Dr. Angela Kane

Biography

Angela Kane, formerly head of the Division of Arts at the University of Surrey, joined the School of Music, Theatre & Dance at the University of Michigan as a professor and chair of dance in September 2007. Her dance career spans ballet, modern dance, aesthetics, and criticism, with advanced studies in Laban technique. She holds an MA in dance history and a PhD from the University of Kent, focusing on the creativity of New York-based choreographer Paul Taylor over fifty years. Alongside her teaching and research in the UK, she served as the Company Historian for the Paul Taylor Dance Company since 2003 and is currently writing a forthcoming book under contract with the University of Michigan Press. Kane has published widely in Dance Research, Dance Theatre Journal, and contributed entries to Fifty Contemporary Choreographers (Routledge) and the International Encyclopedia of Dance (Oxford University Press), including a commissioned piece for Paul Taylor Dance Company's anniversary publication. She has been an invited speaker at international symposiums, presented at the Congress on Research in Dance (CORD), and served as a visiting lecturer at esteemed institutions like Barnard College and the London Contemporary Dance School. In terms of curriculum development, she has significant experience across undergraduate and graduate levels, and has acted as an external examiner at multiple universities. Kane is also a member of the Quality Assurance Agency’s benchmarking panel and received a £340,000 AHRC research grant for a project focusing on early-20th-century British modern dance pioneers.

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