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Victoria Uris
Professor, Department of Dance
Areas of Expertise
• Modern Dance Technique and Performance
• Choreography
• Camera Dance
VICTORIA URIS (Professor) has
been on the OSU dance faculty since 1989. She graduated with a B.F.A. Degree in Dance
and Theatre from NYU School of the Arts. In 1975 she joined the Paul
Taylor Dance Company, touring the world, performing in a variety of featured
roles. Prior to joining the Taylor Co., she performed with Norman
Walker, The New York Dance Collective, Sandra Neels, Bowyer and Bruggeman,
Rosalind Newman, and was a guest artist with the Connecticut Ballet and
Annabelle Gamson. Since 1981, she has choreographed over sixty
works for modern repertory and ballet companies and for her own groups. Three
of her works are recorded in Labanotation and have been staged in Asia,
Britain, Hawaii and the U.S. Uris earned an M.F.A. degree at OSU
in 1989, studying choreography, film and video. She has received
grants and fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council, the Center for New
Television, the Hazelbaker Foundation, and Randolph Street Gallery among
others, for her choreographic and videodance works. In 1996, the Wexner
Center for the Arts commissioned her multi-media 9 Scenes with Interviews,
an evening-length work integrating video, choreography and music. Two
of her recent videos, Four Ships and Igor & Svetlana,
were official selections at the Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center
in 2000 and 2003 respectively. Her videos have screened nationally
and internationally at festivals, museums and on television. Her
teaching areas include modern technique, composition, repertory
and video.
Education
• MFA, Dance, The Ohio State University
• BFA, Dance, New York School of the Arts
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