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Job Category:
Faculty
Employment Type:
Regular
Job Profile:
Assistant Professor
Job Summary:
The UW-Madison Dance Department seeks a colleague whose teaching and creative work will engage students across a range of experience levels, from advanced BFA students and MFA dance graduate students to general education students. The successful candidate will be a versatile instructor who will offer courses in their areas of specialization and who can deliver existing courses that bridge theory and practice, will have experience teaching contemporary dance at all levels and at least one other dance form. The creative work of the preferred candidate demonstrates capacity to teach students through original repertory, choreography courses, and mentor student works.
We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise and experience teaching in one or more of the following areas: Contemporary Dance, Screendance, Composition, Improvisation, Movement Analysis, Repertory, Contemporary Dance practices from the African(ist) lineage/Africanist Diaspora, Hip Hop/urban dance, ballet, percussive dance, jazz, tap, dance and media, and/or other embodied research practices.
We seek a colleague who will contribute to an inclusive learning environment and curricular development and demonstrate the ability to effectively engage students with a wide range of backgrounds, preparation, and experience. The position offers significant opportunities to build connections and collaborate on projects and events across campus and with local, regional, and statewide communities.
Principal Duties:
Teaching : Develop and teach courses in the theory and practice of contemporary dance (beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels) and at least one other dance form that may include contemporary dance practices from the African diaspora, Hip Hop/urban dance, ballet, percussive dance, jazz, and/or tap. Additional teaching in at least one of the following areas: composition, improvisation, repertory, screendance, Movement Analysis, dance and media, somatic practices, and/or other embodied research practices. Contribute to department curricular and program development around contemporary dance.
Research : Develop and maintain distinctive and focused creative research that demonstrates national and/or international recognition.
Service: Actively participates in faculty governance, community-building, and the academic, administrative, and artistic functions of the department, school, and university. Contribute to the department’s strategic plan and mission.
Departmental Information : The UW-Madison Dance Department is a leader and innovator in the field of dance. Our institution was the first in the nation to establish a dance degree program in higher education. It was here, on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in 1926, under the leadership of dance pioneer Margaret H'Doubler, that dance became a rigorous academic discipline, and the body became the route to scientific inquiry, self-discovery, creativity, and citizenship. Our department and its world-class faculty and professional staff are committed to excellence through teaching and research, and we strive to impact the world within and outside of the university, through the Wisconsin Idea, with the aim to improve people's lives through dance. In addition to our MFA (Creative Research, Culture and Practice; and Screendance), BFA, and BS degree programs in dance, the department offers five certificates (Dance, Dance Studies, Dance/Movement Therapy, Dance Education, and Pilates) and brings elective dance courses to hundreds of students each semester. We also produce several concerts and host internationally renowned guest artists each academic year. Our dedicated dance space--the beautifully renovated historic Lathrop Hall--is located in the…