Betsy Coker
NYU Tisch Dance Arts Professor, Betsy Coker, receives the 2019-2020 fellowship from The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU.
The Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University (CBA), an international research institute for scholars and artists of ballet and its related arts and sciences, today announced the 20 CBA Fellows for the 2019-2020 academic year. These distinguished individuals represent a wide range of disciplines and were selected among CBA’s largest ever applicant pool.
Elizabeth (Betsy) Coker—dancer, dance-maker, scientist, teacher—is co-Artistic Director of Seán Curran Company and Assistant Arts Professor of Dance at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Coker’s areas of research include multi-sensory integration, motion capture technologies, and mental imagery in dancers. She has taught, created, and set choreography with dance students and professionals across the country and world, as well as at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Opera de Montreal, San Diego Opera and Yale Repertory Theater.
"Feeling, Seeing, Hearing Balance is an interdisciplinary experiment investigating sensor-based biofeedback technologies as both clinical and creative instruments. This project explores the transgression of boundaries defining art and science as traditionally disparate cultures and seeks to approach knowledge-making from quantitative and aesthetic perspectives. This work will culminate in three distinct outcomes represented by text-based, digital, and performative traditions."
Congratulations Betsy!
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