https://www.valariewilliams.com/home daily 1.0 2022-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6216bd7697e0784cabd2c2ba/07b099a4-f4cf-4f28-ab1d-abb987e896b9/VLWgalleryshot+edited.jpg Home https://www.valariewilliams.com/danceandglobalsociety daily 0.75 2022-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6216bd7697e0784cabd2c2ba/c31ac73c-565d-429c-bde3-544330b69be1/conversation.jpg Dance and Global Society - Dance and Global Society As a specialist in s taging works, Valarie Williams leads a team of artists and works in collaboration with BalletMet2 on a multi-year social justice project seeking collaborations across university campuses and professional dance communities. DaNCe2U collaborators include nurses, physicians, librarians, professional directors, political scientists, and university campuses in Ohio. DaNCe2U will tour to Paris, France during March 2022 and continue its Ohio tours in April 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6216bd7697e0784cabd2c2ba/9857f1ad-7b5a-4d59-ad5d-6f7ed2b5a05b/rooms.jpg Dance and Global Society - DaNCe2U-#mentalhealth DaNCe2U#mentalhealth focuses on the social injustice of mental health, and connects with county social services on mental health and leads conversations on available area resources . Two 20th Century Western theatrical master works of Anna Sokolow and George Balanchine served as the impetus to examine and discuss what is happening in our home state of Ohio and the types of mental health resources available throughout the state. Learn more about this project here: Anna Sokolow's Rooms and Mental Health Anna Sokolow's Rooms and Preservation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6216bd7697e0784cabd2c2ba/59dcfd11-dd53-426a-a696-a86b4e328d53/steps+1.jpg Dance and Global Society - DaNCe2U#peaceandstrife DaNCe2U#peaceandstrife focuses on the empowerment of women and examines how dance can be a voice for political change. Performing Steps in the Street – devastation – homelessness—exile we engage with Martha Graham’s response to the rise in Fascism and the invitation by Adolf Hitler to bring her company to perform at the 1936 Olympics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6216bd7697e0784cabd2c2ba/fe6bd2f5-b0f3-4ebf-8e85-42260fcd9591/rooms+cast%2Cjpg.jpg Dance and Global Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6216bd7697e0784cabd2c2ba/f3e33918-0d85-441b-8f77-3e7009f83204/home-2.jpg Dance and Global Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6216bd7697e0784cabd2c2ba/a1f79040-20c1-426d-8424-b917aebc26e0/dancers+and+middle+schoolers.jpg Dance and Global Society https://www.valariewilliams.com/expanding-the-archives daily 0.75 2023-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6216bd7697e0784cabd2c2ba/d37e5a60-9b6b-4b15-a989-4b7b37fd0f23/val+and+Bebe1.jpg Expanding the Archives - Expanding the Archives Since 2001, Valarie Williams’ passion for contributing to the legacy of dance— in how it's preserved, and who is preserved— drives her choices in documenting choreographers’ works outside the traditional 20th Century canon. She focuses her individual notation and documentation projects on the works of Bebe Miller, Dr. Pearl Primus, world dance forms, and post-modern creators. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6216bd7697e0784cabd2c2ba/1fb51249-48c9-42fb-9d5e-b65691cdeaf1/Bebe1.jpg Expanding the Archives - Archiving Black Performance: Memory, Embodiment, and Stages of Being Archiving Black Performance: Memory, Embodiment, and Stages of Being represents a collaborative effort to establish a vision for the transmission of identity and race through the embodiment of dance repertory acquisition of internationally acclaimed black women dance performers and choreographers that brings together students, faculty, community, and professionals. Co-PIs Crystal Perkins and Valarie Williams lead a team to engage with the work of the late Dr. Pearl Primus via her transmitter Ursula Payne, Director of the Frederick Douglass Center at Slippery Rock University; Bebe Miller of Bebe Miller Company; and Carolyn Adams and Michelle Fleet of the Paul Taylor American Modern Dance Co. These investigations open space for the next generation of women of color that we’ve begun to identify and for a Summer Institute in partnership with the African American and African Studies Community Extension Center, for young women dancers of color. Bebe Miller - Rain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6216bd7697e0784cabd2c2ba/6747de2d-5e8e-4c78-a0ce-c3b4f40e2529/Paul+and+Val.jpeg Expanding the Archives - The Lost Dance of Agon (1957) Valarie Williams and fellow notation professionals Mara Frazier and Ambre Emory-Maier read the original pencil draft notes of notator Billie Mahoney who notated Balanchine’s Agon in 1957. At the encouragement of the Balanchine Foundation Video Archives Department, the team is reconstructing the lost dance of Balanchine’s Agon –The Gailliard. This section was notated as Balanchine was choreographing, but was lost in the mists of time. In October 2021, Williams discovered the score in the archives at Ohio State and she and the team worked with the Geroge Balanchine Foundation Video Archives to stage The Gailliard on artists of New York City Ballet May 2022. Read more about this project here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6216bd7697e0784cabd2c2ba/fcb2fd3f-a3c9-4c2d-b8c2-423f17bf8f6b/students+archive+1.jpg Expanding the Archives - Cultivating Future Generations Interested in cultivating the next generation of legacy holders and professionals, Valarie Williams receives funding to create educational research opportunities