Meredith Glisson
Meredith Glisson is a Brooklyn-based choreographer, director, movement coach and actor for stage and film. Her artistic work spans across disciplines falling in between contemporary dance and theatre, acknowledging the body as it confronts itself within situations in order to have the opportunity to renegotiate an alternative position. She has presented her work in France, England, Philadelphia and New York and is a selected artist for the C.O.C.A – Center of Contemporary Artists and the Aesthetica Anthology Magazine.
As a movement coach she works with a range of people from performers to educators to business professionals focusing on enhancing performative presences and actions. She often offers workshops including; The Performative Voice and Body, Overcoming Stage Fright: Pathways to a Peak Performance, The Act of Becoming in the Expressive Body, Undoing Limiting Beliefs: Strategies for a Functioning Body, Communicating Your Presence for Business Professionals and Educators.
She is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Dance at The University of the Arts teaching mostly in the Thinking, Making, Doing curriculum and co-heads this curricular area with her colleague Jesse Zaritt.
She holds her MFA degree in Interdisciplinary Practices from Falmouth University in the UK partnering with MA Solo/Dance/Authorship program at the Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT) | Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK) and the MA Dramaturgy program and Dance Department at the Academy of Dramatic Arts | University of Zagreb. She also received an advanced degree in Formation Supérieure du Danseur de l’Interprète à l’Auteur, at the Centre Chorégraphique National – Rillieux-la-Pape in France under the direction of Compagnie Maguy Marin in partnership with l’Université Lumière Lyon 2. She completed her BA degree in Dance and French at Hollins University in the USA. Meredith is also a vinyasa yoga instructor and completed trainings at WOOM Center (200 hr) and Katonah Yoga (40 hr).
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