<p>The UW Department of Dance is delighted to announce that Mr. Arthur Yorozu has created a new fellowship in the Department of Dance. The Helene Tsutsumoto Yorozu and Arthur S. Yorozu Endowed Fellowship in Dance will support graduate students who perform in the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="/chamber-dance-company">Chamber Dance Company</a>.</span> Helene Tsutsumoto Yorozu was an accomplished modern dancer, actress, and Japanese classical dancer. A 1955 graduate of the University of Washington, she served as the president of the Orchesis Dance Club during her time here. We are so grateful for Mr. Yorozu’s tremendous gift to the department.</p>
<h2>About Helene Tsutsumoto Yorozu</h2>
<p><span> </span>Helene Yorozu was a strong, inspirational, and resilient woman of color. She was born on September 30, 1932, to immigrant parents from Japan. From the age of five, she and her older sister May studied Nihon Buyo, Japanese Classical Dance, which she continued through adulthood. </p>
<p>At the University of Washington, her passion and love for modern dance was ignited. She had an insightful moment realizing she was incorporating her Nihon Buyo training into modern dance. Through nuanced gestures, isolations, thrusts, contractions, and stillness, she was able to express her artistic creativity. She truly loved modern dance—the feeling of being connected to the earth and dancing barefoot was her favorite.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><span>Helene Tsutsumoto Yorozu and Arthur S. Yorozu Endowed Fellowship in Dance</span> is aligned with the University of Washington’s values to support diversity, equity, and inclusion among the student body. Passionate, creative, enthusiastic, vibrant, an ineffable spirit—these are the qualities the recipient in need of financial aid embodies—as did Helene.</p>

<p>The UW Department of Dance is delighted to announce that Mr. Arthur Yorozu has created a new fellowship in the Department of Dance. The Helene Tsutsumoto Yorozu and Arthur S. Yorozu Endowed Fellowship in Dance will support graduate students who perform in the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="/chamber-dance-company">Chamber Dance Company</a>.</span> Helene Tsutsumoto Yorozu was an accomplished modern dancer, actress, and Japanese classical dancer.

<p>The UW Department of Dance is excited to announce that choreographer Ronald K. Brown has been slated to be a guest in the department for three to four weeks beginning Fall Quarter 2022, thanks to a generous gift from Glenn Kawasaki. Originally scheduled for Autumn 2020, the residency was postponed once due to COVID-19, and then again when Brown suffered a stroke last April. Having already made extraordinary strides towards recovery, we are hopeful that Brown will finally be able to spend time at the Department. He will be engaging with students in many ways including setting an excerpt of a work on the undergraduate students for the UW Dance Presents concert, teaching classes, and holding gatherings for discussion. He will also be holding workshops and talks about his work for the UW and Seattle communities. Stay tuned for more information later in the spring.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">See the article from the New York Times from Sunday, March 6:</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/arts/dance/ronald-k-brown-recovery.h… style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/arts/dance/ronald-k-brown-recovery.h…;
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<p>The UW Department of Dance is excited to announce that choreographer Ronald K. Brown has been slated to be a guest in the department for three to four weeks beginning Fall Quarter 2022, thanks to a generous gift from Glenn Kawasaki. Originally scheduled for Autumn 2020, the residency was postponed once due to COVID-19, and then again when Brown suffered a stroke last April.

<div>Divisional Dean of the Arts <a href="/people/catherine-cole"><strong>Catherine Cole’s</strong> </a>new book <i>Performance and the Afterlives of InJustice</i> received an honorable mention for the Dance Studies Association de la Torre Bueno award.</div>
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<div>Divisional Dean of the Arts <a href="/people/catherine-cole"><strong>Catherine Cole’s</strong> </a>new book <i>Performance and the Afterlives of InJustice</i> received an honorable mention for the Dance Studies Association de la Torre Bueno award.</div>
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<p><span>The Department of Dance at the University of Washington in Seattle invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor of Dance to start in September 2022. <a href="https://ap.washington.edu/ahr/position-details/?job_id=78707">Read position details here. </a></span></p>
<p><span>Review of applications will begin October 15, 2021. Applications received after this date may be considered at the discretion of the committee. For questions concerning this position, please contact Jennifer Salk at <a href="mailto:jsalk@uw.edu">jsalk@uw.edu</a>.</span></p&gt;
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<p><span>The Department of Dance at the University of Washington in Seattle invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor of Dance to start in September 2022. <a href="https://ap.washington.edu/ahr/position-details/?job_id=78707">Read position details here. </a></span></p>