Emily Devine, Dance (on leave fall semester)– BA, Connecticut College. Trained with Jose Limón, Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, and Viola Farber; performed with Dan Wagoner and Dancers, Nancy Lewis, Mirjam Berns, Cork (Ireland) National Ballet; choreographer, Dance Alliance of New Haven, Roxanne Dance Foundation, Swamp Gravy, and independent productions; recipient of choreography grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts; teaches dance and movement workshops throughout the United States and in Canada, France, Sweden, Australia, and New Zealand. SLC, 1988-

Dan Hurlin, Dance/Theatre – BA, Sarah Lawrence College. Performances in New York at Dance Theater Workshop, PS 122, La MaMa ETC, Danspace, The Kitchen, St. Ann’s Warehouse, and at alternative presenters throughout the United States and the United Kingdom; recipient of a Village Voice OBIE Award in 1990 for solo adaptation of Nathanael West’s A Cool Million and the 2000 New York Dance and Performance (a.k.a. “Bessie”) Award for Everyday Uses for Sight, Nos. 3 & 7; recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and of grants from Creative Capital, the Rockefeller Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Mary Cary Flagler Charitable Trust, and the New England Foundation for the Arts; 2002-2003 Guggenheim fellowship. Recipient of the Alpert Award in the Arts for Theater, 2004. Former teacher at Bowdoin, Bennington, Barnard, and Princeton. SLC, 1997-

Sara Rudner, Director, Program in Dance – BA, Barnard College. MFA, Bennington College. Dancer and choreographer; participated in the development and performance of Twyla Tharp’s modern dance repertory; founded and directed the Sara Rudner Performance Ensemble. Recent choreographic projects include “Dancing-on-View,” one of a series of dance marathons, and “Heartbeat,” a fusion of technology and dance. She is currently a member of “Ersaloly Mameraem,” a dancers’ consortium. Past collaborators have included Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dana Reitz, and Christopher Janney. She has choreographed for theater and opera productions at the Public Theater, the Salzburg Festival, the Santa Fe Opera, and the Paris Opera. Awards include a Bessie, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial fellowship, a Dance Magazine award, and support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. SLC, 1999-

Rose Anne Thom, Dance – BA, McGill University. Labanotator and reconstructor; writer, critic for Dance Magazine, Collier’s Encyclopedia, and Society of Dance History Scholars; oral historian for the Dance Collection at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and the School of American Ballet; consultant, New York State Council on the Arts Dance Program; guest faculty, Princeton University, 2003; former teacher at SUNY Purchase, Southern Methodist University, American Ballet Theater School. SLC, 1975-

John A. Yannelli, Music – BPh, Thomas Jefferson College, University of Michigan. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College. Composer; innovator in the fields of electronic music and music for theatre and dance; composer of traditional and experimental works for all media; specialist in improvisational techniques; director of the Sarah Lawrence Improvisational Ensemble; toured nationally with the United Stage theatre company and conceived of and introduced the use of electronic music for the productions; freelance record producer and engineer; music published by Soundspell Productions. SLC, 1984-

Guest Faculty

Peggy Gould, Dance – BFA, MFA, New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Certified teacher of Alexander Technique; assistant to Irene Dowd; private movement education practice in New York City. Other teaching affiliations: Smith College, The Ailey School/Fordham University, Dance Ireland/IMDT, 92nd St. Y/Harkness Dance Center, SUNY Purchase (summer), Jacob’s Pillow. Performances in works by Patricia Hoffbauer and George Emilio Sanchez, Sara Rudner, Joyce S. Lim, David Gordon, Ann Carlson, Charles Moulton, Neo Labos, T.W.E.E.D., Tony Kushner, Paula Josa-Jones. Choreography presented by Dixon Place, The Field, P.S. 122, BACA Downtown (New York City); Big Range Dance Festival (Houston); Phantom Theater (Warren, Vermont); Proctor’s Theatre (Schenectady, 2008/09 Dangerous Music Commission). Grants: Meet the Composer, Lower Manhattan Cultural

Barbara Forbes, Dance – Royal Academy of Dancing, London. Institute of Choreology, London. Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, Cecchetti Method. Previously faculty of National Ballet School of Canada, Alvin Ailey School, New York University, and Finis Jhung Studio. Ballet mistress and teacher, Joffrey Ballet, New Orleans Ballet, and Chamber Ballet USA. Currently Feldenkrais practitioner at Feldenkrais Learning Center, New York City. SLC, 2000-

Patti Bradshaw, Dance – BM, University of Massachusetts. Certified yoga union instructor and Kinetic Awareness instructor. Has taught at the New School, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian; workshops at New York University, The Kitchen, hospitals, and various schools and studios in New York and Greece. Dancer, choreographer, and maker of puppet theatre. Work shown at St Ann’s Warehouse in 2005 and 2006. SLC, 2000-

