Member, NASD Board of Directors
Elected September 2022, term ends September 2025
Charles O. Anderson became Head of the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University in June 2022. He was formerly Associate Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance and Head of the dance program at the University of Texas at Austin. Other achievements in his academic career include the founding of a program in Africana Studies at Muhlenberg College, where he was an Associate Professor.
Professor Anderson is Artistic Director of Dance Theatre X, a critically acclaimed afro-contemporary dance theatre company he founded in 2003 in Philadelphia. He has performed for such choreographers as Ronald K. Brown, Sean Curran, Mark Dendy and Joy Kellman. Among his achievements in afro-contemporary choreography and dance theatre, Professor Anderson was selected as one of “The 25 Artists to Watch” by Dance Magazine and is a Pew Fellowship in the Arts recipient. In 2018 he was the first Texas-based independent artist to receive the prestigious National Dance Production Grant awarded by the New England Foundation for the Arts, for his evening-length work (Re)current Unrest, which premiered in 2020 as a dance film. He has had residencies with MANCC, NCCAkron, and The American Dance Festival, among others, and has served as President of the Council of Dance Administrators (CODA). Professor Anderson also serves as an Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism consultant for university dance programs.
Professor Anderson serves NASD as a visiting evaluator.
Professor Anderson received his Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance from Temple University, where he was mentored by Kariamu Welsh and Brenda Dixon Gottschild. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University.
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Posted September 2022