that take her around the world teaching and mentoring dance professionals interested in documenting movement. At home, Williams engages students in a multi-year process utilizing the 600+ World Dance Collection inside the Special Collections at Ohio State University’s University Libraries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6216bd7697e0784cabd2c2ba/aa85ce15-e084-4349-ba4b-3f333da6c413/etu+cast+2.jpg Expanding the Archives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6216bd7697e0784cabd2c2ba/f97f4ab0-4f06-431e-8987-c391e50b7552/3577AC14-BD70-460F-9D1E-DAC3A11FF8CE_1_105_c.jpg Expanding the Archives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6216bd7697e0784cabd2c2ba/1645724476034-MWSWFDPOIX0FQ21PNZMD/val%2Band%2Bpaul%2Bdancingjpg.jpg Expanding the Archives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6216bd7697e0784cabd2c2ba/1719c89d-e89a-48da-afcf-c490c49f4b6c/archiving+cart.jpg Expanding the Archives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6216bd7697e0784cabd2c2ba/6d59f86a-b522-4b18-b39b-a2c712805bf2/Untitled-20.jpg Expanding the Archives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6216bd7697e0784cabd2c2ba/cd4abb1e-4f6c-46c0-99eb-482795f1c91b/cast+photo.jpg Expanding the Archives https://www.valariewilliams.com/bio daily 0.75 2023-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6216bd7697e0784cabd2c2ba/f872ddc7-734f-4404-9905-d2176ecc56ab/Val+Bio.jpg Bio Valarie Williams collaborates on artistic projects producing critical conversations connecting scholarship in the arts with solutions for global societal change. Professor of Dance at The Ohio State University, Williams teaches, stages, and documents movement nationally and internationally. She has received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, Ohio Arts Council, Greater Columbus Arts Council, and private foundations from around the world. A 1987 Presidential Scholars in the Arts honorable mention recipient in ballet, she apprenticed at the Paris Opera Summer Program in Evian les Bains, France; toured with Lincoln Center Institute Touring Programs for four years serving as dance captain; and performed with the Dallas Opera and Sharir Dance in Austin, Texas. Williams holds a BFA from The Juilliard School, an MFA and PhD from Texas Woman’s University, and is a Certified Professional Notator. Current funded multi-year artistic and creative collaborations focused on aspects of social justice and diversifying the archive include Archiving Black Performance, DaNCe2U#mentalhealth, DaNCe2U#peaceandstrife, DaNCe2U#immigration_diplacement_community that engage many aspects of Ohio State’s campus community with external organizations such as José Limón Dance Foundation, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company; Department of African American and African Studies Community Extension Center; Frank W. Hale, Jr. Black Cultural Center; University Libraries; Ballet Met 2, The George Balanchine Foundation; Anna Sokolow Dance Foundation; Martha Graham Contemporary Dance Center, Paul Taylor American Modern Dance Co., Bebe Miller Company, and the work of the late Dr. Pearl Primus via Dancing Legacy. Williams' project Embodied Access: Global movements from around the world received the Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award for “teaching diversity in dance,” and she has received awards such as Ohio State’s Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award, Texas Woman’s University Excellence in Teaching, and nominated for the University of Texas at Austin’s Excellence in Teaching Award and the Ohio Governor's Award for the Arts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6216bd7697e0784cabd2c2ba/654ede6d-a914-4dfc-ad6d-f3e0396209cb/IMG_2729.jpg Bio Williams' teaching and research projects have been supported by grants from National Endowment for the Arts to restage, notate, and design content for published multi-media documentation projects. As Executive Director of Ohio State’s Arts Initiative, she received project and operating support from the Ohio Arts Council and Greater Columbus Arts Council, along with donor and sponsorship support from such organizations as the Schottenstein Group, Steuben Glass, the Skylark Foundation, Taikang Life Insurance, among others. She teaches and sets works around the world on national companies in Peru and Ecuador, Nanjing University of the Arts and Beijing Normal University in China, and the Jakarta International School in Indonesia, as well as at home for Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Repertory Dance Theater, Emory University, and University of Texas at Austin. She has notated works by William Forsythe, Beverly Blossom, Yvonne Rainer, Pearl Primus, Bebe Miller, and traditional dances of the Hunan Province in China. Williams directs works from Labanotation scores by Humphrey, Graham, Sokolow, Taylor, Momix, Morris, Balanchine, Petipa, and many others. Committed to shared governance, she currently serves on the University Senate as a third-term senator for the division of arts and humanities and works with members from across campus to bring a unique perspective as an artist and faculty member dedicated to solving problems though collaboration and negotiation. She served as the inaugural associate dean for Outreach and Engagement for the College of Arts and Sciences (2017-2018) and collaborated with faculty and staff to serve the college in creating and supporting a vision and strategic plan for engagement in developing an outreach presence that highlights engaged scholarship. She served as the former associate dean for Arts (2006-2009), Arts and Humanities (2009-2017), and executive director of Arts Initiative (2012-2017) where she led The Ohio State University’s seven-time award-winning Urban Arts Space. She held leadership roles in The Ohio State University/Royal Shakespeare Company Partnership and the Town and Gown Advisory Committee that resulted in partnerships that highlighted faculty and student scholarship throughout the world. She serves on the boards of OperaColumbus, Columbus, Ohio; Dance Notation Bureau in New York, New York; and as Vice–Chair of the International Council of Kinetography Laban/Labanotation, Paris, France. She recently served on the boards of Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (A2RU) at the University of Michigan (2012-2018) Ann Arbor, Michigan and the Columbus Cultural Leadership Consortium (2015-2017), Columbus, Ohio. https://www.valariewilliams.