Faculty & Research

Education:

• M.S. at Indiana University, 1972
• B.S. at Indiana University, 1970

Contact Information:

(812) 855-6076

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HPER Building, Room 112D

Background:

• Awarded New Frontiers Grant in the Arts and Humanities, 2006: "Motion Capture Technology and Modern Dance Choreography: Bringing Indiana University to the Forefront of Creativity in the Performing and Digital Arts"
• Principal Investigator: Elizabeth Shea, Coordinator, IU Contemporary Dance Program, HPER
• Co-Investigators: Gwendolyn Hamm, Associate Professor of Kinesiology, HPER, and Laura Poole, Lecturer in Kinesiology, HPER
• Awarded New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities, 2005: "An Assimilation of Polish Folk and Contemporary Modern Dance: Research and Pedagogical Perspectives"
• Indiana Arts Commission Grants Adjudicator, 2002 and 2004
• Teaching Excellence Recognition Award (TERA) for the Department of Kinesiology, 1997 and 1998
• Guest faculty for the American College Dance Festival, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest Regions

Research:

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Professor Hamm's research and creative activity focus on choreography in the jazz and modern dance genres. Additionally, she has worked in the area of technology as it relates to the development of Web-based dance activities and assignments. She continues to explore the "History of modern dance at Indiana University."

Publications:

"A Reel," original choreography premiered on January 12 & 13, 2006, at the Ruth N. Halls Theatre, Bloomington, IN.

"Don't cry," a solo modern dance premiered at the Ruth N. Halls Theatre, Bloomington, IN., January 2005. Adjudicated for performance at the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) Gala Concert, October 2005.

"Invention I and II," a two part modern jazz dance, which portrays the process of inventing and the completion of the process. Part II follows the form and structure of the music of the same title. Performed at the Ruth Hall Theater, Bloomington, IN, January 2005.

Teaching the essence of movement through verbal articulation in contemporary dance. A paper presented with Professors Elizabeth L. Shea and Laura Poole at the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) annual conference, East Lansing, MI, October 23, 2004.

"Variations," a modern dance choreographed in 1982, restaged for the first annual IU Dance Faculty concert. Performed at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, Bloomington, IN, January, 2003.

Courses Recently Taught:

• D111/112 Core of Dance Technique I & II
• D311 Theory and Practice of Dance Technique
• P224 Teaching Dance Activities