norah Zuniga Shaw …
Congratulations to Ana Elena Puga (Theater), Victor M. Espinosa (Sociology), and Harmony Bench (Dance) for their research, which was recognized at this year’s American Society for Theater Research…
Dance on Mount Vernon
BalletMet 2
with
The Ohio State University Department of Dance
The BalletMet Dance Academy
Sunday, October 10, 2021 at 5:30 pm / Doors open at…
Glimpses of How Pandemic America Went Back to School
Across the country, students are returning to classes. We connected with hundreds of them to see how they — along with teachers,…
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The Department of Dance at The Ohio State University seeks an experienced dance professional with an emphasis on health and wellness, who is actively engaged in a combination…
Department: Dance
Position: Department Chair
Rank: Associate Professor or Professor
Description:
The…
Dance Teacher Magazine selected Ohio State Dance Professor Nyama McCarthy-Brown as one of their 2021 Dance Teacher Award Honorees. "After reviewing thousands of nominations, the DT…
Choreographers and dancers Crystal Michelle Perkins and Susan Van Pelt Petry join for an evening of original dance theater, Land, Sugar, Bone & Other Illustrations. With one duet and two solos,…
The Princess Grace Foundation-USA awarded Dance Professor Crystal Michelle Perkins with the 2021 Princess Grace Honoraria Award for Choreography. She was nominated by South Chicago Dance Theater…
The National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) awarded Ohio State Dance Professor Nyama McCarthy-Brown with the 2021 Outstanding Dance Educator (Higher Education) Award, to be presented at the…
Our Experience of Art in Conversation with Life
Jacquie Sochacki-Pittman, Ohio State MFA Candidate in Dance
Jul 26, 2021
From: wexarts.org
So much of our time over the past…
The Dance Studies Association (DSA) presented the 2021 Selma Jeanne Cohen Award to Ph.D. Student Alissa Elegant for "Dancing Revolutionary Change: China Railway Cultural Work Troupe's Dance Drama …
The Office Student Academic Success—Undergraduate Research & Creative Inquiry (UR&CI) offers the Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award to honor individuals who have…
Susan Van Pelt Petry, a professor in the Department of Dance, was named the department’s interim chair for a one-year term, effective July 1. She previously chaired the department…
Assistant Professor of Dance Crystal Michelle Perkins received the 2021 Susan M. Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership Award for her outstanding mentoring and leadership on behalf of…
We are thrilled to announce the publication of The International Journal of Screendance vol. 12, This Is Where We Dance Now: Covid-19 and the New and Next in Dance Onscreen.
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Ohio State Dance is premiering repertory works from spring semester 2021 on its YouTube Channel throughout the summer on Friday's at 3 p.m. as the projects are completed. You can view spring…
What a special moment this is in many ways. This issue of InForm marks a year for me as your chair. And what a year it was! We, dance people, know the importance of bodies moving together…
Department of Dance Chair Dr. Nadine George-Graves announced the creation of the Dr. Melanye White Dixon Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Fund (317146) at the Spring Informance on Friday, April 23,…
Dance curriculums are often criticized for lack of diversity, creating environments where dancers of color don’t always feel welcome. Nyama McCarthy-Brown, assistant professor in…
Pam Tanowitz: "I Would Rather Fail at Something Interesting Than Do Something Boring"
Siobhan Burke
Dance Magazine
Mar 29, 2021
"When theaters shut down in New…
On March 18, 2021, MFA Students Tara Lee Burns and KJ Dye both received the Graduate Associate Teaching Award, Ohio State’s highest recognition of the exceptional teaching provided by graduate…
Working with OhioDance as their fiscal agent, Professor Susan Van Pelt Petry and Assistant Professor Crystal Michelle Perkins received a Greater Columbus Arts Council grant for their performance…
Overview
The Dance Preservation Fund (641562) was established in 1994 to further the recording of dance, supporting projects dealing with Labanotation or…
Friday, April 9, 2021
10:00AM - 4:00PM
Zoom: Registration Required
College Day is a free online event for high school students, but registration is required. …
Dance Magazine featured PhD Alumna Janet Schroeder in an article about her role as a subject-matter consultant for the United States Postal Service honoring tap dance on a new series of…
