Dean, School of Visual and Performing Arts
Rhoda Grauer
Humanities Hall, Room 102
Phone: 516-299-2395
E-mail: rhoda.grauer@liu.edu

Rhoda Grauer, an Emmy-winning producer, writer and filmmaker, has served as dean of the School of Visual and Performing Arts at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville, New York since October 1, 2006. Ms. Grauer who has led some of the nation's most prominent programs of dance, theatre, film and television.

Ms. Grauer has held executive positions with The Asia Society (Director, Media and Performing Arts), Thirteen/WNET, the New York Public Broadcasting Station (Director, Arts and Humanities Programming; and Associate Director, Performance Programs), American Ballet Theatre (Director, Media Development), The National Endowment for the Arts (Director, Dance Programs), Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation (Executive Director) and The Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds in Italy (Executive Director). She has taught and lectured at the New School for Social Research, Columbia Teacher's College, Vassar College, Yale University, Barnard College and the East/West Center at the University of Hawaii.

Ms. Grauer's media work has been broadcast nationally and internationally. "DANCING," her eight-hour television series and its companion book, have become the basis of courses on world culture in colleges and universities throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. Ms. Grauer's productions have been awarded the Emmy, the Ohio State Award, Golden Globe of Montreux and Best Documentary in the ASEAN-US/National Geographic All Roads Festival. She has received a Bessie Award for Outstanding Contribution to Dance and the National Endowment for Arts Chairman's Award for Superior Performance. In addition, her original research, writing, television and radio productions have won support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; the National Endowment for the Arts; the Freeman Foundation; Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund; The Ford, Rockefeller, Japan and Hoso Bunka Foundations; the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; Public Radio International and the Asian Cultural Council.

Ms. Grauer has worked in and studied the classical and popular arts of the West as well as the classical and folkarts of Asia. Her most recent work originated in Indonesia, where she has lived for many years. Ms. Grauer conceived, developed and served as dramaturge for the Robert Wilson opera, "I LA GALIGO," a theater work inspired by the little-known epic of the Bugis people of South Sulawesi. In addition, she directed two films on marginalized Indonesian traditions: "RASINAH: The Enchanted Mask" and "THE LAST BISSU: Sacred Transvestites of South Sulawesi." Ms. Grauer co-founded Yayasan Kelola, (the Kelola Foundation), Indonesia's foremost service organization for arts and culture. She has developed, financed, produced, written and directed for stage, television and radio, her own creative work and the work of others such as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Savion Glover, David Gordon, Gian Carlo Menotti, Roman Polanski, Judith Jamison, Jerome Robbins, Malavika Sarukkai, Twyla Tharp, Bando Tomasaburo, Charles Wadsworth, Robert Wilson, American Ballet Theatre and the New York City Ballet.

At the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, Ms. Grauer provides leadership for one of the region's most prominent schools of the arts. The School of Visual and Performing Arts at C.W. Post offers bachelor's degree programs in art, art therapy, arts management, dance, electronic media (broadcasting), film, journalism, photography, public relations, music and theater. Master's degrees are available in art, clinical art therapy, interactive multimedia arts, fine arts and design, theater and music. The School is home to the award-winning Post Theatre Company, the Post Concert Dance Company, 17 music groups, the Pioneer student newspaper, the Music Technology Laboratory, Hillwood Art Museum, and many other outstanding organizations and facilities.