Cowles Visiting Artists
Since 1987, through the generosity of Sage and John Cowles, University of Minnesota Dance has annually hosted four to six dance professionals of international renown in residencies ranging from one to ten weeks. The guests teach, choreograph new dance work, rehearse repertory, and lecture in the Department of Theatre Arts & Dance, and the Twin Cities community at large.
The Cowles Land Grant Chair connects nationally and internationally recognized artists and scholars with dance students, exposing them to contemporary artistry, masterwork, and new thinking in dance studies. University of Minnesota Dance is unique for its extensive use of renowned professional artists in the education and training of students.
2023-24 Cowles Visiting Artists & Scholars:
- Maria Bauman
- Melissa Blanco Borelli
- Jordan Lloyd
- Eva Mohn
Past Cowles Artists & Scholars
- 33 Fainting Spells
- Luciana Achugar
- Germaine Acogny
- Chris Aiken
- Ann Cooper Albright
- Alito Alessi
- Awam Amkpa
- Arthur Aviles (restaging Bill T. Jones’s D-Man in the Water)
- J. Ed Araiza (of the SITI Company)
- Leila Awadallah
- Souleymane Badolo with Sylvestre Akakpo Adzaku
- Sally Banes
- Germaul Barnes (staging Arnie Zane’s "The Gift/No God Logic")
- Felipe Barrueto (of the Joe Goode Performance Group)
- Sidra Bell
- Lisa "MonaLisa" Berman & Joseph "MN Joe" Tran
- Peter Bingham
- Anne Bogart
- Vie Boheme
- Brian Brooks
- BRKFST Dance Company
- Bonnie Brooks
- Brian Harlan Brooks (staging Donald Byrd’s "JAZZ I")
- Brother(hood) Dance! - Orlando Zane Hunter Jr. & Ricarrdo Valentine
- Carolyn Brown
- Patricia Brown
- Ron Brown
- Barbara Browning
- Danny Buraczeski
- Donald Byrd
- Laurie Carlos
- Gerald Casel
- Nora Chipaumire
- Yoshiko Chuma
- Joe Chvala
- Kristin Clotfelter (staging Susan Marshall's Stop, excerpt from Play/Pause)
- Mary Cochran (restaging Paul Taylor’s Esplanade and Paul Taylor’s Lost, Found and Lost)
- Ray Cook (restaging Cloudgate Dance Theater of Taiwan/ Lin Hwai-min’s Crossing the Black Water)
- Roger Copeland
- Beth Corning
- Suzanne Costello & Stuart Pimsler
- Merce Cunningham
- Angharad Davies
- Thomas DeFrantz
- Gemze de Lappe (restaging Agnes de Mille’s dances from Carousel)
- Brenda Dixon Gottschild
- Gregory Dolbashian
- David Dorfman
- Kelly Drummond Cawthon
- Douglas Dunn
- Karen Eliot (restaging Merce Cunningham’s Inlets 2)
- Doug Elkins
- Jan Erkert
- Bill Evans
- Danny Ezralow
- Garth Fagan & Natalie Rogers-Cropper (staging an excerpt of Garth Fagan’s Two Pieces of One: Green)
- Adrianne Fang (restaging Doug Varone’s Democracy)
- Ginger Farley
- Tina Fehlandt (restaging Mark Morris’s Marble Halls)
- June Finch (restaging Merce Cunningham’s Changing Steps)
- Maureen Fleming
- Carl Flink (restaging José Limón’s There is a Time)
- Ori Flomin (restaging Stephen Petronio’s Lareigne)
- Susan Foster
- Christine Fournier (restaging Jerome Robbin’s West Side Story Suite)
- Mark Franko
- Sharon Friedler
- Wynn Fricke
- Gallim Dance Company (restaging artist Dan Walczak with Haley Sung)
- Lynn Garafola
- David Gere
- Gail Gilbert (restaging David Parson’s Envelope)
- The Joe Goode Performance Group
- Zvi Gotheiner
- Brenda Dixon Gottschild
- Hellmut Gottschild
- Jens Graff
- Pat Graney
- Neil Greenberg
- Lena Hammergren
- Annie Hanauer
- Mary Hansmeyer
- Meg Harper
- Doris Hering