Monday – Friday, June 7-11, 2021, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Sullivant Hall *
1813 North High Street
Columbus OH, 43210
The Ohio State University…
Retired professor Dr. Karen Eliot received a box full of many notes of love and congratulations from faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends delivered on Valentine’s Day! #BuckeyeLove
DANCERS IN GRADUATE SCHOOL’S ANTI-RACIST WORKING GROUP MAKING CHANGE THROUGH VIRTUAL WORKSHOPS - The Lantern
Ohio State student organization Dancers in Graduate School’s Anti…
Dance Professor Mitchell Rose joined Mornings with Brian Phillips on CD 92.9 as part of their weekly Art Makes Columbus segment with the Greater Columbus Arts Council to talk about his…
Alex Christmas, a doctoral student and member of the @digsatosu Anti-Racist Working Group at Ohio State, is featured the Dance Spirit article, "The Dancer's Guide to Creating Change in…
News from the Dance Studies Association:
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Nadine George-Graves has accepted the position of Co-Editor at Dance Research Journal
Ohio State Dance’s Dance Notation Bureau Extension Center for Education and Research, The Office of Diversity and Inclusion’s Frank W. Hale, Jr. Black Cultural Center; and the African…
Join us with the Dancers in Graduate School (DiGS) as we celebrate and uplift the creative voices and artistic growth of the Ohio State dance community; featuring student video submissions from…
When Department of Dance Professor Susan Van Pelt Petry began working from home due to the pandemic, her interest in staying hopeful as an artist led her to begin creating 19…
Ohio State Dance presents “tethering: iteration 1,” a full moon walking tour of dance works that engages with how we share performance in a Covid world. Guiding the audience through and around the…
Students in Susan Van Pelt Petry's Composition II class performed their site-specific works around campus on October 22, highlighting the many flexible pandemic-friendly performance spaces around…
Join us in the multiverse for an evening of sonic emersion and visual poetics on Tuesday, November 10th from 7:00–8:00 PM.
Directed by Marc Ainger (Music/ACCAD) and Fede Cámara Halac (GAHDT…
Efforts across the University are converging to provoke action on climate crisis and invent collaborative ways forward in uncertain times. ASCENT 2020 magazine, highlights Prof. Norah Zuniga-Shaw…
The dances that may have been, the arms unembraced, the air clear of breath, the unindulged closeness. Staying within the eye sight. A time capsule of the past whispers through…
AS TOLD TO BROOKE PRESTON
Ohio State Alumni Magazine
Choreographer and dance professor Susan Van Pelt Petry describes being moved to action by the death of George Floyd, and…
The American Tap Dance Foundation (ATDF) showcased Ohio State Dance Alumna and famous tap dancer Lynn Dally’s concert Tony's Tap TV, Tap Divas on Sunday, October 11. Dally’s…
Dance is a global artform. COVID-19 is a global pandemic. During a crisis it is tempting to silo our muses and fears with our local inspirations and tragedies. Many artists are left wondering how…
SOCIAL MEDIA INITIATIVE CELEBRATES BLACK LIVES IN THE OSU DANCE COMMUNITY
By Mikey Taylor, The Lantern
A reoccurring Tuesday social media post, accompanied by the …
Breathing Room
Perhaps there is a little piece of utopia in every struggle, or perhaps the actual fight through the struggle is utopic.
by Susan Van Pelt Petry
When the…
How was my summer vacation? Oh, the family and I frolicked on the beach for two months with ice cream dripping down our hands while we joyfully indulged in the long lazy sleepy summer days before…
Alumna Onjélee Phomthirath (BFA 2019) has been accepted into SALT2, the professional apprentice program of SALT Dance Company in Salt Lake City, UT. She joins alumni Amanda Colangelo (BFA 2019),…
This fall semester, the arts will be showcased on Ohio State’s Columbus campus in ways they haven’t before. Three outdoor tents will hold spaces for physically distanced classes,…
Ohio State Dance congratulates the Dance Notation Bureau on their 80th Anniversary!
"Four girls gathered to discuss the notation differences and John Martin encouraged them to form a…
The Dance Notation Bureau is offering five online introductory Motif Notation classes suitable for individuals with no or some knowledge of Motif Notation. The instruction is …
The student-led Anti-Racist Working Group has launched a new social media initiative to celebrate Black students, alumni, professors, guest scholars and artists connected to the Ohio State dance…
Dear Ohio State Dance Community,
George Floyd was laid to rest on Tuesday, June 9, 2020.
