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Dance Education Faculty: Marcea Daiter

MARCEA T. DAITER, Choreographer, Performing Artist, Dance Educator and Artistic Director of New York based dance theater company called Kaleidoscope of Kultures Dance Theater.  Ms. Daiter is currently an Adjunct Instructor in the Dance Education Program at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, teaching African Dance and Intercultural Studies. Ms. Daiter received an M.F.A. degree in Dance from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 1992, and her B.A. degree in Sociology from Loyola University of Chicago in 1975.  Her field-study trips to Africa, Cuba, Mexico, Haiti, and in the United States to the Katherine Dunham Institute of Intercultural Studies (1995-2006) and Jacob's Pillow (1996/1999) influenced her methodology as an educator in the performing arts, curriculum development, instruction, and choreography have inspired her instructional teaching in language arts, writing curriculum, and choreography.  Ms. Daiter is a licensed Teacher of Dance in New York State and has taught contemporary (modern/jazz), classical ballet, and Afro-Caribbean for the New York City Department of Education public school system (5th-12th grade), Borough of Manhattan City College, City College, Long Island University, Hofstra University, and Movement for Actors in the Graduate Acting Department at Tisch School of the Arts. Ms. Daiter is certified to teach the Zena Rommett Floor Barre Technique, the Method and Mat work of Joseph Pilates, and the technique of Katherine Dunham.  She also works as an actress and has appeared in several theater and musical productions, television, videos, and films.

Her choreography credits include: The Haitian-American Academy of Ballet & Arts in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Mixing Percussion Multimedia and Modern Dance w/Enrique Castro, Avant/Apres le Deluge-18th Century and Postmodern Baroque, The Prince of Haiti/King of Paris (opera/musical), Seven Guitars, Blues for An Alabama Sky, Wedding
Band, Many Colors Make the ThunderKing, Woza Albert, Crumbs From the Table of Joy, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, The Black Picture Show, Heliotrope Bouquet, New York University Faculty Dance Concert 2001-2006, The New York Baroque Dance Company, The Dallas Black Dance Theater, The Artists' Collective in Hartford, Conn., the 92nd St. Y Harkness Dance Center, The Summer In The Square Dance Festival@@ Union Square Park, St. Mark's Church Danspace Project/City/Dans:  The New York Baroque Dance Company, Ballet Arts Spring Showcase, Long Island University Faculty
Dance Concert Brooklyn Campus@@ the Triangle Theater, Bard College for The 1999 Humanities Teachers' Institute, the Park West Dance Theater (Artistic Director), BAM/Majestic Theater, The Institute of Intercultural Studies/Katherine Dunham Seminar.

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