Tomie Hahn

Artist in Residence

Biography:

B.S., Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University; M.A., New York University; Ph.D., Wesleyan University. A performer and ethnologist whose interests and activities span a wide range of fields, including Japanese traditional performing arts, issues of identity and creative expression of multiracial individuals, interactive dance/movement performance, and gestural control and extended human/computer interface in the performing arts. She teaches and performs shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) and nihon buyo (Japanese traditional dance), under the stage name of Samie Tachibana. Her ethnography Sensational Knowledge: Embodying Culture through Japanese Dance (Wesleyan University Press) was the 2008 recipient of the Society for Ethnomusicology's Alan P. Merriam Prize. She previously taught at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. At Bard: 2009–10; 2012 –

Contact:

Phone: 845-758-6822
E-mail: thahn@bard.edu