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Andrea E. Woods Valdés

Associate Professor of the Practice of Dance
Dance Program
Box 90686, Durham, NC 27708-0686
2020 Campus Dr., Suite 209C, Durham, NC 27705
Office hours By appointment
ae.woodsv@duke.edu  

Presentations, Performances & Exhibitions


See www.souloworks.com - Company performances and projects · 2023 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance national international venues See site for updated and ongoing events and projects
Roots and Routes: Afro Latinidad In Motion - Panel moderator, English/Spanish translator, master class teacher and performer · July 13, 2014 - July 17, 2014 Other Columbia College, Chicago, Ill Woods participated it this primer Afro-Latin conference as a panel moderator, English/Spanish translator, master class teacher and performer.
Panel Moderator - Dancing the African Diaspora/Theories of Black Performance · February 2014 Other Collegium for African Diaspora Dance Collegium for African Diaspora Dance presents first conference: Woods Valdés is on the founding organizing committee and participated in the conference as a panel moderator, and performer.
At The Soul Level: Dances to Celebrate the Spirit and the Soul - 13th Annual African American Cultural Celebration · January 25, 2014 Other North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh, NC 13th Annual African American Cultural Celebration
Theme: From Jubilee to Justice presented, "At The Soul Level: Dances to Celebrate the Spirit and the Soul"
SOULOWORKS/Andrea E. Woods & Dancers was featured in this all day event that include several performances throughout the museum.
At The Soul Level: Dances to Celebrate the Spirit and the Soul - 13th Annual African American Cultural Celebration · January 25, 2014 Other North Carolina Museum of History At The Soul Level: Dances to Celebrate the Spirit and the Soul
Bill T. Jones and Croche's Retort: An Insider's POV · September 27, 2013 Lecture Dance into Writing Course/Duke University Art Building
New Moon Sister · December 6, 2012 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke University Lower Ark New Moon Sister
I got wings · November 2012 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke University
Andrea Valdes: Performances, 2011 - Summer Stage Dance · July 15, 2011 - July 15, 2011 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Mass Andrea performs solo "Kujichagulia to The Max" as part of a Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company alumni Concert w/Arthur Aviles, Alexandra Beller, Seán Curran, Larry Goldhuber. Heidi Latsky,
Andrea Valdes: Performances, 2011 - Performance Mix Festival, NYC · May 1, 2011 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Dixon Place Theater, NYC Andrea performing as part of the Performance Mix Festival, NYC 25TH ANNIVERSARY PERFORMANCE MIX FESTIVAL 2011. 25 past New York City Performance Mix Artists perform for 3 minutes to a commissioned score by Alexis OHara (Montreal)
Andrea Valdes: Performances, 2011 - Choreolab Concert · April 22, 2011 - April 23, 2011 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Reynolds Industries Theater, Duke University, NC Duke University Dance Program Choreolab Concert Program includes solo performance/choreography, "Lagos Lullaby" by Andrea E. Woods
Andrea Valdes: Performances, 2011 - SOULOWORKS Concert · February 12, 2011 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance The Ark Main Studio, Duke University "blues wimmmin and Other Performance and Video works by Choreographer Andrea E. Woods & Dancers", Featuring dancers: Danika Manso-Brown, Christiana Barnett-Murphy, Kristin Taylor and Andrea E. Woods. With musical guest Shana Tucker and Josh Stohl. Program
Andrea Valdes: Performances, 2011 - Solo Concert · February 11, 2011 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Western Piedmont Community College, Leviton Auditorium Black Histoy Month Solo Concert, At the Soul Level: Dances to Celebrate the Spirit and the Soul
Andrea Valdes: Performances, 2011 - The Hatian Student Alience presents a Benefit Performance for Haiti · January 29, 2011 - January 30, 2011 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Reynolds Industries Theater, Duke University The Hatian Student Alience presents a Benefit Performance for Haiti featuring Gaspard & Dancers w/special guest soloist, Andrea E. Woods
Andrea Valdes: Performances, 2010 - Nasher Museum Experimental Film Festival · April 24, 2010 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Nasher Museum, Durham, NC Video Screening. Nasher Museum Experimental Film Festival with Duke University Art of the Moving Image "Light Moving in Time". Woods video work, Waxing and Waning, was screened along with works by guest David Gatten and others.
Andrea Valdes: Performances, 2010 - Across The Threshold: Symposium on Creativity, Being & Healing · April 2010 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Ark Main Studio, Duke University East Campus Ark Building Andrea performed original solo dance, Soft Words: Conversations with John L. Brace (1899-1997) on evening concert, Movement, Memory & Music: A Mosaic of Transcultural Performance
Andrea Valdes: Performances, 2009 - "NOVEMBER DANCES" · November 21, 2009 - November 22, 2009 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Reynolds Industries Theater, Duke University West Campus Bryan Center Duke University Dance Program
Andrea Valdes: Performances, 2009 · November 19, 2009 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke University Divinity School (West Campus, Durham NC) Ariel Ramierez's Misa Criolla Featuring the Divinity Choir w/percussion by John Hanks, Beverly Botsford and Andrea E. Woods Valdés
Andrea Valdes: Performances, 2009 - Community Dance Event · October 31, 2009 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance City Center, Farmer's Market, Durham, NC Percussion: A. E. Woods Vladés
Andrea Valdes: Performances, 2009 - Ohio State Alumni Dance for the Camera Screening · October 28, 2009 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Sullivant Theater, Sullivant Hall,Columbus Ohio Screening will include "Blue in Tunisia/Dance in a Window", a videodance solo by Andrea E. Woods with music by the legendary pianist/composer, Randy Weston
Molibongue: Let the Name of the Women be Praised · 2006 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Lincoln Center Out of Doors, NYC "Molibongue: Let the Name of the Women be Praised".

Service to the Profession


Presenter, Caribbean Fusion Dance Works: Rituals of a Modern Society · May 2016 Professional Development University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados Presentation: Nanigi on the Horizon: Garifuna Women Perform Their Legacy and Prepare the Next Generation
Curator, wimmin@work 2016 · May 2016 Administration Hayti Heritage Center, Durham, NC An afternoon of dance, music, literature, spoken word, scholarship and more, in celebration of wimmin’s history month. Event curator, performer and co-producer.
Organizing committee, moderator, performer, curator, Dancing the African Diaspora: Theories of Black Performance · February 2016 Administration Duke University, Durham, NC
Participant, TRADE/ITIONS: Trans-Atlantic Orisha Sacred Traditions Symposium · February 2016 Event Participation City College Center for the Arts, New York, NY
Performer, moderator, translator, teacher, Roots and Routes: Afro Latinidad in Motion · July 2014 Professional Development Columbia College, Chicago, Ill.
Organizing committee, moderator, performer, curator, Dancing the African Diaspora: Theories of Black Performance · February 2014 Administration Duke University, Durham, NC
Panel Moderator, dance class organizer, co-presenter, Lucumí Music: Singing, Dancing and Drumming the Black Divinity · December 11, 2013 Administration Center for African and African American Research, Duke University Conferences ; Woods assists in planning Afro-Cuban Folklore master dance class and moderates panel discussion titled: Lucumí Dance" Politics, Spiritual Culture and Embodiment. Woods co-sponsors conference through Duke University research funds (Dance Program).

Service to Duke


Program Director, Duke in Ghana Program · May 2012 - May 2014 Curriculum Innovations Duke University, University of Ghana at Legon Served as program director for the 6-week summer program, 2012-2014