Division and Alumni News
Alumna Julia M. Ritter (PhD '16) receives Rutgers Presidential Outstanding Faculty Scholar Award
12/14/21
TWU dance alumna Julia M. Ritter (Ph.D. '16) recently received a Presidential Outstanding Faculty Scholar Award. Ritter is a professor of dance at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. The award honors newly-promoted members of the faculty whose breadth of academic portfolios reflect outstanding research, scholarship or creative work, as well as truly outstanding contributions to teaching along with extensive service to the Rutgers community and beyond.
TWU dance alumna Wanda K.W. Ebright (PhD '17) named Columbus State University dean
12/14/21
Columbus State University has appointed Dr. Wanda K. W. Ebright as its next dean of the College of the Arts. Ebright will begin her tenure at Columbus State on Tuesday, Feb. 15. She holds a Ph.D. in dance from Texas Woman’s University and is the author of D"ance on the Historically Black College Campus: The Familiar and the Foreign."
Alumna Lily Sloan (MFA '10) shares what she gained from earning her MFA in Dance
10/13/21
"At TWU there is a strong foundation in feminist pedagogy, both in how many of the professors work and create curriculum and in the pedagogical theory that we were learning," TWU alumna Lily Sloan (MFA '10) said in an interview with Dance Teacher Magazine. "I feel like my eyes were opened to creating classroom environments that were more about setting up a framework for students to learn—being a facilitator rather than having a top-down instructional perspective." Sloan currently serves as co-artistic director of Big Rig Dance Collective as well as a Dallas/Fort Worth-based adjunct professor, performer and choreographer.
TWU Dance presents Jordan Fuchs Company Sept. 10-11
9/1/21
The Texas Woman’s University Division of Dance presents the Jordan Fuchs Company in a concert of premieres for the stage and screen Sept. 10-11. Fuchs, a professor of dance at TWU, is joined by a cast of students and alumni for an event two years in the making.
TWU presents virtual dance concert 'Through the Lens'
4/20/21
The Texas Woman’s University Department of Dance will present its spring virtual dance concert, “Through the Lens,” on YouTube at 7 p.m. April 23. The livestream event will feature faculty- and student-created screen dances and original sound scores. The event also will incorporate diverse cultural perspectives, an array of performance environments and entertaining explorations of the human condition in the age of COVID-19.