EDUCATION
1960-62
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A.A. Oakland City College, Oakland, CA
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1965
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B.A. San Francisco State University, CA
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1965-67
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M.F.A. Mills College, Oakland, CA
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DANCE TRAINING
New York City:
Merce Cunningham Studio
School of American Ballet (George Balanchine, Dir.)
New York School of Ballet (Richard Thomas, Barbara
Fallis, Dirs.)
American Ballet Theatre School (Leon Danielinn, Dir.)
American Ballet Center (Robert Joffrey, Dir.)
San Francisco:
Modern Dance, San Francisco State University
Academy of Ballet (Alan Howard, Dir.)
San Francisco Ballet School (Harold Christensen, Dir.)
Dancer's Workshop (Ann Halprin, Dir.)
Oakland:
Modern Dance, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Ballet with Raoul Pause
Los Angeles:
Modern Dance, University of CA, Los Angeles
American School of Ballet (Eugene Loring, Dir.)
Ballet with Mia Slavenska and Carmelita Maracci
Berkeley:
Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center
PRIZES, HONORS AND
AWARDS
1997-98
Academic Senate Committee on Resesarch Grant
Division of the Arts research grant for choreography and
art
1995-97
Choreographers' Fellowship, National
Endowment for the Arts, 1996-97
1990-96
Division of the Arts research grant for art
and dance research project, University of California, Santa
Cruz
1991-96
Academic Senate Committee on Research grant
for project relating the visual arts and dance in limited
spaces, University of California, Santa Cruz
1995
Project Grant, Cultural Council of Santa Cruz
1994-95
Choreographers' Fellowship, National
Endowment for the Arts
1993
Honored by the World Dance Congress as a
"Custodian of Dance" at the opening ceremony of the Arts
Theatre at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco
1992
Innovations in Teaching Award, presented by
the Academic Senate of the University of California, Santa
Cruz, the Committe on Teaching and the Center for Teaching,
Santa Cruz
Favorite Professor Award, Student Alumni Council, Alumni
Association
1991
Favorite Professor Award, Student Alumni
Council, UCSC Alumni Association
Academic Senate Committee on Teaching grant for
instructional improvement, University of California, Santa
Cruz
1990
Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in
Choreography, The IZZIES, Dance Bay Area Isadora Duncan
Awards. Herbst Theatre, San Francisco
Mercy Sidbury awarded an IZZIE for outstanding
achievement in performance in Mel Wong's Dancing Through The
Years
UCSC Arts Division Research Committee Award (Travel
performance at Hong Kong International Dance Conference)
UCSC Committee on Research Grant
1989
Grant-in-Aid, University of Colorado,
Boulder, Graduate School. Council on Research and Creative
Work
University of Colorado research grant, Art and Dance
1984-87
Inter-Arts Grant, National Endowment for the
Arts
1986-87
Dance Company Grant, New York State Council
on the Arts
Dance Company Grant, National Endowment for the Arts
Choreographic Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
1985
Special Arts Services,Teaching, New York
State Council on the Arts
1984
Jerome Robbins Foundation
1983-84
Visual Artists Project Grant. New York State
Council on the Arts. Sponsoring organization: Just Above
Midtown.
Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography
1981-82
Choreographic Fellowship, National Endowment
for the Arts
1980
Support from the Foundation for Contemporary
Performance Arts, Inc. In appreciation of artist's work.
Directors: Carolyn Brown, John Cage, Viola Farber and Jasper
Johns
1978
New York State Council on the Arts, Dance
Company Grant
National Endowment for the Arts, Category B Workshop
Fellowship
1977-78
Grants-In-Aids, SUNY, Research Foundation
1976-78
NY. Gould Fellowship, SUNY, College at
Purchase,
SUNY, Research Foundation. Grant for Environmental
Movement Project.
1973
Cornell University Art Council Grant
1970-73
CAPS Grant, New York State Council on the
Arts for Choreography
1965-67
Ford Foundation Award (Scholarship to the
School of American Ballet in New York City. Director: George
Balanchine, and scholarship to the Academy of Ballet in San
Francisco)
Catherine Morgan Trefethen Fellowship in Art, Mills
College
1965
Second Prize, California State Fair in Art
TEACHING
Various courses taught by Mel Wong at UC Santa
Cruz since 1989
Introduction to Dance Composition
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Intermediate Dance Theory and Technique
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Introduction to Studies in Dance
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Contemporary Dance Theory and Technique
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Dance Improvisation
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Intermediate Modern Dance
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Dance Performance
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Advanced Modern Dance
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Experimental Form
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Studies in Performance: Dance
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Advanced Modern Dance Theory and Technique
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Group Projects
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This page was last updated 7/23/97 by
Cecile
Cruz
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