Grant Wood Art Colony Fellowship in Performing Arts

Grant Wood Fellow in Interdisciplinary Performance: Dance 2022-2023

The University of Iowa Division of Performing Arts seeks applications from emerging to mid-career artists in dance making, choreography and/or performance for the Grant Wood Fellowship Program for the 2022-2023 academic year. We welcome candidates of diverse social identities to join our faculty and contribute to the heterogeneous and multi-perspective culture of our Department.

The performing arts fellowship rotates between the three departments in the Division of Performing Arts: the Department of Dance, the Department of Theatre Arts, and the School of Music.

Fellowship recipient responsibilities

• Teach one course each in the fall and the spring semesters, which could include advanced courses in contemporary movement practices and/or choreography
• Present a public lecture
• Create a choreographed or devised work for/with the University of Iowa Dance Company (UIDC), our student repertory company, to be performed during the UIDC season in Spring 2023
• Participate in limited public outreach/promotion activities (e.g.: discussion of your work with a local arts organizations, workshops, showings, and performances)

Fellows receive

• An appointment as a Grant Wood Visiting Assistant Professor in Dance.
• $40,000 salary and benefits
• Private office
• Furnished housing (off- campus residence)

Required qualifications

MFA degree in Dance, university-level teaching experience, creative research rooted in rigorous body-based studio practice; demonstrated ability to work across disciplines in the visual and performing arts (i.e. visual art, digital arts, music, and/or theater), a record of innovation in body-based creative research, and demonstrated preparation to participate in departmental and campus-wide initiatives toward diversity and inclusion and evidence of a commitment to these tenets.

Desired qualifications

We welcome candidates whose practices sit at intersections of concert dance idioms and/or popular, global, or community-based dance forms. These could include but are not limited to: African, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latinx and/or Afro-fusion forms, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Vogueing, Wacking, J-Setting and/or any other African diasporic dance practices determined by their area(s) of specialization.

Candidates should submit applications online at http://jobs.uiowa.edu. Search for requisition #74358.

Review of Applications will begin Feb. 15, 2022 and continue until filled.