Adriane Fang

Associate Professor of Dance, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, College of Arts & Humanities

Adriane Fang is a dancer, teacher and choreographer with a keen interest in multi-disciplinary collaboration.  She was a member of the internationally renowned dance company, Doug Varone and Dancers, from 1996-2006 and has worked with several other choreographers including Colleen Thomas, Wally Cardona, Elizabeth Shea, Bill Young, Bebe Miller, Keith Johnson, and Kendra Portier.

Current projects include DANCExDANCE, an interactive dance duet between a dancer and Calico, a wearable robot that uses sensors and actuators to move around the dancers’ body. See Dance Squared on YouTube for an overview.

She has guest taught at Taller Nacional de Danza – San José, Costa Rica; Indiana University; and the Damansara PAC in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  She was on faculty at GMU from 2006-09 and at the DOVA Summer Workshops from 2000-07, 2015-16 and 2020-21.  

She has choreographed operas for Annapolis Opera and Maryland Opera Studio and groups such as Compañia Ceibadanza in Ecuador and Shendandoah University.  She received a 2014 Local Dance Commissioning Project Award from The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to present her full-length work, Grains.

Currently on faculty at the University of Maryland, Adriane is the recipient of a 2007 New York Dance and Performance Award (“Bessie”) for her performance with Doug Varone and Dancers.