danah bella Named 2021 Dance Educator of the Year Reply

Dance BFA Chair danah bella has been honored as 2021 Dance Educator of the Year in Higher Education by the Maryland Dance Education Association.

Archival Collection About Shodekeh Created by Albert S. Cook Library Reply

BFA Dance musician Shodekeh will become the first hip-hop artist in Maryland to have their work archived and first beatboxer in the world to have a special collection dedicated to their work when Towson University opens “Ideations of Potential: Shodekeh’s Innovation Lab or Embodied Scholarship & Hip Hop Imagination.” The collection serves as a capstone project for Shodekeh’s time as innovator-in-residence at TU.

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Peabody Conservatory Dance Welcomes Kelly Hirina in 2021-22 Reply

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Kelly Hirina will join the Peabody Conservatory Dance faculty as interim instructor during the 2021-22 academic year. She will teach classes including Modern Dance Technique, Choreography, and Rehearsal & Performance Collaboration.

BFA Dance Named Top 20 Program by OnStage Blog Reply

The Peabody BFA Dance program was named one of “The Top 20 BFA Dance Programs for 2020-21” by OnStage Blog citing the program’s “interdisciplinary perspective to immerse students in the critical study of movement, bodies, and society that accounts for historical and socio-cultural tensions on and off the stage.”

Rush Johnston Featured in Werner Independent Choreographer Showcase Reply

Dance BFA students Rush Johnston’s solo “Nothingness”  and Zoë Payne’s “-back again-” were presented in the Werner Independent Choreographer Showcase, College Edition in November.