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Vanessa Justice

Vanessa Justice was recently an artist-in-residence of Movement Research (2006-7) and at The Corporation of Yaddo (2006). In September 2008 her company will be in residence in Austria at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (S.E.A.D.). In December 2008 Vanessa will be an artist-in-residence at the Liguria Study Center in Italy. Vanessa's work has been shown in NYC at Danspace/St. Mark's Church, BRIC, Kumble Theater, and Movement Research at the Judson Church. She attended Pomona College (BA Religious Studies/Philosophy) and The Ohio State University (MFA Dance), and danced professionally with the Hannah Kahn Dance Company. She has studied, performed, and participated in cross-cultural exchanges in Nepal, Taiwan, Indonesia, India, Germany, and Hawai'i. She has received fellowships from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation (1996-7), The Ohio State University (2000-1), and The Bogliasco Foundation (2008), and a Graduate Research Award (2001) from the Congress on Research in Dance for a paper that observed how normative assumptions about the body are challenged by choreographers and their particular expressions of embodiment. She has taught ballet, modern, experiential anatomy, pilates, and yoga. She has an on-going interest in the breath, and in the work of Carl Stough, F.M. Alexander, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Irmgard Bartenieff, Sri Krishnamacharya, Moshe Feldenkrais, Susan Klein, Barbara Mahler, Joan Skinner, Elaine Summers, and Zvi Gotheiner. She is currently interested in accompanying dance with sound installation.