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Valarie Mockabee
Associate Professor, Department of Dance
Areas of Expertise
• Choreography
• Classical ballet
• Staging, directing, reconstructing dance works from Labanotation
scores
• Notation of choreography
VALARIE MOCKABEE (Associate
Dean/Associate Professor) received her B.F.A. from The Juilliard School,
her M.F.A. from Texas Woman's University, and is one of thirty-eight
Certified Professional Notators. She toured with Lincoln Center Institute Touring
Programs for four years serving as dance captain, and performed with
The Dallas Opera and Sharir Dance in Austin, Texas. She has set
works on the national companies of Peru and Ecuador, Repertory Dance
Theater, and the Jakarta International School in Indonesia, as well as
Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts,
Emory University, and University of Texas at Austin. Valarie has
directed works from score by Taylor, Humphrey, Momix, Sokolow, Morris,
among others and has received grants from National Endowment for the
Arts to restage, notate, and design content for CD-ROMs/DVD-Videos. Valarie
works with ACCAD and Near Eastern Languages on a digital library interface
for documenting dance works using notation, video, and motion capture. At
Ohio State she teaches repertory from score, technique, grant writing,
and Labanotation.
Education
•MFA, Texas Woman's University
•BFA, The Juilliard School, New York
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