Yoga

Julie Broglin,  Certified Master Yoga Teacher/Yoga Alliance USA, Certified Kripalu Center for Yoga - USA,  and Benares Hindu University, India. Studied with: the Late Sri Radha Kant Jha/Bihar School of Yoga, Kailayadham Ashram, Lonalva, India, Sivananda Ashram -Kerala, India, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, India and Auroville, India, Isha Yoga , Coimbatore, India.  Adjunct Professor at Purchase College 2000- present and previously taught for Manhattanville College.  Follow on Facebook: Anjali Yogini also Omlink: the studio for yoga synthesis.  Join Omlinkblog@wordpress.com for weekly posts on Wellness and Yoga (3-5 posts weekly).

Acting I

Stage Management 

Robert Daley,Stage Management,  holds a B.A. in Speech and Drama from Catholic University of America and, since 1991, has served as Production Manager of TheatreworksUSA, where he trains and supervises 10-20 Stage Managers per season.  He has also been Production Manager for the Manhattan Punch Line Theatre, NY, and stage-managed at Ensemble Studio Theatre, LSI Productions, Philadelphia; Women's Project and Production, NY, and The Studio Theatre, Washington, DC. She stage managed and Directed in Washington DC and Off-Broadway and Production Managed Off-Broadway. Currently Production Manager @ TheatreworksUSA where for the past 12 years I have supervised and facilitated the production process of over 60 original musical productions including; planning and scheduling, budgeting and allocating resources, contracting employees and designers, facilitating pre-production design meetings and bid sessions, and monitoring of all production elements. TheatreworksUSA produces two 12 - 14 production touring seasons anually of between 8 and 22 weeks each between Sept and June. Over the same 12 year period I have hired, trained and supervised 10 - 15 new Stage Managers per season  for all the duties related to stage managing these Equity TYA national tours. 

Performance Project: Dance

Ann Marie DeAngelo has worked internationally as a choreographer, director, and producer. Aformer star of the Joffrey Ballet, she was featured in TIME Magazine as one of America’s mostoutstanding ballerinas. She was Artistic Director of her own experimental troupe which touredextensively in Europe; founding Artistic Director of Ballet de Monterrey, Mexico; and AssociateDirector of the Joffrey Ballet. She has choreographed over 50 ballets, including a new musicalthat premiered at the Shanghai Expo 2010, in China. Under the umbrella of her companyDeAngelo Productions, a new dance extravaganza called America Dances! is in development.DeAngelo is the producer/director for the annual Career Transition For Dancers gala benefit,having worked with theater personalities such as Marge Champion, Sutton Foster, MarvinHamlisch, James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbury, Liza Minnelli, Bebe Neuwirth, Ann Reinking,Chita Rivera, and Ben Vereen; and, in 2012 conceived and directed the show for Capezio’s 125th Anniversary, at City Center in New York. She has taught for numerous dance companies,universities and summer courses, and has been movement coach to Bette Midler. For moreinformation on Ann Marie go to: www.annmariedeangelo.com.

Theatre for Young Audiences, Acting for Non-Majors

Creative Process, Voice & Speech I

Jazz I, II

 

Shawn K. Garnier is originally from Colorado, where he started his gymnastics and dance career.   In high school, he was a three-time state champion in gymnastics as well as an elite All-American.   Mr. Garnier was a professional dancer for 16 years, doing several world tours with Dick Fosters Productions out of Las Vegas, and performing at MGM Grand, Stratosphere, Harrah’s, The Sands, and The Aladdin Hotel and Casino.  He also performed and choreographed for several Sony recording artists.  Mr. Garnier also choreographed and styled the opening artist at the 2001 Latin Billboard Awards.  In New York, he performed off-broadway with choreographer John Seylas (ABT), WNBA Liberty, and with the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall.   Mr. Garnier completed his B.A. with honors at Queens College in 2008,  where he also started the nationally ranked Queens College Dance Team.   In 2010, he received his M.F.A. in choreography from the Conservatory of Dance, at SUNY Purchase where he also teaches hip hop.  Mr. Garnier is very excited to be apart of Manhattanville College.

