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Music, Movement, and Meaning: A Conversation with Dege and Tal Feder - Part of the 2026 Dance Residency Program

Dege and Tal
Wed, February 11, 2026
10:20 am - 11:15 am
TBA, OSU campus

Music, Movement, and Meaning: A Conversation with Dege and Tal Feder 

Join Dege and Tal Feder in Michal Raizen’s Music Citizenship class. They will reflect on their creative work with their music group Lela.

Dege and Tal Feder

Dege Feder is a choreographer, dancer and musician. Dege joined “Eskesta” dance troupe in 1999 as a dancer and performed in many international festivals in Germany, France, Columbia, Croatia, South Africa, USA (New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago) and more. In 2013 she became the artistic director and choreographer of the Beta Dance Troupe. With Beta, she has performed in various venues, including in Ethiopia, where she was invited to teach workshops at the Ethiopian National Theater. She performed in 2018 in Jacob’s Pillow festival and taught dance workshops in the USA. Dege is the recipient of several awards, including the Israeli Ministry of Culture Prize for Young Dance Creators. In addition to her artistic work, she teaches dance as a means of empowerment for women and young girls in the Ethiopian-Israeli community.

Tal Feder is a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He previously held postdoctoral positions at Indiana University and the University of Sheffield. His work focuses on cultural policy, the sociology of art and culture, arts consumption, and quantitative research methods. His current research examines art justice and cultural inequality from a spatial perspective. Tal has taught courses on cultural policy, arts management, and the sociology of culture and art across several academic institutions, as well as in training programs and art-activism NGOs.

Co-sponsored by: the Department of Dance and School of Music

Supported by: the MCRME Project (Global Arts and Humanities)

Located in: TBA, OSU campus

 

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These are public events and open to all.

If you have any questions, contact Tamar Becker, becker.905@osu.edu