ANN H. DILS, PhD.
323 HHP Building
University of North Carolina Greensboro
P.O. Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
336-334-3047 (office)
ahdils@uncg.edu
Associate Professor, Dance Department,
University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Associate, 2001-present. Assistant, 1996-2001. Director of Graduate Study, 2004-2007.
WomenÕs and Gender Studies Coordinating Council, 2004-2008.
Adjunct
Assistant Professor, Dance and Dance Education Program, Teachers College,
Columbia University, New York, New York.
1992-1996.
Dils, A. (2008). Invited researcher. International Choreolab, WDA Global Summit. July.
Dils, A.
(2008). Moderns and Other Folk: The National Dance
Congress and Festival of 1936. Conference
Proceedings of the Congress on Research in Dance, November 2007.
Dils, A. (2008) Why Dance Literacy? Journal
of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies. (http://www.csse.ca/CACS/JCACS/index.html)
Dils, A. and S. Stinson (2008) Toward
Passionate Thought: Peer Mentoring as Learning From and With a Colleague. They Taught us the Dance ~ Essays and
Interviews: Dance Educators Remember their Mentors and Teachers. Edited by
Thomas Hagood, Cambria Press. (invited publication in press)
Stinson, S. and A. Dils
(2008) Dance in Qualitative Research, The
SAGE Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research (in press)
Dils, A., R. Gee, and M. Brookoff,
eds. (2007)) Intersections: Dance, Place,
and Identity. Kendall-Hunt.
Dils, A., ed. (2007) Dance Research Journal 40/1 (Summer 2007). University of Illinois
Press.
Albright, A.C. and A. Dils, co-directors. (2006). Accelerated Motion: Toward a New Dance Literacy in America. Curriculum project sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, NITLE Foundation, and Wesleyan University Press.
Dils, A. (2006) Two chapters: Moving
into Dance: Dance Appreciation as Dance Literacy and Dance Education and Social
History. International Handbook of Research in Arts Education.
(Invited, in press).
Dils, A., ed. (2006) Dance Research Journal, 39/1 and 39/2 (Summer and Winter 2006,
double issue). University of Illinois Press.
Dils, A. and Green, J., eds. Dance Research Journal, 37/1 (Summer
2005), 36/2 (Winter 2004, special issue on Indian dance, with guest editor
Uttara Coorlawala), 36/1 and 35/2 (Summer 2004 and Winter 2003 double issue),
35/1 (Summer 2003, special issue on dance in the Middle East). Congress on
Research in Dance.
Dils,
A. (2004) Sexuality and Sexual Identity: Critical Possibilities for Teaching
Dance Appreciation and Dance History. Journal
of Dance Education 4 (1), 10-16.
Dils, A. (2003) Bill T. Jones and
Arnie Zane (encyclopedia entry). International
Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgendered People.
Dils, A. (2002) The Ghost in the Machine:
Merce Cunningham and Bill T. Jones, PAJ:
A Journal of Performance and Art 70 (Invited publication.), 94-104.
Dils, A. and Albright, A.C., eds. (2001) Moving History/Dancing Culture: A Dance History Reader. Wesleyan University
Press.
Dils, A. (2001) Absent/ Presence. Moving History/Dancing Culture: A Dance
History Reader. Wesleyan University Press.
Dils, A.
(2001) Dance Reconstruction and Personal History. Conseil International de la
Danse. Conference Proceedings, November.
Dils, A and Crosby. J.F. (2001) Dialogue
in Dance Studies Research. Dance Research
Journal 33 (1), 62-81.
Dils, A. (2001) From Passacaglia to Body Automatic:
Dancing the Human and the Posthuman. Congress on Research in Dance.
Conference Proceedings of the Congress on Research in Dance, October.
Dils, A. (2001) Virginia Tanner:
Mormonism and Humphrey's Utah Legacy. Dance
Research Journal 32 (2), 7-31.
Dils A and L Naugle. (2000) Dancing with
the Mouse, conference report. Dance
Research Journal 32 (1),
161-164.
Dils, A. (1999) Reconstructing Modern
Dance from Labanotation: The Example of Day on Earth. Korean Journal of Dance Studies, 4, 1-18.
Dils, A. (1998) Capturing Dance on Paper.
The Journal of Physical Education,
Recreation and Dance 69 (6), 27-31.
Dils, A. (1998) Humphrey in Utah. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of
the Congress on Research in Dance, 12-15 November, 53-60.
Dils, A. (1997) Photographing Lives. Proceedings of the 1997 Congress on Research
in Dance Annual Conference, Fall.
Dils, A. (1997) Review of Choreographing
History, edited by Susan Foster, Dance
Research Journal 29 (2), 110-113.
