Dance Faculty
![Becca Balton](https://corcoran.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5196/files/styles/d03_traditional/public/2025-01/becca_balton.jpg?h=433a8745&itok=R3bYQh4B)
Instructional Technologist, Scenic & Performance Labs
Becca is the Instructional Technologist for Scenic and Performance Labs.
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![Jessica Denson](https://corcoran.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5196/files/styles/d03_traditional/public/2025-01/denson_jessica_2024_resized.jpg?h=96c20fab&itok=VK4HuQvs)
Adjunct Professor of Dance, Theatre & Dance Program
Jessica Denson is a DC-based, interdisciplinary performing artist/director, educator, arts administrator, and community organizer whose interests reside in crafting opportunities for authenticity, dialogue, and healing through creative expression, particularly as they relate to historically marginalized populations. Read More
![Brendan Drake](https://corcoran.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5196/files/styles/d03_traditional/public/2024-08/brendandrake_photocredit-_whitneybrowne-7527.jpg?h=4c8e07d4&itok=xkdAKg-p)
Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance, Theatre & Dance Program
Brendan Drake is an interdisciplinary artist and educator currently based in Brooklyn and Washington DC Read More
![Holly Dugan](https://corcoran.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5196/files/styles/d03_traditional/public/2024-06/holly_dugan_english_720.jpg?h=92f975a1&itok=wzxL6IeR)
Program Head, Theatre & Dance
Holly Dugan’s scholarship focuses on the role of literature as an archive of the past, especially in terms of histories of embodiment, theater, and early modern English material culture. She is working on two book projects: Shakespeare and the Senses, which explores the sensory aspects of early modern performance, and “The Famous Ape,” which traces the role of animal actors from the Renaissance to the modern era. Read More
![Kris Harris](https://corcoran.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5196/files/styles/d03_traditional/public/2024-01/kris_harris.jpg?h=5e931f31&itok=s_gyQReL)
Adjunct Professor of Dance, Theatre & Dance Program
Krissy Harris is a DMV-based, LGBTQIA+ dance artist and educator. Their research is anchored in sensation-based movement, navigation of identity, and Queer wonder. Read More
![Sigrid Johannesdottir](https://corcoran.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5196/files/styles/d03_traditional/public/2024-09/sigrid_j.jpg?h=9558f9de&itok=5Wn0Jii3)
Associate Professor of Costume Design & Technology, Theatre & Dance Program
Sigridur is a costume designer who specializes and focuses her teaching on reproducing historical costumes based on research as well as dance costumes. She is the resident costume designer for Washington Stage Guild (DC), Ambassador Theatre (DC), and MetroStage in Alexandria VA.Read More
![Anna Kimmel](https://corcoran.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5196/files/styles/d03_traditional/public/2023-07/anna_kimmel.jpg?h=5273c5c2&itok=gdmfIE4L)
Assistant Professor of Dance, Director of Undergraduate Studies; Undergraduate Faculty Advisor; Affiliate Faculty of the Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service
Anna Kimmel's work lies at the intersection of dance and legal studies, studying the relation between francophone histories and moments of public assembly. Read More
![Isabella Matousek](https://corcoran.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5196/files/styles/d03_traditional/public/2023-10/isabella_matousek.jpg?h=aabaf923&itok=n9dYCvPq)
Academic Program Administrator for Theatre & Dance
Isabella Matousek is a Pure Barre Teacher.Read More
![John Traub](https://corcoran.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5196/files/styles/d03_traditional/public/image/11-2-21-DJH_2525-Edit.jpg?h=067ede0e&itok=mCHRQFSO)
Associate Professor, Production Management & Technology
John is an Associate Professor of Production Design at the George Washington University, where he teaches courses in Design and Management and serves as the Technical Director for the Corcoran Theatre & Dance Program.
![Emily Vallozzi](https://corcoran.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5196/files/styles/d03_traditional/public/2022-10/emily_vallozzi.jpeg?h=8f85426a&itok=HAY6zp_M)
Instructional Costume Lab Associate for Theatre & Dance
Emily Vallozzi is a Washington D.C.-based costume designer, wardrobe stylist, and seamstress who has been working in the field since graduating from Point Park University in 2007 with a BFA in Technical Theatre and Design. Read More
![Irina Wunder](https://corcoran.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5196/files/styles/d03_traditional/public/image/Irina%20Wunder.jpg?h=3f27ce95&itok=2innAfmV)
Adjunct Professor of Dance, Theatre & Dance Program
Ms. Wunder is on the faculty of the Department of Performing Arts at American University in Washington, DC and Ballet NoVa Center for Dance in Arlington, VA. She taught at the Dance Institute of Washington and the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington, DC.Read More