Andrea Harris

Andrea Harris is a historian of dance and Certified Movement Analyst. Her essays on American dance history appear in Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance; Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange: Vectors of the Radical; and the journals Dance Chronicle, Discourses in Dance, and The Journal of American Drama and Theatre. She is also the editor of Before, Between, and Beyond: Three Decades of Dance Writing, the most recent collection of dance historian Sally Banes’s works. In 2016, she was awarded the Honorable Mention for the Gertrude Lippincott Award, given by the Society of Dance History Scholars for the best English language article on dance published that year. Harris is Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her performance credits include the Martha Graham Dance Company, Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth, and Li Chiao-Ping Dance.