A Talk by Professors John Perpener, Veta Goler and Dancer/choreographer Dianne McIntyre and featuring a performance by Dianne McIntyre and musician Olu Dara
Tuesday, March 11, 2003
301 Philosophy Hall
Columbia University Main Campus at 116th and Broadway
8 p.m.
Refreshments will be served
Professors Veta Goler, John Perpener and choreographer/dance Dianne McIntyre will discuss the problem of defining jazz dance.
Veta Goler, Associate Professor of Dance and Chair of Drama and Dance at Spelman College, holds a Ph.D. in African American Studies from Emory University and the M.F.A. in Dance from the University of Michigan. She has presented papers and talks at conferences nationally and internationally, has contributed a chapter to Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance History, and has published articles in The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena, Choreography and Dance, and EightRock.
John O. Perpener III is Associate Professor in the Department of Dance at Florida State University, where he is a member of the faculty of the MA program in American Dance History. He has a Ph.D in Performance Studies from New York University and a MFA in Dance from Southern Methodist University. His book, African-American Concert Dance: The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond, was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2001.
Choreographer and dancer Dianne McIntyre presented her first concert with a group of dancers in 1972. That same year, she established Sounds in Motion, a company dedicated to on-going dance-music collaboration. For the next sixteen years, Sounds in Motion performed internationally and operated a popular dance school and performance series in its Harlem Studio. Her work in theatre has been for Broadway, Off-Broadway, Regional, and London theatre. Some credits include: Mule Bone, King Hedley II, Miss Evers
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