Teaching Modern Dance and the Merce Cunningham Technique with Tamsin Carlson

04/29/19 • 50 min

In this episode we hear from Tamsin Carlson. Tamsin was a member of the Repertory Understudy Group otherwise known as RUG for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and was also a faculty member.

Tamsin shares her dance lineage and how she came to find the Cunningham technique for herself. Currently, she is the chair of modern dance downtown Los Angeles at The Colburn School.

She shares with us the curriculum she helped design at the school and how her experiences in modern around the world influence her teaching today.

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In this episode we hear from Tamsin Carlson. Tamsin was a member of the Repertory Understudy Group otherwise known as RUG for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and was also a faculty member.

Tamsin shares her dance lineage and how she came to find the Cunningham technique for herself. Currently, she is the chair of modern dance downtown Los Angeles at The Colburn School.

She shares with us the curriculum she helped design at the school and how her experiences in modern around the world influence her teaching today.

@DanceWithTeachers
@colburn.dance
@colburnschool

www.dancewithteachers.com

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