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Originally from Illinois, Barbie Diewald is a dancer, choreographer, and Associate Professor of Dance at Mount Holyoke College.
Her choreographic and scholarly research investigates histories and lineages in contemporary dance, and the aesthetic possibilities of queer practice. She is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow in Choreography and a recipient of the New England Foundation for the Arts’ New Work New England grant. Her choreography has been presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), the 92nd Street Y, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, The Kitchen, Jacob’s Pillow, Bates Dance Festival, and numerous venues throughout New England. Her work has been supported by residencies at Jacob’s Pillow, Bates Dance Festival, the Bogliasco Foundation, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Subcircle, and LAKE Studios in Berlin, among others. Diewald holds a BFA from Millikin University and an MFA in Dance from Smith College, and serves on the National Board of Directors of the American College Dance Association.
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