Dr Melanie Kloetzel
Positions
Professor, Dance
Contact information
Phone number
Office: +1 (403) 220-6565
Background
Educational Background
B.A. History, Swarthmore College, 1993
M.A. History, University of Montana, 2002
M.F.A. Fine Art, University of California, Riverside, 2004
Ph.D. Dance Studies, University of Roehampton, 2018
Research
Areas of Research
Courses
| Course number | Course title | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| DNCE 303 LAB 01 B01 | Principles of Technique | 2021 |
| DNCE 305 LAB 01 B01 | Elem Contemporary Dance III | 2021 |
| DNCE 305 SEC 01 S01 | Elem Contemporary Dance III | 2021 |
| DNCE 481 LEC 01 01 | Cross-Cultural Dancing Bodies | 2021 |
| DNCE 57193 SEC 01 S01 | Directed Studies | 2020 |
| DNCE 58102 LAB 01 B01 | Adv Topic Dance Practices | 2021 |
| DNCE 58102 SEC 01 S01 | Adv Topic Dance Practices | 2021 |
| DNCE 303 SEC 01 S01 | Principles of Technique | 2021 |
Awards
- Student Union Teaching Excellence Award - Honourable Mention, Student Union Teaching Excellence Awards Committee . 2018
- Nomination for Top 40 under 40 for Calgary's Avenue Magazine, 2009
- Student Union Teaching Excellence Award - Nomination, Student Union Teaching Excellence Awards Committee.
- Best Documentary Film, Mabig Film Festival. 2021
- Boss Female Short Award, Freedom Festival International. 2021
- Best Experimental Film Award, GO Independent FIlm Festival. 2021
- Best Cast Award - Alternative Film Festival, Alternative Film Festival (Toronto). 2019
- Creativity Award, A Show for a Change Festival.
- Best of Fest, Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema. 2007
Publications
- Playing Politics: Versatile Operations in Site- Adaptive Performance. Melanie Kloetzel. Contemporary Theatre Review - Interventions. (2019)
- Perfroming Versatility in a Neoliberal Age: Site-Adaptive Performance. Melanie Kloetzel. Contemporary Theatre Review. (2019)
- Site Dance as Activist Methodology: Creating performance/protest in sites of assembly’. Melanie Kloetzel. Choreographic Practices: Dancing Urbanisms. (2019)
- Choreographic Practices: Dancing Urbanisms special issue. Melanie Kloetzel, Victoria Hunter, Karen Barbour. Choreographic Practices. (2019)
- Site Adapt Perform: A Practice-as-Research Confrontation with Climate Change. Melanie Kloetzel. Dance Research. (2017)
- Site and Re-Site: Early Efforts to Serialize Site Dance. Melanie Kloetzel. Dance Research Journal. (2017)
- Bodies in place: location as collaborator in dance film. Melanie Kloetzel. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media . (2015)
- From recontextualization to protest: 50 years of site dance practice in North America. Melanie J Kloetzel. Intellect. 25-49. (2019)
- Lend me an ear: Dialogism and the vocalizing site. Melanie J Kloetzel. Intellect. 157-81. (2019)
- Site-specific dance and environmental ethics: Relational fields in the Anthropocene. Melanie J Kloetzel. Intellect. 217-45. (2019)
- COVERT: A Handbook - 30 Movement Meditations for Resisting Invasion. Melanie Kloetzel and Phil Smith. Triarchy Press. (2021)
- (Re)Positioning Site Dance Local Acts, Global Perspectives. Melanie Kloetzel, Karen Barbour, Victoria Hunter. Intellect Press. (2019)
- Site Dance: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spaces. Melanie Kloetzel and Carolyn Pavlik, co-editors. University Press of Florida. (2009)
- Location, Location, Location: Dance Film and Site-Specific Dance. Melanie Kloetzel, with book edited by Telory Arendell and Ruth Barnes. Palgrave MacMillan. (2016)
- Site-Specific Dance in a Corporate Landscape: Space, Place, and Non-Place . Melanie Kloetzel, with book edited by Victoria Hunter. Routledge. (2015)
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