Retired Professor of Dance
Retired Undergraduate Dance Advisor, Modern Dance Technique, Improvisation, and Dance Composition
Retired 2016. Peggy Gaither Adams, MFA University of Utah, has been director of her own dance groups, Dance Import, Four Bare Fete, and Gaither-Unger Dance. In this capacity and independently she has presented in many areas of the US as well as at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland, Hong Kong Academy of the Performing Arts, Auckland New Zealand community, NZ School of Performing Arts in Wellington, for Japan television, in the Legends 2000 concert in Beijing China, an in Singapore. She served on the faculties of OSU and Cornell University prior to UH. Peggy enjoys collaborating with other artists.
Her collaborative work with Brent Adams, animation, and Paul Palmore, music and sound effects, has been presented at the Dance For Camera Festival in NYC. At UH Peggy directed concerts that provided diverse learning and performance programs for the students by showcasing ballet, modern dance, and traditional and contemporary dances of Japan, Korea, China, Cuba, Mexico, India, Philippines, and Hawaiʻi.