It has been 16 days since his killing by police inspired worldwide protests calling for an…
Ohio State Dance faculty, staff, students and friends surprised Department Chair and Professor Susan Hadley and Professor Dave Covey with a festive parade of 25+ vehicles adorned with…
We are now offering live virtual department visits. We can meet with you individually to give you and your guests a program overview, Q & A session, and a guided virtual tour of our facilities via…
Exactly three months ago, I gave a talk to the students, staff and faculty in the Department of Dance explaining why I wanted to become their next chair. Believe it or not, in my five-year vision…
Ph.D Student Rohini Acharya’s proposal, Bharata Natyam in the US Diaspora: Staging Indian American Identity through Performance at Classical Indian Dance Festivals and Competitions
Every generation has a defining historical moment that remains etched in the memories of its people for the rest of their lives: the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, the MLK…
Please join us in giving BFA Student Angela Ciarochi a shout out for receiving the Outstanding First-Year Student Award, which is a part of the 2020 Student Life Leadership Award. The award is…
Thanks to all the Ohio State Dance Alumni who have responded to last fall’s call for news and updates from BFA Dance Senior Mia Williams for her senior project. We are excited to announce the…
Please join us in warm applause for Emily Craver and Kathryn Logan, recipients of 2020 Graduate Associate Teaching Awards. The GATA is Ohio State’s highest…
How dancers cope when they can’t dance: They improvise
By Sarah L. Kaufman, The Washington Post
In this uncertain time, dancers have a useful perspective:…
Momar Ndiaye will join The Ohio State University Department of Dance as an assistant professor this autumn 2020. As a choreographer, director, Ndiaye will ground his creative research here at Ohio…
B.F.A. Dance Student Madeline Denman has been selected for the joint-award from the American Dance Festival and Ohio State’s Department of Dance for a Leadership Scholarship of full-tuition to…
Overview
The Dance Preservation Fund (641562) was established in 1994 to further the recording of dance, supporting projects dealing with Labanotation or…
Hannah Kosstrin, associate professor of dance, is the project director for KineScribe, a Labanotation iPad app supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Tune in to…
The United States Artists (USA) announced that Ohio State Dance Alumnae Dianne McIntyre (BFA 1969) and Abby Zbikowski (MFA 2012) are two of fifty…
Three professors in Ohio State's Department of Dance were featured in a Wexner Center for the Arts Wexcast for a uniquely informed introduction to the work of legendary choreographer (and Wexner…
Monday – Friday, June 8-12, 2020, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Sullivant Hall
1813 North High Street
Columbus OH, 43210
The Ohio State University Department of Dance is…
Dear Ohio State Dance Community,
On the cusp of a new year and a new decade, we share four stories that epitomize the mission and vision of Ohio State Dance moving into the future. They…
Dance like the future is watching
You can put on a virtual reality headset and immerse yourself in a fictional world a million miles from Earth.
What if you could put on a similar…
Read featured selections from Writing about the Performing Arts at Ohio State, an interdisciplinary student-led project supported by the Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award. In…
A Senior Project by BFA Dance Student Mia Williams
Dear Department of Dance Alumni,
My name is Mia Williams and I am currently a fourth year in the Department of Dance at The Ohio…
Dance company Abraham in Motion (A.I.M.) is welcoming Ohio State Dance Alumna Sydnie Liggett (BFA 2008) as their new executive director. Sydnie moves to A.I.M with more than a decade of experience…
Department: Department of Dance
Position: Movement Practice, Repertory and Composition in the Dance Forms of the African Diaspora
Rank:…
Please join us in giving a special shout out to Ohio State Dance Alumnae Mimi Lamantia (BFA 2016) and Lise Worthen-Chaudhari (MFA 2011) whose Tango for Cancer work has recently been accepted for…
The Office Student Academic Success—Undergraduate Research & Creative Inquiry (UR&CI) offers the Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award to honor individuals who have…
On Thursday, March 28, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate School Alicia L. Bertone surprised MFA Dance Student Katherine Moore at the start of Moore's Yoga Wellness class…
University Libraries is pleased to announce that Ohio State Dance Alumna Mara Frazier (MFA 2011) will be joining the faculty of University Libraries as Curator of Dance.
In…
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated - Theta Chapter presented the 4th Annual Black Girl Magic Celebration on April 10, 2019 at The Ohio Union. Danelle Morgan, a graduate of…
Ohio State Dance Alumna (MFA 2009) and Chicago Dance History Project Executive and Artistic Director Jenai Cutcher was presented with the 2019 Ruth Page Award at Roosevelt University on Friday,…
Overview
The Dance Preservation Fund was established in 1994 to further the recording of dance, supporting projects dealing with…
Ohio State Dance has been awarded by DanceUS.org as one of the Best College Dance Programs for 2019-2020 in USA.
