Associate Professor of Dance
Theater and Dance Studios 110
860-685-3329

Chair, Dance

Associate Professor, Environmental Studies
860-685-3329

kkolcio@wesleyan.edu

MA University of Georgia Athens
PHD Ohio State University
MA Ohio State University

DANC215 - 01
Modern Dance II

DANC377 - 01
Perspectives In Dance As Cultu

DANC409 - 01
Senior Thesis Tutorial

DANC435 - 01
Advanced Dance Practice A

DANC445 - 01
Advanced Dance Practice B

DANC111 - 02
Introduction to Dance

DANC404 - 05
Dept/Program Project or Essay

DANC410 - 01
Senior Thesis Tutorial

Office Hours:
Fall 2012 office hour: Tuesday 1:30-3 and Thursday 11-12. CFA Dance and Theater room 110. Please call/email ahead.

Research Interests:
Katja Kolcio, PhD. is Associate Professor of Dance at Wesleyan University. Her research is in social somatic theory and research methodology, investigating the role of physical engagement and creativity in practices of knowledge production, and in twentieth century dance history. Katja's choreography engages the community and environment within which it occurs. Her interests include integrating traditional arts into contemporary performance. Publications: Movable Pillars Creating a Foundation for Dance Studies in the Academy, 1956-1978 (2010, Wesleyan University Press), Faking It: The Necessary Blind Spots of Understanding (2009, Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies), A Somatic Engagement of Technology (2005, International Journal for Performance Art and Digital Media), Branching Out: Oral Histories of the Founding of Six National Dance Organizations (2000, American Dance Guild, nominated for the De La Torre Bueno Prize), and book reviews in the Dance Research Journal and the New England Theater Journal. Choreography: Katja has received choreographic fellowships from the New York State Council of the Arts and Meet the Composer, and has been commissioned to create original choreography for Yara Arts Group (NYC), Ukrainian Stage Ensemble, Wittenberg College, Duke University, Ohio State University (Slavic Studies Program), Antioch College, New York University (Department of Music). Choreography has been presented at Judson Church, New York University Black Box Theater, St. Marks Church, The Ukrainian Museum of New York, The Bridge for Dance, La Mama Experimental Theatre, the Ukrainian Institute of America, various community gardens throughout NYC, the Honchar Museum (Kyiv, Ukraine), Kyiv Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine) and in colleges around the United States. Katja received her PhD in Somatics/Cultural Studies and her MA in Dance from Ohio State University and her MA in Political Science from University of Georgia.

Scholarly Keywords:
Social somatic theory.
Research methodology.
Radical pedagogy.
Modern dance technique.

Academic Associations:
Congress on Research in Dance
American Dance Guild
Society of Dance History Scholars
Shevchenko Ukrainian Society of Knowledge

Publications:
http://www.upne.com/0-8195-6911-9.html

Relevant Sites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ6OTjMe1W8 http://www.lamama.org/archives/2010/ScythianStones.html http://www.upne.com/0-8195-6911-9.html http://csc.sagepub.com/content/early/2009/01/16/1532708608327226.abstract http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/dance_research_journal/summary/v042/42.1.kolcio.html http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Contributor,a=K/view-Contact-Page,id=13975/ http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2010/03/03/5-questions-with-katja-kolcio/ http://www.metacafe.com/watch/3459134/danc_309_advanced_modern_dance_technique/

BS Cornell University
MFA Ohio State University

DANC103 - 01
Dancing Bodies

DANC211 - 01
Modern Dance I

DANC215 - 01
Modern Dance II

DANC250 - 01
Dance Composition

DANC309 - 01
Modern Dance III

Artist in Residence, Dance
Theater and Dance Studios 003
860-685-3487

pbeaman@wesleyan.edu

BFA University of Michigan
MA New York University

DANC202 - 01
Ballet I

DANC302 - 01
Ballet II

DANC491 - 01
Teaching Apprentice Tutorial

DANC302 - 01
Ballet II

DANC375 - 01
Dance History

Personal Homepage:
http://www.patriciabeaman.net

Office Hours:
By appointment

Research Interests:
--Reconstructing and performing French 18th century Baroque dance and historical dance for comedie-ballets and the plays of Molihre, Beaumarchi, and Shakespeare, as well as Postmodern dances from the Judson Era in the 1960s.

Scholarly Keywords:
--Teaching Classical Ballet, Dance History, and Repertory

Academic Associations:
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts
The New School
Coe College

Grants:
Wesleyan University: Mellon Grant Project grants Pedagogical grants NYU Pedagogical Grant The New School Pedagogical Grant

Artist in Residence, Dance
Theater and Dance Studios 106
860-685-2630

hkrishnan@wesleyan.edu

BA University of Manitoba
MFA York University

DANC111 - 01
Introduction to Dance

DANC261 - 01
Bharata Natyam I

DANC261 - 01
Bharata Natyam I

DANC378 - 01
Repertory and Performance

Adjunct Professor of Dance
Theater and Dance Studios 105
860-685-3485

slourie@wesleyan.edu

BA Temple University
MALS Wesleyan University

DANC111 - 02
Introduction to Dance

DANC301 - 01
Anatomy and Kinesiology

DANC371 - 01
Choreography Workshop

DANC403 - 03
Dept/Program Project or Essay

DANC407 - 01
Senior Tutorial

DANC111 - 01
Introduction to Dance

DANC211 - 01
Modern Dance I

DANC402 - 03
Individual Tutorial, Undergrad

DANC404 - 04
Dept/Program Project or Essay

Office Hours:
Fall 2010 - Tuesday, 12:30-2:00 Wednesday, 2:00-3:00

Artist in Residence, Dance
Theater and Dance Studios

umaeny@wesleyan.edu

DIPL Indonesian Conservatory of Music

DANC251 - 01
Javanese Dance I

DANC251 - 01
Javanese Dance I

DANC402 - 02
Individual Tutorial, Undergrad

Scholarly Keywords:
URIP SRI MAENY studied dancing at the gamelan conservatory in Surakarta where later she became a faculty member. She also danced and taught at the Institute of Art Education in Jakarta and in a teaching staff at the Indonesian Presidential palace. For a number of years she performed in different cities in Indonesia and was a dancer of the Indonesia's Government Cultural Mission to Hongkong, the Middle East, and Australia. During her residency as Javanese dance instructor at Wesleyan since 1972, she has performed throughout the US, and has taught at Cornell University and Smith College.

DANC244 - 01
Delicious Movement

DANC492 - 01
Teaching Apprentice Tutorial

DIPL University of Ghana
MFA University of California, Los Angeles

DANC260 - 01
West African Dance I

DANC260 - 02
West African Dance I

DANC360 - 01
West African Dance II

DANC260 - 01
West African Dance I

DANC360 - 01
West African Dance II

DANC365 - 01
West African Dance III

DANC420 - 01
Student Forum

Personal Homepage:
www.iddiandgalia.com

BA Antioch College
MFA Ohio State University

DANC249 - 01
Dance Composition

DANC309 - 01
Modern Dance III

DANC435 - 01
Advanced Dance Practice A

DANC445 - 01
Advanced Dance Practice B

Retired Artist in Residence, Dance

hmensah@wesleyan.edu

BA University of Ghana