FACULTY

KAREN KOHN BRADLEY, B.A., Sociology, Boston University; M.A. in Dance, University of Oregon; CMA in Laban Movement Studies, Laban/Bartenieff Institute, New York, New York 
Visiting Associate Professor of Dance and Director of Graduate Studies in Dance at the University of Maryland.  She is currently President of the Congress on Research in Dance and Acting Chair of the Board of Directors of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies.  Ms. Bradley was Chair of the Department of Dance at Towson University from 1991-98.  She is a Certified Movement Analyst in Laban Movement Analysis and has worked in dance therapy and with learning disabled children.  She is working on a documentary film on Rudolf Laban entitled “Catching the Eternal” and is also active in curriculum design for dance in public education.  Ms. Bradley was Local Arrangements Chair and on the Steering Committee for DANCING IN THE MILLENNIUM, a conference held in Washington, DC in July 2000.  She has also choreographed, written and directed for theatre in the Baltimore and Washington, DC communities. 
 

PAUL D. JACKSON, B.F.A., Dance Performance, University of Utah; M.A., Dance Production, The Ohio State University.
Technical Director, Lighting Designer, and Production Stage Manager for the Department of Dance; was Technical Director, Lighting Designer, and Production State Manager for Maryland Dance Theater and IMPROVISATIONS UNLIMITED, active in designing and mounting dance performances throughout the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area; performs in works choreographed by members of the faculty. 
 

MERIAM ROSEN, B.S., Dance, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana; M.A., Theatre, University of Maryland, College Park. 
Founder/Director of IMPROVISATIONS UNLIMITED 1979-1993.  Choreographer of works for dance theater and opera and recipient of a number of choreographic awards and commissions including the National Endowment for the Arts and the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. 
 

ANNE WARREN, B.A., English, Ohio State University; M.Ed., Dance, Wayne State University Received critical acclaim for her work with Maryland Dance Theater as a dancer, choreographer, rehearsal director, and associate director.  Has restaged works from Labanotation for both Maryland Dance Theater and the Department of Dance. She is currently Director of Undergraduate Dance Studies.
 

ALCINE WILTZ, B.A., Choreographic Design, University of Southwestern Louisiana; M.F.A., Choreography/Performance, University of Wisconsin-Madison 
Performed in concert with Charles Weidman and Hanya Holm; was Director of Dance/Artist-In-Residence at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville (1968-1983); co-founded/directed Mid America Dance Company. 

NEJLA Y. YATKIN Named by Dance Magazine as one of "Top 25 to Watch in 2005" and "Outstanding Emerging Artist" by the D.C. Mayor's Arts Award Committee, award-winning and internationally acclaimed choreographer and dancer Najla Y. Yatkin graduated with her masters in Dance and choreography from Die Etage - a Professional Performing Arts Department in Berlin, Germany.  Ms. Yatkin is currently based in Washington, D.C. pursuing her solo career: dancing, choreographing and giving workshops at international and national festivals.