Director, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University
Pamela Tatge is the Director of the Center for the Arts (CFA) and is interested in the elevating the place of art in higher education in ways that innovatively strengthen teaching, student learning and artmaking. In 2003, she heard Liz Lerman speak about her interest in developing a new work about the repercussions of genetic research. She invited Liz to meet with dance faculty and scientists at Wesleyan and over the next three years worked to produce a research & development/teaching residency for Liz Lerman a team of Wesleyan faculty that assisted in the development of Ferocious Beauty: Genome (FBG). The CFA became the lead commissioner of FBG and it premiered at Wesleyan in February of 2006. Since then, she has been a member of the science choreography website development team.
