OSU Dance

02/10/2025

Emerita Professor Melanye White Dixon's essay and afterword published

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.

Dr.

02/07/2025

PACHANGA E PODER: A LATINX, LATIN AMERICAN, AND CARIBBEAN SOCIAL DANCE INCUBATOR
MARCH 18-22

Developed by Department of Dance Assistant Professors Irvin Manuel Gonzalez and Alfonso Cervera, Pachanga e Poder is community-driven research incubator. The event brings together artists, activists, scholars, and dancers to investigate the multiple intersections within Latinx, Latin American, and Caribbean social dance forms, analyzing social dance as social justice. The incubator hosts experimentations with aesthetics, sensibilities, ontologies, ecologies, and knowledges located in social dance forms that emerge from African and Latin American diasporas to consider how these intersections have emerged as and continue to foster tools for resistance, power, belonging, and justice. Between March 19-21, bodies will convene to analyze and cite connections in social, folk, and spiritual dance forms from Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Haiti, and Puerto Rico, digitally archive artistic experimentations, and theorize the im/material spaces revealed in the practice of dancing. Invited artists/activists/scholars include Beatrice Capote, Alfonso Cervera, Dr. Colette Eloi, Carne Viva Dance Theatre (Chachi Pérez & Lazco), Irvin Manuel Gonzalez, Marina Magalhães, Jade Power-Sotomayor, OSU students, and more!

Join us between March 18th and 22nd for workshops that are free and open to the public.

The incubator culminates with a public presentation on March 21st at 7:30pm in ACCAD’S Motion Lab located on the third floor of Sullivant Hall. This open community sharing invites participants to witness and share in the week’s findings, intersections, play, and experimentations.

This event is funded by the Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme Grant and the Ohio Hispanic Heritage Grant, with support from The Ohio State University Department of Dance, the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, the Latinx Studies Program and the Center for Latin American Studies.

March 18 - 22, 2025

02/06/2025

Post-MFA Fellow Ryan Johnson (Ryan Johnson) is providing an opportunity for OSU Dance students to engage with his company SOLE Defined () for a seven week internship for those interested in non-profit leadership, and art education leadership. Apply Today!

02/06/2025

Save the date for "Medicine Poems & Confessions for Every Apocalypse," a performance with the performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. They'll present medicine poems, rituals, and confessions to incite resistance and resilience in the face of every apocalypse. March 1st at 7:30 pm in the Blackbox Theatre in Sullivant Hall. Find more information: https://bit.ly/4gw1MDg
Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University Arts and Sciences at Ohio State
OSU Dance

02/05/2025

Professor Ann Cooper Albright to give Performative Reading of Simone Forti: improvising a life
March 19, 2025
2:45PM - 4:15PM
Sullivant Hall 225, 1813 N. High Street, Columbus, OH 43210

Free an open to the public
With support from: Department of Dance, Melton Center for Jewish Studies

A dancer, scholar, and a 2019-2020 John Simon Memorial Guggenheim fellow, Ann Cooper Albright is professor at the Department of Dance at Oberlin College. Simone Forti: improvising a life is her latest book. She is also co-editor, with David Gere, of Taken by Surprise: Improvisation in Dance and Mind. She is a veteran practitioner of Contact Improvisation, has taught workshops internationally, and facilitated Critical Mass: CI @ 50 which brought 300 dancers to Oberlin from across the world to learn, talk, and dance together in celebration of the 50th anniversary of this extraordinary form. Encounters with Contact Improvisation is the product of one of her adventures in writing and dancing and dancing and writing with others, as is the new collection Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50.

A dancer, scholar, and a 2019-2020 John Simon Memorial Guggenheim fellow, Ann Cooper Albright is professor at the Department of Dance at Oberlin College. Simone Forti: improvising a life is

02/04/2025

MFA Concert: Unstable Footing
February 20-22, 2025
Tickets: https://dance.osu.edu/events/mfa-concert-unstable-footing
Featuring PALIMPSEST by Alisha Jihn

Drawing from personal and collective intercultural encounters, PALIMPSEST meditates upon ideas of hybridity. Evoking images of what is found within and betwixt culture, human and creature, physical and digital, each dancer's movements and pathways layer and create meaning. Thus, the choreography mimics a manuscript where each layer of embodied text cannot exist without the others and insistently communicates that new understanding lives within this integration.

