Curriculum Vitae
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Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas. Degree Received: Ph.D. 2010
Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas. Degree Received: M.F.A. 1994
The Juilliard School, New York City, New York. Degree Received: B.F.A. 1991
Dance Notation Bureau, New York City, New York
Certified Professional Notator February 18, 2006, Advanced Certification December 1996
Labanotation Teacher Certification 1991
Paris Opera Summer Study. Paris Opera, Paris, France. Evian-les-Bains, France. June-August 1990
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2022-present Faculty Fellow, Office of Outreach and Engagement, Office of Academic Affairs, OSU
2018-present Director, Dance Notation Bureau Extension Center, Department of Dance, OSU
2017-2018 Associate Dean for Outreach and Engagement, College of Arts and Sciences, OSU
2012-2017 Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Arts and Humanities, OSU
2010-2012 Associate Dean for Curriculum, College of Arts and Sciences, Arts and Humanities, OSU
2008-2017 Director of The Ohio State University’s Urban Arts Space
2012-2017 Executive Director of The Ohio State University’s The Arts Initiative
2007-2010 Associate Dean of Curriculum and Advising, OSU College of the Arts
2006-2007 Acting Assistant Dean of Curriculum and Advising, OSU College of the Arts
2009-present Professor, Department of Dance, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
2002-2009 Associate Professor, Department of Dance, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
1996-2002 Assistant Professor, Department of Dance, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
1995-1996 Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Texas at Austin
1995 Adjunct Professor, Department of Dance, Texas Woman's University
1994-1995 Ballet Faculty, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Dallas, Texas
1992-1994 Teaching Assistant, Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas, (Full-time GA)
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2021 Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award, The Ohio State University,
2020 Donald and Deborah Ratner Award for Teaching Excellence, The Ohio State University $25,000.00 teaching prize
2020 Nominated for the Ohio Governor’s Awards in the Arts by CAPA, University Libraries, and Columbus Symphony Orchestra Board members
2019 Special Assignment Spring Semester, The Ohio State University
2006 Awarded Fellow of the International Council of Kinetography Laban/Labanotation
2003 Kitty Magee Outstanding Professional Alumni Award from
Texas Woman’s University Denton, Texas
1996 Honored by the Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano, American Embassy Lima, Peru
1996 Nominated for University Teaching Excellence Award, University of Texas at Austin
1993 Excellence in Teaching Award, Texas Woman's University
1987 U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts, Honorable Mention in Ballet, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.
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Publications:
2021 Internal State: Dynamic, Interconnected Communication Loops Distributed Across Body, Brain, and Time. Kanwal, Jessleen, Emma Coddington, Rachel Frazer, Daniela Limbania, Grace Turner, Karla Davila, Michael Givens, Valarie Williams, Sandeep Datta, and Sara Wasserman. Integrative and Comparative Biology. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Integrative and Comparative Biology. ICB-2021-0111.R1. 10,023 words. 10.1093/icb/icab101
2021-present Dance, Pencil, Paper: Transforming How We Look at Movement One Moment at a Time (working title) (book manuscript in progress) by Mara Frazier and Valarie Williams.
2020 Valarie Williams: “The Arts Initiative: Defining a world of arts enterprise.” Co-editors Stephen Gavazzi and David Staley, Fulfilling the 21st Century Land-Grant Mission of The Ohio State University. The Ohio State University Press.
2018 Valarie Williams: “Writing Dance: Reflexive Process-at-Work Notating New Choreography”. Journal of Movement Arts Studies. June 30, 2018. MS#1030.
2018 Valarie Williams: “Labanotation as an Interdisciplinary Enterprise”. Book Chapter for “Camping”, Centre National de la Danse, Paris, France. Originally presented in July 2016.
2016 Valarie Williams and Rachael Riggs Leyva: “Staging Repertory from Score: Bridging Kinesthetic, Historical, and Cultural Distances”. Centre Choregraphique National de Tours, Tours, France. International Council for Kinetography Laban/Labanotation Proceedings.
