Visiting Artist Colloquium: Dr. Sheron Wray

Sheron Wray is an improviser, choreographer, director, teacher and scholar. She self-titles as a ‘Performance Architect’, receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Surrey where she developed her theory and practice of Embodiology®, a neo-African approach to contemporary dance improvisation. She is currently an associate professor of dance at the University of California, Irvine, and a former U.K NESTA Fellow (National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts – similar to the MacArthur Awards), and will serve as the Arts Institute’s Spring 2018 Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence.