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Barbie Diewald received a fellowship from the New England Foundation for the Arts for their New Work New England project: Concourse. The fellowship is for one year.


Barbie Diewald is an invited speaker at the National Dance Education Organization's Summit for Dance Educators: Changing Spaces for Gender Inclusive Dance. They will be giving their talk “Dancing Into View: Lesbian Dance Histories in the Late Twentieth Century.” The virtual summit is March 1, 2025.


Barbie Diewald was commissioned to create a new choreographic work, “Prairie Dance” for the Motion State Dance Festival at the Wilbury Theatre Group in Providence, RI. The work will premiere on March 27, 2025.
 


Assistant Professors of Dance Barbie Diewald and Shakia Barron were artists in residence at the internationally-renowned Bates Dance Festival to develop their collaborative dance project, "Concourse." The work will premiere at 챬 September 16 and 17, 2022.


Barbie Diewald was named a Faculty Research Fellow by the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Archives for her project "Consoling Clarity: Queer and Lesbian Aesthetics in Twenty-First Century Dance."


Barbie Diewald and Shakia Barron were artists-in-residence at the renowned Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. At the culmination of their residency, they shared an excerpt of their shared research, "Concourse" at the annual Jacob's Pillow College Partners Convening. Their next choreographic residency will be at High Street Studios in Ipswich, MA in December 2021.