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Aileen Passloff is an acclaimed choreographer, dancer, director, actor, and teacher who has taught dance at Bard College since 1969. She served as chair of the dance department and currently holds the L. May Hawver and Wallace Benjamin Flint Professor of Dance position.
Graduating from Bennington College in 1953, Passloff became a pivotal figure in 1950s–60s Greenwich Village off-off-Broadway movements and Judson Dance Theater. She founded her own dance company in 1958, directing it for a decade while pioneering experimental performance.
Her artistic practice bridges nostalgic classical ballet tributes and resolute modernism, exemplified in works like The Song of Songs for Fountain Theater (2003) and Brahms Variations for Toby Armour Repertory Company. She also performed in Obie-winning productions including Gertrude Stein’s What Happened and Maria Irene Fornes’ Washing and Diary of Evelyn Brown across Living Theatre and Theatre for the New City.
Key honors include:
- National Endowment for the Arts grant
- Program for Cultural Cooperation grant
- Fulbright postdoctoral research scholarship
Passloff actively mentors emerging artists through OPEN CALL, sponsoring young Latino choreographers. Her career demonstrates sustained innovation across choreography, direction, and pedagogy while bridging historical and contemporary performance traditions.
