Rebecca Salzer

Rebecca Salzer is an intermedia dance artist, educator, and scholar. While her creative work includes choreography for concert dance and theatre, over the past several years her artistic practice has focused increasingly on dance on screen. Her award-winning films and videos are regularly exhibited as installations and programmed in festivals nationally and internationally, including at the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Dance on Camera Festival. Her films have also been featured on public affiliate television stations KQED, KPBS, and WTTW.

Salzer’s scholarly work focuses on how dance on screen is preserved and shared. Since 2017 she has led the Dancing Digital Project, which works to create and facilitate more accessible, equitable, interconnected, and sustainable dance resources online. In collaboration with Gesel Mason, she co-directs the NEH-supported No Boundaries Archive Project, which models innovative digital features and infrastructure while also highlighting and making accessible the work of contemporary Black choreographers. Salzer and Mason also co-wrote the chapter  “Archives of Care” in the recently published Routledge Companion to Performance and Technology.

Salzer holds degrees from Yale University (BA) and the University of California San Diego (MFA). Before coming to Kaufman, she served as Professor of Dance and founding director of the Collaborative Arts Research Initiative at the University of Alabama.