News
Fall 2026: Week 5 September 24, 2026
Department News and Events Guest Artist YNOT: Lecture/Demonstration and Showing Fri, September 25, 2026 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Barnett Theatre, Sullivant Hall Join…
Archives and Heartbreaks: Piecing Together the Lost Lives of Baghdadi Jewish Actresses in Early Hindi Cinema
Speaker: Dr. Manjari Mukherjee, President’s…
Fall 2026: Week 4 September 16, 2026
Department News and Events Sizzle Session for Prospective BFA and Minor Students Wed, September 23, 2026 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Zoom Are you ready to ignite your…
From the stage to the page... 🩰📖✨ After a showing of Fabrications at City Center, Professor Daniel Roberts celebrated a signing of "The Artistry of Merce Cunningham: Choreography, Technique,…
Faculty research is fire!
Here is a teaser from Improving Motion Modeling with Dance Expertise for Archiving and Analysis, funded by a 2026 @schmidtsciences Humanities and AI (HAVI) development…
Belonging in Motion How Students Experience Inclusion in Dance in Higher Education Authors Karen Schupp
Arizona State University, United States …
Professors Alfonso Abraham Cervera and Irvin Manuel Gonzalez continue to build national recognition for their collaborative choreographic research with "Las Rosas Que Enter(r)amos…
Professor Zbikowski's company Abby Z and the New Utility premiered "Radioactive Practice" at Domaine d'O – Théâtre Jean-Claude Carrière, as part of the Montpellier Danse festival in France on June…
Ohio State's Department of Dance mourns the loss of Emerita Professor Dr. Sheila Marion, who died on June 22, 2026. Professor Marion served as director of the Dance Notation Bureau Extension for…
Associate Professor Hannah Kosstrin has published her second book, Kinesthetic Peoplehood: Jewish Diasporic Dance Migrations (Oxford University Press, 2026). Kinesthetic Peoplehood…
Season 4 Eposode 1 · A State of Dance
Dancing Diasporas: Tracing Migration Through Movement with Dr. Hannah Kosstrin
You can now listen to the OhioDance Podcasts on …
An anthology conceived and co-edited by Hilary Bergen, Eric Mullis, PhD Dance Student Benjamin Simon, and Sydney Skybetter, "Robot Theaters: Collisions in Performance and Social Robotics" has just…
In the article, Dance Lecturer Joyelle Fobbs Weaver discusses the connections between interoception and balance and shares ways of integrating these concepts with teaching the Pilates method. "I’m…
Charles Anderson, a professor in the Department of Dance and Ohio State's 2026-27 artist laureate, was recently featured in an article by The Columbus…
For the past 15 months I have had the distinct pleasure of being a guest in the Department of Dance in the role of interim chair. During this time, I have learned why the department has long been…
The Program 60 team and the College of Arts and Sciences selected MFA Student Shaela Davis for the 2026 Friend of Program 60 Award. This award, its inaugural year, is being granted to five…
Ohio State's Office of Outreach and Engagement selected Assistant Professor Alfonso Cervera's research project "Transnational Folklórico Exchange: Community-Engaged Knowledge Sharing Between Ohio…
Assistant Professor Kym McDaniel recently received several awards for her films, including a Juror Honorable Mention at the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Best of Theme at the West Virginia…
Balanced Body International published the article "Balance and the Systems That Drive It," by Lecturer Joyelle Weaver on April 25, 2026. The piece explores balance in Pilates training through a…
The Global Arts + Humanities announced MFA Student Shaela Davis and Professor Momar Ndiaye as part of their 2026-27 Society of Fellows Faculty and Graduate Team Fellows awards. …
Under the mentorship of faculty advisors Dr. Hannah Kosstrin and Eddie Taketa, BFA Student Lindsey Beatty presented her research, "FIGS (Feminal InGlorius Surrender) An Embodied Study of Personal…
MFA Student Celia Benvenutti is the recipient of this year’s Graduate Award in Religion, Spirituality, and the Arts from The Ohio State University’s Center for the Study of Religion. The award…
PhD Student Zihao Yuan received an honorable mention for the arts at the Edward F. Hayes Advanced Research Forum on March 6th, 2026 for his oral presentation, "Recentering the Cultural & Gender…
CUNY Dance Initiative announced performances of Assistant Professor Gerson Lanza in "To Dance Is To Be Free."
Dates: 5/14/2026 - 5/15/2026
📍 Theatre: CUNY Dance Initiative
129 Convent Ave…
70 years ago, this Jewish choreographer predicted our epidemic of loneliness and isolation
‘Rooms,’ which premiered in 1955, was inspired by the Lower East Side tenements of Anna Sokolow’s youth…
The Ohio State University has selected Anderson, professor in the Department of Dance, as its 2026–27 Artist Laureate.
Anderson will begin a one-year appointment on July 1, 2026.
Columbus Dance Theatre commissioned PhD Student Sidra Bell for a new work for their professional ensemble company. In residence from March 30-April 4, 2026, Bell worked with them on a new piece…
BOOST dance festival featured PhD Student and Graduate Fellow Zihao Yuan's newest solo work with other Seattle contemporary dance artists, March 27 - 29, 2026 @ eXit SPACE | NOD Theater.
Congratulations to MFA Dance Candidate jiara sha as LIMINAL (LMNL) selected her dance film, "s o f t e d g e s m a l l d a n c e" for their dance film festival presented by Orange Grove Dance +…
Dr. Valarie Williams and Ambre Emory-Maier served as consultants for the George Balanchine Trust during Paul Boos' staging of the iconic ballet, Serenade, on the Cincinnati Ballet for…
The Department of Dance at The Ohio State University is proud to share that Assistant Professors Alfonso Abraham Cervera and Dr. Irvin Manuel Gonzalez have been invited to present their evening…
Overview
The Dance Preservation Fund was established in 1994 to further the recording of dance, supporting projects dealing with Labanotation or other notation systems, movement analysis,…
Alighting from the Air
Tamara Karsavina, Dancer and Writer
By Emerita Professor Karen Eliot
Published by Oxford University Press
Hardcover
Published: 16 March 2026
240 Pages |…
The Office of Outreach and Engagement selected Assistant Professor Alfonso Cervera for a 2026 Community Engaged Scholar Award for outstanding achievement in producing engaged scholarship and…
BFA in Dance Students Malaika Burke, Anya Huth and Tess Scearbo presented their work at the 31st Annual Richard J. and Martha D. Denman…
The College of Arts and Sciences selected Associate Professor Abby Zbikowski to receive a 2025-2026 ASC Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award, which recognizes outstanding performance in all three…