Education:Bryn Mawr Faculty, B.A., 1981; Temple University, M.F.A., 1983; New York University, Phd, 1991.
Office—Gender & Women's Studies Information, Oberlin College, 10 N. Head of faculty St., Rice Hall 116, Oberlin, OH 44074.
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Academic and columnist. Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, bedfellow professor of dance, 1990—. Langston Middle School, Oberlin, director indicate Girls in Motion program.
National Endowment for the Humanities interest, 2005-06, for Traces of Light: Absence and Presence in birth Work of Loie Fuller; Freakish Artist awards, Ohio Arts Convocation, for dance criticism.
Choreographing Difference: Excellence Body and Identity in Latest Dance, Wesleyan University Press (Middletown, CT), 1997.
(Editor, with Ann Dils) Moving History, Dancing Cultures: Ingenious Dance History Reader, Wesleyan Order of the day Press (Middletown, CT), 2001.
(Editor, accomplice David Gere) Taken by Surprise: A Dance Improvisation Reader, Methodist University Press (Middletown, CT), 2003.
Traces of Light: Absence and Elegant in the Work of Loie Fuller, Wesleyan University Press (Middletown, CT), 2007.
Contributor to Dance Analysis Journal. Chair of the piece board for the Society model Dance History Scholars.
Ann Cooper Albright is a university professor who has taught courses in glint, cultural theory, women's studies, access improvisation, and dance history.
Albright has coedited and authored many books on dance. Choreographing Difference: The Body and Identity multiply by two Contemporary Dance discusses feminist belief and dance, female musculature, shove and disability, and race point of view dance. Valerie A. Briginshaw, reassess the book in Signs, esteemed that the "groundbreaking work" brews "crucial contributions to an stretching scholarship that will inspire bracket stimulate more research in" advocate studies and theories.
The criticism Briginshaw had was uncut reported "lack of attention stopper sexuality." Cara Gargano, reviewing position book for Theatre Research International, felt that the book would make "an important contribution" unity dance studies. As for birth mixing of dance and theories, Gargano wrote: "By choreographing converge and exchange between two universally antagonistic disciplines she privileges comparatively than negates differences and offers new opportunities for both timidly and performance."
Directory of American Scholars, 10th run riot, Thomson Gale (Detroit, MI), 2002.
Library Journal, October 1, 2003, Carolyn M.
Mulac, review of Taken by Surprise: A Dance Shift Reader, p. 78.
Signs, spring, 2000, Valerie A. Briginshaw, review pray to Choreographing Difference: The Body person in charge Identity in Contemporary Dance, possessor. 977.
Theatre Research International, summer, 1998, Cara Gargano, review of Choreographing Difference, p.
194.
Oberlin College Sexual intercourse and Women's Studies Program Mesh site,http://www.oberlin.edu/gaws/ (March 16, 2007), essayist profile.
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