Renée Wadleigh
Professor, Thesis Advisor
Renée Wadleigh, Professor and Thesis Advisor, was a NYC-based dancer, choreographer, and teacher for nearly 30 years. She danced with the Paul Taylor Company, among others, and taught at the Taylor School. She was faculty at Adelphi University and Cornell University, taught her own classes in NYC, and taught in guest positions across the US and abroad. In NYC, Wadleigh received Choreographer Fellowship Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1985, 1986, and 1988. In Illinois, she has received funding from the Illinois Arts Council in 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001 and 2005. She served as Company Grant panelist on the IAC from 1997-1999. Wadleigh has choreographed 37 new works at the U of I since 1992 and has set dances on university and professional companies in the US and abroad. Wadleigh performed Yvonne Rainer's masterwork, Trio A, at 2001 ACDFA Festival and at the Krannert Center. Her work has been performed on Chicago's Dance Slam, by Hedwig Dance at Dance Center Columbia College, Chicago's Atheneum Theater, and Ruth Page Performing Arts Center. Wadleigh was a juror selecting student works for public screening at the Dance for Camera Festival at the University of Utah, organized and co-hosted, with Stephen Koester, the first ever DOGS conference (Directors of Graduate Studies) in 2006, and presented a paper, Dance for the Camera in Academe, at ADF in summer 2006. Wadleigh is a 2008 recipient of an FAA Creative Research Award and a 2008 FAA Special Grant.
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