 

Acting for Non-Majors

 

Heather Harpham is a writer and performer who lives and works in New York City. She has written six original solo plays, and performed widely in New York City venues including Dance Theater Workshop, Judson Church, the Ontological Theater, the Joyce Soho, St. Mark’s Performance Space and Dixon Place. Her work has been selected for the Wonder Woman Festival of 2007 and the One Woman Standing Festival in 2008. In November of 2008, her solo Happiness was presented in Nepal as part of the Kathmandu International Theater Festival.
Her writing and performances have won several awards including an Independent Artist Grant from the Marin Arts Council, the Brenda Ueland Prose Prize, the Herbert Rubin Award for Creative Writing and a nomination for a New York Innovative Theater Award in 2008. She is a Senior Teacher in the improvisation form Action Theater and founding member of the Action Theater Ensemble which has performed throughout the U.S. She has taught master classes in solo performance and improvisation at NYU, the Pratt Institute, Sarah Lawrence College, Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, and as a panel presenter at the 2007 ATHE conference in New Orleans. She holds an MA in Theater from NYU’s Gallatin School and an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU’s Creative Writing Program.

Yoga

Jamie “officially” began practicing yoga in 2008 when he attended restorative classes after knee surgery, although he had been doing some asana, pranayama and meditation for years without knowing yoga as an holistic discipline. Then when illness struck a member of his family, he recalls; “my body responded to the stress with debilitating back pain. I began practicing daily — meditation, Reiki, musical/vibrational healing, along with my regular asana and pranayama practice. This is when I decided I wanted to become a teacher.” In May 2011, Jamie completed his 200-hour Teacher Training at Yoga Haven in Tuckahoe, NY. While exploring the styles offered at Yoga Haven, Jamie became captivated by the Tantric philosophy employed in Anusara, and the alignment details of Iyengar yoga, currently his two main inspirations. With his background as a personal trainer and love of yoga, Jamie continues to explore the relationships between mind, body and spirit; seeking more clarity and alignment. He loves to teach, finding great joy in sharing this beautiful tradition with others.

Intro to Dance Therapy I

B.A., Hofstra University (Dance & Psychology); M.S., Hunter College - City University of New York (Dance/Movement Therapy); Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapist, National Certified Counselor, Certified Group Psychotherapist, Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, Licensed Mental Health Counselor.    Visiting Instructor, Graduate Creative Arts Therapy Department – Pratt Institute; Internship Coordinator, Graduate Dance/Movement Therapy Program – Pratt Institute; Founder/Former Director, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Therapy – North General Hospital; Past Member, Approval Committee – American Dance Therapy Association.   Administrative, clinical, consulting, supervisory and teaching experience in multiple psychiatric facilities.

