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The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU is an international institute for scholars and artists of ballet and its related arts and sciences.

09/28/2026

Welcome to the 2026-27 CBA Fellows! ✨

We’re thrilled to introduce the Fellows and Visiting Scholars who will spend the year developing new work and experimenting across disciplines at NYU.

⭐️ Resident Fellows: Aszure Barton Sara Mearns Kevork Mourad Գէորգ Մուրատ Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew
⭐️ CBA-Juilliard Fellow: Paige The Juilliard School
⭐️CBA-L’Alliance New York Fellow: Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born L'Alliance New York
⭐️Visiting Scholars: Kimberly Bartosik Hope Boykin

From ballet and choreography to visual art, animation, and lighting and projection design, this group reflects the many ways dance connects with other arts. We are excited to support their work!

🔗 Press release in our bio.

09/28/2026

📣 Due to unforeseen circumstances, we need to postpone “What is a Classic” originally scheduled for Monday, September 28th, at 6:00PM ET.

We hope to announce a rescheduled date soon!

09/23/2026

Can writing be made of movement? From Feuillet and Laban’s notation to Mallarmé’s “unwritten body,” dance has long been tied to writing. Join us on Wednesday, October 7th, as Mark Franko (Temple University) considers this question in a talk on the Baroque and the making of dance textuality.

Doors @ 5:30PM
Event @ 6:00 PM

Reception to follow.
🎟️ link in bio!

[This even is co-presented by NYU Institute of French Studies]

09/10/2026

Join us in our studio on Monday, September 28th to explore how we consider “classical.” A lecture by Barbara Graziosi with movement and discussion by NYCB principal dancer Sara Mearns and Kathak artist
Radha Varadan.

Doors @5:30PM
Event @6:00PM

Reception to follow.
🎟️ link in bio!

[This event is co-presented by NYU Center for Ancient Studies, Department of Art History, NYU, and NYU Classics, and is presented as the annual Rose-Marie Lewent Conference in Ancient Studies].

01/16/2025

Meet Constantina Theofanopoulou, a neuroscientist, flamenco dancer, and 2024-2025 CBA fellow! Theofanopoulou is the Herbert and Nell Singer Research Assistant Professor at Rockefeller University, a Research Associate at Emory University and the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, and a Visiting Scholar at the Jameel Arts & Health Lab at New York University. Her research aims to understand the neural circuits of complex sensory-motor behaviors that serve social communication, specifically speech and dance, and to identify effective dance-based interventions for a wide range of brain disorders.

At CBA, Theofanopoulou will implement her innovative mobile electroencephalography (EEG) protocol across various dance genres. This technology allows her to capture brain activity from dancers and create real-time artistic visualizations of their brain waves for live audiences. She will also deepen her research into the behavioral and neural effects of dance-based interventions for Parkinson’s Disease.

Photo credit: Joe Carrotta (slides 1, 2, 4)
Percussionist: Albert M. Sanchez (slide 4)

01/13/2025

Meet Shamel Pitts, an artist, choreographer, and 2024-2025 CBA fellow! Pitts is a 2024 MacArthur Fellow and the founder and Artistic Director of TRIBE, a multidisciplinary arts collective based in Brooklyn. TRIBE’s mission is to cultivate space to create a platform for artists—particularly, artists of color—inspired by the Afrofuturism movement. With TRIBE, Pitts has created a triptych of award-winning multidisciplinary performances, known as his “BLACK series,” which has toured extensively to many festivals and performance spaces around the world since 2016.

At CBA, Pitts plans to continue discovering his practice of embodied movement, dance, choreography, and multidisciplinary performance art as well as exploring his roles as artistic director and teacher.

Photo credit: Joe Carrotta (slide 1), Rachel Keane (slide 2, 4)

01/09/2025

Meet Deborah Damast, a scholar, educator, and 2024-2025 CBA fellow! Damast is a Clinical Associate Professor and Director of the Dance Education Program at NYU Steinhardt. She has taught modern dance techniques, pedagogy, creative movement for children, production, and choreography. She is also the artistic director of Dance Concerts, Kaleidoscope Dancers, and the study abroad program in Uganda.

At CBA, Damast plans to develop an embodied practice informed by dance education, leadership, and women's studies to identify movement skills and concepts that can be employed to enhance leadership. She hopes that the research that comes out of her CBA fellowship will impact the fields of dance education, leadership studies, and childhood education and will provide concrete strategies for developing leadership skills across the age spectrum.

Photo credit: Joe Carrotta (slide 1), Jaqlin Medlock (slide 2)

01/09/2025

Join us for "Death Dances," a lecture with art historian and filmmaker Joseph Leo Koerner, on February 4 at 6 PM in the CBA studio. Koerner will consider intersections between the histories of art and dance, focussing on the paradigm of the Dance of Death. Be sure to get a free ticket here:
eventbrite.com/e/in-person-death-dances-with-joseph-koerner-harvard-university-tickets-1115820512189

12/10/2024

Meet Haley Winegarden Murphree, a dancer, choreographer, and 2024-2025 CBA fellow! Murphree is a graduate of the Juilliard School and has performed works by Justin Peck, Ohad Naharin, James Whiteside, Sonya Tayeh, Donald McKayle, and Amy Hall Garner, among others. Murphree has worked as a choreographer with Orlando Ballet II, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Nevada Ballet Theatre, and the Alabama School of Fine Arts. She was awarded the 2022 Kaatsbaan Playing Field Choreography Award and the Héctor Zaraspe Prize, awarded to a senior at Juilliard who has shown outstanding development as a choreographer. In December 2023, she made her debut at the Joyce Theater in Dancing with Glass: The Piano Etudes.

At CBA, Murphree aims to expand the traditional structure of an evening-length ballet while staying true to its form. She looks forward to exploring musical intricacies and pushing the athletic form of the ballet language.

Photo credit: Joe Carrotta (slide 1), Zachary Burrows (slide 2)

12/05/2024

Check out Big Dance Theatre's collection of essays by working choreographers, "Dance History(s): Imagination as a Form of Study." Authored by twelve diverse American dance artists in the form of twelve small booklets, the collection includes essays by two CBA alumni fellows, Annie-B Parson (CBA '18) and Ogemdi Ude (CBA '20). This book interrogates the history of dance from the subjective, poetic perspective of a choreographer.

Co-editors: Annie-B Parson (CBA '18) and Thomas F. Defrantz
Project Director: Sara Pereira da Silva
Managing Editors: Karen Kelly and Barbara Shroeder
Design: Omnivore, Inc.

You can buy a copy at bigdancetheatre.org!

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