BFA Students Laura DeAngelis and Brianna Rhodes won first and second place respectively in the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum in the category of “Redefining the Human Experience”. They both…
The Lincoln Theatre Association and CAPA today announced the appointment of Ohio State Dance Lecturer Suzan Bradford as executive director of the Lincoln Theatre. Bradford has been serving as…
Ohio State students develop diverse works for dance program
By Peter Tonguette For The Columbus Dispatch
Last fall, Ohio State University’s Department of Dance threw itself a big birthday…
Ohio State Dance Emerita Professor Lucy Venable died peacefully Tuesday morning, January 29, 2019. She is survived by her five nieces and their families. She was preceded in death by her brother…
Interim Executive Dean and Vice Provost Janet Box-Steffensmeier surprised Dance Professor Karen Eliot at the faculty meeting on Monday, January 7 with a presentation of the Ronald and Deborah…
Ohio State dance and English alumna Lindy Goldstein (BA, BFA, 2000) brought some holiday magic to the movies this season as executive producer of Walt Disney's “The Nutcracker and…
Assistant Professor Hannah Kosstrin's book Honest Bodies: Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow was awarded Finalist, which is second place, for the Jordan Schnitzer Book…
Harmony Bench, associate professor in the Department of Dance, shines a light on trailblazing female dance giants in a recent episode of Voices of Excellence. Listen to the weekly podcast on…
The Columbus City Council passed a Resolution of Expression at their November 19, 2018 meeting to "recognize and celebrate" Ohio State Dance's 50th Anniversary. Department Chair Susan Hadley spoke…
Director and Videographer: BFA Dance Student Sydney Lettau
Choreographer: BFA Dance Student Gina…
The Brooklyn Academy of Music commissioned a new film from Associate Professor Mitchell Rose to honor their retiring executive producer, Joe Melillo, and it features 52 dance luminaries including…
Assistant Professor Hannah Kosstrin and Media Manager Chris Summers presented LabanLens at the 2018 National Dance Education Organization Annual Conference in La Jolla, California, October 4 - 7…
Professor Susan Van Pelt Petry choreographed Opera Columbus' upcoming production of Madama Butterfly, which features seven Ohio State dancers appearing in a variety of roles, including…
Dr. Melanye White Dixon is in Bandung, Indonesia on a Fulbright grant as an invited speaker for the International Conference on Arts and Design Education (ICADE) September 18-19, 2018. She is also…
Ohio State Dance Professor Norah Zuniga Shaw’s co-creation with Maria Palazzi and choreographer William Forsythe,
"In 1976, Catherine Turocy asked her fellow Ohio State alumna Ann Jacoby to join her in forming the New York Baroque Dance Company. Turocy and Jacoby sought to bridge the gap between scholar and…
Ohio State Dance congratulates Ohio State Dance Alumna Pam Tanowitz (BFA 1991) on the outstanding review she received for her new staging of T.S. Eliot’s poems “Four Quartets.” New York Times …
The Ohio State University Department of Dance and Department Theatre welcome Dr. Nadine George-Graves who will join our faculty in autumn 2018. Dr. George-Graves (BA, Yale; PhD, Northwestern) is a…
We are thrilled to announce the publication of…
Dr. Valarie Williams has spent the past eleven years in college leadership, as Associate Dean for Arts (2006-2009), Arts and Humanities (2009-2017), ASC Outreach and Engagement (2018) and…
Kate Elswit (Principal Investigator, University of London, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) and Harmony Bench (Co-Investigator, The Ohio State University Department of Dance) have been…
Board members of the Ohio Arts Council (OAC) approved Individual Excellence Awards for state fiscal year 2018 during a public meeting on April 25.
Individual Excellence Awards are peer…
Ohio State Dance thanks the Ohio Union Activities Board (OUAB) for hosting American Ballet Theatre Principal Ballerina Misty Copeland for their event "OUABreaking Barriers with Misty Copeland" on…
BFA Dance Student Coal Rietenbach made Busted for his Dance Film II final and continued working on it into 2018. "It is primarily about a person’s interaction with a decayed environment,…
Ohio State Dance welcomes Dr. Nyama McCarthy-Brown who will join our faculty in autumn 2018. Dr. McCarthy-Brown will help us expand and deepen our engagement with community partners, mentor our…
MFA student, Brianna Rae Johnson collaborated with dance graduate students Kathryn Logan, Bita Bell, Lexi Stilianos and Katherine Moore to create pour la liberté, a dance film. This…
BFA dance major Abby Koskinas created Spaces as an extension of an Ohio State Dance class project. This film investigates the contrasts between industrial architecture and human movement;…
Ohio State Dance congratulates the following BFA dance seniors who presented their work at the 2018 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum on April 3:
Poster Presentations
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On Friday, April 6, 2018 Ohio State Dance welcomed high school students interested in pursuing dance in college to come spend a day in the life of an Ohio State Dance major. Visiting students took…
Ohio State Dance mourns the loss of Ohio State alumnus, Labanotation scholar, dance notator and teacher Allan Miles (1929 - 2018).
