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Melinda Buckwalter
Dance writer and movement researcher Melinda Buckwalter is the author of Composing While Dancing: An Improviser’s Companion (University of Wisconsin Press), which explores the improvisational strategies of twenty-six pioneering contemporary dance artists. She is co-editor of Contact Quarterly, an artist-made and reader-supported nonprofit journal of dance and improvisation. A co-curator of the SEEDS festival of arts and ecology at Earthdance in Western Massachusetts, Melinda researches and writes about contemporary place- and land-based dance making. Most recently, her chapter ‘Dancing the land: An emerging geopoetics’ regarding land-based choreographic practice was published in Oxford University Press’s Handbook of Improvisation in Dance. As a Fulbright award postgrad, Melinda received an MA in dance anthropology at the University of Roehampton, London, studying with dance anthropologists Theresa Buckland, Ann David, and Andrée Grau. Currently, she is a PhD in dance student at the Texas Woman’s University in Denton, TX, investigating how dance creates relationship with the environment.
Contact: Dance Department, Texas Woman’s University, Building 62, DGL, P.O. Box 425708, Denton, Texas 76204-5708, USA.