JAM with Anthony Alterio

Send us a text Welcome back Jam Fam!  Today we speak with a fantastic educator, adovacate and ally to everyone in the dance world, Anthony Alterio!  Anthony has taught in higher education for some time and has some wonderful insight for dancers getting ready to move into the college scene and the dance world.  We hope you enjoy our chat with Anthony Anthony Alterio is on faculty at Ohio University. He works in the School of Dance and the School of Theatre as Assistant Professor of Instruction, Musical Theatre and Dance. His research explores how representations of identities in the LGBTQIA+ community in pop culture reflect in academic settings as part of a larger interest in how dancers present themselves. Anthony is a native of Pittsburgh, and he began his professional dance training at The University of Colorado-Boulder, where he received a BA double-majoring in Dance and Psychology and went on to attain an MFA in Dance from the University of Michigan. Upon graduation, he has won multiple choreography awards including the Maggie Allesee Choreography award and since has been showing work across the US. Alterio is a member of the Boulder Jazz Dance Company, (formerly Interweave Dance Theatre), the resident company of the Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop as well as Director of a summer dance intensive geared toward the LGBTQIA+ community called Excessive Realness. Thank you for listening Jam Fam! Make sure you follow us across social media and don"t forget to like and subscribe anywhere you listen to your favorite podcasts! Facebook: JAM Joe and Michelle"s Dance Podcast Instagram: jam_dance_podcast Twitter: @jamdancepodcast Email: jamdancepodcast@gmail.com