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What’s new? DiAE on record

01 Mar

UDaily-UD and community partners collaborate on ‘Suite Blackness’ to celebrate Black dance in film

UD and community partners collaborate on ‘Suite Blackness’ Last month, Everett and other Gateway teachers took part in a professional development workshop about “Suite Blackness” conducted by Lynnette Young Overby, professor in the department of theatre an director of dance minor program and Ashley SK Davis, the artistic director for the Delaware Institute for the Arts in Education (DIAE). The workshop helped Everett and his colleagues infuse not only the music but the history of Black dance in...

30 Sep

The Partnership for Arts and Culture (PAC) Annual Symposium

DiAE’s Executive Director, Nanci Hersh, Artistic Director, Ashley SK Davis and University of Delaware Department of Art and Design, Jame McCray (Delaware Sea Grant) were awarded a grant from UD’s Partnership for Arts in Culture (PAC) in 2019 to deliver an arts-integrated program using photography and dance to explore the impacts of sea level rise and storm intensification on communities in coastal and inland Sussex County. PAC_Presentation 9.23.19 ...