Constance Valis Hill, Visiting Five College Associate Professor of Dance, received an M.A. in dance research and reconstruction from the City College of the University of New York, and a Ph.D. in performance studies from New York University. A choreographer and dance historian, she has taught at the Conservatoire D'Arts Dramatique in Paris, Alvin Ailey School of American Dance, and NYU Tisch School of the Arts; and has collaborated with the FRench playwright Eugene Ionesco, Czechoslovakian scenographer Josef Svoboda, and American director Gilbert Moses on the premiere of Toni Morrison's Dreaming Emmett. She has contributed articles, essays and reviews to many publications, and her book, Brotherhood in Rhythm (Oxford University Press 2000), won the Deems Taylor Award.