Renata Celichowska has been on faculty with New York University since 1996. From 1989-1992 Ms. Celichowska was a member and school instructor with the Erick Hawkins Dance Company. Since 1992, she has taught master classes and workshops through such venues as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, San Francisco's New Performance Gallery, Seattle Dance Center, Old Dominion University's Magnet High School, University of Colorado-Boulder, Yale, Temple, and Stanford Universities, Middlebury College and University of New Mexico. International teaching has included technique, repertory and choreography workshops in Italy, Greece, Germany, England, Poland and a two-year artist's residency at the Duncan Centre Conservatory in Prague, Czech Republic.
Connected with her interest in teaching, Ms. Celichowska has lectured for the U.S. Elder Hostel, adjudicated for numerous high school, college and professional dance festivals and has served on the arts advisory committee for the Czech Ministry of Education. During the 2000-2001 academic year Celichowska was a visiting professor at Yale University. Additional work in the area of dance scholarship and education has included, administrative management for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, archival work for the National Museum of Dance in Saratoga Springs, the founding of an international workshop series entitled U.S. Dance Artists in Prague, and the producing, directing and writing of a book and videotapes on the Erick Hawkins Modern Dance Technique. Ms. Celichowska is currently working on a second book entitled Seven Statements of Survival, commissioned by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., due for publication in 2005.
Ms. Celichowska's choreographic work for concert dance, opera, film and theater has be en commissioned and presented in festivals and concerts both in the United States and Europe. Venues in New York have included Judson Church, 92nd Street Y, Symphony Space, the DRA Festival at DanceSpace St. Mark's Church, Theatre of the Riverside Church, Manhattan School of Music, New York University÷Õ Frederick Loewe Theater, and most recently, at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. International venues have included the Tanec Praha Dance Festival in the Czech Republic, the Poznan International Dance Biennale in Poland, the Strada Facendo Festival in Italy, and the Tripotamos Arts Center in Greece.
Ms. Celichowska holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Art from Yale University and a Master of Arts degree in Dance Education, History and Aesthetics from New York University.