Photo: USC Kaufman BFA Student Jessica Muszynsky | Photo by Rose Eichenbaum

Faculty News

March 10, 2015

E. Moncell Durden will join USC Kaufman faculty in fall of 2015

E. Moncell Durden, Assistant Professor of Practice at USC Kaufman, will join the Kaufman school this Fall 2015. Mr. Durden is a dancer educator, choreographer, ethnographer, embodied historian and author who specializes in pedagogical practices that prove cultural and historical context in Afro-Diasporic social dance formations.

March 3, 2015

Patrick Corbin to join USC Kaufman faculty in fall of 2015

Patrick Corbin, Assistant Professor of Practice at USC Kaufman, joins the faculty in fall of 2015. He is an internationally renowned dance artist whose career has spanned over thirty years and bridges the worlds of classical ballet, modern and contemporary dance.

August 28, 2014

Blended media artists merge their talents for USC Kaufman

The Kaufman School of Dance website illustrates the school’s innovative partnerships with the USC Thornton School of Music, Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center and the USC School of Cinematic Arts (SCA), among others.

August 4, 2014

Three exciting faculty members join USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance

The University of Southern California Glorya Kaufman School of Dance welcomes three celebrated and diverse new members of its faculty: Jackie Kopcsak, a ballet dancer and choreographer who most recently taught at the University of California, Irvine; d.Sabela grimes, an interdisciplinary artist and choreographer; and Saleemah E. Knight, a choreographer and performer.