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February 20, 2025

MFA Film Screening: The Top Deck

The Motion Lab at ACCAD, Sullivant Hall Room 350

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February 20, 2025

MFA Concert: Unstable Footing

Barnett Theatre, Sullivant Hall, 1813 N. High Street, Columbus, OH 43210

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February 21, 2025

MFA Film Screening: The Top Deck

The Motion Lab at ACCAD, Sullivant Hall Room 350

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February 21, 2025

MFA Concert: Unstable Footing

Barnett Theatre, Sullivant Hall, 1813 N. High Street, Columbus, OH 43210

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February 13, 2025

PhD Student Sidra Bell featured in Dance Magazine

How Pivoting to Choreographing Full-Time Changed 3 Former Dancers’ Lives, Creative Processes, and Work
by Lauren Wingenroth

Excerpt: "After years away from the stage, Bell recently started…

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February 10, 2025

Emerita Professor Melanye White Dixon's essay and afterword published

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…

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February 6, 2025

Pachanga E Poder: A Latinx, Latin American and Caribbean Social Dance Incubator

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 event brings…

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February 4, 2025

Professor Cervera joins FUSION as an artist in residence for 2025

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…

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Bebe Miller

Emerita Professor

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Lecturer

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Karen Eliot

Emerita Professor

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Hannah Kosstrin

Associate Professor

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