Birthday:

January 17

Joining date:

April 7, 2015

Do you want this account to represent:

individual

First Name (Required: even if you are representing an organization you must use your name)

Selene

Last Name (Family Name)

Carter

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!

Selene Carter is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre, Drama and Contemporary Dance. Her work integrates improvisation, site specific performance, interdisciplinary collaboration and reconfigurations of historic dances. A certified instructor in the Bill Evan’s Laban based modern dance technique, she received Chicago’s highest honor for dance, the Ruth Page Award for her improvised dance performances. Her writing on dance improvisation was published in Bodies, Identity, Performance and Technology: Practices of Empowerment, Embodiment and Technicity, Palgrave-Macmillan, London, 2012. She was chosen as one of sixteen choreographers to participate in Doug Varone’s Devices, a choreographic intensive that resulted in the CHIN (choreographic intensive) Festival, presented at the Harkness Dance Center/92nd Street Y in September 2014. Selene’s choreography is slated for presentation in 2015 by the Regional Alternative Dance Festival, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Breaking Ground Festival Tempe, Arizona and in Wild Space Dance Company’s spring concert, Reckless Wonders, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Occupation ( maximum of three):

Movement artist (dancer/interdisciplinary performer), Stage director (choreographer/ theater director), Academic Educators (formally teaching and researching in a university)