Eryn Rosenthal’s multidisciplinary performance work with The Doors Project recently headlined Festival Lilliput in Barcelona. Her work has also been presented internationally at La Tabacalera, La Casa Encendida and La Cuarta Pared (Madrid) and the ITACA Festival (Padua, Italy); in New York, at venues including Danspace Project, HERE Arts Center, The World Financial Center, Crosby Street Gallery, The Flea, University Settlement, and The Tank. In Madrid, Eryn has worked with choreographers Sol Picó and María Cruz Planchuelo, and with theater company Blenamiboá; in New York with Jennifer Monson, Nicole A. Watson, The Catskill Collaborative, and Luka Kito, among others. Eryn graduated with honors from Yale University, and is an active member of Contact Improvisation circles in New York and Massachusetts. She has studied dance, composition, and improvisation in the U.S., U.K., Spain, and South Africa with Elena Córdoba, Reggie Wilson, Miguel Gutierrez, Nancy Stark Smith, Bill T. Jones, Ray Chung, Kirstie Simson, Afrika Navarro, Chris Aiken and Angie Houser, among others; she has also studied theater in Paris, Madrid, and the US, winning multiple awards for her work in performance.

While a Fulbright fellow in Spain, Eryn studied playwriting with Premio Max winner Marco Antonio de la Parra as well as wrote, interviewed, and served on the editorial board for OPHELIA, a Spanish-language magazine of theater and other arts. Eryn has won a Mellon Grant for her work with Holocaust testimony, a Richter fellowship for work with performer/ playwright Anna Deavere Smith, and the Yale Dramat’s Best New Playwright Award. As the recipient of a Rice Foreign Residence Fellowship and the Open Society Institute President’s Grant to South Africa, she conducted interviews on metaphor, identity, and freedom throughout post-apartheid South Africa. She is currently bringing these interviews together into an evening-length dance theater work and a book. She also collaborates with photographers, artists, activists, and performers on The Doors Project, an ongoing series of site-specific performances in doorways and thresholds around the world. Upcoming performances in Nyanga, District Six, and Cape Town, South Africa; Madrid, Spain; and New York City, USA.

Class for students runs from 12:10-2 PM. Public welcome to observe the class.

Each session features a different guest artist who teaches a master class and sections from their repertory—this panorama of the contemporary dance field is presented to broaden the student’s awareness of what career possibilities are out there. The guest artist conducts a 30-minute technique class/warm-up and then teaches repertory that is performed by the class.

In the final 15-20 minutes faculty coordinator Bill De Young conducts a Q and A interviewing each guest artist about their career and what recommendations they have about the transition from student to professional and what they look for when they audition dancers for their projects.