Aug 20, 2020
Jessica Zeller is an Associate Professor of Dance in the School
for Classical & Contemporary Dance at Texas Christian University.
She holds a Ph.D. in Dance Studies and an MFA in Dance from The
Ohio State University, and she is the author of Shapes of American
Ballet: Teachers and Training before Balanchine (Oxford University
Press, 2016), which unearths the work of several European and
Russian ballet pedagogues during the early twentieth century. Her
current research brings ballet and dance studies into conversation
with progressive, feminist pedagogies.
Zeller received the TCU Deans’ Teaching Award in 2018 and was part
of the Scholar-in-Residence Program in the Department of Dance at
Temple University last year. She currently serves as
President-Elect of CORPS de Ballet, International, and sits on the
review board of the Journal of Dance Education.
You can follow Jessica's blog at: https://www.jessicazeller.net