View Obituary>>>
Overview
The Dance Preservation Fund was established in 1994 to further the recording of dance, supporting projects dealing with Labanotation or other notation systems,…
President Michael V. Drake, Executive Vice President and Provost Bruce A. McPheron, Vice Provost for Academic Programs, Office of Academic Affairs Randy Smith, Vice Provost for Academic Policy and…
Ohio State Dance welcomes world renowned expert in dance notation, highly acclaimed author, and researcher on dance Dr. Ann Hutchinson Guest on Monday, February 26, 2018. During her visit, Guest…
Ohio State Dance gives a shout out to BFA Dance Student Lisa D'Onofrio, who is taking a year off from her studies at Ohio State to complete the 2017-18 trainee program with Ballet Magnificant in…
Annie Arnoult (MFA 2007) has been selected as 25 to Watch 2018 in Dance Magazine.
"Annie Arnoult and her Open Dance Project invited audiences inside Woody Guthrie's world in 'Bout…
The Department of Dance celebrates the life and contributions of Emeritus Professor Louise B. Guthman (1928-2017). Joining the faculty in 1974, she was instrumental in developing one of the first…
Dancing into the future with AR technology www.thelantern.com The Ohio State Dance department is bringing a new partner to the dance floor. With the help of augmented reality software from Microsoft…
Department of Dance faculty concert highlights African-American culture
By Lydia Freudenberg, The Lantern
Combining her research of African-American culture with the art of…
The Department of Dance seeks a dance artist/teacher/scholar with expertise in community engagement through dance pedagogy, art-making processes, and movement practice. We welcome a colleague…
Dance preview: 'Parallel Connections' By Jim Fischer, Columbus Alive If dance is a universal language, then “Parallel Connections” presents the richness of its varied dialects and accents…
The University Institute for Teaching and Learning announces the selection of Professor Susan Petry as a mentor in the Faculty FIT: Foundation, Impact, Transformation program. A year-long…
Valarie Williams assumed a new role as associate dean for outreach and engagement for the College of Arts and Sciences, effective Sept. 1. Williams, professor of dance and former associate dean…
Renowned Columbus Dancer Susan Van Pelt Petry Returns to Stage to Premiere Her New Works
"We are born and we die, and in between we wear clothes."
That's dancer, choreographer and Ohio…
Kylee Smith (BFA 2017) is featured in the College of Arts and Sciences Autumn 2017 Field Guide to Arts at Ohio State. Congratulations Kylee!
Dance Theatre Performance by Susan Van Pelt Petry
Performances:
Friday and Saturday, September 8 & 9, 2017
3:00 & 7:30
Van Fleet Theatre, Columbus, Ohio
Susan performs three…
Congratulations to all the Buckeyes who just returned from the International Council of Kinetography Laban Conference in Beijing!
Standing L-R: Wendy Chu (Hong Kong Academy of Performing…
Ohio State MFA Dance Alumna Abby Zbikowski was presented with the 2017 Juried Bessie Award at a press conference in New York, NY on July 12, 2017. The NY Dance and Performance Awards, The Bessies,…
The Dance Preservation Fund (641562) was established in 1994 to further the recording of dance through awards to current students, graduates of the department, current faculty and…
Ohio State Dance Alumna Abigail Zbikowski (MFA 2012) has been selected to be one of four inaugural Caroline Hearst choreographers-in-residence for the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Dance…
Emma Baranski, a fourth-year from Connecticut, is studying arts management with a minor in dance. She is part of Ohio State’s synchronized swim team. This summer Baranski is moving to Northern…
Helen Alkire once said, “I loved dancing and thought it should be the center of the whole university.”
So she made it her mission. Alkire founded The Ohio State University Department of…
The Department of Dance congratulates Associate Professor Dr. Melanye White Dixon for receiving the 2017 OhioDance Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of Dance Education from…
Congratulations to Ph.D. Candidate Janet Schroeder for winning the Graduate School’s Alumni Grants for Graduate Research and Scholarship (AGGRS) for her project, "Staging Appalachia, Maintaining…
Named for Ohio State University Department of Dance alumnus Tim Allan ('85) who passed away in 1996, this award is given to an undergraduate dance major specializing in modern dance who…
Making an impact through movement
Ohio State Dance students are changing the lives of local children with the power of dance.
