Visiting Artists & Arts Researchers

  • Georgia Sagri
    ... an exploration of performance as an ever-evolving field within social and visual life.
  • Alonzo King LINES Ballet
    ...feeling — its emotional and kinetic weight — underlies King’s choreographic vision.
  • Kimerer LaMothe
    Can dancing in natural settings serve to generate theoretical insights into the human relationship with the earth?
  • Adam McKinney
    How can dance be used to reconcile traumatic histories?
  • Eric Mullis
    ... scholarly work currently centers on the ethics and effectiveness of political concert dance, ecstatic states cultivated in Appalachian charismatic Pentecostalism, the relationship between Pragmatist philosophy, embodiment, and interdisciplinary performance research...
  • Luciana Achugar
    Brooklyn-based choreographer from Uruguay, has been making work in NYC and Uruguay independently and collaboratively since 1999
  • Janet O'Shea
    ...seeks to refigure athletics through the lens of dance, urging us to reimagine how we think about sports, economics, and even politics through the lens of martial arts.
  • Justin Tornow
    Cunningham Technique as a Practice of Freedom masterclass series, "a laboratory to research how we can apply Cunningham principles to our own movement interests"
  • Mana Hayakawa
    Her research examines Asian American dance and performances of non-normative bodies in the context of empire, and shifting terms of race, gender and citizenship with specific attention to dance in the context of Japanese American wartime incarceration.
  • Camille A. Brown & Dancers
    ... her company will participate in dance classes, public conversations, and visits to local high schools — providing Duke and Durham an opportunity to engage with an artist working at the vanguard of American dance.
  • Margie Gillis
    ...continues a full and ongoing process of discovery, transition and transformation, by constantly reinvestigating and reinterpreting the power of dance...
  • Juel D. Lane
    Faculty at the UNC-School of the Arts, an Alvin Ailey 2015-16 New Directions Choreographer, a former dancer with Ron K. Brown/Evidence and currently with Camille A. Brown & Dancers...
  • PeiJu Chien-Pott
    Internationally acclaimed contemporary dance artist, celebrated particularly for her work as a Principal Dancer for the Martha Graham Dance Company
  • Yanique Hume
    ...specializes in the multidisciplinary field of Caribbean Cultural Studies with a focus on Cuba and Haiti
  • Monica Hogan Thysell
    ... creates works that draw on inherent themes of the human experience, reimagining archetypal relationships through compositional innovation
  • Dana Caspersen
    Whether with an individual or group, my goal is to help build robust skills and a flexible mindset in conflict through coaching, mediation, facilitations, talks, workshops and public dialogue.