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About Martha Myers

American Dance Festival Dean Emeritus Martha Myers, breast cancer survivor, has been a teacher, dancer, choreographer, film producer, television personality, and writer. She served as the Director of Women's News for WBNS-TC in Columbus, Ohio, and was co-producer, writer and narrator for a collection of programs called "A Time to Dance" which were extensively used for dance courses in colleges and universities. Ms. Myers joined the dance faculty at Connecticut College in 1967, founded its dance department in 1971, and led the department until 1992. One of her first important moves at Connecticut College (which was all-women when she joined the faculty) was to gather some men from Wesleyan University to join female students in her new ground-breaking initiative The Experimental Movement Lab which focused on improvisation and the idea of "play" through movement. In 1969, she was named Dean of the American Dance Festival (ADF) School, where she pioneered the study of dance medicine and somatics as well as mentoring literally thousand of dancers. She retired from ADF in 2000. In 2002, she received the Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching. Ms. Myers received an undergraduate degree from Virginia Commonwealth University and an M.S. from Smith College and an honorary PhD from Smith as well. She is also an Honorary CMA - Certified Movement Analysis who used the Laban/Bartenieff method in coaching choreographers throughout NYC, for ADF and for the Yard.