Kent De Spain

2000 - 2001 Visiting Faculty

Kent De Spain has toured throughout the United States, including performances at Judson Church, the North Carolina Dance Festival, and Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival (in the 1997 premiere of Ralph Lemon's "So this is a hero"). Dr. De Spain holds the Ed.D. degree from the dance department at Temple University in Philadelphia and M.A. and B.A. degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has served as Guest Artist at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro and has just completed a one year post-doctoral fellowship in the dance department at Ohio State University where he directed an improvisational performance ensemble. As a choreographer De Spain has been the recipient of several awards, including a fellowship from the Philadelphia Repertory Development Initiative, the Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and an Established Choreographers Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. De Spain is author of a 1992-94 series of Contact Quarterly articles about movement improvisation. His "Dance and Technology: A Pas de Deux for Post-humans" is published in the Summer 2000 issue of the Dance Research Journal published by the International Congress on Research in Dance.