<p dir="ltr"><span>Congratulations to Louis Patsawee Maliyam for receiving the President's Medalist Award. The Awardees that included Louis and two others, Piper Coyner and Renee Zhang, were announced by the Undergraduate Academic Affairs at the end of January. </span></p>
Be introduced to various feminist performance artists and concepts around what is feminist art. Create your own multi medium art and discuss its current and historic context.
Engage with dance as a form of activism. Focusing on artists who use dance as their mode of investigation, students will create working definitions of what it means to dance activism.
Connect the art of dance to the study of philosophy! Examine dance works, artistic practices and life through three lenses: aesthetics, ethics, and educational philosophy.
Join TeenTix and UW Drama for a dance critcism pop-up workshop! Learn the basics of dance criticism and attend a performance of Grupo Corpo.
<p><span>We are thrilled to announce that <a href="https://music.washington.edu/people/christina-sunardi">Christina Sunardi</a> has been named chair for the Department of Dance for a five-year term beginning July 1, 2020. Christina is an associate professor in the Ethnomusicology program in the <a href="https://music.washington.edu">School of Music </a>at the UW, where she has been teaching since 2008. Her interests include performance, identity, spirituality and ethnography in Indonesia. Her work focuses in particular on the articulation of gender through music, dance, and theater in the cultural region of east Java. See below for more information about her research. Christina succeeds Associate Professor Jennifer Salk who will be stepping down on June 30th after six and a half years of chairing.</span></p>
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<p><span>Christina Sunardi’s publications include articles in <em>Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde, Asian</em> <em>Music, </em>and <em>Ethnomusicology</em>, as well as reviews in the <em>Journal of Folklore Research Reviews</em>, <em>American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, </em>and <em>Indonesia</em>. Dr. Sunardi has been studying and performing Javanese arts since 1997 in Indonesia and the United States, earning her Ph.D. in music from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007. Her book about the negotiation of gender and tradition through dance and music in east Java was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2015.</span></p>
<p><span>We are thrilled to announce that <a href="https://music.washington.edu/people/christina-sunardi">Christina Sunardi</a> has been named chair for the Department of Dance for a five-year term beginning July 1, 2020.
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This winter several of the Dance faculty have received significant research grants. </span><a href="/people/rachael-lincoln"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rachael Lincoln</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was awarded the Royalty Research Fund; she also received the </span><a href="/news/2020/01/09/mellon-faculty-fellows-arts-rachael-lincoln-jeffrey-frace"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mellon Faculty Fellow in the Arts </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">with</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">her partner in research, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://drama.washington.edu/people/jeffrey-frace">Jeffrey Fracé</a> from the School of Drama.<a href="/people/jennifer-salk"> </a></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span><a href="/people/jennifer-salk">Jennifer Salk,</a> Fracé, and Afroditi Psarra from Digital Arts and Experimental Media have also received a Mellon Foundation grant for a new course entitled “Creativity as Research: Experimentation and Play” to be offered as a hybrid live/online course offered in fall of 2020 and 2021.</span>In addition, </span><a href="/people/alethea-alexander"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alethea Alexander</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="/people/hannah-wiley"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hannah Wiley</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><a href="/people/juliet-mcmains"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Juliet McMains</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> were each awarded Faculty Research Grants from the Kreielsheimer Arts Endowment. Congratulations to them all! </span></p>
<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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