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Marjorie Folkman is an Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the Department of Dance at Barnard College. Her career spans professional dance performance, choreography, and academia. She holds a B.A. summa cum laude from Barnard College, an M.A. from Columbia University, and is a PhD candidate at the Bard Graduate Center. Folkman performed with notable companies such as the Mark Morris Dance Group (1996–2007) and Martha Clarke’s revival of *Garden of Earthly Delights*. She has choreographed for operas like *Paul’s Case* (Prototype Festival) and collaborated with artists such as poet Robert Kelly and composer Thaddeus Strassberger. As an educator, she has taught Mark Morris repertory at institutions including Phillips Academy Andover and the Five Colleges consortium (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, Smith). She also served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Dance and First Year Seminar at Bard College.
Her research interests integrate performance practice, choreographic innovation, and interdisciplinary collaborations between dance, music, and poetry. Folkman’s recent projects explore historical and contemporary intersections of dance with opera and classical music, as seen in her work with Boston Baroque and L’Opéra Français de New York. She mentors students in senior thesis projects, exemplified by the 2022 Artful Senior Theses in Dance and Art History.
