Resume

DEGREES

2009-10 M.F.A. Dance, Hollins University. Thesis: “Of Sound Mind and Body”, American Dance Festival.

1979-81 M.S. Education. Movement Therapy, Lesley College, Cambridge, Ma. Thesis: “Movement Therapy Applied to Children with Learning Disabilities.” Based on psychoanalytic theory of Dr. Judith Kestenberg, Head of Child Development and Research Program, LI, NY.

1968-71 B.S. Education, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pa. ; Minor: English.

DANCE TRAINING

1981-08 Merce Cunningham Dance Studio, Douglas Dunn, (modern)

2000-08 Jocelyn Lorenz and Christine Wright, (ballet) Marjorie Mussman, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company.

1975-80 Susan Rose, Joy Kellman DANCEWORKS, Boston, Ma.

CHOREOGRAPHER : 1975-Present

1990-present Mary Seidman established Keystone Dance Foundation, Inc. and is Artistic Director. This non-profit organization, which operates out of its own private dance studio, promotes and produces choreography for the NYC dance audience under the name Mary Seidman and Dancers.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE : Teacher

2017 – present. Mark Morris Dance Center; Pascal Rioult Dance Center; Dance Education Lab

2017-19 – Mark De Garmo Dance.

2016 – Bank Street School for Children; Mark Morris Dance Center

2015 – Bank Street School for Children; Mark Morris Dance Center

2014- Bank Street School for Children; Mark Morris Dance Center

2013 – Bank Street School for Children; Mark Morris Dance Center.

2012- Guest Lecturer – Ohio University – The History and Agency of the NEA; Teaching Dance to Children; Artist Portfolio.

2012 – Guest Lecturer – Skidmore College- The History and Agency of the NEA

2012 – NYSSA Dance Program – Saratoga Springs

2011 – 12 College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ; Berkeley Carroll High School.

2011 Long Island University CW Post Campus

2010 Rutgers University, Long Island University CW Post Campus

2010 Duke University, New World School of the Arts and Dickinson College – Master classes

2010 Berkeley Carroll High School, Brooklyn, NY – full semester adjunct

2008 University of Maryland Choreographic Residency

2007 Agnes Scott College; Emory University; Baltimore Community College; University of Maryland; Mt. Holyoke; North Carolina School for the Arts; Greater York Center for Dance Education, York, Pa. – Guest Artist

2006 North Carolina School of the Arts, Roger Williams University, R.I.; E. Stroudsburg University, Pa., Guest artist

2001-20 Mark Morris Dance Center, Brooklyn, NY Teaching adults, intermediate, beginner, children

2002-11 Third Street Music School, NYC, NY Movement education classes for pre-school

2004-05 Duchess County BOCES, Chappaqua school system educational residencies

2000-05 Young Audiences CT., NY, NJ Arts in education residencies.

2004 NJPAC, Newark, NJ Educational residencies

1999-00 Early Stages, Inc. – Drama and dance to public school children

1998-99 Jamaica Arts Center- Project Arts, Project Read Integrating Dance into the curriculum.

1997-99 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Learning Through Art Program

1996-00 Suffolk County BOCES sponsored programs

1995-98 Village Community School, NYC. Artist in Residence.

1995-08 Challenge Camp, New Rochelle, NY. Artist in Residence (Summer)

1990-98 Keystone Dance, Inc. NYC, NY Artistic Director, Classes for toddlers, teens and adults.

1987-90 Peridance Center, NYC, NY Faculty Member. Classes for toddlers, teens, adults.

1983-84 Martin Luther King High School, NYC, NY Urban black students.

1972-75 Gateway Regional School District. Huntington, MA. Language Arts. Junior High.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE : Performer

1975 – Present Freelance Dancing:

Daniela Hoff Inside Dance

Laura Shapiro Dance

Nancy Zendora Dance Company

Douglas Dunn and Dancers

Brenda Daniels and Dancers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE : Movement Therapist

1976-81 Cambridge-Sommerville, Mass. Mental Health Program for physically and emotionally-disabled children ages 1-5. AMIC (Association for Mentally Ill Children). Work with autistic children, ages 8-14, in after school recreation program. Harvard Law Preschool. Work with normal five year-olds. Columbus Nursing Home, Boston, Mass. Work with geriatric and emotionally ill middle aged adults. Private Practice Pilot School. Cambridge, Ma. Individual work with severely learning disabled high school senior. Gateway Regional School District, Huntington, Ma. Work with children, aged 8-14 in summer recreational drama program.

