Laurel Victoria Gray is a past Adjunct Professor of Global Dance at George Washington University, US, and of Dance of the Islamic World at George Mason University, US. Honors include Uzbekistan's Xalqlar Do'stligi "Friendship of the People" medal (2022), Fulbright's Selma Jeanne Cohen International Dance Scholar Lecture (2009). In 2007, she was named Honorary Professor at the Uzbekistan State Institute of Arts and Culture in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She has been the founding Artistic Director and choreographer for Silk Road Dance Company in Washington DC, US, since 1995.
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