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:
MFA or PhD degree completed by start date, in Dance or a related field; university-level teaching experience beyond an appointment as a graduate Teaching Assistant/Associate; and 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.
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.
To apply for this position, go to http://jobs.uiowa.edu and refer to requisition #75545. Review of applications will begin March 21, 2025 and continue until filled.
Applications must include:
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