Please see also the "Gnomen" on www.pilobolus.org

Anya Peterson Royce is Chancellor's Professor of Anthropology and of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. She received a BA in Anthropology with Distinction as well as Honors in Humanities from Stanford University in 1968. In 1971, she received a Masters degree in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley and her PhD in Anthropology from Berkeley in 1974. Royce is one of the pioneers in the Anthropology of Dance, bringing together her early career in classical ballet with long-term ethnographic research. Her three books on dance include The Anthropology of Dance (1974), Movement and Meaning in Ballet and Mime (1984), and The Anthropology of the Performing Arts: Artistry, Virtuosity, and Interpretation in Cross-Cultural Contexts (2004). She is currently working on a fourth, Pilobolus: Collaboration, Innovation, and the Embodiment of Form. Royce's work on dance and performing arts has examined both form and content within broad cultural contexts in order to understand artistry, creativity, improvisation, interpretation, and the aesthetics of the ordinary.