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Joan Merwyn is a performer, director, choreographer and teacher. She has appeared internationally and with critical acclaim, both as a soloist and with numerous experimental theater and movement based ensemble companies. She is committed to bringing innovative, physical theater performance experiences to communities of all ages, cultures and economic conditions.
Joan Merwyn Arts Education Services
SELECTED ORIGINAL WORK HIGHLIGHTS (Europe, Canada, U.S.A.)
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Joan Merwyn Physical Theater and Sound Image Theater
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Founder/Artistic Director Choreographer/ Performer
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4 Full Length Productions and Short Works, NYC
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Adaptors Movement Theater
(now Margolis Brown Company)
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Featured Company Member
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6 Productions, Int'l Tours
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The Wanderer: Solo Show
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Creator/Performer/Writer
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International Tours
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Bremen Bilder Theater
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Company Member
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6 Prods., European Tours
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Corporeal Mime Theater
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Ensemble Company member
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National Tours, DTW
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Fools Unlimited
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Co-Creator/Writer/Performer
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4 Prods., West Coast Tours
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Manhattanville College
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Writer/Director/Choreographer
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5 Prods. Dance/Theater Dept. and HEOP Dept.
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Hospital Audiences, Inc.
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Project Coordinator, Teacher
Senior Workshop Artist
Performer/Artist Evaluator
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Arts Mentoring Prog., Dist.75 Public Schools mental health sites, shelters
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Marquis Studios
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Teaching Artist in Residence, Staff Development Facilitator
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NYC Public Schools, Grades K-12
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APPEARANCES INCLUDE (Off-Broadway, Theaters, Independent Film, and Video)
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Munich International Theater Festival
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London Int'l Movement Theater Festival
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Vienna International Street Theater Festival
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Polish International Mime Festival
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Canadian International Movement Theater Festival
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Los Angeles Mime Festival
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Movement Theater International Festival, USA
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New York Festival of New Mime
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AWARDS
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Bessie Schoenberg NY Performance Award*
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with Adaptors Movement Theater
(now Margolis Brown Company)
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Individual Artist Space Grant Award
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Gowanus Arts Exchange & NYSCA
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Indiv. Artist Choreography Fellowship (1984)
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Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
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Eleanor Roosevelt Community Service Award
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Foundation for the Creative Community
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Scholarship Award for Students
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For Orig. Prod. at Manhattanville College
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TOURING HISTORY, with Margolis Brown Company 1985-1995, Also see Performance History
- London International Mime Festival, London, England
- Movement Theatre International, Philadelphia, PA
- Atlanta Arts Festival
- Dance Theatre Workshop, NYC (2 week run)
- Art Awareness, Lexington, New York
- Performing Arts Center, SUNY Purchase, NY
- Real Art Ways, Hartford Connecticut
- Baltimore Theater Project, MD (1 month run)
- Dance Place, Washington DC
- John Harms Center, Engelwood, NJ
- Marshall Artists Series, Huntington, WV (tour of West Virginia)
- Mount Vernon College, Washington, DC
- Nazareth College, Rochester, NY
- Ogdensburg College, Canton, New York
- Whole Theater, Montclair New Jersey
- Stephen Foster Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA
- Saint Clement's Church, NYC
- Southern Theater, Minneapolis, MN
- Towson State University, Maryland
NEW YORK CITY PERFORMANCES
Off-Broadway Theaters, HERE, Dixon Place
3 Visual/Visceral Performance Festivals, NY Festival of New Mime, P.S. 122,
Dance Theater Workshop, BACA Downtown, Empire State Bldg. (site specific commission), Brooklyn Arts Exchange, The Kitchen, Schools, Art Museums and Galleries, Mental Health Facilities, Churches
CHOREOGRAPHY
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Rockapella & Doo Wa Zoo
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Choreographer/Movement Coach
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NBC, PBS, Tonight Show
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All-Fit (Slim Goodbody Corp.)
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Choreographer/Movement Coach
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PBS, BBC
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Bel Canto Opera Company
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Co-Director with Frank Corsaro/ Choreographer
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NYC
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TRAINING (Selected instructors in North America, Europe, India)
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Acting, Voice and Improvisation
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Grotowski Laboratory Theatre, Eugenio Barba (Odin Theatre), John O'Keefe,
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Epic Theater Techniques, Commedia, Improvisation
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RG Davis, Sandra Archer (SF Mime Troupe)
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Decroux Technique: Corporeal Mime
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Leonard Pitt, Thomas Leabhart, Jean Asselin
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Mime/New Vaudeville
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Tomaszewski Pantomima, Mamko Yoniyama
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Margolis Technique
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Kari Margolis
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Ballet
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Zena Romet, Lance Westergard
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Modern
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Alphea Pouget, Linda Rabins
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East Indian Dance
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Singhaget Singh, Katherine Khuniraman
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SPECIAL SKILLS
Creating Original Works, Public Performance Art, Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Circus Arts, Comedy, New Vaudeville, Mime; Teaching, Residencies, Lecture-Demonstrations, Staff Development Seminars
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