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Submitted Obituary for Dr. Patricia Ann Rowe, Pioneer Dance Educator
August 11, 1924, Boston, MA - June 3, 2010, Hoboken, NJ
Education:
B.S. Boston Bouvé School of Physical Education, 1945 M.Ed.
University of Oregon, Eugene, 1956 Ed.D.
Stanford University, 1965.
Dance Training Began dance career at Newton High School (one of the few HS in country in the 1940s to offer modern dance). Honed her training at Boston Bouvé School of Physical Education (Tufts, now Northeaster) under Pauline Chellis, a good friend of Pauline Lawrence and Jose Limon, with whom the students studied.
Teaching Appointments
First college appointment: Bates College, where she taught dance and skiing. Was appointed to University of Idaho at Moscow, where she founded and developed the dance program over a period of 12 years.
Appointed Assistant Professor, NYU School of Education, 1964
Founded NYU Department of Dance and Dance Education, 1970
Retired and awarded Professor Emeritus, 1997
Notable professional dancers and dance professional colleagues (adjuncts or conducted guest workshops at NYU)
Alvin Ailey, Martha Graham, Daniel Lewis, Ernestine Stodelle, Daniel Nagrin, May O'Donnell, Anna Sokolow, Jerome Robbins (whom she sponsored for an honorary doctorate from NYU), Genevieve Oswald, Rod Rodgers, Nancy Meehan, Yuriko, Joann Keali'inohomoku, Murray Louis, Agnes DeMille, Anna Halprin, Erick Hawkins and Lucia Dlugoszewski, Bonnie Bird, Lucas Hoving, Valerie Bettis, and Irmgard Bartenieff.
[Rowe established the first adjunct faculty rankings in the country and recognized the life credits of her adjunct faculty in establishing their ranks, ie., Adj. Prof. Ernestine Stodell, Adj. Prof. Genevieve Oswald, Adj. Assoc. Prof. Rod Rodgers, etc.]
Performing Graduates include:
HT Chen, Nai-Ni Chen, Jeanne Bresciani, Sachiyo Ito.
Professional Achievements
Founding Chair, NYU Department of Dance and Dance Education 1970-1991 - one of the leading, comprehensive dance and dance education departments in the Untied States, with major international impact and collaborations in (among many) Europe, China, Korea, Taiwan
Graduated 90 doctoral candidates in performance (Doctor of Arts); history and criticism (Ph.D.); and dance education (Ed.D.)
At year of retirement (1991) there were 14 graduates chairing or directing dance departments/programs throughout the United States and Korea.
Led ten-year quest to gain dance certification for K-12 education in State of New York, succeeding in 1985.
Founding President, Congress on Research in Dance
Founding Member, National Associations of Schools of Dance – Helped formulate NASD national accreditation standards for Dance.