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
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.
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.
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