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Emerita Professor Melanye White Dixon's essay and afterword published

February 10, 2025

Emerita Professor Melanye White Dixon's essay and afterword published

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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 published in the extremely inclusive Border Crossings: Exile and American Modern Dance. This book is the companion publication for exhibit Border Crossings: Exile and American Modern Dance, 1900–1955 that was on display at the The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in Lincoln Center in New York City June 8, 2023–March 16, 2024.

Dr. Dixon also wrote the afterword for Skin Colored Pointes Interviews With Women of Color in Ballet  by current Ohio State Dance Associate Professor Nyama McCarthy-Brown.