Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions

Student Bio Curran

Tina Curran is the newest doctoral student in the Dance Education Program, beginning her studies in fall 2004 toward a Ph.D. She is a dance graduate of Southern Methodist University (MFA) and of The Juilliard School (BFA). She has worked with and performed a broad range of choreographic repertoire including Anna Sokolow, Jose Limon, Paul Taylor, David Parsons, Garth Fagan, George Balanchine, Kenneth MacMillan, Antony Tudor, Gus Giordano and Danny Buraczeski.

She taught ballet, modern and jazz technique, dance history, Labanotation and Language of Dance on the faculties of Southern Methodist University and the Booker T. Washington High School of the Visual and Performing Arts in Dallas, TX and at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan.

As director of the Language of Dance® Center, USA, Curran conducts certification courses, master classes and residencies nationally and internationally in both academic and professional venues for all age and skill levels. In addition to teaching of Language of Dance, Curran is a co-author, with Ann Hutchinson Guest, of the next edition of the seminal motif text, Your Move: The Language of Dance® Approach to Movement and Dance.

Through her work as a dance reconstructor, she has restaged and directed several masterworks from Labanotation score and primary source material including The Desperate Heart - Valerie Bettis, Gossip and Life Continues by Finnish choreographer Maggie Grippenberg, L'Apres Midi d'un Faune - Vaslav Nijinsky and How Long, Brethren? - Helen Tamiris. Curran is an associate researcher and co-author, with Christian Matjias, of the George Balanchine Critical Editions, the first of the series featuring Concerto Barocco.

Curran presents her work at professional conferences in the dance, education and the dance notation fields worldwide.

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