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NBC4 WCMH-TV Columbus features PhD Student Sidra Bell

NBC4 WCMH-TV Columbus featured PhD Student Sidra Bell on the Saturday, March 8, 2025, 6:00 p.m. news for her performance at The Met, her academic work at Ohio State Dance and as an associate at…

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PhD Student Sidra Bell's new commission for ODC/Dance Company to premiere in San Francisco in April

PhD Student Sidra Bell's new commission for ODC/Dance Company premieres at the Yerba Buena Performing Arts Center in San Francisco April 10-13, 2025.  SF/ARTS featured the work in their March…

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Activists in Motion Recognized as a Program of Excellence in Engaged Scholarship

The Office of Outreach & Engagement selected Activists in Motion (AIM), led by Associate Professor Dr. Nyama McCarthy-Brown, as one of Ohio State’s 2025 Programs of Excellence in Engaged…

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PhD Candidate and Graduate Teaching Associate Alyssa Stover wins Ray Travel Award

The Ohio State University Council of Graduate Students awarded PhD Candidate Alyssa Stover with an Edward J. Ray Travel Award for Scholarship and Service in the amount of $1000. Stover is using…

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PhD Student Sidra Bell featured in Dance Magazine

How Pivoting to Choreographing Full-Time Changed 3 Former Dancers’ Lives, Creative Processes, and Work
by Lauren Wingenroth

Excerpt: "After years away from the stage, Bell recently started…
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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…

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Pachanga E Poder: A Latinx, Latin American and Caribbean Social Dance Incubator

March 18 - 22, 2025

Developed by Department of Dance Assistant Professors Irvin Manuel Gonzalez and Alfonso Cervera, Pachanga e Poder is community-driven research incubator. The event brings…

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Professor Cervera joins FUSION as an artist in residence for 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…

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Lecturer and Class Accompanist Seth Alexander to sit on panel for OHIO ARTrepreneurship Summit

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