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Archiving Black Performance: Memory, Embodiment, and Stages of Being
Ohio State Dance’s Dance Notation Bureau Extension Center for Education and Research, The Office of Diversity and Inclusion’s Frank W. Hale, Jr. Black Cultural Center; and the African…

Virtual Student Choreography Showcase
Join us with the Dancers in Graduate School (DiGS) as we celebrate and uplift the creative voices and artistic growth of the Ohio State dance community; featuring student video…

Van Pelt Petry on turning COVID-19 into 19ChoreOVIDs
When Department of Dance Professor Susan Van Pelt Petry began working from home due to the pandemic, her interest in staying hopeful as an artist led her to begin creating 19…

tethering: iteration 1 - an Ohio State Dance MFA Project
Ohio State Dance presents “tethering: iteration 1,” a full moon walking tour of dance works that engages with how we share performance in a Covid world. Guiding the audience through…

All the Campus is a Stage
Students in Susan Van Pelt Petry's Composition II class performed their site-specific works around campus on October 22, highlighting the many flexible pandemic-friendly performance spaces…

Dancers Performing With Sonic Arts Ensemble Performs "Into The Multiverse"
Join us in the multiverse for an evening of sonic emersion and visual poetics on Tuesday, November 10th from 7:00–8:00 PM.
Directed by Marc Ainger (Music/ACCAD) and Fede Cámara Halac (…

Creative Action on Climate
Efforts across the University are converging to provoke action on climate crisis and invent collaborative ways forward in uncertain times. ASCENT 2020 magazine, highlights Prof. Norah Zuniga-Shaw'…

No longer there
The dances that may have been, the arms unembraced, the air clear of breath, the unindulged closeness. Staying within the eye sight. A time capsule of the past whispers through the space, the…

Ohio State Alumni Magazine Article: Saying ‘I am not racist’ is not enough
AS TOLD TO BROOKE PRESTON
Ohio State Alumni Magazine
Choreographer and dance professor Susan Van Pelt Petry describes being moved to action by the death of George Floyd, and she…