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Kolcio, Katja P.


Associate Professor of Dance
Dance Department
860.685.3329
Theater and Dance Studios 110


MA University of Georgia Athens
PHD Ohio State University
MA Ohio State University
EMAIL:
kkolcio@wesleyan.edu
WESLEYAN PO BOX:
 Dance Department
COURSES TAUGHT THIS SEMESTER:
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Katja Kolcio is Assistant Professor of Dance at Wesleyan University. Her research is in social somatic theory, investigating the role of somatic creative experience in practices of knowledge production, namely pedagogy, research methodology, and technology. Katja's publications include Branching Out: Oral Histories of the Founding of Six National Dance Organizations (2000, American Dance Guild, nominated for the De La Torre Bueno Prize), An Alternate Destination for Dance (2007, Dance Research Journal, forthcoming), A Somatic Engagement of Technology (2005, International Journal for Performance Art and Digital Media), and reviews in the Dance Research Journal and the New England Theater Journal. She is currently working on a book titled Movable Pillars Creating a Foundation for Dance Studies in the Academy, 1956-1978.

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/repertory by Wittenberg College, Yara Arts Group, Duke University, Ohio State University (Slavic Studies Program), Antioch College, the Ukrainian Studio Theater Ensemble in New York City and New York University (Department of Music). Choreography has been presented at La Mama Experimental Theatre, Judson Church, New York University Black Box Theater, The Bridge for Dance and the Ukrainian Institute of America.

Katjas research on the social somatic impact of new technologies was funded by the Presidents Fund for Innovation (2004) and culminated in an evening length dance work utilizing interactive software, the creation of two mobile digital media workstations for the Dance Department, curricular innovations in dance-technology, and an annual digital performance showing of student work.

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.



AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Social somatic theory.
Research methodology.
Radical pedagogy.
Modern dance technique.
OFFICE HOURS:
For Fall 08 registration/authorization, I will be in my office Thursday, April 10 between 11 and 3:30PM.
SPECIAL ROLE IN DEPARTMENT:
Prospective major advisor.
Senior research advisor.