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Lyndsey Vader is a Ph.D. Candidate in Dance Studies at The Ohio State University and holds an M.F.A in Dance from The College at Brockport, State University of New York.
Her research responds to the growing use of experimental audience strategies in recent performance practices. Vader examines the processes that go into nurturing experiences of encounter, accounting for what she calls “repertories of engagement” mobilized in contemporary performance. Doing so, she offers a model to interrogate both the political and aesthetic dimensions of performative structures that invite audiences into the artwork.
Before pursuing her doctorate, Vader served as General Manager for Andrea Miller’s Gallim Dance and Program Manager for Martha Eddy at the Center for Kinesthetic Education. She has choreographed, performed, and taught nationally and internationally as Artistic Co-Director of Treeline Dance Works. The company has toured to venues, including Les 7eme Rencontres UPPAdance (France), Abundance International Dance Festival (Sweden), and Jazz at Lincoln Center (NYC). Treeline has also received choreographic commissions and teaching engagements from Cobequid Dance Academy (Nova Scotia), Southern Mississippi University (MS), and Franklin & Marshall College (PA), among others.