Department of Dance Chair and Associate Professor of Professional Practice at Barnard College of Columbia University, Mary Cochran has performed and taught on every continent except Antarctica. A soloist with Paul Taylor Dance Company from 1984-1996, Ms. Cochran is renowned as “an interpreter of Paul Taylor’s work who absorbs technique into her bones,” “blithe spirit, weaver of magic, quintessential muse,” and “a star, indeed.” She continues her association with Paul Taylor to this day having completed 19 restagings of his masterworks and as Director of the Paul Taylor School’s Summer and Winter Intensives. Her first appearance as the character Valeska was in 2003 at Joe’s Pub. The performance elicited the following favorable review from critic Tobi Tobias - “My favorite number … choreographed by the resourceful Sara Hook and astutely performed by Mary Cochran.” Her own dance/monologue Pitiful Vignette received its New York premiere on the LIT series in Soho in 2003. In July 2004 her newest work Concrete Jungle’s Hawaiian Shirt premiered in Texas. Critic Wayne Lee Gay described the solo as “a constant juxtaposition of anguish and grace.” In February of 2005 a review in the New York Times of Cochran’s performance of Hook’s Patriot Act Up described Cochran as “a compulsively parading and possibly deranged majorette.” Cochran continues to be a special guest artist with Sara Hook Dances and with David Parker and The Bang Group with which she appeared in December 2004 for a long run at Dance Theater Workshop. Cochran has taught at numerous colleges and conservatories including Mills College, the Juilliard School, University of Michigan, Harvard University, and the North Carolina School of the Arts. She received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee in May of 2005. Back to faculty listing Mary Lisa Burns has taught at the Merce Cunningham Studio since 1988. She has also taught at Barnard College since 1996, and has been a guest teacher at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University , at Wesleyan College , the University of Texas at Austin and as part of the Isle de Danse Festival in Colombe , France . Her work has been presented at the Merce Cunningham Studio, Columbia University 's Miller Theater, Barnard College 's Minor Latham Playhouse, at Union College ( Schenectady , NY ), and the Cambridge Art Association ( Cambridge , MA ). A member of Kenneth King & Dancers for five years, Ms. Burns also performed in the companies and works of Brenda Daniels, Robert Kovich, Gina Gibney, Mitch Kirsch/Dogs in Space, Christopher Beck , the Reeves/Jones Performing Group and in the Tony Kushner/Ann Sullivan work, La Fin de la Baleine . She holds a B.A. from Barnard College , an M.F.A. from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and a Certificate from the Merce Cunningham Studio. She also holds a certificate of completion from the Harkness Center for Dance's Dance Education Lab program. In addition, she has studied Anatomy/Kinesiology with Irene Dowd and Alexander Technique and Pilates with Clarice Marshall, and taught pilates-based body work in New York City for five years. Back to faculty listing Jenny Emerson graduated from Barnard College in 1997 with a degree in Dance/Theater. As a principal dancer for Buglisi Foreman Dance Company, she was instrumental in the creation of more than ten new works and acclaimed "a sensuous oracle" (Newsday) and "S©ˆexceptional" (NY Post). In addition to being company rehearsal director, Ms. Emerson assisted in staging and coaching signature BFD repertoire on the New Jersey Ballet, Marymount Manhattan College, the Juilliard School, Barnard College, and Purchase College. She also toured the US with the Martha Graham Ensemble, receiving the Coca-Cola Award for Artistic Excellence, performed at City Center with the Graham Company, and developed and implemented an arts-in-education curriculum for the Empire State Partnership program in Port Washington, NY. She is currently on the artistic staff and Board of Directors for the Nest Summer Dance Festival in Buck's County, PA, a founding member of Hunte Dance/Theater, and Associate Artist/Development Associate with PAMAR, Inc. In addition to being on faculty at Barnard, Ms. Emerson teaches dance composition for the Graham School's Young Artist's Program; has been guest faculty at SUNY Purchase, the Ailey School, and the Neighborhood Playhouse; and has developed and taught numerous outreach masterclasses and workshop focusing on utilizing dancea as a vital communicative art form. Back to faculty listing Donlin Foreman, (Associate Professor of Professional Practice in Dance) is Co-Artistic Director/Choreographer of Buglisi/Foreman Dance, with which he is presenting their eighth New York City Season at the Joyce Theater, February 25-March 2, 2003. He has served as chair of the NYSCA Dance Panel for 2000 and 2001. Former principal dancer of 20 years with the Martha Graham Dance Company, Donlin performed with Eliot Feld Company,the Jacques d’Amboise National Dance Institute, and La Scala Ballet. He has staged his works for the New Jersey Ballet, Ice Theatre of NY, and La Scala Ballet, and is commissioned to set works by to set works the North Carolina Dance Theatre next spring. Foreman’s volume of poetic writings, Out of Martha's House, was published in 1992. He has written articles in Dance Teacher and Dance Spirit magazines, and contributed to the Martha Graham issue of Choreography and Dance, an international journal. He was recently awarded the Choo-San Goh Award for Choreography. Back to faculty listing Katie Glasner (Assistant Chair, Senior Associate) has danced nationally and internationally with the Twyla Tharp Dance Company, 1977-87. Her professional credits include film work (Hair and Amadeus), television (Confessions of a Corner Maker and Scrapbook), Broadway (Singin’ In the Rain), and several other film and television roles. A graduate of Columbia University in 1994, Ms. Glasner has been on faculty at Barnard since 1996. She trained in the pre-professional program at North Carolina School of the Arts, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and with many leading dance teachers in New York City. In more than two decades of teaching, Ms. Glasner has worked with students at Wesleyan, Penn State, Princeton and New York Universities, the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, Princeton Ballet School and its affiliate professional company American Repertory Ballet Company, Ballet