Curriculum Vitae
last C.V found in Nancy's archive
EDUCATION
1964
B.S. cum laude
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Study with Louise Kloepper, Margaret D’Houbler, James Payton, Don Redlich
1964
Connecticut College, New London Connecticut, summer session with Jose Limon, Ruth Currier, Pearl Lang
1960-1962
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
STUDIO TRAINING
Release Technique
Barbara Clark, student of Mabel Todd, author of The Thinking Body.
Andre Bernard, New York University
Contact Improvisation
Steve Paxton
Ballet
Robert Joffery Ballet School, Nina Foneroff, Janet Panetta (Cecchetti)
Other Disciplines
Anna Halperin, Integral Yoga, Tai Chi, Alexander Technique, Drama with Elizabeth Dillon, H.B. Studio, NY
TEACHING POSITIONS
1986-present (1998)
School for Release Technique, New York Established in 1968 to further curricular development of anatomically –based dance pedagogy
1988, 1983
Laban Institute for Movement Studies, New York, NY
1979-present (1998)
City College of New York, N.Y. Theater Arts Department, undergraduate technique and improvisation to non-majors.
1979-present (1998)
School for Movement Research, New York, NY
1978-79
City University of New York, NY
1970-74
Lehman College, Department of Physical Education and Dance, undergraduate courses in Cunningham Technique, composition, improvisation, folk dancing for majors and non majors, student performance supervisor.
1976
Naropa Institute, Boulder Colorado, summer term dance faculty
1972
New School for Social Research, New York, NY. Choreographers Theatre Department, introductory movement to undergraduates, non-majors.
1969-70
Pratt Institute, New York, NY School of Architecture, undergraduate courses in sensory awareness.
1970
Adelphi University, Long Island, NY, Department of Dance, undergraduate courses in Cunningham technique and improvisation
1968-69
University of Illinois, Urbana Illinois, Department of Dance, undergraduate courses in Cunningham Technique, composition as wells supervision of student performances.
RESIDENCIES AND WORKSHOPS
1988
Center for Contemporary art, Santa Fe, New Mexico “Dances of the Spins”, week-long daily workshop and solo performances in collaboration with Jon Gibson
1976-1985
The Vermont Workshop, co-founder and director, twelve day summer intensive in release technique, Todd alignment, contact improvisation and composition. Faculty included: Nancy Stark Smith, Lisa Nelson, Danny Lepkoff, Nina Martin, John Rolland, Marsha Paludan,. Annual forty-member international student body.
1984
Twyla Tharp Foundation, New York, NY open workshop co-taught with Sara Rudner
1983
Dance Warehouse, Santa Barbara, California - workshop and solo performance
1982
Riverside Studio, London England, week -long workshop and solo performance
1980
Creative Music Studio, Woodstock, NY music/dance workshop with Simone Forti, Peter Van Riper and Jon Gibson
1979
IDEA Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA.
1978
Buffalo Academy for the Performing Arts, Buffalo, NY,
Week long residency in public magnet high school, Open Center, London, England
City Studio Theatre, Northampton, Massachusetts
1977
Bard College, Annondale-on-Hudson, NY – master class in Release Technique
1976
Cite Universitaire de Geneve, Switzerland – two week workshop and solo performance
1975, 1978, 1982
Dartington College of the Arts, Totnes England – residencies in Release Technique and performance at the Dartington International Dance Festival
1972
University of Colorado, Boulder CO
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
CHOREOGRAPHY (selected partial list)
The Kitchen, New York, NY - “Catalogue III” (1982), “Line” (1979), “Two Minute Pieces” (1974)
Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY – “Thrust” (1986), “Three” (1987)
University of Illinois, Urbana Illinois – “Chair Dance” (1969), “Games and Attitudes” (1969)
Central Michigan University – “Environments IV” (1972 in collaboration with film maker and composer Phil Niblock)
Nova Scotia College of Art, Canada – “Dance/Flute,Dance/Sax” (1971 in collaboration with composer and musician Jon Gibson)
Contemporary Art Museum, Houston Texas – “Jojupo”, “Dance/Flute” (1973 with Jon Gibson)
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. – “Orange Dance” (1972), “The Great Outdoors” (1976 with Jon Gibson)
Centre Culturel de Marais, Paris, France – “The Great Outdoors” (1976)
Salle Patino, Geneve Switzerland – West Broadway Festival, “The Great Outdoors” (1976)
Dartington College, Totnes, England – “Line Dance” (1975), “Passing Through The Middle” (1975), “Empty Spaces” (1975), “An Old English Proverb” (1975), “Wind Game” (1975 in collaboration with Mary Fulkerson), “J.M.” (1978), “Catalogue II” (1982)
Riverside Studio, London, England – “Syllogism, Catalogue I” (1982 based on the work of philosopher Lugwig Wittgenstein)
Theater School, Amsterdam, Holland – “Silver Blanket” (1982), “She Found Out” (1982), “Dutch Dreams” (1982)
Experimental Intermedia Foundation, New York, NY – “Wind Game” (1975), “The Great Outdoors” (1976)
P.S.1, Long Island City, NY – “Game Structures and Situations” (1977), “one Day” (1981 with six children)
Washington Square Methodist Church, New York, NY – “Nine Sections” (1970, with architecture students)
St. Marks Church, New York, NY – “Wind Tunnel” (1975)
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY - “Circle Solo” (1973), Dance/Flute” (1973)
Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York, NY – “Light Wind” (1983, in collaboration with sculptor Pam McCormick)
Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY – “Dance/Flute” (1971, with Jon Gibson), “Circle Solo since 1970 including the Body is Round and other images” (1973), “Software” (1973), “Circle and Line Improvisations” (1970)
Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY – “Chalk Circles on a Revolving Stage” (1976)
PUBLICATIONS
“Game Structures: A Performance”, Contact Quarterly, Vol. 5, no. 14, Spring/Summer 1980
“Question of Personal Development”, an interview with Mary Prestige and “Dartington Document”, New Dance, No. 22, June, 1982
Jean Dupuy, ed., Collective Consciousness, Performing Arts Journal Publication, 1980
“One Day, a Dance”, Contact Quarterly, Vol. 9, No. 1, Fall, 1983