Dils, A. (1997) Introduction to Humphrey
issue of Dance Research Journal 29
(1).
Dils, A. (1995) Review of Doris Humphrey
Technique: The Creative Potential, a videotape written, directed, and hosted by
Ernestine Stodelle and Doris Humphrey: The Collected Works, Vol. 2, a
compendium of Labanotated Scores in Dance
Research Journal, 27 (1), 40-41.
Dils, A. (1993) What Constitutes a
Dance?: Investigating the Constitutive Properties of Antony Tudor's Dark
Elegies, Dance Research Journal 24
(2), 17-31.
Dils, A. (1993) Reconceptualizing Dance:
Reconstructing the Dances of Doris Humphrey. Doctoral Dissertation, Department
of Performance Studies, New York University.
Dils, A. (1993) Performance Practice and
Humphrey Reconstruction, Dance
Reconstructed, Conference Proceedings, A Conference on Modern Dance Art
Past, Present, Future. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 223-227.
Dils, A (2008) as interviewed by Joy Held. Noteable Feet, feature in Dancer Magazine. May issue.
Dils, A. (2008) Why Dance Literacy? World Dance Alliance Conference, Brisbane, Australia. July.
Dils,
A. (2008) Paris
Dancing in the 1920s: Bricktop, Baker, and ballet. Focus on Piano Literature.
School of Music, UNCG (invited presentation). June.
Dils, A and cast members. (2008) Restaging of Jean CocteauÕs 1920 farce Le Boeuf sur le Toit (The Ox on the Roof). School of Music, UNCG (invited presentation). Performances in April and June.
Dils,
A. (2007) Moderns and Other Folk: The National
Dance Congress and Festival of 1936.
Congress
on Research in Dance conference, New York, New York. November.
Dils, A. (2006) Presentation on Dance Education and
Social History as part of the
roundtable, ÒCrossing Borders in
Dance Education Research.Ó Congress on Research in Dance conference, Tempe,
Arizona. November.
Dils,
A. (2006) Workshop on Accelerated Motion: Towards a New Dance Literacy. National
Dance Education Organization annual conference, Long Beach, California.
September.
Dils, A. (2006) Presentation of Accelerated Motion:
Towards a New Dance Literacy. Dance and the Child International conference, The
Hague, Netherlands. July.
Dils, A, Gee, R. and
Brookoff, M. (2006) Intersections: Dance, Place, and Identity. Graduate
Research in the Arts Today (GREAT) Conference. UNCG, Greensboro, NC. April.
Dils, A. (2006)
Deconstructing Gender in Dance. Presentation and discussion with Jill Green and
Sue Stinson. Creative Action: Gender and the Arts conference sponsored by UNCG
WomenÕs Studies. Refereed.
Greensboro, NC. March.
Dils, A. and Stinson, S.
(2006) ÒEmbodiment and Connection in Online Learning.Ó Lily South Conference on
Teaching and Learning. Refereed. February 2006, Greensboro, NC.
Dils, A. (2005) "Doris Humphrey as Community
Activist: The Evidence of Decade,"
Congress on Research in Dance - Special Topics, Gainesville, Florida. March.
Dils,
A. (2004) "Doris Humphrey as Activist and Community Organizer." National Dance Education Organization
annual conference, October.
Dils, A. (2003) ÒDoris Humphrey.Ó Lecture
and workshop on HumphreyÕs Water Study.
Oberlin College. September.
Diils,
A. (2003) ÒBawdy Body Stories.Ó
National Dance Education Organization. October.
Dils, A. (2003) ÒLiving History.Ó
(research paper) and member of
panel invited to discuss publishing in dance, Annual Conference of the Congress on Research in Dance.
August.
Dils,
A. (2003) ÒDance, Transformation, and Technology,Ó Introduced, edited, and
organized panel presentation/performance by five UNCG graduate students. The
panel included a collage of critical writings about Virtual Lies, a multimedia dance theatre performance by John Gamble
Dance Theatre, with dancing and visual images from GambleÕs production. Annual Conference of the Southeastern
WomenÕs Studies Association (SEWSA). Spring.
Dils, A. (2001) Dancing Community In The
Long Line: Repertory Dance Theatre and HumphreyÕs Utah Legacy. Annual
Conference of the Congress on Research in Dance. October.
Dils, A. (2001) Mapping Self and Culture.
Annual Conference of the National Dance Education Organization. April.
Dils, A. (2000) Repertory Dance Theatre
and HumphreyÕs Utah Legacy. Dancing in the Millennium, a conference of 13 dance
organizations, Washington, DC. (panel organizer and participant).
Dils, A. (2000) Auto/Biography:
constructing self and subject. Annual Conference of the Southeast Women's
Studies Association, April.
