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Trisha Bauman

Trisha Bauman, RSMT, CMA and BMC Practitioner, has taught on the DE-SMTT faculty for over ten years and maintains a private practice in New York. An internationally renowned dancer and actress, she has performed in the NYC companies of choreographers RoseAnne Spradlin and Vicky Shick, and in the French companies of Daniel Larrieu (Centre Choregraphique National de Tours), Mathilde Monnier (Centre Choregraphique National de Montpellier), Cecile Proust and Alain Buffard. She performs currently with Paris-based choreographer/director Herman Diephuis.

With these companies, she has toured and performed at the most prestigious international dance and theater venues, including Lincoln Center, The Kitchen, La Mama, PS 122, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival (USA); Festival d'Automne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Theatre de la Ville (Paris); Festival d'Avignon/La Cour d'honneur du Palais des Papes, Festival de Marseille, Festival Montpellier Danse, (France); Festival International de Nouvelle Danse (Montreal); Festival Internacional Cervantino (Mexico); Festival TanzImAugust (Berlin); Festival ImPulsTanz (Vienna); and Festival d.a.m.p.f. (Koln). Her research and performance projects include collaborations with Swiss painter Mathias Schauwecker, renowned French dance critic/historian Laurence Louppe; and choreographers Lisa Nelson (USA), Susanna Szperling (Buenos Aires) and Rahel Vonmoos (London).

A certified practitioner of Body-Mind Centering and Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis, she is on the certificate faculty of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in NYC, Boston and Edinburgh, and of Laban/Bartenieff and Somatic Studies International in Canada and Europe.

A popular guest artist, she is invited around the world to teach, lecture and coach within professional dance, theater and somatic research. Venues include Trisha Brown Dance Company (NYC), Centre Georges Pompidou/Musee national d'art moderne, Cie. Philippe Decoufle, Ballet Preljocaj (Paris); ImPulstanz Festival (Vienna); Mathew Bourne Company's "Swan Lake" (London); PARTS/Rosas (Brussels); Sasha Waltz Dance Company (Berlin); Sydney Dance Company (Australia); Tseh Summer School - Moscow Dance Agency (Moscow); Teatro San Martin (Buenos Aires); and university residencies at Harvard University, Denison University, Bowdoin College, New York University, Salem State College and Holy Cross College (USA); Universite de Paris VIII (Paris); and Universitat Bern (Switzerland).

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