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ANN COOPER ALBRIGHT

A performer, choreographer and feminist scholar, Ann Cooper Albright is Professor of dance and theater and Chair of the Gender and Women’s Studies program at Oberlin College. Combining her interests in dancing and cultural theory, she is involved in teaching a variety of dance, performance studies and gender studies courses which seek to engage students in both practices and theories of the body.

She is the author of Choreographing Difference: the Body and Identity in Contemporary Dance, and co-editor of Moving History/Dancing Cultures, and Taken By Surprise: Improvisation in Dance and Mind. With the help of a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for 2005-2006, and a Camargo Foundation Fellowship, she just finished her new book entitled Traces of Light: Presence and Absence in the Work of Loie Fuller which was launched this June at the Centre National de Danse in Paris.

Chair of the Editorial Board of the Society of Dance History Scholars, Ann is also the founding director of Girls in Motion an afterschool program for middle school girls, and co-director (with Ann Dils) of a teaching initiative entitled: Accelerated Motion: Towards a New Dance Literacy in America, which is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and NITLE.

Ann Cooper Albright teaches Contact Improvisation, Dance History I, Physical Mindfulness: Embodying Contemplative Practice, and Queer Acts. Ms Cooper Albright is also the Chair of Gender and Women's Studies; Chair of the Editorial Board, Society of Dance History Scholars; Director, Girls in Motion: Move Smart/Talk Smart/Be Smart.