Dance, Notation, and Experiential Learning

Dance, Notation, and Experiential Learning: Essays on the Legacy of Maggie Patton honors the life and artistic work of Maggie Patton, an influential choreographer, educator, and pioneering force of modern dance in Ohio. Through oral histories, archival research, movement analysis, dance notation—including a complete Labanotation score—and reflections on collaborative experiential learning, this volume traces the reconstruction of Patton’s signature solo, while illuminating the broader history of dance in higher education. Dance, Notation, and Experiential Learning bridges biography, dance history, pedagogy, and performance to demonstrate how embodied research can preserve artistic legacies, inspire new interpretations, and serve as a model for collaborative scholarship across the arts.

Julie Brodie, MFA, CMA, is a professor of dance and director of the Kenyon College Office for Community Partnerships. Brodie stages dances from scores, presents her work, teaches, and performs internationally. A two-time Fulbright Scholar, Brodie is currently on the Fulbright Specialist roster. She has published multiple articles, contributed a chapter to The Wiley Handbook of Collaborative Online Learning and Global Engagement, and coauthored the book Dance Science and Somatics. Brodie was awarded the Kenyon College Trustee Teaching Excellence Award in 2022, and she is a fellow and chair of the Research Panel of the International Council of Kinetography Laban.

Willow Green is an interdisciplinary artist, choreographer, and writer currently based in Brooklyn, NY. They graduated from Kenyon College with a BA in Dance and English in 2021. In 2022–23, Willow was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship grant, during which they also developed their solo artistic practice by participating in MASH’s Choreographic Incubator. After their Fulbright, Willow studied butoh intensively with Tiziana Longo of the Berlin Butoh Institute in 2024. They have also presented their research at the International Council for Kinetography Laban conferences in Mexico City (’19) and Seoul (’23), and their choreography has been performed at Salon Dreiklang, MASH, Kelim, Arts on Site, Greenspace, and MOTIVE Brooklyn.