Norah Zuniga Shaw

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Norah Zuniga Shaw

Assistant Professor, Department of Dance

Areas of Expertise
• Dance and technology
• Composition
• Critical theories of the body

NORAH ZUNIGA SHAW (Assistant Professor and Director of Dance and Technology) is a dance artist and theorist working in the U.S. and Latin America. She received a B.A. Degree in Dance and Environmental Science from Hampshire College and a M.F.A. in Dance from The University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA). Zuniga-Shaw is currently working with William Forsythe and the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design to create an interactive score for "One Flat Thing, Reproduced." Recent commissions include three new dances for television (WOSU-PBS) and performances for NANO at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Zuniga-Shaw has recently published in Performance Research Journal and was the assistant editor for the book and DVD Envisioning Dance on Film and Video, eds. Judy Mitoma and Elizabeth Zimmer, (Routledge: 2002). She teaches courses in interdisciplinary composition and critical theory as well as the Introduction to Dance and Technology for grads.

Publications:
Founding Editor, EXTENSIONS: The online journal for embodied technologies
(www.wac.ucla.edu/extensionsjournal)
Assistant Editor, Envisioning Dance on Film and Video. Judy Mitoma, ed. New
York: Routledge Press, 2002.

Education
• MFA, Dance, University of California, Los Angeles
• BA, Dance & Environmental Science, Hampshire College,
Massachusetts