Department/College/UnitArts Division

TitleDance Theater Pgrm Professor
Emeritus

AffiliationStaff

Primary Office LocationPorter College Academic
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Additional Location(s)Porter College

Mail StopPorter Faculty Services

Biography, Education and Training

Ruth Solomon’s career as dancer and choreographer spanned many years and genres. Her teaching technique has been documented in an internationally distributed video, Anatomy as a Master Image in Training Dancers, and she has taught throughout this country, Europe and Asia.  As administrator she was assistant director of the dance program at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, before coming to UCSC in 1970 to establish the Dance Theater Program. Ms. Solomon has been a member of the International Association of Dance Medicine & Science since its inception, has continually served on its Board of Directors, and was Co-Editor in Chief of that organization’s flagship publication, the Journal of Dance Medicine and Science, from 2007 until earlier this year. She has done consecutive three-month “residencies” for the last 39 years under the direction of Dr. Lyle Micheli at the Sports Medicine Division, Harvard Medical Center, Boston. This collaboration has produced numerous books and 42 research articles.