Division and Alumni News
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.
National Endowment for the Humanities awards grant to TWU faculty
4/14/21
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced that it awarded a Humanities Connections Grant of $99,426 to Texas Woman’s University. The grant will support the very first interdisciplinary and experiential learning initiative to integrate the history of Quakertown into courses at TWU. It will also enable the future development of a digital humanities archive of Quakertown-related research and reflection, which the project co-directors aim to connect to a public platform that will promote community engagement with Quakertown’s history for decades to come.
2021 Denton Black Film Festival announces new screendance category
2/24/21
Every year one of the only black film festivals in the United States occurs in Denton, Texas. The Denton Black Film Festival ( DBFF), created by Harry and Linda Eaddy, promotes films by prestigious Black filmmakers and films about Black lives and experiences. This year, Mary Williford-Shade, MFA, CMA, professor and chair of the TWU Department of Dance, is incorporating the new medium of screendance into the festival.