Dils, A. (1999) Writing the Historical
Body. Annual Conference of the Congress on Research in Dance, December 1-4.
Dils, A. (1999) From Legend to History:
The Legacy of Doris Humphrey. 2000 Feet: A Celebration of World Dance, June.
Dils, A. (1999) From Modern Dance to
World Dance: Multiculturalism in a University Dance Department. National Dance
Education Organization Conference, May.
Dils, A. (1999) Escaping Ourselves.
Annual Conference of the Southeast Women's Studies Association, March
26-28.
Dils, A. (1998) Humphrey in Utah. Annual
Conference of the Congress on Research in Dance, November 12-15.
Dils, A. (1997) Photographing Life,
Annual Conference of the Congress on Research in Dance, Fall.
Dils, A. (1996) Teaching Dance History
from a Movement Base, National Dance Association Annual Conference, Spring.
Dils, A. (1995) Dialogue in Dance
Ethnography, Congress on Research in Dance, Annual Conference, Miami, FL. Fall,
with Jill Crosby
Dils, A. (1992) Reconstructing Dance: Old
Becomes New, Congress on Research in Dance, Annual Conference, Georgia State
University, Atlanta. Summer.
Dils, A. (1992) Reconstructing the Dances
of Doris Humphrey, Conference on Dance Reconstruction, Rutgers, Princeton, New Jersey, Fall and at
Barnard College, Fall.
Dils, A. (1991) Gender and Dance, Guest
Lecture, Graduate Program in Dance, Ohio State University, November.
Dils, A. (1991) Doris Humphrey, Guest
Lecture, Oberlin College Department of Dance, November.
Dils, A. (1990) Moving Politics/
Political Movement: Gender and Dance. Convocation Lecturer. Potsdam
College, State University of New
York. April.
Dils, A. (1990) Moving Politics/
Political Movement: Gender and Dance. Lecture and workshop. Middlebury College,
March, 1990.
Dils, A. (1989) The Sexual Politics of
Antony Tudor: Dark Elegies Congress on Research in Dance Conference. November.
Dils, A. (1986) The Green Table
Project." Panel leader. Congress on Research in Dance Conference.
November.
Dils, A.(1986) Movement Analysis and
Still Materials. American Theatre Association Conference. Summer.
Dils, A. (1985) Movement Analysis of
Still Materials: Isadora Duncan and Abraham Walkowitz, Congress on Research in
Dance Conference. November.
GUEST TEACHING
Guest
teaching with Marcia B. Siegel for Dance Criticism, Movement Analysis, and
Resources in Dance courses at the Ohio State University. Part of a series of
guest teachers opening OSUÕs doctoral program in dance. October 29-November 2.
COURSES GIVEN
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Undergraduate
teaching:
Dance
Appreciation (curriculum bridges writing intensive, global marker, and fine
arts general studies requirements; dance major section emphasizes reading of
written and performed dance texts; coordination of 120 person lecture course;
collaboration with and mentoring of graduate students as teachers); World Dance
(study of selected movement practices and their histories); History of Dance in
the United States (examination of social, sacred, and theatrical dance between
1850 and 1970; activities integrate bodily and intellectual investigation;
writing intensive); Contemporary Dance: Aesthetic and Cultural Practice (upper
level undergraduate course surveying contemporary social/aesthetic approaches
to dancemaking; speaking intensive; self-guided learning emphasized). Dance
minor advisor.
Graduate
teaching:
Dance: the Phenomenon I (introduction to
research in dance studies; mentoring of critical exploration through movement,
research of existing literature, dance observation, self-reflection, and
writing; co-taught with Sue Stinson; campus-based and online versions); Dance:
the Phenomenon II (introduction to action research; mentoring of critical
pedagogy and writing; co-taught with Sue Stinson; campus-based and online
versions); Dance Pedagogy in Higher Education (seminar includes teaching
observation, exploration of practical and critical writings in pedagogy,
development of teaching philosophies); Contemporary Dance: Aesthetic and
Cultural Practice (directed reading of literature in dance, feminist theory,
and cultural theory); Perspectives on Dance in North Carolina (experimental
course emphasizing creation of regional public histories of dance)
GRADUATE STUDENT COMMITTEES
Dissertation
Defense Committee Member (Department of Dance, Temple University)
Randall, T. PhD, 2008.
Dissertation
committee (Department of Curriculum and Teaching/ Cultural Studies
Kim, Y. PhD
MFA
Master Production or Project Committee (Department of Dance, UNCG)
Duffy, A. 2008-2009.