The Deparment of Dance congratulates Professor Susan Van Pelt Petry for recieving a Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women Grant. The grant is supporting the production phase of her new half hour…
Congratulations to Ph.D. Candidate Janet Schroeder for winning the Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women Grant for Research on Women, Gender, and Gender Equality for her project, "Staging…
Ohio State student shows impact dance can have on children with autism
The children at Bridgeway Academy — a Columbus non-profit organization that focuses on meeting the educational and…
The Department of Dance congratulates the following dance students for receiving Undergraduate Research Scholarship Awards from the Arts Honors Advisors of the College of Arts and Sciences for…
Congratulations to the following Department of Dance graduate students who recently presented their work at the 31st Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum, which "showcases the innovative and…
Harmony Bench, assistant professor of dance, was honored with the 2017 Virginia Hull Research Award for Scholarship in the Humanities. Read more >>>
Ohio State Dance Academic Program Coordinator Amy Schmidt was one of six staff members in the Ohio State College of Arts and Sciences to win the 2017 ASC Outstanding Staff Award. Divisional Dean,…
Class Cards are now on sale for May Session 2017
May Session is four weeks:
Weeks 1 & 2 = May 8-May 19
in 290 during Week 1
in 390 during Week 2
MWF (4:00pm-5:30pm)…
Monday, May 8, 2017 - 1:00pm to 4:00pm Wednesday, May 10, 2017 - 1:00pm to 4:00pm Friday, May 12, 2017 - 1:00pm to 4:00pm 290 Sullivant Hall
"A $1.1 million grant to the Division of Arts and Humanities last spring called for pilot projects that would advance the Theme’s three overarching pillars, while identifying signature areas of…
Mimi Lamantia pursued a BFA in the Department of Dance as an undergraduate. She received a Pelotonia Fellowship to study the intersection of dance and medicine, specifically how…
Improvisational dance relies on technology, audience
By Kayleen Petrovia
Most people attend a dance show to watch the performers. But Secret Frolic Live will let…
Senior Concert
Thursday, March 2 – Saturday, March 4, 2017
Barnett Theatre, Sullivant Hall, 1813 N. High St.
Performance Times:…
Department of Dance showcases student choreography in winter concert
Dance students get to take control of their own destiny in their upcoming concert by choreographing their own pieces.
Lise Worthen-Chaudhari, research assistant professor, College of Medicine, combined her passion for biomechanics and dance to develop a revolutionary new therapy that inspires physical…
‘She knows how dancers think, how they live ... ’ — Dr. Christopher Kaeding
Hope Davis-Coen, an athletic trainer at the Jameson Crane Sports Medicine Institute (and former dancer), explains…
2016 Department of Dance BFA graduate and Pelotonia fellowship recipient, Mini Lamantia, and her research to use dance as a therapeutic tool to help those going through chemotherapy has made The…
Vera (Vickie) Jaffee Blaine died peacefully in her sleep December 26, 2016, at her home surrounded by loved ones. She is survived by her beloved daughter Martha Kaylor, her son-in-law Mike and…
OSU Dance mourns the loss of MaDonna Grimes, a 1984 graduate of our program, who passed away earlier this month after a courageous battle with cancer. A native of Knoxville, Tennessee and raised…
What does it look like to prep for one of OSU Dance's biggest events of the year? Let our faculty and students show you.
Dance Downtown 2016 from Department of Dance, OSU on Vimeo.
This week, The Ohio State University Department of Dance is celebrating Professor Emerita Lucy Venable, who turns 90 on November 28. We’re also taking this time to reflect on Lucy's legacy at OSU…
The Ohio State University presents Dance Downtown 2016 on Friday, Nov. 11 and Saturday, Nov. 12, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Davidson Theatre, Riffe Center, 77 South High St., Columbus, OH 43215…
OSU Dance students will perform October 6 and 27 in Black Mountain MinEvent, a presentation from the Wexner Center for the Arts’ latest exhibition, Leap Before You Look: Black…
DEPARTMENT OF DANCE POSITION OPENING
The Department of Dance at The Ohio State University seeks a dance professional who is actively engaged in a combination of…
Dr. Susan Chess (Music Supervisor in OSU Dance) and MFA students Kristina D’Onofrio and Joshua Manculich were featured performers in the TEDxOhioStateUniversity event on March 5 at Mershon…
The Department of Dance, the Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise, and the student organization Odissi at Ohio State (O2) jointly hosted the South Asian Dance Retreat 2016 (SADR), a…
OSU Dance students are performing on the Dance Stage at the Columbus Arts Festival, Friday June 10 (11:00-12:00). There are six new works by choreographers and dancers collaborating in this…
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2016-17 Dance Preservation Fund Awards:
Nena Couch: Dance Notation Bureau Oral History Archives
Dave Ralley:
OSU Dance Associate Professor Mitchell Rose has spent the last two years on his new film, Exquisite Corps. It's a chain love letter to dance for which he enrolled 42 well-known…
A new duet by choreographed by MFA student Anna Brown Massey with MFA student Biag Gaongen was selected by Contemporary Dance Theater to premier in the Area Choreographers Festival June 3rd and…
OSU Dance mourns the loss of noted Dance Author and Scholar Nona Schurman, at age 106, on May 10th, 2016. Ms. Schurman authored the book Modern Dance Fundamentals. She was an authority on Humphrey…
The publication of Volume 6 of the International Journal of Screendance: Field Perceptions is now online.
