Dance Faculty
Instructional Technologist, Scenic & Performance Labs
Becca is the Instructional Technologist for Scenic and Performance Labs.
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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
Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance, Theatre & Dance Program
Brendan Drake (all pronouns) is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and researcher. Their work incorporates movement, text, and sound experimentations to interrogate notions of vanity, rage, humiliation, and pleasure within gender and sexual power dynamics.Read More
Program Head, Theatre & Dance; Associate Professor of English
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
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
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
Assistant Professor of Dance, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Dance; Affiliate Faculty of the Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service
Anna Jayne Kimmel is a performance studies scholar invested in the intersection of legal humanities and dance studies, with particular attention to race/coloniality and bodily scrutiny as grounded through francophone histories. Read More
Academic Program Administrator for Theatre & Dance
Isabella Matousek is a Pure Barre Teacher.Read More
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.
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
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