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6216bd7697e0784cabd2c2ba/41ceba6d-a884-4ac9-ad70-dc8a5cc8a411/Untitled-21.jpg Contact Valarie Williams Email valarie.willaims1113@gmail.com The Ohio State University Department of Dance https://dance.osu.edu/people/williams.1415 https://www.valariewilliams.com/curriculumvtiae daily 0.75 2023-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6216bd7697e0784cabd2c2ba/206a7a3e-9821-4dce-bb02-4a3abf7b712e/Crystal+and+Val+looking.jpg CV - Make it stand out Valarie Williams and Crystal Perkins- Archiving Black Performance https://www.valariewilliams.com/new-page daily 0.75 2023-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6216bd7697e0784cabd2c2ba/310c1ffc-ca3c-47f7-9e0d-cc1e8db44f58/IMG_3269.jpeg Community Collaborations - Community Engagement My upbringing instilled in me a responsibility to utilize the talents my adoptive parents nurtured and a need to influence change so that others may have meaningful opportunities. As a child, I embodied unique experiences in some of the most rural parts of our country. Those lived experiences shape my philosophy of cultivating a sense of belonging through a shared purpose and mutual respect actualized through participation and active engagement. That knowledge fuels my personal obligation to use lessons learned so that the path for the next generation is better. This includes my commitment to an inclusive environment, one of belonging, one of transformation. I strive to demonstrate integrity, be responsive to the welfare of others, foster a positive climate based on trust and mutual responsibility, and exhibit sensitivity to and respect for multiple socio-cultural-geographical realities that advances the thoughtful and crucial dismantling of the colonial structures we have built. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6216bd7697e0784cabd2c2ba/5863bd64-e25f-4657-8395-91a15c95440a/download-1.jpg Community Collaborations - Urban Arts Space Serving for over a decade as Director of the downtown gallery and alternative performance space whose mission functioned as a laboratory for safe and collaborative learning and community engagement, Valarie Williams created accessible, free programming and exhibitions and tours that welcomed the community to exhibitions and experiences focused on how visual art can effect change and ignite conversations around societal issues. She led Urban Arts Space to receive Columbus Alive! “Best Gallery Award” seven years in a row (2010-2017), 2009 Greater Columbus Arts Council’s “Award for Risk and Innovation in the Arts,” and 2016 Ohio Museum Association’s award for “Best Exhibition.” Williams authored multiple grants and secured project and multi-year sustaining operating support from state and city organizations, along with donor and sponsorship support from organizations, individuals, and groups. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6216bd7697e0784cabd2c2ba/0a5574d0-8cef-44d1-9c61-a53ee390c821/RSC+Partnership.jpg Community Collaborations - Partnerships As Executive Director of The Arts Initiative, Valarie Williams designed and collaboratively established with the Office of the Executive Dean and Vice Provost of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University the administration of the Town and Gown Advisory Committee for the Arts. The committee welcomed over 20 partnerships with arts and non-profit organizations and enhanced the curricular and co-curricular experiences of community, students, and faculty with entities such as Columbus Museum of Art, Greater Columbus Arts Council, OperaColumbus, Columbus Association for the Performing Arts (CAPA), King Arts Center, BalletMet, Columbus Downtown Development Corporation, City of Columbus Mayor’s Office, Franklin County Adults with Disabilities, donors and alumni in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles, CA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6216bd7697e0784cabd2c2ba/8ed7ec8b-0a86-4e16-9690-1fbb06b36b0d/DSCN0200.jpg Community Collaborations - Royal Shakespeare Company/The Ohio State University Institution-to-Institution Partnership Providing organizational leadership for a team of administrators, Valarie Williams administered multi-million dollar budgets for the institution-to-institution partnership between Ohio State University and Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK in collaboration with Ohio State University’s Office of the President and Office of the Arts and Humanities Divisional Dean. Through support of this partnership, over 100 public school teachers in Ohio and the surrounding states trained at the RSC in the UK, and RSC tours throughout the rural and urban areas in central Ohio reached over 10,000 school children. https://www.valariewilliams.com/book-a-room daily 0.75 2025-05-09