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meghan durham
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durham-wall.1@osu.edu |
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Meghan Durham (Visiting Assistant Professor)
was born in Durham, NC by coincidence. She is a dance artist, educator, and advocate. Meghan’s creative work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Eccles Foundation, the Philadelphia Foundation, the nEW Festival, Dance Advance’s artists’ exchange in Singapore (administered by the Pew Charitable Trust), the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and the Painted Bride Art Center, among others. She taught as faculty in the Department of Theater and Dance at Princeton University from 2003-2008; and has held dance faculty positions at Temple University, the University of Utah, Westminster College, Repertory Dance Theater's Community School, and the Virginia Tanner Creative Dance Program. Meghan conducts her creative activity as an independent artist as the Artistic Director of Merge Dance and as a collaborating performer (past and present) for Melanie Stewart Dance Theatre, and Ashley Thorndike/Peter Svendsen, among others. Past choreographic highlights include creating a work for the 2002 Cultural Olympiad that was accompanied live by Pete Seeger, and crafting a street crossing in San Francisco with a quartet of differently-abled adults. Meghan recently performed an evening of duets and dances with collaborator Karl Rogers, featuring choreography by Susan Hadley, Bebe Miller, Lisa Race, Rogers, and herself. Meghan’s creative work embeds interdisciplinary inquiry within dance choreography and performance, however the human body and experience remain at the foreground of
her work.
education
MFA in Modern Dance, University of Utah
MS in Language Pathology (neurogenic track),
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BA in Linguistics/Language Studies, Wellesley College
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