Majorly Independently Produced Concerts:

2008 – MaMa at LaMaMa – LaMaMa Ellen Stuart Theater

2008 The Ailey Citigroup Theater – WeDOGS

2005 The Merce Cunningham Studio-All Things Fall Away

2003 The Merce Cunningham Studio-Who Will Roll Away the Stone?

1998 Arts at University Settlement House – Scan Lines

1997 EVENTS at St. Mark’s Church Danspace – Heart Meridians

1996 Merce Cunningham Studio – Progressions

1995 Dia Center for the Arts – Between The Lines

1994 Dia Center for the Arts – The Gardener

1993 Merce Cunningham Studio – Lolo

1990 Merce Cunningham Studio – Stone Soup

1986 Emanu-el Midtown YM-YMHA – Two Dances

1984 St. Mark’s Church – Prisons & Palaces

1984-2006 Concerts Performed in Dance Artist in Residencies:

Brooklyn Academy of Music; Jamaica Arts Center and Department of Cultural Affairs; Residency Programs through “Learning Through Art” Guggenheim Museum, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Private Consulting: Bayshore, LI., Port Jefferson, LI; Suffolk County BOCES Arts Symposium; Westchester County BOCES; Amityville, 184 and PS 232 Queens; PS 84 and PS 3 Manhattan; Fairfax, Va.; Doylestown, Pa., and East Side Settlement House, Bronx, NY; PS 124 Queens; East New York; Plainedge District Schools, LI; Coney Island, NY; Far Rockaway, NY: Brooklyn, NY Districts 21 and 22. Amagansett, NY. Village Community School, NYC, Horace Mann Lower School, Riverdale, NY; “Young Audiences of Connecticut,” “Young Audiences NY,” and “Arts America,” “Young Audiences NJ,” Morris Arts Council of NJ.

WORKS PRODUCED BY:

2015 -19 – American Dance Guild Festival – Who’s the Alpha?, The Messier Project; Amnesia; Grapefruits.

2014. The Remy Charlip Legacy Project – 92nd Street Y – Fridays at Noon; PS 89, Bank Street School for Children.

2013 – KITH – American Dance Guild Festival; Symphony Space.

2012 – The Messier Project – American Dance Guild

2011 The Messier Project; Long Island University/CW Post Campus at Symphony Space

2011 The Messier Project; La MaMa Moves! Festival at the Ellen Stewart Theatre

2011 The Messier Starship-World Science Festival; The Eisner-Lubin Auditorium, The Kimmel Center

2010 Of Sound Mind and Body; Reynolds Industrial Theater, American Dance Festival, Durham, NC

2010 Of Sound Mind and Body; Triskelion Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY

2008 MAMA, a modern folktale; La MaMa Annex Theater

2007 Thang Dao Contemporary Dance Festival; Connecticut Meets NY Festival

2007 La MaMa ETC. “La MaMa Moves” Spring Festival. Who Will Roll Away the Stone?

2005 SITELINES, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council/ River to River Festival: Bridges; Freewheeling

2005 The Flea Theater, NYC, Dance Conversations

2004 Battery Dance Company’s 23rd Annual Downtown Outdoor Dance Festival Two works

2004 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Inside Out Stage: Tides, Who Will Roll Away the Stone? Homage

2004 Piccolo Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC, Four works

2004 Symphony Space, NYC Who Will Roll Away the Stone?

2003 MetroArts Thirteen Broadcast on Cable Network Dance Series-Who Will Roll Away the Stone?

2003 Piccolo Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC Who Will Roll Away the Stone?

2003 The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ Reef

2002 The 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance SUNDAYS AT THREE Who Will Roll Away the Stone?

2001 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, “From the Horse’s Mouth,” by Croll/Cunningham

2001 Carnegie Hall, “Natural Blues”, Marble Collegiate Church Gospel Choir Concert

2001 American Museum of Natural History The Whales’ Song

2000-01 Tribeca Performing Arts Center The Whales’ Song

2000 Tribeca Performing Arts Center Mary Seidman & Dancers & Friends

1999 John G. Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, Il. Reef

1999 Dancers Responding to Aids Benefit Eden

1999 Soundance Repertory Company Eden

1999 Tribeca Performing Arts Center Force Fields

1998 Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, NJ (commission AT&T) Force Fields

1997 Dancers Responding To Aids Benefit Heart Meridians

1997 Soho Arts Festival Reef

1996 92nd Street Y- Dances at Noon Series- Reef

1996 Solomon R. Guggenheim’s Peter B. Lewis Theater Reef

1996 American Museum of Natural History Reef

1996 Jacob’s Pillow Inside Out Program Collections

1995 Brooklyn Academy of Music Young People’s Performing Arts Program Dance Is

1995 Marble Collegiate Church site specific liturgical dance He Is Alive

1994-95 American Museum of Natural History’s Kaufmann Theater Dance Is

1994 Staten Island Children’s Museum Dance Is

PUBLICATIONS

2013 – NYSSA Summer Dance Program – Dance Teacher Magazine.

