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Vera Maletic
maletic.1@osu.edu

Professor Emerita, Department of Dance

Areas of expertise:

  • Laban studies
  • Dance for Camera
  • Multimedia documentation of dance artists

VERA MALETIC (Professor Emerita) was artistic director, and choreographer for the Studio for Contemporary Dance in Zagreb, Croatia. Her work has been presented for theater, film, and television in Yugoslavia, Austria, West Germany, Sweden, and England.  She received her M.A. from the University of Zagreb, and Ph.D. from The Ohio State University.  Before coming to Columbus, she was on the faculty of the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance in England. Internationally prominent as an expert in Laban studies, Maletic is the author of Body-Space-Expression: The Development of Rudolf Laban's Movement and Dance Concepts, published by Mouton in 1987.  From 1981-2000 Maletic taught courses based on Laban's framework and also developed courses for videodance and postmodern dance. She was principal co-researcher on two departmental project for documenting contemporary dance artists by means of interactive multimedia, funded by the National Initiative to Preserve America's Dance. Recently, she published Dance Dynamics: Effort and Phrasing-a workbook and DVD companion.

Education:

  • PhD. interdisciplinary; The Ohio State University
  • MA History of art and culture; University of Zagreb
  • Certificate: The Laban Art of Movement Studio