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Dr. Susan Eike Spalding
Associate Professor , Chair of the Department of Physical Education, Health and Athletics, and Director of Berea College Dance Programs
Seabury,
Room 220
CPO 2159
Phone: 859-985-3142
Fax: 859-985-3919
E-Mail:
At Berea College since 1995
| Degrees |
- B.A., Mary
Washington College of the University of Virginia, 1967
- M.A., Teachers'
College of Columbia University, 1970
- Ed.D., Temple
University, 1993
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| Papers and Publications |
- 2007 - “Contra Dancing in Kentucky” for Kentucky Folklife
- 2007 - “Dance and Community Development: Hoedown Island” Appalachian
- 2007 - Planning Committee for Kentucky Folklife Festival
- 2006 - Encyclopedia of Appalachia. Editor, Dance sections. UT Press.
- 2006 - “Rise and Shine: Traditional Dancing and Self-Esteem in Powell County.” National Dance Education Organization.
- 2003 - “Appalachian Dance Traditions: A Multicultural Heritage” for the Program Book for the National Folklife Festival
“Kentucky Dance: Rhythms of Life” for the Kentucky Folklife Festival
- 2003 - “Dancing at Pine Mountain Settlement School: Lessons and Questions for Activists” Appalachian Studies Association, Richmond, Kentucky
- 2003, 2005, 2007 - Presenter for Dancers and Musicians for Kentucky Folklife Festival.
- 2003 - Primary Researcher of Dance and Narrative Traditions for the National Folklife Festival featuring the central Appalachian region
- 2002 - “Dance in Other Cultures” and “Preserving Dance” sections in Oliver, Wendy and Susan McGreevy-Nichols, Editors. Dance and Culture, Then and Now, a textbook for eighth grade students. American Press
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2001 - “Square, Contra, Round, and Old Time Dance” entry in Strow, Mary, et al. A Core Collection in Dance
“Little Johnny Brown” Lesson Plans on an African American dance, for the Kentucky Arts Toolkit for teachers
- 2001-2003 - Curatorial Committee, Smithsonian Institution
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2000 - “Dance and Settlement Schools.” Invited speaker at a symposium on the future of Settlement Institutions. Pine Mountain Settlement School,
“The Drawing Power of Friendship: Dance in Eastern Kentucky.”
Convenor of a Panel. Appalachian Studies Association, Knoxville, Tennessee
- 1999 - “Dance and Economic Development in Eastern Kentucky.” Congress on Research in Dance, Iowa City, Iowa
- 1998 - “Creating Tradition: The Case of Dance at Berea.” Convenor of a panel. Appalachian Studies Association, Blacksburg, Virginia
- 1995 - Communities in Motion: Dance, Traditions, and Community Susan Spalding and Jane Woodside, Editors. Greenwood Publishing Company
- 1993-2001 - Board of Directors, Congress on Research in Dance
- 1990 - Step Back Cindy: Old Time Dancing in Southwest Virginia
- 1987 - All Join Hands: Dancing at Beechwood
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