Bio

Camille LeFevre has been practicing arts journalism for more than 20 years, and has written on the arts for almost every publication (print and on-line) in the Twin Cities. She has also been an arts commentator on Minnesota Public Radio and KFAI. She currently comments on the arts for “Minnesota Original,” a program on Twin Cities Public Television. She was the founding Arts Editor of Metro Magazine. A long-time contributor to Architecture Minnesota, she also edited the magazine for five years. She was dance critic for the Star Tribune newspaper for 15 years, and has been the Minneapolis/St. Paul correspondent for Dance Magazine for 20 years. She is currently the dance critic for Minnpost.com. She’s presented her interdisciplinary scholarship on site-specific dance, the ballerina as cyborg, human-technological hybridity in visual culture, and movement in popular culture at conferences sponsored by the Society of Dance History Scholars, Congress on Research in Dance, and Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association.

She regularly writes on visual culture and the visual arts for Mnartists.org, and has written on Minnesota artists, their research and their work for Minnesota Magazine. She is the author of the book Charles R. Stinson Architects: Compositions in Nature, and has written on architecture and design for Architectural Record, Metropolis and other national publications. In December 2009, she received her interdisciplinary Master of Liberal Studies degree from the University of Minnesota. Her thesis was titled: “Cyborg Ballerina, Cyber Warrior: A Study of Dancing Human/Machine Hybrids from Sylphide to Science Fiction.” She currently teaches arts criticism and arts journalism in the dance, journalism and architecture schools at the University of Minnesota.