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EDUCATION

1960-62

A.A. Oakland City College, Oakland, CA

1965

B.A. San Francisco State University, CA

1965-67

M.F.A. Mills College, Oakland, CA

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

Intermediate Dance Theory and Technique

Introduction to Studies in Dance

Contemporary Dance Theory and Technique

Dance Improvisation

Intermediate Modern Dance

Dance Performance

Advanced Modern Dance

Experimental Form

Studies in Performance: Dance

Advanced Modern Dance Theory and Technique

Group Projects


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This page was last updated 7/23/97 by Cecile Cruz