Movers & Shapers: Karen Eliot

Karen Eliot danced in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and now teaches in the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University. With Daniel Roberts, she staged Cunningham MinEvents at the Wexner Center for the Arts for the Leap Before You Look exhibit in 2016, and for Parallel Connections in 2017. Her books include Dancing Lives: Five Female Dancers from the Ballet d’Action to Merce Cunningham (2007) and Albion’s Dance: the British Ballet during the Second World War (2016). With Melanie Bales, she co-edited Dance on Its Own Terms: Histories and Methodologies (2013). Her research on the British ballet during WWII was awarded several OSU Arts and Humanities and College of the Arts research grants, and a Coca Cola Critical Difference for Women Grant. In 2016 she received a Received Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. She is a co-editor of Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts.

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