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Kate Elswit and Harmony Bench Awarded Arts and Humanities Research Council Grant
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 awarded over £566,000 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for their research project
Susan Van Pelt Petry Wins Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award
Board members of the Ohio Arts Council (OAC) approved Individual Excellence Awards for state fiscal year 2018 during a public meeting on April 25.
Misty Copeland Masterclass and Talk
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 April 2, 2018.
BFA Dance Student Coal Rietenbach's Dance Film Selected for Wexner Center Ohio Shorts Festival
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, but develops into a conflict between a human and a TV,” said Rietenbach.
Ohio State Dance welcomes Dr. Nyama McCarthy-Brown
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 students working in Columbus neighborhoods, and direct the School Tour Group. Dr.
MFA Student Brianna Rae Johnson's Dance Film Selected for Screenings
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.