FACULTY BIOS: L through Z

PAUL LANGLAND (Master Teacher of Movement) is a choreographer, dancer and teacher who for the last 27 years has been an innovator of many developments in dance and performance. He has preserved and developed the legacy of the late dancer Allan Wayne through an ongoing system of teachings and performances. He has named this system Allan Wayne Work, which he has taught since 1979. His choreography has been presented by The Danspace Project, Dance Theatre Workshop, PS 122, Movement Research, ACDF, and ADF, among others. He has received support from NYSCA, New York Decentralization, the Robison Foundation, and NYU Senior Faculty Grants. He was a Meredith Monk Vocal Ensemble and Company member from 1974-1985, and a member of Channel Z from 1983-1987. He has been a teacher and practitioner of contact improvisation since 1973. Visit Paul's website: www.paullangland.com

PAUL LAZAR (Acting) has taught acting at Barnard College, the New York School for Film and Television, and Rutgers University, and done workshops and residencies at many East Coast colleges. He recently acted in the Irene Fornes play Mud at The Signature Theater, and has performed in a number of pieces by The Wooster Group. As co-director of the Big Dance Theater Company, he directed Fassbinder's Bremen Freedom, Horvath's Don Juan Comes Back From the War, Tristan Tzara's Gas Heart, and Mac Wellman's Girl Gone; he has co-directed a number of original dance/theatre works with Annie-B Parson. He recently directed and performed in a dance/theatre adaptation of Mark Twain's "Mysterious Stranger", called Another Telepathic Thing.

CECIL MACKINNON (Master Teacher of Voice) is a designated Linklater voice teacher, who has recently performed as the Bad Angel and Dick in Marlowe's Dr. Faustus at the La Mama Annex, as the Sister in Mack Wellman's Whirlagig, and as Rose in Glyn Vincent's Thin Air. She directed Love's Labour's Lost, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, and A Winter's Tale for Shakespeare & Co., where she also performed in several productions. She has been a member of the Pickle Family Circus and Circus Flora, and has taught at Villanova University, in the NYU graduate theatre program, at Manhattanville College, and privately in New York. She received an Arts Link Grant to travel and collaborate in Czechoslovakia, Slovakia, and Hungary.

BRENDAN MCCALL (Movement) has danced in the US and Europe for such artists as Stephen Petronio, Paul Langland, Mary Overlie, Wendell Beavers, Sin Cha Hong, Maureen Fleming, and Stephen Koplowitz. His own choreography has been presented in San Diego, San Francisco, and New York. Brendan has taught Allan Wayne Work since 1994, is an instructor at Peridance Center, and is a designated instructor of the Hamilton floor-barre and Mary Overlie's Six Viewpoints system, a member of the International Association of Dance Medicine & Science, and a longtime practitioner of yoga. His dance articles have been published in Movement Research Performance Journal and Contact Quarterly Dance Journal, and have been reprinted by SIRS, Inc.

ANDREW MARCUS (Improvisation) has been doing improvised dance performance since 1985. An extensive investigation of contact improvisation informs his dancing, as do studies in the Alexander Technique, the work of Bonnie Cohen, ballet, Klein technique, and several forms of release technique. Andrew performs as a soloist and in various collaborations, and directs a floating group of dancers. He teaches regularly at Movement Research, has also taught in London, and performed at the 1993 European Contact Improvisation Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. He facilitates choreography workshops for The Field and traveled for them to establish workshops in Seattle and Atlanta.

MARY OVERLIE (Movement) has had a long and respected history as a performer, choreographer, and collaborator in New York City, maintaining a loose company of around fifteen dancers with a core company of three from 1978 to 1986. She is also well known for her many collaborations with theatre directors in New York, most notable Lee Bruer, Joanne Akalaitis, Anne Bogart, and Brian Jusha. Mary is a founding member of Danspace, Movement Research, ETW, and the Pro Series workshop experiments of the Internationale Tanz Wochen in Vienna, and has taught and advised at schools in France, Holland, Denmark, Brussels and the USA. She was the director of ETW from 1989 to 1991 and was awarded the Bessie dance and theatre award in 1999.

FABEL PABON (Hip Hop Dance) is a member of the Rock Steady Crew and Magnificent Force, and is an honorary member of the Electric Boogaloos. He co-founded GhettoOriginal Productions, Inc., with whom he created the first Hip Hop musicals: So! What Happens Now? and Jam on the Groove, the first official Off-Broadway Hip Hop musical (nominated for best choreography at the 1996 Drama Desk Awards). With the Rhythm Technicians and RockSteady Crew, he won the 1991 Bessie Award for choreography. He has performed in the film Beat Street, at Lincoln Center, on PBS, with the Boston Ballet, and at Kennedy Center; he has advised museum exhibitions on hip hop, taught internationally, and is working on two documentaries on Hip Hop.