Hispanico and American Ballet Theater II. For the last five years she has served as a dance adjudicator for the New Jersey State Teen Arts Festival. Ms. Glasner co-choreographed a number of productions for the Princeton Ballet School, and has choreographed for musicals, including The King and I for the Brunswick Theater and The Sound of Music for Theater-By-The-Sea in Matunuck, RI. She directed Barnard’s Summer Dance Study in 2000 and 2001 and has taught on several occasions in the college's pre-college program. Back to faculty listing Nathalie Jonas holds a BA in dance from Barnard College. She is a freelance performer and choregrapher in New York City. She is also currently studying to be a practioner at the New York Feldenkrais Professional Training program. She has been on the Barnard College modern faculty since 2001. Back to faculty listing Colleen Thomas, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in Dance, received her B.A. in Psychology from SUNY Empire State College and SUNY Purchase in 2001 and her M.F.A. in Dance from the University of Wisconsin , Milwaukee in 2003. Since 1990 she has performed both nationally and internationally with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Bebe Miller Company, Nina Weiner Dance Company, and Donald Byrd/The Group among others. She is artistic director of Colleen Thomas Dance and co-director for Bill Young/Colleen Thomas and Dancers. Most recently she has choreographed Catching Her Tears (44°N, 93°W) , The Ritz Theater Minneapolis, MN (2007); Damsel , SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY; Underneath , The Southern, Zenon Dance Company, Minneapolis, MN (2006); Plea, Miller Theatre, Columbia University, NYC (2006); and Taken ¸ Danspace Project St. Mark's Church, NYC (2005). Her choreography has been seen in Russia, Slovakia, Hong Kong, Estonia, Taiwan, Portugal, Brazil, Venezuela and in the USA at Danspace Project's St. Marks Church, Joyce SoHo, Kaye Playhouse, SUNY Purchase, The Puffin Room, Hundred Grand , Dance Space Center, Meredith College, California State University Long Beach, East Carolina University, The Ritz Theater, and the University of Wisconsin among others. She has taught for Barnard College of Columbia University, The New School, Long Island University – Brooklyn Campus. At Barnard she will be teaching Modern Technique VI, Ballet Technique I, Contact Improvisation, Advanced Contact Improvisation, and Advanced Composition/Group Forms. Back to faculty listing Karla Wolfangle, teacher and choreographer, is a graduate of The Boston Conservatory of Music and danced with The Paul Taylor Company from 1981 to 1993. Ms. Wolfangle was also a member of the Lar Lubovitch dance Company, The Boston Ballet and was co-director and co-founder of The Cliff Keuter Dance Company. She has been on the faculty of The National Institute of The Arts in Taipei, Taiwan, The Harvard Summer Dance Center, The American Dance Festival, University of Maryland, Delphi University, and was Guest Artist in Residence from 1995 to 1999 at the North Carolina School of the Arts. Her choreography has been presented in New York City at The City Center, The Cunningham Dance Center, Dance Theater Workshop, and The Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. In the summer of 1999, Ms. Wolfangle choreographed and performed in Woody Allen’s feature film Small Time Crooks. In the Spring of 2000, she choreographed a revival of Fiddler on the Roof for the Greensboro Theater Company in North Carolina. In the Summer of 2000, Ms. Wolfangle was invited to present her choreography as part of Paul Taylor’s 70th birthday celebration. Currently she is on the faculty The New School/Joffery School, The Paul Taylor School, Barnard College, and Hofstra University. Back to faculty listing ACADEMIC FACULTY Mindy Aloff’s essays and journalism on dancing and other arts have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Dance Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Threepenny Review, Parnassus, and many other periodicals. Between 1983 and 1993, she was dance critic of The Nation; and between 1993 and 2001, she was dance critic of The New Republic. Aloff is a past fellow of The John Simon Guggenheim and Woodrow Wilson Foundations and of the Dance Critics Institute at the American Dance Festival. In 1987 she was given a Whiting Writers Award. She is a consultant to the "Popular Balanchine" research program of The George Balanchine Foundation; and also an editor of Frederic Franklin's extensive (41 transcripts) oral history of his 30-year career with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, for which she served as one of the two principal interviewers. A past president of the Dance Critics Association, she is the program chair of the 2003 annual conference to be held at Barnard College next June. She has served as a juror for the De la Torre Bueno Award in dance history and for the Martha Allbrand/ First Book of Nonfiction award, administered by PEN American Center. Her collection of poems, Night Lights, published by Prescott Street Press in 1979, was a finalist in the Elliston Award. Her anthology Dance Anecdotes was published in hardcover by Oxford University press in 2006 and released in paperback this year. She is currently at work on Hippo in a Tutu, a study of the dance sources of historic Disney animated films, for Disney Editions. Back to faculty listing Lynn Garafola is a Professor of Dance at Barnard College. A dance historian and critic, she is the author of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance, and the editor of several books, including The Diaries of Marius Petipa (which she also translated), Of, By, and For the People: Dancing on the Left in the 1930, José Limón: An Unfinished Memoir, and The Ballets Russes and Its World. Curator of the New-York Historical Society's exhibition Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet , the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' 500 Years of Italian Dance: Treasures from the Cia Fornaroli Collection (with Patrizia Veroli), and several smaller shows, she is a former Getty Scholar, recipient of fellowships from the Social Science Research Council and National Endowment for the Humanties, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Editor of the acclaimed book series Studies in Dance History, she has written for Dance Magazine, The Nation, Times Literary Supplement, and many other publications. She is currently curating an exhibition about Jerome Robbins.