<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This winter several of the Dance faculty have received significant research grants.

<p><a href="/people/rachael-lincoln">Rachael Lincoln</a>, (Department of Dance Interim Co-Chair) and <a href="https://drama.washington.edu/people/jeffrey-frace">Jeffrey Fracé</a> (School of Drama Faculty) have been awarded the 2019-2020 Mellon Faculty Fellows in the Arts, to continue their collaborative research, <em>11 Comets</em>, on the intersection of dance and theater.</p>
<p><em>11 Comets,</em> which Lincoln and Fracé began working on in the studio in fall 2018, explores the grief, intimacy, and resilience of a mature, long-term relationship that has survived an extraordinary loss. In their research, Lincoln and Fracé are pushing and pulling at the dominance of narrative, playing with the revelation and restraint of information that forms story. They’re asking how two distinct aesthetics can coexist and how they can find a balance between literal and abstract.</p>
<h6>About Mellon Faculty Fellows in the Arts: </h6>
<p>In June 2019, the Divisional Dean of the Arts, Catherine Cole, and the Executive and Artistic Director of the Meany Center for the Performing Arts, Michelle Witt, were awarded a three-year $600,000 grant to support an Arts and Creativity initiative at the University of Washington. This project is designed to build durable interdisciplinary relationships among faculty, develop new introductory arts curricula, cultivate the next generation of faculty arts leaders, invite a diverse cohort of visiting artists to campus for broadly-based creative research, and more fully integrate our previous Mellon Creative Fellows program with each season of visiting artists at the Meany Center and with UW’s undergraduate curriculum.</p>
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<p><a href="/people/rachael-lincoln">Rachael Lincoln</a>, (Department of Dance Interim Co-Chair) and <a href="https://drama.washington.edu/people/jeffrey-frace">Jeffrey Fracé</a> (School of Drama Faculty) have been awarded the 2019-2020 Mellon Faculty Fellows in the Arts, to continue their collaborative research, <em>11 Comets</em>, on the intersection of dance and theater.</p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Graduating senior and Dance and International Studies major, Kevin Lam, has been awarded the Fulbright US Student Program scholarship for the 2019-20 academic year. Kevin is one of sixteen UW students and alumni awarded with this scholarship to study and teach abroad this coming year. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Upon graduation, Kevin will be traveling across the world to be a Teaching Assistant to Taiwan.  “I am feeling overwhelmed about living abroad as a representative of the US. However, I am excited to teach a classroom of elementary school students and engage in conversation with Taiwanese people about identity, arts, politics, and food,” says Kevin.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Congratulations and best of luck to Kevin on his endeavors abroad! </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Read more about the </span><a href="https://www.washington.edu/news/2019/05/30/16-uw-students-awarded-fulbr… style="font-weight: 400;">16 UW Students Awarded Fulbright Fellowships Here </span></a></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Graduating senior and Dance and International Studies major, Kevin Lam, has been awarded the Fulbright US Student Program scholarship for the 2019-20 academic year. Kevin is one of sixteen UW students and alumni awarded with this scholarship to study and teach abroad this coming year. </span></p>