Department of Dance

Kym McDaniel: Artist, Educator, Intuitive Filmmaker

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Kym McDaniel, Assistant Professor of Dance, shares her wide range of experiences with experimental filmmaking, dance, writing, interdisciplinary art, choreography, education, and the world of disability studies. She talks about her body of work, which is often informed by personal and perceived experiences of disability, injury, and trauma, with her recent film Document with No End examining the intertwining of environmental crises and personal illness. Professor McDaniel also discusses her intuitive creative process and an ongoing project involving undergraduate students at Ohio State.

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Nyama McCarthy-Brown: Everybody is a Dancer

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Nyama McCarthy-Brown, Associate Professor of Dance Pedagogy through Community Engagement, discusses her work and achievements in dance pedagogy and community engagement. She also talks about the Ohio State Artist Laureate program, and her experience as the inaugural Laureate in 2023. Dr. Brown talks with host David Staley about her book, Skin Colored Pointes, which explores the experiences of women of color in ballet, and how her pedagogical work aims to honor diverse dance histories.

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Professor Susan Van Pelt Petry on turning COVID-19 into 19ChoreOVIDs

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When Dance Professor Susan Van Pelt Petry began working from home due to the pandemic, her interest in staying hopeful as an artist led her to begin creating 19 choreographed videos, aka 19ChoreOVIDs, a play on COVID-19. She describes these videos and more of her work with David Staley on this week’s Voices of Excellence.

Making App-ropriate Dance: Hannah Kosstrin Describes the KineScribe Program

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Hannah Kosstrin, Associate Professor of Dance, researches dance, Jewish, and gender studies. She is Project Director for KineScribe, a Labanotation iPad app supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Tune in to hear her discussion of the app and how dance movements are recorded on this week’s Voices of Excellence.

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Bord(hers) Around Bodies: Professor Lucille Toth Describes the Power of Dance

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Going through an airport security checkpoint calls for people to enact the same physical movements. The Bord(hers) improvisational dance project created by Lucille Toth, assistant professor of French at The Ohio State University Newark campus, aims to explore these motions and ask how borders impact immigrants.

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Trailblazing Female Dance Giants Get New Attention Thanks to Harmony Bench

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Katherine Dunham and Anna Pavlova were remarkable for their eras, and Harmony Bench describes how they brought innovations to dance, not only in their on-stage work but in how they traveled the world.

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