Meg Brooker
Meg Brooker, Professor of Dance and Director of the School of Performing and Visual Arts at The University of Southern Mississippi, is a founder of the Isadora Duncan International Symposium and a former member of Lori Belilove & Company, Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation (NYC). She specializes in the early modern dance techniques developed by Isadora Duncan and Florence Fleming Noyes and presents this work as Artistic Director of Duncan Dance South. Her creative research includes embodied, kinesthetic, and traditional archival methodologies and results in new choreography and performance, often in collaboration with visual artists and musicians. For fifteen years (2005-2019), she traveled and performed extensively in Russia as a legacy Isadora Duncan dancer. Recent credits include featured interviews and dance performance for Season 2: Episode 5 of Io e Lei: Isadora Duncan for SkyArte (Italy). In the Southeast, Meg’s work has been produced by the Hunter Museum of American Art and the Nashville Parthenon. Awards and grants include USM’s Creative Activity Innovation Award, MTSU’s Creative Activity Award, Career Service Award from Women’s and Gender Studies (MTSU), Outstanding Teaching Award from Women and Gender Studies (MTSU), Mississippi Presenters Network, Mississippi Artists Roster, Dancer Laureate (Murfreesboro, TN), Dance Chair for the Hellenic Institute of Cultural Diplomacy, National Endowment for the Humanities grant for the Noyes School of Rhythm Archives, among others. Meg has presented scholarship for Society of Dance History Scholars, Congress on Research in Dance, Dance Studies Association, National Dance Educators Organization, and Women in Dance Leadership. www.duncandancesouth.org.