Performance Project: Theatre

Sabra Jones is a member of the SDC and the Broadway League and is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Mirror Repertory Company of New York, founded in 1983, where she was mentored by Harold Clurman, Ellis Raab, Eva Le Gallienne, Alan Schneider, Sir John Gielgud and Sir Peter Hall.  Mirror Rep was famously thanked by Geraldine Page at the l987 Academy Awards when Geraldine won Best Actress while wearing her costume from Mirror's The Circle, in which she was then appearing. Sabra has been responsible for productions on Broadway (Tony Nomination), television (WNET13 Master Works), and over 120 productions In New York, London, and regionally, including the first production of Nightingale in London, written, directed, and performed by Lynn Redgrave. Mirror Rep has been nominated for Best Overall Excellence and Best Acting Ensemble (Outer Critics).  As an actress Sabra's Broadway debut, age 17, was in Butterflies Are Free at The Booth Theater in New York, a part she subsequently also played in Los Angeles with Eve Arden and in Chicago with Gloria Swanson. Sabra was in the original company of Six Degrees of Separation at Lincoln Center, taking over the part of Ouisa from Stockard Channing. At the Mirror Rep (opposite such artists as Geraldine Page, Anne Jackson, F. Murray Abraham, Anthony Hopkins, and Juliet Mills) she appeared in many productions including The Madwoman of Chaillot (nominated for Best Acting Ensemble and Best Overall Excellence by the Outer Critics Circle), Gorki's Children of the Sun (US premiere), Vivat, Vivat Regina and The Seagull, as well as on television (Mrs. Teasdale in Law and Order, etc. and in film. She has directed twelve plays for The Greensboro Arts Alliance and for Mirror Repertory Company, most recently this summer directing Broadway's own Tony-nominated Marla Schaffel as Maria Von Trapp in the Sound of Music..  A guest lecturer and the American University in Cairo and a Professor of Theatre  at Pace University, Sabra teaches privately (Steve Buscemi, John Lovitz, Campbell Scott, James Gandolfini) and was personally taught "The method" by her late father in law, Lee Strasberg, of Actors' Studio and Group Theatre fame.

Ballet I, II, III

 

Performance Project: Dance

Elise Knudson is a New York based daner/dance-maker who works with cross-disciplinary materials and ideas. Originally inspired by Nikolais technique, her training and interests have expanded to include aerial dance, vocal explorations and various forms of improvisation. She has created over thirty long and short works which have been presented by several venues in New York City as well as in Canada and Mexico. She recently earned an MFA in dance through the Hollins University ADF/MFA low residency program and currently dances with Risa Jaroslow and Koosil-ja/DanceKumiko. She has had the pleasure of dancing for Luke Gutgsell, Phantom Limb, Noemie LaFrance, Jody Oberfelder and many other wonderful people.

Zach Morris is a Bessie Award-winning director and choreographer whose work includes site-specific performances, installation art, video and multi-media projects, and immersive performance environments.  He is particularly interested in creating projects that place contemporary art and performance in non-traditional contexts. Zach’s work has been seen internationally, around the U.S. and at numerous venues in New York City including: Danspace Project, The Abrons Arts Center, Joe’s Pub, The World Financial Center, the South Street Seaport as part of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Sitelines Series, Dance Theater Workshop, La Mama E.T.C., University Settlement/ The New York Fringe Festival, Dixon Place, the Williamsburg Art Nexus, The Merce Cunningham Studio, as well as countless public/outdoor spaces. He is the recipient of a New York Dance and Performance Award for Creation/Choreography, the Henry Boettcher Award for Excellence in Directing, and the NYC Fringe Fest Award for Excellence in Choreography. Zach has been granted residencies or commissions from Arts Brookfield, The Hudson Opera House, Abrons Arts Center, Danspace Project, The Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation, Dance Theater Workshop, Topaz Arts, La Mama, LMCC, the Swarthmore Project, Epiphany Theatre Company, and others. Zach is Co-Artistic Director of the award-winning multidisciplinary performance company, Third Rail Projects; organizer and moderator of the NYC Dance Film Lab; and a teaching artist through Movement Research. He has previously served as the Co-Creator and Co-Director of the Westbeth New Works Program; the National and International Programs Associate at Dance Theater Workshop; and as adjunct faculty for Florida State University and  SUNY Purchase.  Zach has a BFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University. 

