Alexandra Harlig is in her first year in the PhD program of the Ohio State University Department of Dance. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with honors in Dance from Cornell University where she double majored in Linguistics and Dance. At Cornell she choreographed several pieces and danced in many productions directed and choreographed by faculty members Jumay Chu, Jim Self, and Byron Suber. In March of 2010 she co-directed and choreographed the evening length performance Dance, Drama, and the Disco of Desire with fellow Cornell dance major Virginia Cromwell and faculty member Jim Self. In December of 2009 Alexandra performed in Jumay Chu’s Invitation to a Dance: Indonesia and American Modernism, part of The Allure of Refinement Series, at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Her honors thesis, The History and Aesthetics of Bronx-based B-boying 1975-1985 and Luanda’s Dança Kuduro: An Analysis of Development and Dissemination, was advised by dance professors Allen Fogelsanger, Jim Self, and music professor Steve Pond. It investigated the development of the two popular dance forms with particular focus on borrowing and innovation, social and political impact of the forms, and the particularities of their movement vocabularies.
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