Faculty & Staff: Faculty

Contact Info Dept. of Drama & Dance Jackson 110 Medford, MA 02155 Phone: 617-627-2555 Email Professor

Dance

Alice E. Trexler, Associate Professor and Director of Dance,
Dance Studies

Alice E. Trexler is an Associate Professor and Director of Dance. She holds a Ph.D. from NYU. Alice Trexler is interested in creative process, composition, performance, dance cultures, physical theater, and interdisciplinary studies. She has taught both applied and theoretical courses and created performances for twenty-five years in liberal arts settings such as Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, and Tufts. She has also produced and choreographed experimental dance in New York, Philadelphia and Boston in the seventies and eighties, training with The Graham School, Cunningham Studio, Luigi's, Leon Collins Studio, Richard Bull, and Nancy Stark Smith. She performed with Richard Bull's New York Chamber Dance Group, The Mosaic Dance Group of Philadelphia, and in musical theatre summer stock. A past member of the American Dance Guild Board of Directors, she directed the ADG national conference in 1988, and has also presented at NDA and other national conferences. Her dance writing has appeared in various periodicals. She has been involved in interdisciplinary teaching with Biology Professor Francie Chew for many years, having participated in the creation of the first course for the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. Trexler and Chew now teach a cross-listed American Studies course in their continuing collaboration. Alice Trexler has headed many Tufts Arts and Sciences Committees as well as directing and founding The Dance Program in its present departmental arrangement. In May 2011, she received the Seymour O. Simches Award for distinguished teaching and advising.

Courses Taught:
DNC 11 or DR 11 Introduction to Physical Theater  (co-taught)
DNC 51 Dance Movement and Creative Process
DNC 117 Studies in Dance Composition
DNC 184 Viewing African-American Dance: Perspectives from Art and Science
(Cross-listed as American Studies 184.)
DNC 191 Advanced Dance Studio (Fall)
DNC 192 Advanced Dance Studies (Spring)