ANNIE-B PARSON (Movement) As artistic director of Big Dance Theater, Annie-B created six commissions for Dance Theater Workshop. Her work has also been presented by the Kitchen, Classic Stage Co., Lincoln Center Out of Doors, the American Dance Festival, the Guggenheim Works & Progress Series at Lincoln Center, and in France, Italy, Russia, Belgium and the Georgian Republic. She has choreographed and co-directed adaptations of Ibsen, Chekhov, Tzar, von Horvath, Gogl, Fassbinder, Botho Strauss, Shakespeare, Brecht, Kushner, Mac Wellman, Flaubert, and many original works. She has been featured on All Things Considered and Around New York with Leonard Lopate.

ROSEMARY QUINN (Self-Scripting) received her B.A. from Hampshire College. She has worked extensively as an actress in experimental theatre in New York, performing with Mabou Mines, The Talking Band, Joseph Chaikin, and Jean-Claude van Itallie, among others. She has explored the "extended voice" with The Roy Hart Theatre since 1982 and teaches summer workshops at their center in southern France. She has directed three of her own plays created from actors' improvisations: And Now We Are Fiction, Ladies Lounge, and Watch My Lips. She has taught at Hampshire, Princeton, and Williams Colleges.

TAMAR ROGOFF (Movement) is the artistic director of Tamar Rogoff Performance Projects, which specializes in large scale site specific dance/theatre productions. Tamar has moved her audiences through labyrinths and forests and her performers through water tanks and towers. Her cast members have included nine infants in the arms of their parents, and Holocaust survivors. Her recent piece Demeter's Daughter brought the Greek myth to the schoolyards, gardens, and rooftops of New York's Lower East Side. Tamar has received multiple NEA Fellowships and grants from NYFA, Dancing in the Streets, Rockefeller and Harkness Foundations, among others. Her productions have been seen at PS 122, DTW, and in theatres in Estonia, Lithuania, and Italy.

ROBERTO SHARPE (Capoeira) is a teacher of martial arts and a student of the law. He has trained in various martial arts, including judo, karate, boxing, and various styles of Chinese kung fu, including Wing Chun, Tiger Claw, Hung Family Fist; Yang Family T'ai Chi Chuan, Chi Gung, and Yoga. He has trained in Capoeira since his college days, when he studied under renowned masters who were the first Brazilians to bring the art to this country. Since those days, Roberto has trained extensively with many groups and masters from Brazil and from Europe. Roberto teaches Tai Chi and Chi Gung, usually to senior citizens, throughout the New York City area; he teaches Capoeira to young adults and to children.

LISA SOKOLOV (Master Teacher of Voice) has performed internationally in concerts and festivals including the Montreaux Jazz Festival, The Kool Jazz Festival, The Spoleto Festival, and The Baltic Scandal Festival. Her compositions for solo voice, ensemble, and large chorus have been performed in the US, Canada, and Europe. An improvisational jazz vocalist, Ms. Sokolov collaborates frequently within the performance art, dance, and new music scenes. She has taught internationally in Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Israel, Canada, Iceland, and Estonia. She has made two highly acclaimed CD's: Angel Rodeo, and Lazy Afternoon. She is the director of the Institute for Embodied Voice Work in NYC.

RAINA VON WALDENBURG (Acting) received her MFA in performance writing from Goddard College and her BFA in acting from NYU. She has taught numerous Master Classes at such venues as Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation, National Viewpoint Conference, The Performance Laboratory, Working Classroom, and the Metropolitan School for the Arts. She teaches private acting classes in NYC. Raina served as research assistant and editor for Steve Wangh's book An Acrobat of the Heart: A Physical Approach to Acting, based on the work of Jerzy Grotowski. A playwright, director and actor, Raina's NYC performances have taken place at La MaMa ETC., P.S.122, The New Federal Theatre, Ohio Theatre, Gene Frankel Theatre, The Lee Strasberg Institute, Currican Theatre, American Place Theatre, and the Culture Project.

STEVE WANGH (Master Teacher of Acting) is a director, playwright and the author of "An Acrobat of the Heart" (Vintage Books). He was Associate Writer of The Laramie Project, and dramaturg for Moisés Kaufman's Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. His production of The Ad/Diction Project is currently touring college campuses nationwide.

WALTON WILSON (Voice) is a designated Linklater Voice teacher, associate teacher of Fitzmaurice Voice work, a senior company member of Shakespeare & Co. (Lenox, MA), and a member of the Holderness Project (NYC). He has served as voice and text coach for productions on Broadway, off-Broadway and in major American regional theatres, as well as for original works by downtown performance artists. Teaching credits include a variety of professional actor training programs in New York and around the country. He has worked on Shakespeare with high school students and prison inmates. He is currently on the faculty at the Yale School of Drama and Fordham University.