Don't miss the last Spring 2006 installment of the Office for Religious Life's popular discussion and lecture series encouraging members of the Stanford community to reflect on matters of personal values, beliefs and motivations. Come discover what really matters to and inspires those who help shape the University. All students, faculty, staff and friends are welcome to attend this free event. Bring your brown-bag lunch, if you like.
Janice Ross is an Associate Professor (Teaching) of dance history in the Drama Department. She has taught at Stanford since 1990. She has a BA from UC Berkeley and an MA and PhD from Stanford in Arts Education. Her books include, Moving Lessons: Margaret H'Doubler and the Beginning of Dance in American Education, (University of Wisconsin Press 2000), Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance, (forthcoming University of California Press 2006) and The Future of History: San Francisco Ballet at Seventy-Five, a commissioned history of America's oldest ballet company (Chronicle Books 2007). She is also completing an edited anthology of essays by and about the Russian Jewish ballet choreographer Leonid Jacobson as well as a research project on dance in prisons.
Her essays on dance have been published in several anthologies including: Everything Was Possible: (Re) Inventing Dance in the 1960s, edited by Sally Banes (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003), "Improvisation as Child's Play," in Caught By Surprise: Essays on Art and Improvisation, Edited by Ann Cooper Albright and David Gere, (Wesleyan University Press,2003.
Her awards include a Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship, a Djerassi Resident Artists Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as research grants from the Iris Litt Fund of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, and the Peninsula Community Foundation.
For 10 years she was the staff dance critic for The Oakland Tribune and for 20 years a contributing editor to the New York based Dancemagazine. Her articles on dance have appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Drama Review. She is past president of the Dance Critics Association, a member of the board of Committee for Research on Dance and President- Elect of the International Society of Dance History Scholars.