Dr. Laurie Bell

Laurie Bell
Areas of Expertise: 
  • Dance
Laurie Bell
Resident Artist in Dance & Associate Professor of Dance
Ohio Northern University
123 Performing Arts Center
Ada, Ohio 45810
Phone: (419) 772-1693
E-mail: l-bell@onu.edu
Biography: 
Dr. Bell holds a Ph.D, from the University of Toledo, a Masters degree from James Madison University and a Bachelor's degree from The Ohio State University. Bell has been the director of dance at Ohio Northern University since 1994. In that time she has developed a dance program that has collaborated with such professionals as Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, the African American Dance Ensemble, Rhythm In Shoes, Peoria Ballet and others. She teaches technique classes in modern, and ballet and courses in choreography and dance history. She has been awarded grants for a Fulbright Scholar in Residence from Mexico and from Dance/USA and the New England Foundation for the Arts.