Member, NASD Committee on Nominations
Elected September 2023, term ends September 2026
JORDAN FUCHS is Professor of Dance and Head of the Dance Division at Texas Woman’s University and the founder of the Texas Dance Improvisation Festival (TDIF). A former Fulbright Specialist, he has been on faculty at Hunter College, Movement Research, and has taught at numerous venues nationally and internationally, including at NTUA in Taipei, Tsekh Summer School in Moscow, WCCIjam in Berkeley, California and Contact Fest Freiburg in Germany. Professor Fuchs is a recipient of the TWU Mary Mason Lyon Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Teaching and Service.
Professor Fuchs is a choreographer, performer and teacher whose choreography for stage, screen and alternative venues is grounded in improvisational practice, specifically the bias towards disorientation, sensation and process of contact improvisation, a movement form he has been practicing for more than 30 years. His choreographic research focuses on the crafting of relationship between dancers, whether spatially through the use of counterpoint or through touch-based partnering. More recently, his research has focused on language-based prompts for movement generation and on blurring boundaries between the visual and performing arts through dance that functions as sculpture and painting, and through the layering of photographic image onto dance.
Professor Fuchs has served as a curator for notable screen dance festivals and was formerly a Dance Specialist in the Jerome Robbins Moving Image Archive of the Dance Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Professor Fuchs serves NASD as a visiting evaluator.
Professor Fuchs holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Choreography from Ohio State University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religion from Oberlin College.
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