Nola Nolen Holland
 Assistant Professor
 nola.nolen@sru.edu 
 724-738-2785

Nola Nolen Holland is the ballet specialist in the Dance Department and teaches Introduction to Dance, Principles of Dance Production, Dance History I, Music for Dance, Practicum II: Repertory, and Senior Synthesis. She also sets choreography for SRU students and has presented it at local, regional, national, and international conferences and festivals such as The Pittsburgh Dance Council’s Choreographers’ Continuums, The National American College Dance Festival, The Biennial Dance Festival at the Université Lumière in Lyon, France, and, in 2007, at the International Dance Alliance Festival in Chennai, India.  She is currently preparing her Music for Dance textbook for publication.  It is entitled Fundamentals of Music for Dancers.  Nolen Holland completed a M. F. A. in dance at the University of Oklahoma and is the recipient of numerous grant awards in choreography, research, and professional development.  A grant award from the SRU President’s International Professional Development Committee enabled her to accompany three dance students to India in July 2007.  Nolen Holland is a co-founder of the Dance in India Initiative, an International dance study opportunity for SRU undergraduate dance majors.  Nolen Holland authored a short article about the program for the July 2008 issue of Dance Magazine.  Nolen Holland was the only woman among the first eleven inductees to the Del City High School Hall of Fame, Del City, Oklahoma.  She was selected from the graduates of the school’s fifty year history.  Nolen Holland has also served as the vice-president for the dance division of the Pennsylvania State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance, as vice-chairperson of the Pennsylvania Alliance for Arts Education, and on the board of directors for CORPS de Ballet International, Inc., a professional organization for ballet teachers in higher education for which she currently serves as treasurer.  For Pittsburgh Ballet Theater’s thirty-fifth anniversary, Nolen Holland, as a former PBT dancer, chaired the Alumni Reunion Committee.  Currently, Nolen Holland is gathering data about ballet teacher in higher education through a university-approved research project.