Becky Phillips Associate Professor, Modern Dance Artistic Director, The Dancers' Company Office: 154 RB Phone: (801) 422-8022 E-mail: rebecca_phillips@byu.edu Education · MFA, Dance Performance, University of Utah, 1990 Courses · Dance 466 - Dance Teaching Practicum · Dance 426R - Music/Dance/Theatre: Senior Performance Project · Dance 362 - Dance Composition, Intermediate · Dance 359 - Dance and Identity Issues · Dance 340R - Modern Dance Technique & Theory 3 · Dance 241R - Modern Dance Technique & Theory 2 · Dance 228 - Music/Dance/Theatre Seminar · Theatre & Media Arts 323 - Acting Musicals Research Interests · Dance and Identity Issues · Music Dance Theatre choreography · Modern dance technique and composition Recent Research Projects and Publications Studying current musical theatre choreographic trends on Broadway Residency and research in Belize, Central America studying the issues of identity creation in a Caribbean/Latin American country Choreography dealing with Belizean myth Researching the identity issues of gender, race, ethnicity, age and religion as they relate to dance Presentations at the CORD, NAHE, NDEO, Sacred Dance Guild, and NDA conferences Choreographic research for "Except Ye Become" choreographed at BYU Choreograpying Myth: Dance, Legend, and the Weeping Xtabai. Mythosphere,1 (3): 319-333. Sound Advice: Tips for Accompanying Your Own Technique Class. Dance Teacher, 21 (6): 90-93. Dance As Visual Text (juried article): "Teaching Students to Read." Interdisciplinary Humanities. 12(1): 11-16 "Saturday Night Waltz/Rodeo" - modern dance work set for the BYU Dancers' Company performed locally and on tour to India "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" - full length musical theatre production choreographed for the Jackson Hole Palyhouse (90 performances) "Children of Eden" - full length musical theatre production performed at BYU and in part at ACTF "Neighborhood"--choreographed for the BYU Young Ambassadors, performed in Tunisia, Morocco, South Africa, Botswana, Swaziland, and in part in Malaysia, Thailand, Russia, Japan "Weeping Xtabai" - choreographed for the National Dance Company of Belize "Songs of Deliverance"--tribute to pioneer heritage choreographed for BYU Dancers' Company, performed locally and in the Philippines "Quilters"--musical theatre production performed at BYU and for the LDS Women's Conference