Dr. Collette Stewart

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Collette Stewart is a professional career dancer and choreographer with a span of 25 years in the field. She has performed with various notable companies including Jin-Wen Yu Dance, Li Chiao-Ping Dance, and Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth. Collette's choreography has been presented at prestigious venues such as the Dance Theater Workshop, Joyce Soho, and the Gelsey Kirkland Performing Arts Center. Her work has also been showcased internationally at the World Dance Alliance Global Summit in France in 2014. Collette holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where she was awarded the Distinguished Graduate Student Fellowship Award. In addition to her dance degrees, she is certified in Pilates and Yoga. In 2004, she founded Movement Insights, LLC, which provided Pilates classes, private sessions, and a teacher training program until 2019. Collette continues to teach and lecture at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, focusing on Contemporary Dance and Somatics, and also directs the Pilates Certificate program. She has made significant contributions to the field through her teaching and artistic direction.

Research Interests

Experience

Teaching Faculty/Pilates Certificate Director

— Present

University of Wisconsin-Madison • Madison, WI

Lectures on Contemporary Dance, Somatics, and directs the Pilates Certificate program.

Awards

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Teaching Innovation Award Online Pilates Mat Course

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Educational Innovation Small Grant, UW Dance Pilates Video Library

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Gala Selected Work - Anything Ordinary, ACDA

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Virginia Horne Henry Grant

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Chancellor’s Graduate Student Award

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Distinguished Graduate Student Fellowship

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Gala Selected Work - Thirst, ACDA

Requirements for University of Wisconsin–Madison

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
TOEFL
Total
Required:92
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Duolingo
Overall Score
Required:125
Overall
Required:125
Prerequisites
Programming experience (Data Structures, Machine Organization) One year college-level calculus
Application Checklist
  • Statement of Purpose
  • CV/Resume
  • Three letters of recommendation
  • Unofficial transcripts
Specialization Notes

Department: Department of Computer Sciences