About

Holley Farmer, MFA, is an Assistant Professor of Practice at the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance. She was a member of The Merce Cunningham Dance Company from 1997 to 2009, during which she received the New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award for Sustained Achievement. Her performances with MCDC include a repertory of over fifty dances and thirteen original roles created for her by Cunningham, with multiple seasons at venues such as Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Paris Opera, Théâtre de la Ville, the Barbican, and in 23 countries worldwide. She also danced on Broadway, originating the principal role of Babe in Twyla Tharp's “Come Fly Away,” for which she received an Astaire Award Nomination. Since 2011, she has been involved in staging Cunningham's work and creating her own choreographies. Her solo work has been showcased at New York Live Arts, the Museum of Arts and Design, LaMama, the Joyce Theater, and Jacob's Pillow. With extensive experience in higher education, she has taught theory and practice courses at Mills College, Hunter College, Sarah Lawrence College, Nassau Community College, CSU Long Beach, and CalArts, along with guest teaching and lecture engagements at Stanford University and the Southern California Institute of Architecture. Her early training with Hae Shik Kim led to positions in Theatre Ballet of Canada, Phantom of the Opera, and The Oakland Ballet.

Research topics

• Computer science
• Library science
• Computer graphics (images)
• Political science
• Multimedia

Selected publications

• SMPTE Journal — Editorial Board

  SMPTE Journal · 1998-12-01

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• SMPTE Journal — Editorial Board

  SMPTE Journal · 1994-11-01

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• Education

  SMPTE Journal · 1982-05-01

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• SMPTE Biographical Sketch: Herbert E Farmer, SMPTE Vice-President for Educational Affairs, 1980–81

  SMPTE Journal · 1982-02-01

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• Education and the SMPTE

  SMPTE Journal · 1982-02-01

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• SMPTE Journal — Table of Contents

  SMPTE Journal · 1981-06-01

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• Technical Committee Meetings of the International Electrotechnical Commission

  SMPTE Journal · 1981-06-01 · 1 citations

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  The Technical Committee TC 60-Recording of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) met in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in late February and early

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• Report on the Meeting of Subcommittee SC 60C of IEC TC 60: Budapest, Hungary, 17–22 April 1978

  SMPTE Journal · 1978-09-01

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• Education and the Society — 1916–1930: As reported in the Transactions

  SMPTE Journal · 1976-07-01

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  “The SMPTE has been involved in education almost since the days of its founding.”

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• TC 60 Subcommittee C (SC 60C) Educational and Training Equipment in the Recording Field

  Journal of the SMPTE · 1975-08-01

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  The third meeting of SC6OC was held in Paris during the meeting of IEC/TC60 under the able leadership of Chairman Raymond Wyman of the University of Massachusetts and Secretary Wim Koeter of the Netherlands. Twenty-six delegates from 10 countries took part in the work of this subcommittee.

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Frequent coauthors

• Maurice French

  121 shared

• Stanley N. Baron

  104 shared

• Richard D. Marcus

  University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

  100 shared

• Kenneth Davies

  88 shared

• Ronald Uhlig

  Qualcomm (United Kingdom)

  88 shared

• Leroy Demarsh

  Motion Control (United States)

Awards & honors

• New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award for Sustained Ac…
• Astaire Award Nomination