2012 – Baby Steps – Dance Teacher Magazine.

2010 Dance Teachers, Architects of the Body and Soul published in Dance Teacher Magazine September Issue.

1988 Learning from the Joy of Dance published in Big Apple Parents’ Paper, NYC

1974 What is Learning? Article published in Project Adventure Journal / Outward Bound Adventure Program

ADMINISTRATOR

1990-present Keystone Dance Foundation, Inc., Artistic Director, Executive Director

1987-89 Peridance, NYC. Coordinator of Children’s Dance Program.

1981-83 Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation. Assistant to Officer of Development.

1978-80 DANCEWORKS Modern Dance Company, Boston, Ma. Manager – responsible for promotion, bookings, proposal writing, fundraising.

EDUCATIONAL CONSULTANT

2019 – NDEO – National Dance Conference, Miami, FL. Facilitator with Dance Education Lab/92nd Street Y.

2018 – Dance Teacher Summit – National Dance Conference Workshop Leader.

2017 – Mark Morris Dance Center – Workshop Leader for Teaching Assistants in PreK Dance Education.

2010 Dance in the Pre-School Third Street Music School Teacher Workshop

2001 DANCE AS A LEARNING MEDIUM-New London, CT. teachers, Young Audiences CT.

1999 FACE to FACE Educational Conference- Video and Dance.

1999 John G. Shedd Aquarium, Chicago: – Workshop for museum docents.

1998 Suffolk County BOCES Annual Conference- Performance and workshop

1994,98,99 Brooklyn Academy of Music: Student and Teacher Workshop. Staten Island Children’s Museum, “Howard Gardner’s Multi-Intelligence” Workshop for Public School Teachers.

1975-95 University of Massachusetts, Boston, Ma. 1982 Arts Symposium for the Handicapped. Training clinical workers and teachers in the use of dance and drama as learning tools. EDC (Educational Development Center), Newton, Ma. Co-developed a high school curriculum concerning life and health issues of the elderly. Sommerville, Ma. Pilot tested a high school curriculum, acting as liaison teacher/developer between school and research organization. Fitchburg State Teacher’s College, Fitchburg, Ma. Instruction in movement and dance principles for application in elementary education. Project Adventure, Hamilton, Ma. Authored a chapter in educational publication: “Teaching Through Adventure – A Practical Approach.”

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2007-11 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council MCAF and Creative Communities; Harkness Foundation; Bernstein Family Foundation, Peter S. Reed Foundation, Harnisch Family Foundation, ISO, JP Morgan Chase Matching Grants

2007 BETA Fund, Harkness Foundation for Dance, LMCC’s fund for Creative Communities, LMCC’s MCAF.

2005 Meet the Composer-Creative Connections

2000 The Manhattan Borough President’s Office

2000-05 The Beta Fund

1998 AT&T New Experiments in Art and Technology

1998 Hilla Rebay Outstanding Teaching Artist Award- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

1998 Department of Cultural Affairs

1998 Lower Manhattan Cultural Arts Council’s Fund for Creative Communities.

1998-05 The New York Community Trust

1997 Manhattan Cultural Arts Fund-Borough President’s Office.

1996-05 Harkness Foundations for Dance

1995 Chase Manhattan Bank; Helena Rubinstein Foundation; Citibank.

1994 Citibank.

1982 Finalist Award in Massachusetts Artists Council Choreography Competition.

NON-PROFIT BOARD MEMBERSHIP

2003-05 HEALTH, EDUCATION, and SOCIAL ISSUES COMMITTEE

Columbia Grammar and Prep School Parent Association-activist group that plans forums, lectures, and Committees.

2004-05 CAREER INTERNSHIP COMMITTEE

Columbia Grammar and Prep School-Co-direct group that researched, planned, and initiated summer Career mentoring program for high school sophomores and juniors.