2007 Valarie Williams “Writing It Down: Reflexive Processes at Work” International Council of Kinetography Laban/Labanotation Proceedings, Mexico City, Mexico.
2006 “Reflection: Reconstructing Anna Sokolow’s ‘Steps of Silence’” Best Practices for Documenting Choreographic Works. Suzanne Callahan and Libby Smigel (Editors). Dance Heritage Coalition.
Conference Presentations/Keynotes:
2022 Talmo Periera and Valarie Williams. Capturing Biological Motion through Interdisciplinary Methods. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Phoenix Convention Center. Phoenix, AZ. January.
2022 Talmo Periera and Valarie Williams. Active Tracking of Human Movements. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Phoenix Convention Center. Phoenix, Arizona. January 3-7.
2021 Mara Frazier, Ambre Emory-Maier, and Valarie Williams. A Look at the Collaborative Process of DaNCe2U #mentalhealth. Dance Studies Association, Rutgers University, New Jersey, October 11-15.
2021 Mara Frazier and Valarie Williams with Lorry May, Nena Couch, with BFA dance majors Brooke Gist, Gianna Buffano, and the cast of Rooms. University Libraries Special Virtual Screening: Excerpts from “Rooms” by Anna Sokolow with Lorry May and OSU Dance. September 16.
2021 Mara Frazier and Valarie Williams. Restaging Rooms from the Score: Embodiment, Text, and Social Exchange. Reading Dance: Forms and Practices of Dance Literacy. Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris, France. June 23-24, 2021.
2021 Ambre Emory-Maier and Valarie Williams. “Movement and Materiality,”
Dance, Song, Music and Sociability 1750-1832 Working Group. Warwick European History Research Centre, University of Warwick, London, England, via Zoom. March 5-6, 2021. Sponsored by DIGIT.EN.S EU
2019 Valarie Williams and Tsung-Hsin (Joda) Lee. The Importance of Laban as Seen Through the Voices of Generation Z. International Council of Kinetography Laban/Labanotation. CENART, Mexico City, Mexico, July 22-27, 2019.
2019 Ambre Emory-Maier and Valarie Williams. A Look at the Collaborative Staging of George Balanchine’s Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux. International Council of Kinetography Laban/Labanotation. CENART, Mexico City, Mexico, July 22-27, 2019.
2019 Valarie Williams. Vice-Chair Keynote and Welcome Address.
International Council of Kinetography Laban/Labanotation. CENART, Mexico City, Mexico, July 22-27.
2019 Ambre Emory-Maier and Valarie Williams. Decaying Dances: Revitalization through Ownership. Dance Studies Association. Northwestern University. Chicago, Illinois, August 8-10, 2019.
2018 Valarie Williams. What Goes into the Score? An integrated collaborative approach to document and preserve movement. Invited Keynote Lecture, TENOR Conference, Montreal, Canada, May 23-26.
2017 Nena Couch and Valarie Williams. Curation through Collaboration: Choreographer, Curator, Scholar and Score. Congress on Research in Dance and Society of Dance History Scholars (DSA). The Ohio State University. October 19-21, 2017.
2017 Nena Couch and Valarie Williams. Preserving the Preservation. Closing Keynote Long Paper for International Council of Kinetography Laban/Labanotation. Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. July 24-August 1, 2017.
2016 Valarie Williams: “Labanotation as an Interdisciplinary Enterprise”. Invited lecture prepared for Camping Conference, Centre National de la Danse, Paris, France, July 20-July1, 2016.
2015 Valarie Williams and Rachael Riggs Leyva: “Staging Repertory from Score: Bridging Kinesthetic, Historical, and Cultural Distances.” Centre Choregraphique National de Tours, France. July 24-31.
2015 Valarie Williams, Rachael Riggs Leyva, Lynne Weber, Mei-Chen Lu: “Current Pedagogical Practices from the Dance Notation Bureau and Dance Notation Bureau Extension.” International Council of Kinetography Laban/Labanotation. Centre Choregraphique National de Tours, France. July 24-31.
