BARBARA DICKINSON, Director of the Dance Program and Associate Professor of the Practice of Dance, teaches modern dance technique, repertory, choreography and dance history. She is Artistic Director of the Ways and Means Dance Company, a professional company based in Durham. She has performed, taught and presented her choreography in numerous concerts, master classes and workshops in schools, colleges, private studios and dance festivals throughout the United States. Her performing credits include the Dorothy Vislocky Dance Company, Tractions, Inc., the Composer/Performer Group, the Ithaca Dancemakers, in works by Clay Taliaferro, and in Missa Brevis with the José Limón Dance Company. She was artistic director of Three For All, a company of dancer, poet, and pianist from 1981-87. Since its founding in 1987, she has been a member of Manbites Dog Theater, a professional experimental theater company based in Durham, NC, serving as actress, choreographer, and movement consultant. The winner of numerous grants, she received a Choreographer's Fellowship in 1997 from the North Carolina Arts Council to create Walking Miracles, an evening length dance/theater production based on the stories of six survivors of child sexual abuse; in 1999 she co-choreographed, with Ava Vinesett, Contents Under Pressure, which dealt with the many faces of bias in our society. A Phi Beta Kappa scholar, she holds a B.A. in Classics and Anthropology from the University of California, Riverside and an M.A. in Performing Arts: Dance from The American University.