JAMES MARTIN

Guest Choreographer in the University Center for the Creative and Performing Arts

and Program in Theater and Dance; Head of Dance Studies

Campus Address: 185 Nassau Street

Office Hours: By appointment

James Martin is currently an Associate Professor of Arts at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where he has been a full-time faculty member since 1990. He has danced with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane and Company, Donald Byrd/The Group, Jamie Cunningham and Tina Croll, Heidi Latsky, The New York Baroque Dance Company, Connecticut Ballet Company, and Martha Bowers Dance Theater Etc. among others. Most recently Mr. Martin has danced with Gus Solomons Jr, in the 2006 spring season of Mr. Solomons’ Paradigm Dance Company.

Mr. Martin has taught at many schools and festivals world wide including the Mark Morris Monnaie Dance Group in Brussels, the Ballet Academy of Stockholm, the Dansen Hus in Copenhagen, the Université du Québec à Montréal, the Bat Dor School in Tel Aviv, the National Institute of the Arts in Taiwan, the American Dance Festival, the White Mountain Dance Festival, Wesleyan University, and Tulane University. His choreography has been produced in New York City by P.S. 122 (New Stuff), Ballet Builders/New Choreographers on Point, St. Mark’s Danspace Project, 92nd Street Y, and The Soho Arts Festival at Dia Center for the Arts. His work has also been commissioned by The Connecticut Ballet Company, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Wesleyan University, Bat Dor Summer Workshop, White Mountain Dance Festival, Atlantic Dance Theater, Tulane University, and The New Dance Collective.

 

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