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Melanye White Dixon
Associate Professor, Department of Dance
Areas of Expertise
• Education
• Performance
• Multimedia dance history documentation
Professor White Dixon began her professional dance preparation at the
Dance
Theatrebof Harlem and as a merit scholarship recipient at the Alvin Ailey
American Dance Center. She is an accomplished performer and has worked
as an independent artist in New York City, performed with the Hudson River
Dance
Gathering, and was a featured choreographer, performer, and master teacher
for the International Festival of Dance Academies at the Hong Kong Academy
for the Performing Arts in Wan Chai, China. Professor White Dixon serves
on the Board of Directors for the American Dance Guild and recently served
as an education consultant for the National Afro-American Museum's touring
exhibit WHEN THE SPIRIT MOVES, THE AFRICANIZATION OF AMERICAN DANCE. She
maintains an active schedule presenting research at national dance conferences
and promoting dance in the public schools. Professor White Dixon has received
several grants for her research including a 1997 Critical Difference for
Women Professional Development Award and a 1996 College of the Arts Faculty
Development Grant for research in multimedia computer technology for dance
documentation. She has done extensive research on African-American women
in concert dance, and her work has been published in SAGE, a scholarly
journal on African-American women; the DANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL; and the
INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DANCE. She is the author BLACK WOMEN IN
CONCERT DANCE: THE PHILADELPHIA DIVAS, in the anthology BLACK WOMEN IN
AMERICA and her dissertation study on a master ballet teacher Marion Cujet
was cited in Judith Jamison's autobiography, DANCING SPIRIT. She was recently
invited to be a contributing writer for Harvard University's African American
National Biography Project.
Research
Images
Education
• EdD, Dance Education, Temple University
• MA, Columbia University
• BA, Spelman College |
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