FACULTY
Winter 2023
- 3 Professors
- 2 Associate Professors
- 1 Acting Assistant Professor
- 1 Artist in Residence
- 1 Affiliate Professor
- 4 Affiliate Assistant Professors
- 2 Emeritus Professors
- 10-12 Part-Time Lecturers
Recent Department of Dance faculty and staff honors and grants include:
- Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship
- CityArtist Grant by the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs
- Distinguished Staff Award
- Donald E. Petersen Endowed Professorship (2)
- Erasmus + Erasmus Mundus Grant for Visiting Scholars
- Floyd and Delores Jones Endowed Chair in the Arts
- Floyd and Delores Jones Endowed Professorship in the Arts
- John and Joyce Price Award of Excellence
- Kreielsheimer Research Grant (3) and Travel Grant
- Mellon Foundation Fellow (2)
- NEA Artworks grant for $10,000
- Research Mentorship Award
- Seattle Dance Crush Award (2)
- Simpson Center for the Humanities Conferences and Colloquia Grant
- SmART Ventures Grant, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture
- USArtist Fellowship nomination (for 2020)
OUTREACH
The department produces four concerts annually for the campus community and the greater Puget Sound community:
- Chamber Dance Company
Contemporary and historical modern dance works performed by the UW’s resident professional dance company - UW Dance Presents
Performance and choreography by UW Dance faculty and guest artists - Dance Majors Concert
Choreography by undergraduate dance majors - MFA Concert
Choreography by MFA candidates on our undergraduate students, often in collaboration with graduate students from other disciplines
The bst Residency program provides Seattle artists with free space without the pressure that accompanies commissioned works or performance deadlines.
In collaboration with Velocity Dance Center, the department provides an alum 45 hours of rehearsal space annually for The Bridge Project, which supports emerging artists.
The department hosts numerous guest artists throughout the year and makes this opportunity available to other departments and the Seattle community.
The (Glenn) Kawasaki Guest Artist residency enables selected artists each year to conduct outreach as part of their time in residence.
Faculty are regularly asked to volunteer to curate, moderate for post- performance talks, teach master classes, and sit on boards and committees locally and nationally.
The department provides space for special projects such as a recent On the Boards film project involving artists Dani Tirrell and Zoe Scofield.