STEPHANIE MILLING

Stephanie Milling recently completed her Ph.D. in Dance at Texas Womans University.  During her doctoral studies at TWU, she began an M.A. in Womens Studies, which she will finish in the spring of 2008. Stephanie also holds an M.A. in Dance Education from New York University and a B.A. in French from Texas Christian University.   

While completing her graduate work at TWU, Stephanie designed and taught face-to-face and online courses in the Department of Dance and Womens Studies Program. Throughout her career, Stephanie has taught in a wide variety of artistic and educational environments. She has worked as a teaching artist and full-time dance educator with the New York City Board of Education, as a part-time lecturer at Texas Christian University, and as an adjunct at the University of North Texas. In addition, she has also been a company teacher for Dallas Black Dance Theatre I and II, and a guest artist for the Interlochen Center for the Arts, the Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts, and at the Making Waves Dance Festival. In 2004, Stephanie was awarded for her excellence in teaching by TWU's Department of Dance, and in 2007 she was one of eight graduate students in the U.S. to receive the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award by the American Association of Colleges and Universities.

As a performer, choreographer and scholar, Stephanie enjoys combining her interests in feminist oral histories, social justice issues, dance making, and writing as a means to explore the possibilities between different ways of knowing, perceiving, and articulating identity-based realities. Her creative and scholarly work has been presented at the Joyce Soho, the D.U.M.B.O. Dance Festival in Brooklyn, NY, the Barefoot Brigade in Dallas, TX, the Annual Conference for the National Dance Education Organization, and in the Journal of Dance Education.

Stephanie began her formal dance training in high school at the Walnut Hill School for the Performing and Visual Arts where she graduated with honors in dance. In conjunction with the Walnut Hill School, she studied at the Boston Ballet School, and her summers were spent studying at the Houston Ballet Academy and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens. She has performed as a company member and guest artist with ballet and modern dance companies such as the Dayton Ballet, Berkshire Ballet, Tressor Dance Company, Contemporary Dance Fort Worth, the Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, and the Von Howard Project as well as others. She has also performed and assumed the role of dance captain for the Radio City Christmas Spectacular in Los Angeles and Myrtle Beach.

In Texas, Stephanie served on the major grant panel for the Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County. She currently sits on the Advisory Council for the South Carolina Dance Education Organization.