Aynsley Vandenbroucke

Visiting Lecturer in Dance, Class of 1932 Visiting Lectureship

Aynsley Vandenbroucke is a choreographer, movement analyst, artistic director and educator.  Called “gifted” by the New Yorker and “an elegant, sensitive thinker” by The New York Times, she has been creating dance in New York City since 2000.  Her work has been performed throughout the city (at Baryshnikov Arts Center, Danspace Project, CPR- Center for Performance Research, Dixon Place, Dance New Amsterdam, and Lincoln Center Institute’s Clark Studio Theater, among others) as well as in San Francisco and Brazil.

Aynsley divides her time between NYC and the Catskill Mountains where she and her husband (photographer Mathew Pokoik) founded and direct Mount Tremper Arts, a center for contemporary performance and visual art. There she serves as Artistic Director, co-curating an internationally recognized festival and creating initiatives to support artists and welcome new audience members.

A Laban Movement Analyst, Aynsley was on the faculty of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies for five years and currently teaches dance history and somatics at Lehman College. She graduated in 1999 from North Carolina School of the Arts where she studied on scholarship and was nominated for the Princess Grace Award. Her previous studies included intensive ballet and contemporary dance training at the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio and The Alvin Ailey American Dance Center in New York, ImpulsTanz in Vienna, The Ruth Page Foundation and Hubbard Street Dance in Chicago.