People | Lynda Davis |
 Contemporary Dance, Composition, Graduate Theory and Practice in Dance Techniques, Artistic Director of Dance Repertory Theatre
email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it phone: (850) 644-9619 Lynda Davis, Artistic Director of Dance Repertory Theatre, is a Professor of Contemporary Dance in the FSU Department of Dance. She has had extensive performing, directing and teaching experience that encompass both the professional and educational dance worlds. She is a former member of the Gloria Newman Dance Theatre and a featured dancer with the Bella Lewitzky Dance Company. She has served as Artistic Director and Dean of the Dance School at the California Institute of the Arts. Along with Clay Taliaferro and Carol Warner, she co-director, performed and toured extensively the Theatre Dance Trio. Lynda has toured widely with her solo concerts and has choreographed and taught at many festivals and dance residency events. Ms. Davis has choreographed and directed a series of dance films related to technical training, improvisational skills and choreographic source materials. She has served as Artistic Director and principal choreographer for the Centre Dance Ensemble and Transition Dance Company sponsored by the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance in London, and has conducted choreographic and teaching residencies throughout the United States and Europe, as well as parts of South Africa, Mozambique, China, Inda, Korea and Russia. From 1988-1995, Ms. Davis, along with Martha Meyers, directed the American Dance Festival Professional Artist / Educator Update program. Present creative work is focused on “Arts In Other Places/Pushing the Art Form.” These projects involve performances, choreography and teaching collaborations. She is co-designer of “Excavating the Arts: A Cetamura Collaboration.” Drawing on the archeological authenticity of the site, its artifacts and the processes of field study as source material, “Sites and Insights” projects coming from these moveable centers for the arts are presented in concerts and dance dialogue performances. She is the Nellie-Bond Dickinson named professor. |