02/04/2025

Professor Cervera will join FUSION for a three-week residency, during which he will create a new work premiering in Japan in 2025. This piece will explore the intertwined histories of Japan and Mexico through the choreographic lens of the Poc-Chuc technique. By blending cultural narratives, theories of queered humanism, and movement, the work will reimagine methods of migration and uncover shared experiences of displacement and connection.

Professor Cervera will join FUSION for a three-week residency, during which he will create a new work premiering in Japan in 2025. This piece will explore the intertwined histories of Japan and Mexico through the choreographic lens of the Poc-Chuc technique. By blending cultural narratives, theories...

02/03/2025

MFA Concert: Unstable Footing
February 20-22, 2025
Tickets: https://dance.osu.edu/events/mfa-concert-unstable-footing
Featuring soft belly/steel by Lucy Dillon

soft belly/steel is a group work in which six dancers work collaboratively through a structure of games and competitive tasks, playing within an invisible, kinetic logic. Moving through states of power, precarity, delicacy, and brutishness – the collective performing body exposes the precarious tendrils of support that connect bodies together to create structures of survival.

02/03/2025

Dancing the Diaspora Series

01/31/2025

Buckeye Nation, please join us in giving your warmest Scarlet and Gray welcome to all the dancers auditioning for our BFA in Dance program today and tomorrow! O-H!

01/30/2025

Resilient Rhythms: Honoring Black Voices in Dance

🗓February 15, 2025
⏱ 7:00PM - 8:00PM
📍Barnett Theatre, Sullivant Hall, 1813 N. High Street, Columbus, OH 43210

The Department of Dance is thrilled to present Resilient Rhythms: Honoring Black Voices in Dance, a powerful Black History Month Celebration that shines a spotlight on the history, artistry, and contributions of Black dance worldwide. This event honors the trailblazing Black dance leaders who have shaped the art form and amplifies the voices of Black artists within our student body, faculty and the broader community.

FREE ADMISSION

01/28/2025

Guests may use code CELEBRATE! at registration for free admission.

Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) After Hours: Honoring Black Creativity and Culture
January 30, 2025
6:00–8:00 PM
Location: CMA

Join The Ohio State University Department of Dance at CMA After Hours: Honoring Black Creativity and Culture! 🩰✨
📆 Thursday, January 30 | 🕒 6–8 PM
📍 Columbus Museum of Art

Catch our performance of Four Corners, choreographed by Ronald K. Brown and originally commissioned by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, at 6:30 PM. 🎶 Don’t miss this incredible evening of art, music, and community!

01/28/2025

Unstable Footing is a mixed-bill dance concert that dreams and reimagines next steps in embodied movement. It showcases the culminating dance MFA projects of Isa Bowser, Lucy Dillon, and Alisha Jihn
When: February 20-22, 2025 at 7:30pm
Where: Barnett Theatre at The Ohio State University
Tickets: dance.osu.edu/events

Eating Flowers Eating is a duet between Isa Bowser and Ben Roach as they morph into and out of life and death, singularity and multiplicity. Immersed in a subterranean world, the dancers migrate through visceral physicalities of plants, animals, and webs of energy, propelled by an urgent desire to sense the tangled aliveness within which we are all enmeshed.

01/27/2025

Students from the course Creative Technologies with instructor Lexi Clark-Stilianos visited the Emerging Tech Studio (ETS) to explore VR headsets, 3-D scanning, 360 video cameras, and more while thinking about thier possibilities for integrated digital dance projects.

01/24/2025

Alexander will be talking to current students at his alma mater Ohio University about a career in the arts.

01/22/2025

Congratulations Associate Professor Daniel Roberts! 💧💦❄️

Waters is a 16-minute video dance filmed at Vatnasafn (the Library of Waters) in Stykkishólmur, Iceland, features an international cast and consists of choreographic material from the performance Are we Ok?, which premiered in Iceland in 2021, as a dance-music performance in Harpa Concert Hall in R...

01/22/2025

Join The Ohio State University Department of Dance at CMA After Hours: Honoring Black Creativity and Culture! 🩰✨
📆 Thursday, January 30 | 🕒 6–8 PM
📍 Columbus Museum of Art

Catch our performance of Four Corners, choreographed by Ronald K. Brown and originally commissioned by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, at 6:30 PM. 🎶 Don’t miss this incredible evening of art, music, and community!

01/20/2025

“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'" - Martin Luther King, Jr.