Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance

Selene B. Carter achieved her M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and received the Ruth Page Award, Chicago’s highest honor in dance, as well as funding from city agencies and private foundations for her work. As co-director Links Hall, she created a forum for post-modern and experimental dance, producing workshops and performances in alternative dance and improvisation. She taught improvisation and dance studies at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, the University of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of the Arts. Selene is a certified teacher in Evans Somatic Dance.
Her choreography was recently presented at Links Hall in Chicago, the Aronoff Center by the Contemporary Dance Theatre of Cincinnati, Ohio, at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater by Wild Space Dance Company, in the Regional Alternative Dance Festival (RADfest) in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in the Breaking Ground Contemporary Dance & Film Festival, Tempe, Arizona, and by the Indianapolis Art Museum at the Tobey Theater, Harkness Dance Center/92nd Street Y in New York City by Doug Varone & Dancers.

Selene is a Faculty Fellow in the Office of Diversity & Inclusion in the College of Arts & Sciences for 2021-22. 

Recent press:
Selene Carter, WFHB, radio interview, Unbearable Whiteness of Dancing (2020)
Chicago Tribune Poonies Cabaret (2019)
The Long View, Performance Response Journal (2018)
Review Art Intercepts (2018)

Recent publications:
Wendy Oliver, Crystal U. Davis, Susan R. Koff, Selene Carter, Teresa Heiland & Beth Megill (2020) Dance Dialogues, Journal of Dance Education, 20:1, 51-54, DOI: 10.1080/15290824.2020.1711664 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/15290824.2020.1711664

McCarthy-Brown, N., & Carter, S. (2019) "Radical response dance making dismantling racism through embodied conversations." International Journal of Education & the Arts, Retrieved from http://doi.org/10.26209/ijea20n13

McCarthy-Brown, N., & Carter, S. (2017) "Critical Dance Pedagogy for Repertory: Two Case Studies in Dance pedagogy for a diverse world: culturally relevant teaching in theory, research and practice," McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, ISBN: 9780786497027

Bucksbarg, Andrew, & Carter, Selene (2012) "Improvising Artists, Embodied Technology and Emergent Techniques, Identity, Performance and Technology, Palgrave-MacMillan," ISBN: 978-1-349-33510-7