Chair, Committee on Ethics
Elected September 2013, term ends September 2016
Susan Kirchner is a Professor at Towson University Department of Dance where she has served as Department Chair since 2006. Prior to this appointment, she was Chairperson and Associate Professor at Columbia College, South Carolina, Department of Dance from 1998-2006. She was a faculty member at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth from 1993-1998, and the University of Maryland, College Park from 1985-1989.
Professor Kirchner is a 15-year administrator for Dance within Higher Education. In her early career she performed with German Expressionist Company, ZeroMoving Dance Company in Philadelphia (1982-1985) and Moving South Dance Company in South Carolina (1978-1982). From 1985-1989, she was a DC freelance choreographer/dancer. She has choreographed, taught, and led teacher professional development in New York, Texas, South Carolina, Maryland, Mexico, Germany and Italy. Her post-modern dissertation helped document the teaching methodology in Improvisation/Composition of Robert Ellis Dunn, who taught dancers to “find the extraordinary in the ordinary” in movement inventions for composition.
Her activities before Towson University included: Chair of the South Carolina Chapter of National Dance Education Organization (SCDEO); Member of the Advisory Committee to the South Carolina Center for Dance Education (SCCDE); Executive Board Member, National Dance Association (NDA) – Vice President for the Division of Dance Science and Somatic; and she received the 2005 Advocacy Award from the South Carolina Dance Association (SCDA).
She serves on the Fine Arts Education Advisory Panel for the Maryland State Department of Education, Baltimore County Commission on Arts and Sciences, as a former Director of Membership, and is the Nominations Chairperson for the National Dance Education Association. Currently, she is an evaluator for the National Association of Schools of Dance.
Professor Kirchner holds Doctor of Education and Master of Fine Arts degrees in Dance from Temple University.
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Posted October 2013