2012 Valarie Williams, Performing the Possible: 20th century principles applied to 21st century artists KRIGA International Symposium on the Global Trend in Gifted Education in Arts: Korean National Research Institute for Gifted in Arts and Humanities, University of the Arts, Seoul, Korea,10-11 January 2012.
2011 Valarie Williams and Lorry May, “Finding the Humanity in Anna Sokolow’s Steps of Silence.” Jewish Dance Conference, OSU Melton Center for Jewish Studies and Department of Dance
2006 Valarie Williams and Rachel Boggia: “Connecting Moments in Time: Issues in Documenting Anna Sokolow’s Steps of Silence (1968)” World Dance Alliance Conference, York University, Toronto.
2004 Valarie Williams and Rachel Boggia: “Reflection: Anna Sokolow’s “Steps of Silence” National Dance Education Organization Conference, Michigan State University
Reconstructions from Score: (selected)
2022 “Galliard” from Agon (1957) choreography George Balanchine. Reconstructed from archival notes and notation by Valarie Williams, Mara Frazier, Ambre Emory-Maier for Balanchine Foundation Video Archives Series
2021-22 Chidori (1974) choreography: Saeko Ichionhe, music: traditional w/Forrest Hershey and Yukina Sato
2021 Steps in the Street (1936) choreography: Martha Graham, music: Reiggeur w/Mara Frazier
2019-20 Rooms (1957) choreography: Anna Sokolow, music: Kenyon Hopkins w/Mara Frazier
2019-22 “Frist, Second, and Third Themes” from The Four Temperaments choreography: George Balanchine, music Hindmith. w/ Ambre Emory-Maier
2014: Chair/Pillow from Continuous Project Altered Daily… (1969) choreography: Yvonne Rainer, music: Ike and Tina Turner.
2010 La Cachucha (1836) choreography: Fanny Elssler, after traditional Spanish dances
2006 All Fours (2003) choreographer: Mark Morris, music: Béla Bartók’s String Quartet No. 4
2004, 08-09 Steps of Silence (1968) choreography: Anna Sokolow, music: Anatol Vireau
2004 Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor (1938) choreography: Doris Humphrey, music: J.S. Bach
2001 Three Epitaphs (1954) choreography: Paul Taylor, music: Traditional New Orleans folk music
Notated Works: (selected)
2022 Rain choreography Bebe Miller (pencil draft)
2021-22 Bushasche Etude choreography Dr. Pearl Primus
2017-18; We Shall Run choreography Yvonne Rainer. Pencil draft from 2006-2018.
2004-05 Six Traditional Chinese Dance from the Sanai Province, China
2001-05 Prey choreography Bebe Miller
2001-05 Brain and Jennifer choreography Vicky Shick
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2018 Ohio State University Senate, elected member, serving the faculty of Arts and Humanities
2006 International Council of Kinetography Laban/Labanotation, Board of Trustees Vice Chair
2014- 2018 A2RU (Alliance of Arts in Research Universities), Executive Board Member
2012 Opera Columbus, Columbus, Ohio, Board of Trustees Member
2010 Dance Notation Bureau, New York City, New York, Board of Trustees Member
2015-2017 Columbus Cultural Leaders Consortium, Board Member
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2021 Humanities Without Walls Seed Grant Archiving Black Performance w/Crystal Perkins
2021 Office of Diversity and Inclusion See Grant for Social Justice w/Crystal Perkins
2021 Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Themes Grant Centers and Institutes w/Crystal Perkins
2020 Ohio State Energy Partners w/Ambre Emory-Maier
2019 Ohio State Energy Partners
2019 Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Themes Grant
2015-2019 Ohio Arts Council Sustaining Grant for operating support
2015-2017 Greater Columbus Arts Council Grants for exhibitions and community programming
2004-06 National Endowment for the Arts: Dance/USA/National College Choreography Initiative
2002-04 National Endowment for the Arts: Repertory Dance Theater and Valarie Williams
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Valarie Williams and Crystal Perkins- Archiving Black Performance