This issue is co-edited by Harmony Bench (Assistant Professor in the…
Dianne Mcintyre continues to influence the artform of modern contemporary dance. For over forty years she has brought her quiet strength and sharp wit to the stage, producing works that combine…
Rodney Veal (MFA '10) was honored at last weekend's Ohio Dance Festival for outstanding contributions to the advancement of the dance art form. Veal, an independent choreographer and…
Professor Susan Van Pelt Petry was honored at last weekend's Ohio Dance Festival for outstanding contributions to the advancement of dance education. Of the award, Petry says, "I have been working…
Dr. Harmony Bench, Assistant Professor in the Department of Dance, is one of six recipients of a prestigious 2016 Batelle Engineering, Technology, and Human Affairs (BETHA) Endowment grant. BETHA…
Dr. Melanye White Dixon, associate professor, received a $4,000 Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women Grant for her research project “Black Body Between the Lines: Mary Hinkson Dancing Graham…
Announcing the 2016-2017 Dance Preservation Fund Award Call for Applications
Overview
The Dance Preservation Fund was established in…
Dr. Melayne White Dixon, associate professor in the Department of Dance, was honored at April 4th's Faculty Recognition Reception. This reception celebrates The Ohio State University faculty who…
By Paige St. John
This year, the Department of Dance has welcomed Bessie award winner Eddie Taketa onto the Faculty as a visiting artist. Taketa has spent this past semester and a half…
At this year’s OhioDance Festival and Conference (“Dance Matters: Paving Possibilities”, taking place April 22-24), Professor Susan Van Pelt Petry will be given an award for outstanding…
Souleymane ‘Solo’ Badolo is a Brooklyn-based choreographer and dancer born in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. He visits OSU Dance on Friday April 8th to teach masterclasses in…
From March 5-8, 2016, Department of Dance BFAs and MFAs attended the American College Dance Association Regional Conference at Western Michigan University. Students took classes, taught classes,…
Professor Karen Eliot received the OSU Distinguished Teaching Award on Thursday, March 24 when her ballet technique class was interrupted by a surprise visit from Provost Bruce McPheron,…
Story by Paige St. John
On February 26th, 2016, fourth-year doctorate candidate Kaustavi Sarkar received first place at the Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum for her project…
Dr. Susan Chess (Music Supervisor in OSU Dance) and MFA students Kristina D’Onofrio and Joshua Manculich will be featured performers in the TEDxOhioStateUniversity event on March 5 at Mershon…
In March 2016 Susan Hadley, Chair of the OSU Department of Dance, will lead a group of eleven dance majors to Salvador, Brazil to perform, study and engage in cultural exchange activities. Hadley…
Many have expressed condolences and shared their appreciation for Professor Emeritus Dr Vera Maletic. The collection of kind words follows:
“I was just talking about her with my dance…
The Ohio State University Department of Dance is pleased to welcome back BFA alum Katie Vickers to teach and perform. One of our guest artists for January of 2016, Katie will share her work…
Teena Marie Custer, a street dance artist and practitioner based in Pittsburgh, PA, has been commissioned to set her original work, The Shadow Walk on a select ensemble…
Choreographer and MFA Alum Chien-Ying Wang returns to set a piece on nine OSU dancers for the upcoming winter concert. Benevolence examines the power and strength of communal bonding and…
Associate Professor Mitchell Rose has just released his latest work online; a sci-fi comedy drone short film entitled Targeted Advertising. This dance-film was shot by the department two…
OSU Dance is sad to share the news of the passing of Jessica L Wilt,(MFA ’02). She began her career as a dancer and musician, eventually realizing she wanted to contribute to the arts…
With heavy hearts, we share the news that Helen Alkire passed away early Saturday morning, November 14, 2015, in her home on the Alkire farm in Orient, Ohio.
