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Maura Keefe

Maura Keefe is a contemporary dance historian. She is a scholar in residence at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, where she writes about, lectures on, and interviews artists from around the world.

Keefe has also given lectures and led audience programs nationally at places such as Princeton University, UCLA, the Goethe Institut (Los Angeles), the Kennedy Center, New York Live Arts, the Joyce Theatre, and New York’s City Center, and internationally for the Festival Internacional Danza Extremadura in Monterrey, Mexico. She is the Smith Chair of Dance at University of Maryland, where she teaches dance history and theory and choreography. Prior to serving as the Director of the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at Maryland, Keefe was Chair of the Department of Dance at SUNY Brockport and was on the dance faculty at Ohio University.

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Essays by this Contributor


Does Dance Need a Stage? Site-Specific Dance at Jacob’s Pillow

Ballet: Is It or Isn’t It?

Can You Call That Dance? Circus at Jacob’s Pillow

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