- HIJACK - Kristin Van Loon & Arwen Wilder
- Mary Hinkson
- HIJACK - Kristin Van Loon & Arwen Wilder
- Hiponymous - Renée Copeland & Genevieve Muench
- Kile Hotchkiss (of Keigwin & Co., restaging Larry Keigwin’s "Runaway")
- Matt Jenson
- Myron Johnson
- Herbert Johnson III
- Bill T. Jones
- Justin Jones
- Deborah Jowitt
- Maurya Kerr
- Susan Kikuchi (restaging Martha Graham's "Panorama")
- Hari Krishnan
- Demetrius Klein
- Marit Brook Kothlow (of the Joe Goode Performance Group)
- Rebekah Kowal
- Katherine Kramer
- Sali Ann & Alan Kriegsman
- Logan Frances Kruger of the Limón Dance Company
- Ming Shen Ku
- Sardono Kusumo
- Rosalynde LeBlanc Loo (staging Bill T. Jones’ "D-Man In The Waters (Part I)" )
- Camille LeFevre
- Linda Lehovec (In exchange with the Department of Dance at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- Ralph Lemon
- Liz Lerman
- Janet Lilly
- Shouze Ma
- Gregory Magoma
- Barbara Mahler
- Paula Mann
- Andy Asong-Morfaw
- Kari Margolis
- Susan Marshall
- Lorry May (restaging Anna Sokolow’s Rooms)
- Shawn McConneloug
- Woody McGriff
- Susan McGuire (restaging Paul Taylor’s Esplanade; commission)
- Dianne McIntyre (restaging Helen Tamiris’ How Long Brethren?)
- Yang Mei-Jung (restaging Cloudgate Dance Theatre of Taiwan/ Lin Hwai-min’s Crossing the Black Water)
- Bebe Miller
- Shirley Mordine
- Clyde Morgan
- Robert Moses
- Charles Moulton
- Daniel Nagrin
- Leah Nelson
- Douglas Nielson
- J-Sun Noer
- Tere O'Connor
- Luke Olson-Elm
- Pedro Pablo
- Caroline Palmer
- Leslie Parker
- Sara Pearson
- Emilie Plauche (restaging José Limón’s There is a Time)
- Max Pollak
- Will Power
- Scott Rink (restaging Lar Lubovitch’s Marimba; commission)
- Janice & Anthony Roberts
- LaVaughn Robinson
- Joanna Rosenthal
- Tim Russell
- Ludmilla Ryba
- Uri Sands
- Marta Savigliano
- Chris Schlichting
- Marcus Schulkind
- Zoe Sealy
- Alan Sener (restaging Louis Falco’s Escargot)
- Daniel Shapiro & Joanie Smith
- Karen Sherman
- Alice Sheppard & Kinetic Light
- Gaynell Sherrod (restaging Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s I Don’t Know, But I’ve Been Told if You Keep on Dancin’ You’ll Never Grow Old; commission)
- Billy Siegenfeld
- Joan Skinner
- Stephanie Skura
- Rosy Simas
- Peter Sparling
- Sarah Stackhouse (restaging José Limón’s Missa Brevis)
- Risa Steinberg (restaging José Limón’s There is a Time)
- Robin Stiehm
- Hannah Stilwell
- Elizabeth Streb
- Darrius Strong
- Bambang ‘Besur’ Suryono
- Wil Swanson (commission; restaging Trisha Brown’s Set and Reset/Reset)
- Eko Supriyanto
- Colleen Thomas
- Makeda Thomas
- Erin Thompson
- Katrina Thompson Warren (restaging Trisha Brown’s Set and Reset/Reset)
- Morgan Thorson
- Nathan Trice
- Anna Tsing
- TU Dance (restaging an excerpt of Uri Sands’ "Earth")
- Keisha Turner and Laurie Taylor of Urban Bush Women (Restaging Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s Walking with Pearl…Southern Diaries, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts)
- Donna Uchizono
- Kristen Van Loon (HIJACK)
- Doug Varone
- Doug Varone & Dancers
- Kim Vincs
- Pramila Vasudevan
- Dan Wagoner
- Elayna Waxse
- David White
- Arwen Wilder (HIJACK)
- Taja Will
- Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
- Marcus Jarrell Willis
- Marcus Jarrell Willis
- Kjara Starič Wurst
- Mel Wong
- Yutian Wong
- Bill Young
- Cathy Young
- Ruth Zaporah