IRENE DOWD

IRENE DOWD is on the dance faculty of the Juilliard School, Movement Research and the Hollins University/ADF MFA program in dance. She was a regular guest at Canada's National Ballet School and NYU Tisch School of the Arts for many years. Formerly, she taught in the Master’s program in Dance Education at Teachers College, Columbia University for 18 years, and the Master’s program in Arts and Liberal Studies at Wesleyan University for 9 years. Irene is the recipient of the 2014 Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Chair for Distinguished teaching at ADF, recipient of the 2015 Juilliard School John Erskine Faculty Prize, the 2016 Dance Science and Somatics Educators Lifetime Service Award from DSSE (Dance Science and Somatic Educators), and the 2018 Honorary Fellowship from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Author of Taking Root to Fly (now in the 12th printing of the 3rd edition), she has maintained a private practice in kinesthetic anatomy and neuromuscular re-education for over 45 years in NYC. Irene has choreographed for Peggy Baker, Margie Gillis and other solo dancers in recent years. Her work has been taught in schools and dance companies across the US and Canada. Recently, she completed a digital archive which can be viewed at: irenedowdchoreographies.com