Larry Lavender is an American dancer and dance scholar. He is the author of the book ''Dancers Talking Dance: Critical Evaluation in the Choreography Class''.

Biography

Lavender did not begin training in dance until he was a college student. He has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance from the

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and a Ph.D in Dance Education from

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. Lavender served as Head of Dance and Director of the Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Program at the

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before joining the faculty at the

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in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. From 2002 until 2006 Lavender served as Head of the Dance Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In 2006 he was succeeded by

Jan Van Dyke Jan Van Dyke (April 15, 1941 – July 3, 2015) was an American dancer, choreographer, dance educator and scholar who was a pioneer of modern dance, modern and contemporary dance. Education Van Dyke graduated from the University of Wisconsin wi ...

as Department Head and joined the teaching faculty in the department. His research focuses on dance criticism, performance art, dance theory, and choreography. He also teaches Master of Arts courses in the Liberal Studies Program and the Llyod International Honors College at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Lavender is a choreographic mentor for the Montreal Danse Choreography Research Project. In 1996 he wrote the book ''Dancers Talking Dance: Critical Evaluation in the Choreography Class''.

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