| Professor White Dixon began her professional dance preparation at the Dance Theatre of Harlem and as a merit scholarship recipient at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center. She is an accomplished performer and has worked as an independent artist in New York City, performed with the Hudson River Dance Gathering, and was a featured choreographer, performer, and master teacher for the International Festival of Dance Academies at the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts in Wan Chai, China. Professor White Dixon serves on the Board of Directors for the American Dance Guild and recently served as an education consultant for the National Afro-American Museum's touring exhibit When the Spirit Moves: The Africanization of American Dance. She maintains an active schedule presenting research at national dance conferences and promoting dance in the public schools. Professor White Dixon has received several grants for her research including a 1997 Critical Difference for Women Professional Development Award and a 1996 College of the Arts Faculty Development Grant for research in multimedia computer technology for dance documentation. She has done extensive research on African-American women in concert dance, and her work has been published in SAGE, a scholarly journal on African-American women; the Dance Research Journal and the International Encyclopedia of Dance. She is the author Black Women in Concert Dance: The Philadelphia Divas in the anthology Black Women in America and her dissertation study on a master ballet teacher Marion Cujet was cited in Judith Jamison's autobiography, Dancing Spirit. She was recently invited to be a contributing writer for Harvard University's African American National Biography Project.
education
EdD in Dance Education, Temple University
MA from Columbia University
BA from Spelman College
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