Helen…
OSU Alum Randy Skinner returns to Ohio State to teach a jazz dance class for dance and theatre students on Friday November 13th. He is an award-winning director, choreographer, and performer whose…
With heavy hearts, we mourn the passing of Dr. Vera Maletic. Vera served the OSU Department of Dance as a faculty member from 1977 to 2000. An internationally renowned dance scholar, Vera wrote…
Kinga Szemessy, a Hungarian dancer and choreographer, visits OSU Dance this fall as an ArtsLink fellow. She has training in classical ballet, contemporary dance, contact improvisation, Hungarian…
OSU Dance mourns the loss of Cheri Mitchell, former Executive Director of Ballet Met. Our condolences to her family, friends, and the Central Ohio arts community, which she served throughout her…
The Department of Dance expresses condolences to the family of Jon Woods, professor emeritus in the School of Music and long-time director of The Ohio State University Marching Band.
The…
The Department of Dance is excited to announce that Faculty member Mitchell Rose has been promoted to Associate Professor. Rose leads the department's dance film program, bringing together his…
Department of Dance Associate Professor Norah Zuniga Shaw was selected to provide guidance to the Arts and Humanities Discovery Initiative. She is one of five faculty leaders who are working in…
Congratulations to 2015 Princess Grace Award Winner Josh Manculich! An emerging choreographer and MFA candidate in the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University, Manculich loves the…
Susan Hadley has been named chair of The Ohio State University Department of Dance. She succeeds Susan Van…
The Ohio State University and the Departments of Arts Administration, Education and Policy, Dance, Design, Music and Theatre, and the Office for Disability Services are hosting an Arts and Autism…
Odissi Dance Workshop led by Kaustavi Sarkar
Workshop Fri. July 10 to Thurs. July 23, 2015
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CONGRATULATIONS to OSU Dance alumna Dianne McIntyre who received a Doris Duke Impact Award this June. This award is part of the larger Doris Duke Performing…
Congratulations to PhD student Lyndsey Vader, who placed second in the graduate division of the Charlotte Roth Memorial Fund Essay Contest. The scholarship, administered by The Ohio State…
Helen Alkire, founder of OSU Dance will turn 100 years old on Saturday May 30th. A party in her honor will be held here at Sullivant Hall on that day. The festivities will begin at 1pm with…
Congratulations to Sarah Levitt (MFA '16) on her selection as an Albert Schweitzer Fellow.
Levitt's project "is addressing the health and wellness of senior citizens in Columbus by creating…
Throughout the spring, Jonathan Capps, MFA student in the Department of Art, did an independent study with Professor Dave Covey, internationally known for his lighting design, to experiment with…
The Department of Dance is excited to welcome Daniel Roberts to Ohio State as a new Assistant Professor in Autumn 2015.
Daniel Roberts, originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, began…
Movement Research is one of the world's leading laboratories for the investigation of dance and movement-based forms. Valuing the individual artist, their creative process and their vital role…
Dr. Susan Chess, Music Supervisor for the Department of Dance was one of twelve honorees that received Distinguished Staff awards for the 2014-15 academic year at an award luncheon on Monday May…
The Pelotonia Undergraduate Fellowship Program provides one-year research fellowships to the best and brightest Ohio State University undergraduate students who want to help cure cancer. Cancer is…
On March 30, Professor Bebe Miller launched Dance Fort: A History, an interactive e-book available through The Ohio State University's Digital Bookstore. Developed with support from the…
On Monday, April 6, PhD candidate Michael J. Morris was awarded the Graduate Associate Teaching Award, The Ohio State University's highest recognition of the exceptional teaching of its graduate…
Dana Schafer (BFA '15) has been awarded Honorable Mention (4th) at the 2015 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum, for her poster presentation "Community dance: developing creative problem solvers…
Jessica Wilt, MFA '02, has been featured on Buckeye Voices, the university's blog featuring stories on senior leaders, alumni, faculty, students and staff.
Jessica was also featured in an…
Melanye White Dixon, associate professor, Department of Dance, received the 2015 International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD) Educator/Scholar Award at the 27th annual IABD conference and…
Ann Sofie Clemmensen, currently a lecturer in the Department of Dance, has accepted the position of Three Year Visiting Assistant Professor. Clemmensen received her MFA in Dance at OSU in 2013 and…
