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October 22

Joining date:

September 29, 2012

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Nena

Last Name (Family Name)

Couch

About Me (human/individual)/interests, work..short bio/ THis is the most important. It is the only way to know that you are not a SPAMBOT!Be generous!

Nena Couch is Professor in Libraries and Theatre at The Ohio State University and Curator of the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research. Her publications include Documenting: Lighting Design (co-edited with Susan Brady), Sidney Kingsley: Five Prize-Winning Plays, The Humanities and the Library (co-edited with Nancy Allen), The Francis Robinson Collection of Theatre, Music and Dance: A Manuscripts Catalog, and numerous articles and presentations on performing arts librarianship, performing arts collections, and historical dance. Her creative works include exhibitions (most recently Dancing Dimensions: Movement Through Time and Space), and choreography and dance performances such as choreography for A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Norfolk Symphony and the Buffalo Philharmonic, and early dance performances with Les Menus Plaisirs (for which she was a founding company member), the Early Interval (Columbus, Ohio), and the Center for Old Music (Lexington, Kentucky). Her recent research has included eighteenth-century Spanish dance and early twentieth-century American expression such as a forthcoming essay in which she explores the career and influence of Ward Belmont teacher Pauline Sherwood Townsend. She serves on the board of the Dance Heritage Coalition (chair, 2011-), a national alliance of institutions holding significant collections of materials documenting the history of dance, and on the council of the International Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Arts (SIBMAS). Professor Couch was the 2000 recipient of the Harvard Theatre Collection’s Howard D. Rothschild Fellowship for Research in Dance. She has recently been named the 2012 recipient of the Theatre Library Association Distinguished Service for Performing Arts Librarianship Award which she will receive in October at the TLA awards ceremony at Lincoln Center.

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