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Omari ‘Motion’ Carter is a screendance practitioner, body percussionist and hip-hop dance culture aficionado born and raised in London, England. After graduating with a First Class BA (Hons) degree in Performing Arts at London Metropolitan University, Carter went on to perform for 7 years in the West End and international touring productions of ‘Stomp!’. Where his …
Download CV Li Chiao-Ping Dance Li Chiao-Ping has been praised by critics in the New York Times, Village Voice, Dance Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and San Francisco Bay Guardian, calling her work “…marvelously imaginative…engrossing, intelligently put-together piece of work.” As a performer, Dance Magazine said “Li Chiao-Ping in performance is a case of the dancer transcending the dance…When Li’s onstage, you don’t want …
San Francisco native Bradford Chin (he/they/Bradford) is a Chicago- and San Francisco-based disabled dance artist & methodologist, accessibility cultural strategist, and artistic audio describer. Their personhood and artistry are shaped by a love for chosen family (both blood-related and not) and their deep familial roots in San Francisco. He comes from a family of artist-activists …
Download CV http://www.peggychoydance.com/ Peggy Choy (MFA, MS, MA) is Associate Professor of Dance & Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches courses including, Asian American Movement and Afro-Asian Improv: From Hip-Hop to Martial Arts Fusion. Choy is a dancer, choreographer, and artistic director of Peggy Choy Dance, and founder of The Ki Project, Inc., supporting creative …
katecorbydance.com movementminutes.com “Compelling” and “full of gestured conflict and impish daring” (Chicago Tribune), Kate Corby’s dance works have been seen extensively in the Midwest, New York, California, Seattle, Atlanta and internationally in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Taiwan and Hungary, where she traveled as a Fulbright fellow. Corby, featured in Dance Magazine as one of six choreographers “on the cusp of …
Download CV Andrea Harris has been a faculty member in the UW-Madison Dance Department since 2009. She teaches courses in dance history, dance studies, and movement analysis. Andrea is the author of Making Ballet American: Modernism Before and Beyond Balanchine (Oxford University Press, 2017), named a 2018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. She is also the editor of Before, Between, Beyond: Three …
Download CV Chris Walker is a professor of dance and founding artistic director of the First Wave program in the Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the co-artistic director for the #BARS Workshop at The Public Theatre in NYC, a lab series for artists to investigate the intersection between contemporary …
Download CV http://www.wda-ap.org/ Jin-Wen Yu, EdD & MFA, Patrick M. Virginia Horne Henry-Bascom Professor of Dance, and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the UW-Madison Dance Department, has created, performed, directed, and produced more than 100 works in the Americas and Asia, including 45 commissioned works for professionals and institutes. Before his study in the USA, he …
CVwww.nataliezervou.com Natalie Zervou is a dance studies scholar and ethnographer whose work focuses on the intersection between dance practices and the socio-political sphere. She is an affiliate at the Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies Program at UW Madison. Her manuscript Choreographing the Greek Crisis: Performing National Identity in the Age of Austerity explores the ways that dancing bodies negotiate national …