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DIANN SICHEL |
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Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Theater and Dance |
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Campus Address: 185 Nassau Street | |
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Ms. Sichel teaches modern dance technique and choreography in the Program in Theater and Dance at Princeton University. Her teaching credentials list Copenhagen's Dansens Hus and DanseProjeklet, Toronto Ballet Ensemble, Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Reed College, University of Connecticut, Queens College, Naropa, University of Arizona, Colorado College, University of Utah, and the University of Colorado at Boulder.
A Certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique, Ms. Sichel conducts classes and private sessions in New York and Princeton. This year she is completing a post-graduate course in the Alexander Technique and the Art of Breathing with Jessica Wolf in New York City. Her Alexander Technique workshops include the Musique de Notre Temps - Choral Festival in the Valley of Thouet, France, the Vocal Arts Symposium at Colorado College directed by Martile Rowland, the National Repertory Orchestra, Opera Colorado, Colorado Springs Ballet Summer Intensive, and Smokebrush Center for Theater and Arts.
The artistic director for the Harbinger Dance Company from 1987-89, she created four original works for the company, maintained and set new repertory and produced two main seasons. Ms. Sichel received a choreographic grant from the Arts Foundation of Michigan. She choreo-directed Kurt Weill's 1933 song-ballet, The Seven Deadly Sins, for the Colorado Springs Symphony, a collaboration with conductor Christopher Wilkins and ballerina Anne Adair. Other theatrical choreographic commissions are the Colorado Shakespeare Festival's Winter Tale and All's Well That Ends Well, A Midsummer Night's Dream for Shakespeare on the Sound, CT, Smokebrush Center for the Arts and Theater's The Odyssey, and Spunk: A Blues Musical with blues singer "Mississippi" Charles Bevel. This fall she was the Movement Coach for Regina Taylor's Night in Tunisia with actress Suzzanne Douglas at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, NJ. She has choreographed for Off-Off Broadway, television, and video.
As choreo-director for puppeteer Patti Smithsonian's Alice in Wonderland, The Romantic Life of Everyday Objects, and The Dream Cafe, she creates movement for stuffed animals, a ten foot inflatable Red Queen, ordinary knives and forks and floating dream forms.
An M.F.A. honors graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder, she began her formal dance training at the University of Utah, B.F.A. In New York she studied modern dance with Lynn Simonson, Dan Wagoner, Viola Farber, Jeff Slayton, Jennifer Muller, and Daniel Nagrin and ballet with Maggie Black, Alfredo Corvino and Jocelyn Lorenz. Other movementstudies include Pilates, Feldenkrais, Iyengar Yoga, Tai Chi, and Bainbridge's Mind/Body Centering.
Ms. Sichel teaches ongoing Simple Moves for Complex Lives (copyright) classes for the students, staff, and faculty of Princeton University and the community.
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