Olivia DrakeChoreographer Hari Krishnan, artist in residence of dance, will present his first New York season with his company inDANCE in New York City. Performers include Julie Neuspiel '09 and Emily Watts '03; and musician Aaron Paige, music graduate student. The evening features five works choreographed by Krishnan. With dancers of diverse personal and training backgrounds, inDANCE strives toward "radical innovation in the extraction of post modern dance vocabulary from contemporary Bharatanatyam and classic modern dance with an uncompromising standard of excellence." The company’s socio-political consciousness characterize the repertoire and its approach to dance-making. inDANCE is a Toronto-based Canadian company, that…
Suzanna Tamminen, director of Wesleyan University Press, received a "2008 Outstanding Service to Dance Research" award from the Congress on Research in Dance (CORD). The CORD Awards were established in 1995 to recognize excellence in the field, contribute to motivating further research, and signal to the scholarly world at large that the works and individuals recognized are highly valued by those involved in dance research.
Katja Kolcio, associate professor of dance, is co-author of "Faking It: The Necessary Blind Spots of Understanding" in the journal Cultural Theory-Critical Methodologies 9:2, published in May 2009. Kolcio wrote this article in collaboration with Wesleyan dance major, Ellen Gerdes '06. Gerdes is currently doing graduate studies in dance at Temple University.
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