Edwards, J. 2007-2008, Interim Chair
Reber. M. 2007-2008, Interim Chair
Quinn,
E. 2007-2008.
Brookoff,
M. 2006-2007.
Morgan,
E. 2006-2007. Chair
MA
Project and Thesis Committees (UNCG)
Long, A. 2007-2008 Green,
A. 2007
Morris. L. 2007-2008 Law,
A. 2007
Graduate Summer Research Award Advisor
Duffy,
A. Summer 08
Groenendaal,
L. Summer 08
Honors Thesis Projects
Brown,
R. Spring 08
Belo,
A. Spring 07
Independent Study
Keifer-Stark,
K. Spring 2008
MA Projects, Primary Advisor (Teachers
College)
Burgos,
T., 1996- 1997.
Chan,
B., 1996- 1997.
Greenburg,
K., 1996- 1997.
Morris,
J., 1996- 1997.
Bryant,
M., 1994-1995.
Caan,
D., 1994- 1995.
Garcia,
I., 1994- 1995.
Hall,
S., 1994- 1995.
Heuts,
O., 1994- 1995.
McDonnel,
A., 1994- 1995.
Barragan,
C., 1992- 1993.
Gonzalez,
A., 1992-1993.
Houston,
Y., 1992-1993.
Ludwick,
J., 1992-1993.
Spring 2004: Awarded leave for research semester, UNCG.
2002:
Finalist, University Teaching Award, UNCG.
2002:
Linda Carlisle Research Award in WomenÕ Studies, UNCG.
2001-2002:
School of Health and Human Performance Distinguished Teaching Award, UNCG.
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant. Written with Ann Cooper Albright for submission through Oberlin College. Under consideration. Fall 2007.
National Endowment for the Arts.
2005-2007. Accelerated Motion: Towards a New Dance Literacy. Funded Spring
2005, $35,000. (A. C. Albright and A. Dils, co-directors). Project continues to be funded by
Wesleyan University Press and NITLE Foundation.
Kohler Fund Travel Grants, Office of
International Programs, UNCG, Summer 2006.
Editorial Advisory Board, The
International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2007.
Manuscript reader for Dance Chronicle, Journal of Dance Education, 2007.
Manuscript reader for
Wesleyan University Press, 2002-2007, Indiana University Press, 2005 and 2007,
University of Kentucky Press, 2006, Routledge, 2005.
INTERNATIONAL
Conference Committee, Global
Perspectives on Dance Pedagogy: Research and Practice Conference 2009. Leicester, UK.
Selection Committee, American Dance Festival Dance on Camera Festival and Conference, Spring 2008.
Promotion and tenure review. Stanford
University. Spring 2008; UC Santa Cruz, Fall 2007; Wesleyan University, Fall 2007;
Ohio State University, Fall 2002.
Program review for new PhD program, York
University. Spring 2008; University of Rochester, Spring 2007.
Guggenheim Foundation Recommendations: 2
in 2008, 1 in 2007
Member, Institutional Self-study
Committee. National Dance Education Organization, 2005.
UNIVERSITY/SCHOOL
Atlantic World Research Network Spring
2008.
Joint appointment in WomenÕs and Gender
Studies
Member, AdHoc committee to revise search
procedures and governance documents. Spring 2008.
Member, WomenÕs Studies Coordinating
Council, 2005-2007. January 3,
2006 futures planning retreat.
Chair, Linda Carlisle Research Award in
WomenÕ Studies Committee, 2004-2008. Member, 2003-2004.
Member, WomenÕs Studies Conference
Committee, Creative Action: Gender and the Arts,
proposals review committee, 2005-2006.
Member, Committee reviewing proposals for
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research, 2005, 2007.
Member, University Budget Committee,
2004-2007.
Member, University Concert and Lecture
Committee, 2001-2003.
Member, School of Health and Human
Performance Applied Professional Track Promotions and Tenure Committee,
2001-2003.
Member. Graduate School Committee and
Curriculum Subcommittee, 2001-2002.
Member, Graduate School Dissertation
Excellence Award Committee, 2000-2001.
Women's Studies associate, 1998-2005.
Undergraduate auditions, spring 2008
Minor advisor, 2008.
Peer Review committee, Spring 2006 and Spring 2007.
Director of Graduate Study, 2004-2007
Chair, Doctoral planning committee, Department of Dance. 2004-2006.
Search Committee Chair, for full time and
3/4 time faculty searches, Department of Dance. 2002-2003.
Dance Department library liaison to
Jackson Library, 1996-2005.
Catalogue and maintain departmental
teaching video archive, 1996-2005.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
World
Dance Alliance
Congress
on Research in Dance
dance
and the Child international
National
Dance Education Organization
Society
of Dance History Scholars
Southeast
Women's Studies Association