CAMILLE LEFEVRE
lefev025@umn.edu
651-646-2098
EDUCATION
Masters of Liberal Studies (expected Fall 2009), University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Thesis: “Embodied Fictions, Collective Need: The Hyper-Virtuosic Body as
Reified Imaginary in Contemporary Science-Fiction Film and Television”
B. A. English (1981), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
TEACHING
Primary responsibilities: Curriculum design with emphasis on active learning;
lecture and instruction; rubric development and grading.
Primary student-learning objective: To inspire in students critical thinking,
articulate engagement and astute observation of the arts and artistic practice.
“Architectural Journalism: From Criticism to Communications”
ARCH 3250, Instructor
College of Design, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Writing workshop on criticism, magazine writing,
writing/graphic production of marketing materials.
Spring 2009
“Introduction to Dance”
Fall 2008
DNCE 1401, Co-instructor
Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Study of diverse dance forms throughout the world through lectures, movement
workshops, small-group discussions and critical writing.
“Learning to Look, Writing to See”
Fall, Spring 2006
Homeschool Collective, Instructor
St. Paul, Minnesota
Interdisciplinary writing workshop on arts criticism for high-school students.
“Survival Strategies in Dance”
Spring 2004
DNCE 3901, Guest Lecturer
University of Minnesota Dance Department, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Featured speaker on criticism and scholarship.
Cowles Land Grant Chair
Guest Critic/Lecturer
Spring 2004
University of Minnesota Dance Department, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Critiqued student performances, lectured on dance criticism.
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“Introduction to Women’s Studies”
Spring 1980
WMS, 1001 Teaching assistant
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Facilitated group discussions, supervised and graded final projects.
Teaching Coursework
Grad 8101: Teaching in Higher Education
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Microteaching, co-facilitation, syllabus development.
Summer 2008
PROFESSIONAL WRITING/EDITING EXPERIENCE
Books
Contributor, Co-Editor
2009
Untitled: juried collection of dance scholarship from Dance & Culture Area
presentations at annual Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
Conferences (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
Author
Charles R. Stinson Architects: Compositions in Nature
(Images Publishing)
2008
Contributor, Co-Editor
101 Places Plus One
(AIA Minnesota)
1996
Magazines/Newspapers/On-line
Professional freelance writer, arts journalist, editor
Present—1988
Dance Critic, Minnpost.com, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Present—2007
Dance Critic, Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2008—1995
Founding Arts Editor, Twin Cities METRO, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2008—2006
Editor, Architecture Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2004—1999
Founder, publisher, editor, writer, The Prairie Reader,
St. Paul, Minnesota
2000—1996
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS: SCHOLARSHIP
“Dada Themes and Movements: Tracing the Genealogy of
21st-Century Site-Specific Dance”
In process
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“The Ballerina as Cyborg: Summer Glau in Angel, Firefly/Serenity, In process
and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles”
To be presented at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture
Association Conference in 2009
“Rage Against the Machine:
Movement as a Means of Liberation in The Matrix”
Presented at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture
Association Conference
2008
“Site and Specificity: Collage Dance Theater’s Twenty-Year History
2007
as a Kinetic Map of Los Angeles’ Forgotten Architecture”
Presented at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities
and the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
“Mississippi Movement: Marylee Hardenbergh’s Site-Specific Dances
for the Mississippi River”
Presented at the International Conference on Rivers and Civilization
2006
“One Place, Two Histories: Site-Specific Dance at Jacob’s Pillow” 2006
Presented at the Society of Dance History Scholars Conference
“Site-Specific Dance, De-familiarization and the Transformation of
2005
Place and Community”
Presented at the Congress on Research in Dance; published in proceedings
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Research Fellowship, Jacob’s Pillow, Becket, Massachusetts
(site-specific dance)
2005
Travel and Study Grant, Jerome Foundation, St. Paul, Minnesota
(site-specific dance)
1995
Critics Travel Grant, Center for Arts Criticism, St. Paul, Minnesota
(site-specific dance)
1994
Beyond PR Grant, Center for Arts Criticism, St. Paul, Minnesota
(folk dance)
1993
Critics Travel Grant, Center for Arts Criticism, St. Paul, Minnesota
(country-western dance)
1992
AWARDS
Presidential Citation, American Institute of Architects-Minnesota
“For vision and clarity in shaping the public dialogue on architecture”
2004
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Minnesota Magazine Publishers Association for Architecture Minnesota
Gold Award, Best Single Topic Issue
Gold Award, Best Feature Article
Bronze Award, Best Single Topic Issue
2003
SELECTED JURIES AND PANELS
Anonymous nominator
National choreography award
2008
Judge, Affiliated Writers Award
American Theatre
2008
Panelist, “Pitching the Story”
MMPA and Loft Literary Center, Magazine Writers’ Festival
2007
Judge, Photography Competition
AIA-MN/Minnesota Historical Society
2007
Judge, Gary Parks Scholarship
Dance Critics Association
2007-2006
Panel Moderator, “Site-Specific Performance”
Walker Art Center
2000
Presenter, Panel Moderator, “Confluences”
Walker Art Center
1996
Selection Panel
Minnesota Dances Festival
1995
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Member; Board Member 2007-2008
Dance Critics Association
Present-2004
Member, Proceedings Co-Editor
Popular Culture Association
Present-2006
Member
Society of Dance History Scholars
Present-2004
Member
Congress on Research in Dance
Present-2004
Member
VACUM (Visual Arts Critics Union of Minnesota)
Present-2006