Contact Improvisation

 

A collaborative dance artist, is inspired by connection and integration and enjoys her continuing alliance with the performance collective Lower Left. (www.lowerleft.org) She is deeply influenced by her relationships with gymnastics, contact improvisation, Ensemble Thinking, Alexander Technique, Nina Martin, Shelley Senter, Barbara Dilley, Deborah Hay, musican/composer Loren Kiyoshi Dempster and their daughter. Margaret has also had the pleasure of working with Mary Overlie, Milka Djordjevich, Keith Hennessy, Lionel Popkin, BodyCartography, and projectLIMB among others. Her cooperative and individual work has been presented at venues including Dixon Place, Issue Project Room, Joyce SoHo, Judson Church, Danspace at St. Mark's Church, and the Whitney Museum in New York, Sushi Performance & Visual Art, Highways, ODC, and CounterPulse in California, the Crowley Theater, and Barnevelder Theater in Texas, and Sín Culture Center in Budapest, Hungary. Dance critic, Jennifer de Poyen, has called her “a dancer so full of wit and intelligence, you can’t keep your eyes off her.” (San Diego Union Tribune, 2002) The practice of teaching is integral to her creative process, and Margaret has been a movement educator for over twenty years. Regularly, Margaret researches and teaches Contact Improvisation, Ensemble Thinking, and other techniques for Movement Research, University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Marymount Manhattan and Manhattanville Colleges. She has also taught at 100 Grand Dance, the New School, UC San Diego, Purdue University, Prescott College, the Swedish Dance Alliance, Tanzfabrik in Berlin, the International Contact Festival in Freiburg, Germany, and Kontakt Budapest in Hungary. With Lower Left, she facilitates programs such as “March 2 Marfa,” an improvisation performance lab (past guest artists have included Barbara Dilley, Deborah Hay, and Steve Paxton). Margaret has authored articles for Contact Quarterly, is on the board of Marfa Live Arts, serves on Movement Research’s Artist Advisory Council, and received her MFA from the Hollins University/American Dance Festival in 2011.   

 

 

Liz was recognized for her work in Lincoln Center’s New York Public Library for the Performing arts Exhibit  Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century of Women Designers. She has worked extensively with Bill T. Jones designing for his works on his company, Boston Ballet, Berlin Opera Ballet and Alvin Ailey American Dance. Other work includes designing for works by: Doug Varone (Doug Varone and Dancers, Jose Limon Dance Company, Dayton Contemporary Dance), Mark Dendy (Dendy Dance, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Dortmund Theater Ballet), Trey McIntyre (Washington Ballet, PHILADANCO, Pennsylvania Ballet, Houston Ballet), Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project, PILOBOLUS Dance Theatre, Bill Irwin, Neil Greenberg, Ralph Lemon, Jane Comfort, Lenora Champagne, Bebe Miller, Sarah East Johnson, Gerard Alessandrini (MOBIL Masterpiece Theater Celebrates 20 Years on PBS), David Dorfman, Patricia Hoffbauer, Jennifer Monson, Lawrence Goldhuber and Keely Garfield. Photographs of Prince's costumes and sketches for Ralph Lemon's GEOGRAPHY were recently published by Theater Communication Group as part of THE PRODUCTION NOTEBOOKS volume II, edited by Mark Bly. Her work has been exhibited at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art. She received a 1990 New York Dance and Performance Award for costumes design. She has designed and taught at Manhattanville College since 2000.

 

Modern Dance Technique I

 

 

 

Ken Rothchildhas been teaching and designing at Manhattanville since 1999, and is currently the resident scene designer for the Department of Dance and Theatre. He teaches Concepts of Scenery Design, as well as sections of Creative Process, and Survey II – Ibsen to Now. He has designed 25+ productions for Manhattanville including A Little Night Music, Candide,Peer Gynt, The Taming of the Shrew, Cymbeline, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and The Crucible. Elsewhere he is an Artistic Associate and Resident Scene Designer, and Vice President of the Board of Trustees, for the Irondale Ensemble Project, an ensemble company based in Brooklyn. He has been a member of the Ensemble for virtually all of its 29-year existence. His latest production design there was Color Between the Lines, an oratorio/musical reverie on abolitionism and slavery in Brooklyn in the early 19 C. Upcoming is Julius Caesar, a continuation of the Company’s “1599 Project”, producing the four works Shakespeare produced and/or worked on during that seminal year in Elizabethan times. Other venues and genre’s he’s designed for include Pioneer Theater, Peterborough Players, Berkshire Opera, and Kei Takei’s Moving Light Dance. Internationally he has designed and toured in Russia, Israel, Sri Lanka, and India.  His TV credits have ranged from a PBS American Masters documentary on the “American Dream” in American novels; to the former CBS daytime drama Guiding Light. He has an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts/Design Program and is a member IATSE United Scenic Artists Local 829.

