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Candace Feck
Assistant Professor, Department of Dance
Area of Expertise
• History, criticism, and theory
• Dance documentation
CANDACE FECK (Assistant Professor)
holds a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Webster University, an M.A.
in Dance from The Ohio State University, and a PH.D in Art Education,
also from OSU. She has taught at Youngstown State University, Cornell
University, The Methodist Theological School of Ohio, and The Ohio
State University, including courses in modern technique, dance criticism
and theory, dance history and Labanotation. Recent course offerings
at OSU include: Dance
161: Contemporary Dance and Theatre - 1945 to the Present, Dance 753:
Aesthetics and Criticism; Dance 801.31: Current Issues in Dance; and
Dance 759: History and Theory of Postmodern Dance. She also
oversees the Dance Minor program within the department. Feck worked as
a member of the OSU-MDP team, which produced the award-winning CD-ROM Victoria
Uris: Choreographer and Videographer. Her dissertation, entitled "Understandings
about Dance: An Analysis of Student Critical Writings with Pedagogical
Implications," represents an ongoing area of current research, situating
dance criticism as an area of curricular importance in a variety of educational
contexts. Other research and teaching interests lie broadly in the intersections
between theory and artistic practice in contemporary performance; the
arts and social issues; documentation of contemporary dance artists;
and arts advocacy.
Education
• PhD, Art Education, The Ohio State University
• MA, Dance, The Ohio State University
• BA, Cultural Anthropology,
Webster University
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