Teaching Methodology + Elements of Performing

MONDAY, JUNE 5 – FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 2023 
10:00-4:00 PM MONDAY-THURSDAY + 10:00-3:00 PM on FRIDAY
Gibney 280 Broadway (Studio Y)
$500

About the Workshop

Teaching is an extraordinary profession. A dancer enters the studio and trusts you with their instrument, their body. This relationship is full of rich possibilities and responsibilities. This course discusses and practices the many pathways we have to be the best we can be at this, as it is not what you teach; it is how you teach it. The day will begin with a technique class that intensive participants are required to take or observe.

On Friday, there will be an Elements of Performing: One-day Workshop. For one day, the focus will be on just that, focus. How does focus enhance, change, and support our movements? With the many choices we have focally, we will learn and practice how subtle changes will add to what we want to communicate and support us technically.

* The morning technique class will be open to drop-in students, 10:00 AM – 11:45 PM
daily. $25 per class. Sign up here!

About Risa Steinberg

Risa Steinberg, the 2022 recipient of the DanceTeacherMagazine Award of Distinction, is active in many facets of the dance community as a performer, teacher, re-constructor of the works of José Limón, rehearsal coach, and mentor to young, emerging, and established choreographers. A native New Yorker, Ms. Steinberg attended the High School of Performing Arts. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Juilliard School, where she has served as full-time faculty since 2004 and held the position of Associate Director of Juilliard Dance from 2008-2016. Ms. Steinberg has been a guest teacher worldwide and in many summer intensives, including Arts Umbrella and Impulstanz, since 2001.

As a performer, Ms. Steinberg was a principal dancer with the José Limón Dance Company, Bill Cratty Dance Theater, Annabelle Gamson, Anna Sokolow’s Player’s Project, Colin Connor, and American Repertory Dance Company of Los Angeles. She has also appeared as a guest artist with choreographers including Wally Cardona, Sean Curran, Kate Weare, and DanzaHoy of Caracas, Venezuela, and as a cast member of Punchdrunk’s, Sleep No More from 2015-2020. Her critically acclaimed solo concert, A Celebration of Dance, featured a repertory from Isadora Duncan to contemporary choreographers.

As a re-constructor of the works of Mr. Limón, Ms. Steinberg has worked with companies and dancers, including Nureyev and Friends, Frank Augustyn, and Karen Kain.

As a choreographic advisor, she has the honor of mentoring many emerging choreographers, as well as established choreographers, including Brian Brooks, Kyle Abraham, Kate Weare, Michelle Dorrance, and choreographers from the New York Choreographic Institute. Ms. Steinberg is the co-director of the Ann and Weston Hicks Choreography Project at Jacob’s Pillow.

About Gibney’s Education Program

Through the cultivation of an inclusive and positive space, our offerings make space for exploration, risk-taking, personal and artistic growth, connection, and fun. It is our priority to listen to and support our community and to empower future leaders of the field. Learn more.

Photo Credits: Peter Schaaf