DANCE

Choreographer Donald McKayle will join the UC Irvine faculty as a professor of dance on July 2, and James Penrod has resigned as chairman of the department, a position he has held since 1980. His resignation takes effect on July 1, but he will remain on the dance faculty. McKayle, a five-time Tony nominee who also has choreographed the Emmy, Oscar and Grammy awards shows, will begin teaching at UC Irvine in the fall. McKayle also had his own dance company through the 1950s and 1960s, and was head of the now-defunct Inner City Dance Company in Los Angeles. Penrod said he resigned to pursue “more intensive work on what I’m interested in, which is movement analysis,” adding that “after nine years, I think it will be good for this department to have another viewpoint.”