William Catanzaro, Music – Composer and multi-instrumentalist; recognition and funding from NEA, The Samuels S. Feld Fund, New York State Council on the Arts, Harkness Foundation, NYU Humanities Council, NYU Service/Learning Fund; commissions include choreographers Anna Sokolow, Steve Paxton, Viola Farber, Milton Myers; work presented nationally and internationally with the New Danish Dance Theater, TanzFabrik Berlin, Amsterdam Theatreschool, Cyprus Festival, Teatro San Martin, The Alvin Ailey School, Philadanco, Player’s Project, Dallas Black Theater, Jacob’s Pillow, DTW, and others. Former accompanist and teacher of music for dancers at The Juilliard School, Marymount Manhattan College, Limón School, Martha Graham School, New York University; current faculty at The Alvin Ailey School, Steps on Broadway; Music Director for the Young Dancemakers Company. SLC, 2003-

Pat Catterson, Pat Catterson has choreographed 103 works. She was awarded a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship and has received multiple grants from the NEA, the CAPS Program, the Harkness Foundation, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, as well as a Fulbright. A dedicated educator, she has been on the faculties at Sarah Lawrence College, UCLA, the Juilliard School, Princeton University, Muhlenberg College, Barnard College, the Merce Cunningham Studio, and Marymount Manhattan College. Her writing has been published in Ballet Review, JOPERD, Attitude Magazine and the Dance Research Journal. She first performed Yvonne Rainer’s work in 1969 and since 1999 has been her dancer, rehearsal assistant, and custodian of Rainer’s early works. She earned her BA from Northwestern University and her MFA from Goddard College.

Peter Kyle, Dance – BA, Kenyon College; MFA, University of Washington. Dancer, choreographer, teacher, filmmaker, and Artistic Director of Peter Kyle Dance. Choreographic commissions across the United States and internationally in Scotland, Norway, Germany, Cyprus, and China. Peter Kyle Dance has performed in New York City at One Arm Red, Abrons Arts Center, Chez Bushwick, Joyce SoHo, Symphony Space, DNA, 3LD, and the 92nd Street Y, among others. Was a solist with Nokolais and Murray Louis Dance and performed in the companies of Mark Morris, Erick Hawkins, Gina Gibney, Laura Glenn, and P3/east, among others. Teaches at Marymount Manhattan College, HC Studio, Nikolais/Louis Summer Dance Intensive, and conducts residencies and workshops internationally. His Tiny Dance Film Series has been installed internationally since 2006. SLC, 2009-

Yvonne Rainer, seminal post-modern artist, co-founding member of the Judson Dance Theater and filmmaker. After Lives of Performers (1972), Privilege (1990), MURDER and murder (1996) and four other experimental films she fulfilled a commission for the White Oak Dance Project of the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation in 2000. Recent dances are AG Indexical, with a little help from H.M., a re-vision of Balanchine's Agon, RoS Indexical, a re-vision of Nijinsky’s Rite of Spring and a Performa07 commission, Spiraling Down, a meditation on soccer, aging, and war, and Assisted Living. Her dances have been performed in New York, Los Angeles, Vienna, Helsinki, Kassel, Berlin, and Sao Paolo. A memoir — Feelings Are Facts: A Life — was published by MIT Press in 2006. Awards include two Guggenheims, two Rockefellers, a Wexner, and a MacArthur. She is currently the Claire Trevor Professor in Studio Art at the University of CA, Irvine."

Gwen Welliver, Dance – BA,Pennsylvania State University; MFA, Bennington College. Original work presented at Dance Theater Workshp, 92^nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Center for Performance Research. Performed with Doug Varone and Dancers (1990 – 2000); Bessie Award for Sustained Achievement; Rehearsal Director, Trisha Brown Dance Company (2000 – 2007); also perforomed projects by Douglas Dunn with Rudy Burckhardt, Helmut Gottschild, Ohad Naharin, and Dana Reitz. Teaches at ADF, Bates Dance Festival, Dansens Hus, International Summer School of Dance, P.A.R.T.S., Trisha Brown Studios, TSEKH Summer School, Barnard College, Hampshire College, Hollins University, Hunter College, Mount Holyoke College. Movement Research faculty member 1997 – present; previously on the faculty of NYU Tisch School of the Arts (1995 – 2000, 2009 – 2011) and Bennington College (2007 – 2009 Fellow). SLC, 2011 -

Kathy Westwater, Dance – BA, College of William and Mary. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College. Choreographer and dancer. Choreography presented at Dance Theater Workshop, Brooklyn Museum of Art, and P.S. 122, among others, and archived in the Franklin Furnace Archive and the Walker Arts Center Mediatheque Archive. Recipient of awards from New York Foundation for the Arts and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and commissions from Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, and Summer Stage’s Dance Festival. Previously guest teacher at Bennington College, 92nd Street Y, and Trisha Brown Studio. Published writings include an interview with Merce Cunningham in the Movement Research Journal Millennial Issue, “Technology and the Body,” which she guest edited. SLC, 2001-