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Ursula Payne
Associate Professor ursula.payne@sru.edu 724 738-4509 Artistic Director of Soul Deep Creations; received two choreographic fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts in 2000 and 2002; her solo choreography has been presented nationally and internationally in venues such as Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Jacob's Pillow Inside Out series, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Joyce SoHo, The Dance Place, Veracruz, Mexico, Monaco Danses Dances Forum, Monte Carlo; her ensemble work has been commissioned for the National Taiwan University Dance Festival in Taipei, Taiwan; has danced with Dianne McIntyre at BAM, Nati0nal Black Arts Festival in ATL, and in the film "The Beloved"; was Co-Artistic Director of Mills and Payne Dance based in New York 1995-2000; has taught/performed as a 
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guest artist at schools throughout the United States and abroad; awarded
several SRU university
research and travel grants; Tenured, Associated Professor
of Dance at Slippery Rock University; received MFA Ohio State
University 1995 with an emphasis in Direction fro the Labanotation
score and Performance; received CMA certification from the Laban
Institute of Movement Studies, NY 1997. Inspiration for Payne's
choreographic and performance explorations come from her studies
in Laban Movement Analysis/Bartenieff Fundamentals, Movement Science,
dance notation, women's studies, spirituality and previous experiences
with the late Dr. Pearl Primus and Dianne McIntyre. Faculty at ADF 2002.
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