Marjorie Folkman

Marjorie Folkman danced as a member of the Mark Morris Dance Group (1996-2007), and with Martha Clarke, Sara Rudner, Richard Colton, Amy Spencer, Kraig Patterson, Neta Pulvermacher, Sally Hess, and the Repertory Understudy Group for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, among others.  Folkman continues to work with Dance Heginbotham, including for Oliver Tompkins Ray’s Woolgathering with Patti Smith at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, and Isaac Mizrahi’s yearly productions for the Guggenheim Museum’s Works & Process Series. 

Folkman’s choreography, movement direction, and dramaturgy include numerous operas produced by Bard SummerScape, Tulsa Opera, Odyssey Opera, Boston Baroque, American Symphony Orchestra, Prototype: Opera/Theater/Now, multi-media evening-length works at National Sawdust and the Metropolitan Museum of Art with Kevork Mourad, and collaborations with MFA Candidates in Design at Yale University’s David Geffen School of Drama with Tony Award winning projection designer Wendall Harrington, among others.  Folkman stages dances by Mark Morris for the Mark Morris Dance Group and at numerous conservatories and colleges, including Boston Conservatory, George Mason University, Phillips Academy-Andover, Amherst, Mt. Holyoke, and Smith Colleges, and at Barnard College, where she is a 2016 recipient of the Emily Gregory Award.

Folkman has taught at Bard College as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Dance with affiliations in First-Year Seminar and Language & Thinking Programs, Sarah Lawrence, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Stockton College, Lincoln Center Institute, and the Mark Morris Dance Center.  A summa cum laude graduate of Barnard College, Folkman received her M.A. in American Studies from Columbia University and holds an M.Phil. from the Bard Graduate Center in New York City, where she is a Ph.D. candidate researching the intersection of choreography and interwar visual culture.

At Barnard, Folkman teaches her original course Seeing the Body: Movement and Physicality in Modern Visual Culture, along with core and elective courses for the Dance Major, including History of Theatrical Dancing; Dance in New York City; Senior Project: Repertory for Dance; Composition: Form; Ensemble Repertory; Rehearsal & Performance in Dance, and Ballet and Modern techniques, introductory through advanced levels.