 

T'ai Chi

 

 

Beth Soll B.S., Ph.D.

Romantic & Classical Traditions in Dance

 

Beth Soll received her early training from Romanian modern dancers Iris Barbura and Vergiu Cornea.  Later she continued her studies in the European style of dance at the Kurt Jooss School in Essen, the Kreutzbergsschule in Bern, Switzerland, and the University of Wisconsin, where she earned a degree in modern dance.  She has held teaching positions at the University of Wisconsin, the Boston Conservatory, Boston University, the Harvard Summer Dance Center, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, UC Santa Barbara, Hofstra, and many private organizations.  She has performed with dance companies in the Midwest and in Boston, including the Ina Hahn Company, Dance Collective, and the Harvard Summer Dance Company.  In 1977, she formed Dance Projects, Inc./Beth Soll and Company.  With her company she has performed at the Harvard Summer Dance Center, Jacob's Pillow, and in major cities around the world.  The company has won awards for outstanding achievement including a "Ten Best of 1992" award from the Boston Globe for The Beautiful Season.  In 1993, Soll was given an Eliot Norton Award for her work as a dancer, choreographer and teacher.  In 1999, Soll earned a Ph.D. in history and Theory if Modern Dance from the University Professors Program at Boston University.

Creative Process, Modern Dance Technique III, Junior Seminar

 

Deborah Tacon was a member of Pauline Koner Dance Company, the Guthrie Rotante Dance Company, Harry Streep's Human Arms Project, Marta Renzi and the Project Company, and also appeared in the work of Annabelle Gamson, Ara Fitzgerald, Irene Feigenheimer and Rachel Lampert.    In addition to teaching several years at Manhatttanville, she taught at North Carolina School of the Arts, Brooklyn College, Vassar College and is currently also teaching at Barnard College and at Coupe Theatre School.  Deborah is a teacher of The Alexander Technique and holds a BFA in Dance from NCSA and a Master's Degree from Wesleyan University.

Dance for Musical Theatre

Bonnie Walker is delighted to be returning to Manhattanville, where she choreographed Into the Woods, Cole and A Grand Night for Singing.  She recreated Jerome Robbins’ choreography for the Tyne Daly revival of Gypsy on Broadway, and more recently for the Emmy-nominated CBS Television movie starring Bette Midler.  She has served as performer, assistant choreographer, dance captain, and/or stage manager on twenty-four Broadway shows, working with choreographers Michael Bennett, Joe Layton, Michael Shawn, Grover Dale, Gillian Lynne, Crandall Diehl, and Tommy Tune.  Miss Walker assisted the late Ron Field for more than twenty-five years on numerous Broadway productions, including Peter Pan and the original production of Cabaret, as well as the Joel Grey revival of Cabaret. She staged fifteen companies of Cabaret worldwide including South Africa, Amsterdam, and the London Company, starring Judi Dench.  On Broadway she worked with Angela Lansbury in Gypsy, Katherine Hepburn in Coco, Lauren Bacall in Applause, Alexis Smith in Platinum, and Sandy Duncan in Peter Pan, to name but a few.  Miss Walker was the original dance captain of Cats, and has served as assistant choreographer for the Academy Awards.   She has directed and choreographed for stock and regional theatres and has worked extensively in television.  In the academic world, Miss Walker has been Guest Artist at Stephens College and SUNY Brockport, and has directed and choreographed for Carnegie Mellon University.