Constance Valis Hill

Biography
Constance Valis Hill, visiting five college associate professor of dance, received an M.A. in dance research and reconstruction from the City College of the University of New York, and a Ph.D. in performance studies from New York University. A choreographer and dance historian, she has taught at the Conservatoire D'Arts Dramatique in Paris, Alvin Ailey School of American Dance, and NYU Tisch School of the Arts; and has collaborated with the French playwright Eugene Ionesco, Czechoslovakian scenographer Josef Svoboda, and American director Gilbert Moses on the premiere of Toni Morrison's Dreaming Emmett. She has contributed articles and reviews to Dance Magazine, Village Voice, Attitude, Dance View, Studies in Dance History, Dance Research Journal and International Tap Association Journal. Her essay, "Jazz Modernism," appears in Gay Morris' edited anthology, Moving Words: Re-Writing Dance (Routledge). Her book, Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers, has just been published by Oxford University Press. Professor Valis Hill is on leave for the 2007-2008 academic year.