530 Sellers-Young

This interview is with Barbara Sellers-Young, Professor and Chair Emerita of the Theatre and Dance. She was appointed in 1990 and retired in 2008 to accept a position as Dean of the School of Arts, Media, Performance and Design at York University from which she retired in 2016.

Barbara taught movement, acting and Asian theater. She also taught as a member of the Davis Honors program. She served as the Interim Executive Director of the Mondavi Center from April 2005 until June 2006. Her research focuses on the intersection of dance, body and globalization which has taken her to Japan, China, Nepal. Sudan, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, England and Australia. She is the author of four books Teaching Personality with Gracefulness; Breathing, Movement and Exploration; Belly Dance, Pilgrimage and Identity; and Artists Activating Sustainability: The Oregon Story as well as six edited volumes.She was for two years the convener for the International Federation of Theatre Research working group, The Theory and Practice of Performance and President of the Congress on Research in Dance from 2008-2010.

She is interviewed by her friend and colleague, Gail Finney, Professor and Chair Emerita of German and Comparative Literature.