<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Charlie Neshyba-Hodges is a dance and architecture alum who graduated </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">summa cum laude, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">was a Mary Gates Research Scholar, and a Husky Promise Student. He is also a celebrated dance artist who received Best Male Dancer by the European Critics’ Choice Awards in 2003, and the Astaire Award for outstanding male dancer in Twyla Tharp’s </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Come Fly Away. </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">After graduating, Charlie did a lot of work with underprivileged children  in CA and then entered the ArtCenter College of Design, majoring in product design with a concentration in design for social innovation. He has designed a new toy for 6+ year-olds that looks delightful. </span><a href="https://www.archamelia.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.archamelia.com/</span></a></p&gt;
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Read Hodge’s statement about the toy below: </span></p>
<h3><b>Archamelia; The House of a Thousand Stories</b></h3>
<h4><b>Exercising Creativity, Building Imagination</b></h4>
<h5><b>Inventor Statement:</b></h5>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The audience saw me as a dancer. They watched as I used my body to express for them what couldn’t be said with words. This was done in full view, with only one shot. They saw me chase perfection in everything I did, quietly agreeing that how I recovered from my myriad mistakes inevitably carried more weight. They applauded when I won the European Critic’s Choice Award as Best Male Dancer of the Year, and again when I won the Fred Astaire Award as the Best Male Dancer on Broadway. But for the audience, the experience was really a culmination sandwiched between a rising and lowering curtain. In truth, that single performance was born from hours, days, weeks, months, years of accumulated practice, perseverance, failure, and effort. </span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Charlie Neshyba-Hodges is a dance and architecture alum who graduated </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">summa cum laude, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">was a Mary Gates Research Scholar, and a Husky Promise Student.

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Congratulations to part-time lecturer </span><a href="/people/etienne-cakpo"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Etienne Cakpo</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for receiving the </span><b>Dance Educators Association of Washington (DEAW) 2020 Dance Educator of the Year Award! </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Etienne Cakpo teaches West African Dance at the UW Department of Dance as part-time lecturer. He was also the 2018-2019 Kawasaki Guest artist, and choreographed work on the undergraduate students for the 2019 </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">UW Dance Presents </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">concert. The students love Etienne, and repeatedly report how much they enjoy his courses. Etienne is known for cultivating a class environment that is loving and supportive. We are so proud and thrilled for him. He is most deserving of this award. Congratulations Etienne!  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Read the DEAW announcement at:  </span><a href="https://www.deawa.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.deawa.org</span></a></p&gt;

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Congratulations to part-time lecturer </span><a href="/people/etienne-cakpo"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Etienne Cakpo</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for receiving the </span><b>Dance Educators Association of Washington (DEAW) 2020 Dance Educator of the Year Award! </b></p>

<p><span>Congratulations to <a href="/people/drew-callipare">Drew Callipare</a> (Dance, Psychology) for receiving the University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Medal for the Arts division!</span></p>
<p><span>"If there is one thing I can take away from my studies in psychology and dance," said Drew, "it is that people are so diverse and amazing, and I am honored to have met so many great people on this journey!"</span></p>

<p><span>Congratulations to <a href="/people/drew-callipare">Drew Callipare</a> (Dance, Psychology) for receiving the University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Medal for the Arts division!</span></p>
<p><span>"If there is one thing I can take away from my studies in psychology and dance," said Drew, "it is that people are so diverse and amazing, and I am honored to have met so many great people on this journey!"</span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The UW Department of Dance is delighted to share that Catherine Cole, Divisional Dean of the Arts at the University of Washington, will be joining the Department of Dance in Autumn of 2020. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cole</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> will split her appointment between Dance and English, her official “home” department. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">She will teach a </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">dance course every other year while she continues her role as Divisional Dean of the Arts.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Her areas of expertise include human rights, law and performance, African theater and performance in national and transnational contexts, ethnography and fieldwork, disability studies, performance in the global South, and contemporary American performance.  </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<h4><b><img src="/sites/dance/files/styles/large/public/images/2019-09-05_18.03.30_7.jpg?itok=Ctlhx_nk" alt="Catherine Cole " class="image-large" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></b></h4>
<h4><b>More about Catherine Cole</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">PhD Northwestern University<br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">AB Occidental College </span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The UW Department of Dance is delighted to share that Catherine Cole, Divisional Dean of the Arts at the University of Washington, will be joining the Department of Dance in Autumn of 2020. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cole</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> will split her appointment between Dance and English, her official “home” department.