Hybrid (Join In-Person or Online)
4 Session Workshop: $20 In Person $12 Online
The class will cover major elements of Katherine Dunham's movement style/technique and approach to dance, research, and apply the Dunham philosophy/methodology to artistic creation, self-inquiry, and Blueprint-based K-12 pedagogical related to social studies, culture and humanities.
Marcea T. Daiter is a Research Consultant, Choreographer, Performing Artist, NYS/NYC Licensed Dance Educator, Pilates Mat Trainer, a Teacher of the Zena Rommett Floor-Barre®, Capoerista, Artistic Director of Kaleidoscope of Kultures Theater, and recipient of several fellowships, grants, and scholarships. Her field-study trips to Africa, Cuba, Mexico, Haiti, and the United States to the Katherine Dunham Institute of Intercultural Studies and Jacob’s Pillow inspired her instructional teaching in language arts, writing curriculum, dance anthropology, body somatics. These led her to several choreographic collaborations with Catherine Turocy, Artistic Director of The New York Baroque Dance Company.
Marcea was one of the many dance artists representing the United States in Lagos, Nigeria at the International Arts Festival (FESTAC) in 1977, where she performed with the Darlene Blackburn Afro-American Dance Theater on stage with Fela Anikylapo- Kuti in his Afro-Shrine. She relocated to NYC and performed with the New York Baroque Dance Company, Joan Miller’s Dance Players, the Eleo Pomare Dance Company, Nanette Bearden's Contemporary Dance Theater and Fancy Dancers Inc.
She has taught dance at Princeton University, New York City College of Technology, New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, in the Graduate Acting Program at Tisch School of the Arts, City College of New York, Lehman College, Hofstra University, Long Island University, Borough of Manhattan City College, The Haitian-American Academy of Ballet & Arts in Port Au Prince, Haiti, and occasionally teaches at Steps On Broadway Dance Studios and The Alvin Ailey American Dance School. Marcea is retired from Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing and Visual Arts/New York Department City of Education as a full-time dance educator (Dunham, Ballet, Modern, Tap, Pilates, Yoga, Zena Rommett Floor Barre), and is presently pursuing a PhD degree in Interdisciplinary Studies, Concentration in Humanities and Culture.
https://www.dunhamcertification.org/