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Faculty & Staff

Dance Faculty

Pallabi Chakravorty

Professor

Stephen Lang Professor of Performing Arts

Absent on leave, 2022-23

Music & Dance

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6161
  2. Lang Performing Arts Center 004

Areas of interest: Kathak dance, Visual Anthropology, South Asia

Olivia Sabee

Chair, Dance Program, Dept. of Music & Dance

Associate Professor of Dance

Program Director, Comparative Literature

Music & Dance

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8237
  2. LPAC 006

Joe Small

Assistant Professor of Dance

Music & Dance

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8670
  2. LPAC 008
  3. Office Hours:

    By appointment.

Kyle Clark

Visiting Assistant Professor

Music and Dance

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6415
  2. Lang Performing Arts Center 009
Kyle Clark

Lingyuan Zhao

Associate in Performance

Dance

Contact

Associates In Performance

Bethany Formica Bender

Lecturer

Music & Dance

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-2019
  2. Lang Performing Arts Center 006A
  3. Office Hours:

    By appointment

Contemporary Modern Dance

Chandra Moss-Thorne

Lecturer

Music & Dance

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6143
  2. Lang Performing Arts Center 006A

Ballet Technique, Choreography, Pointe and Partnering, Certified Pilates Instructor through Power Pilates

Ellen Gerdes

Visiting Assistant Professor - Part Time

Dance

Contact

Aqeel Bhatti

Associate in Performance

Music and Dance

Contact

  1. Phone: (267) 760-3580
  2. Lang Perf Arts Ctr

Shiva Das

Associate in Performance

Music & Dance

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8233
  2. Lang Performing Arts Center

Wesley Rast

Associate in Performance

Dance

Contact

Darrell Williams

Associate in Performance

Dance

Contact

Dance Staff

Susan Grossi

Administrative Coordinator

Music and Dance

Dance Program

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-2019
  2. Lang Performing Arts Center 004

James Murphy

Managing Director of Lang Performing Arts Center

Associate in Theater Performance, Lighting Design (Part Time)

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7761
  2. LPAC 107

Contact Jim regarding scheduling, theater rentals, and booking.

Jenny Honig

Director of Concert Programming, Production, and Publicity

Co-Coordinator of the Fetter Chamber Music Program

Music & Dance

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6159
  2. Lang Music Building 405

Dance Faculty Emeriti

Sharon Friedler

Professor Emerita of Dance

Music and Dance

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8227
  2. Lang Performing Arts Center

Areas of interest: Dance composition, history and theory of dance (with special interests in cross-cultural study, gender, and dance as a social change agent), modern dance technique, and traditional dances of Ghana.

Friedler