Interdisciplinary Performance Fellowship

Fellowship

Interdisciplinary Performance

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).

Fellows receive

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

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.

Application information

Applications must include:

Curriculum vitae
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

Fellowship program

Join a vibrant community of artists at the University of Iowa. The application window is open annually in January.

Interdisciplinary Performance fellow projects

SONG*LINES

Over 8 Sundays, SONG*LINES brought Iowa City together—one song, one space, one story at a time. From the Bike Library to the Stanley Museum, City High to the Historic Poor Farm, each event explored a theme rooted in place and community. It all led to the Big Sing on May 4 at Old Brick—a powerful celebration of voice, place, and connection.