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RUTH ANDRIEN Former Paul Taylor Dancer; teaches, choreographs, and restages Taylor’s works; Repertory Etudes Workshop Director for The American Dance Legacy Institute; has taught at Southern Methodist University, Harvard, MIT, The University of the Arts, Jacob’s Pillow, New York State Summer School of the Arts; MFA from HU/ADF; directs the Paul Taylor Dance Project at the ADF; recipient of the ADF’s 2009 Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching Award; ADF faculty since ’06.
GLENNA BATSON MA, PT, DSc (Masters, Dance Education and Physical Therapy; Doctorate, Physical Therapy, Neurology); 35 years in movement arts and science; apprenticed with Irene Dowd in 1977; internationally recognized teacher of Alexander Technique and dance science; directs Contemporary Body Practices for the HU/ADF MFA Program; ADF faculty since ’86.
DOUGLAS BECKER Teacher, choreographer, and former dancer with William Forsythe’s Ballet Frankfurt; guest faculty P.A.R.T.S. School Brussels, National Conservatories of Paris and Lyon; returning resident artist in the Hollins University dance department and serving as the Hollins University Curator for the program’s international extended study projects; HU/ADF faculty since ’06.
RODGER BELMAN Assistant Professor at Long Island University, Brooklyn; reconstructor of Laura Dean’s masterworks; member of Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians, 1989–1995; performed with Twyla Tharp, Rachel Lampert, Mark Taylor, Joy Kellman; academic teaching and residencies at East Carolina University, University of Georgia, University of Wisconsin, George Mason University; MFA in dance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; ADF faculty since ’07.
DAVID BRICK Dance artist and teacher; co-director of Headlong Dance Theater; awards include a New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award for choreography; named a Pew Fellow in the Arts; numerous NEA awards; professor of dance at Bryn Mawr College since 1998; founder of the Headlong Performance Institute, a semester-long program for performing artists in Philadelphia; ADF faculty since ’08.
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