Barbara Sellers-Young

About

Barbara Sellers-Young is the former Dean of the School of Arts, Media, Performance, and Design of York University. She has applied the somatic marker hypothesis to dance performance in numerous articles and lectures, and is the author or editor of seven books on dance theory including The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity and Belly Dance. Her investigation on the intersectionality of dance and culture within a multicultural world has included research in numerous countries.. She is on the editorial board for the Dance Chronicle, and is a member of the advisory council for the School of Music and Dance at the University of Oregon.