April 18, 2005

University Libraries to honor Dena Thomas Kinney

paredesNemesio Paredes will be the subject of a Faculty Acknowledgement lecture by Dena Thomas Kinney. The lecture, “Dancing the Three-Cornered Hat: The Life and Work of Nemesio Paredes,” will be given Thursday, April 21, from 2 to 3 p.m. in the Willard Reading Room of Zimmerman Library as part of University Libraries Faculty Acknowledgement Series.

Photo: Nemesio Paredes

Kinney is the interim director of the Fine Arts Library and the subject specialist for theatre and dance. She is pursuing the goal of becoming a dance researcher and has presented papers at the Congress on Research in Dance and at the International Dance Conference in Taipei, Taiwan.

She has studied many forms of dance including ballet, modern, jazz, tap and flamenco and is inspired by ethnographic dance research, oral history and other methods of qualitative research.

Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627

Posted by scarr at April 18, 2005 11:02 AM