The University of Iowa Department of Dance seeks applications from emerging to mid-career artists in dance making, choreography, performance, and/or interdisciplinary digital media for the Grant Wood Fellowship Program for the 2025-2026 academic year. The performing arts fellowship rotates annually between the performing arts departments in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: the Department of Dance, the Department of Theatre Arts, and the School of Music. We welcome candidates of various social identities to join our faculty and contribute to the heterogeneous and multiple perspectives of our Department.

The Fellow will receive:

  • An appointment as a Grant Wood Visiting Assistant Professor in Dance
  • $40,000 salary and benefits
  • Private office
  • Furnished housing (off-campus residence)

Fellowship Recipient Responsibilities

  • Teach one course each in the fall and the spring semesters, which could include advanced courses in contemporary movement practices and/or choreography.
  • Present a public lecture.
  • Work with UI students on a creative project that results in a public performance in the spring semester, produced in a faculty concert with production support or as an independent project in alternative setting.
  • Participate in limited public outreach/promotion activities (e.g.: discussion of your work with a local arts organizations, workshops, showings, and performances).

Required Qualifications

  • MFA or PhD degree in Dance or a related field or equivalent professional experience
  • A record of innovation and creative research rooted in rigorous body-based studio practice
  • Demonstrated ability to work across disciplines in the visual and performing arts.

Desirable Qualifications

  • University-level teaching experience beyond an appointment as a graduate Teaching Assistant/Associate.
  • Ability to teach in the department's Choreography and/or Contemporary Movement Practices curriculum.
  • The UI Department of Dance is an active research community, and we are interested in opportunities to collaborate with the incoming Grant Wood Fellow. We welcome candidates whose practices sit at intersections of concert dance idioms and/or popular, global, or community-based dance forms. Areas of departmental research interests include: Contemporary Black Street Dance practices, African, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latinx and/or Afro-fusion forms, Dance Accessibility and Neurodiversity; Queer Theory and Practice; Auto-ethnographic and Ethnographic creative and scholarly methodologies; Digital Art and Immersive Theater; Performance Installation; Social and Community-based Dance; Improvisation; Somatics; Dance for Camera.

Submission Information

To apply for this position, go to http://jobs.uiowa.edu and refer to requisition #75593.  Review of applications will begin April 25, 2025 and continue until filled.

    Application Information

    Applications must include:

    • Curriculum vitae
    • Letter of application including a statement on your preparation to contribute to departmental and campus-wide initiatives toward diversity and inclusion, with evidence of a demonstrated commitment to these tenets
    • A research statement addressing the nature and significance of your choreographic creative research
    • A statement of teaching philosophy for contemporary movement practice and dance composition courses
    • Links to 3-5 samples of body-based creative research, completed works of any length may be submitted, no excerpts
    • Three letters of recommendation

    The University of Iowa is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment free from discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, age, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, associational preference, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or status as a protected veteran. The University also affirms its commitment to providing equal opportunities and equal access to University facilities. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply for all employment vacancies.

    Still from Christopher-Rasheem McMillan, Black Lokes

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    Lyndsey Scott

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