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Dody DiSanto

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Photograph of Dody DiSanto, Mask Twenty-five years of performing includes Off-Broadway at LaMaMa E.T.C., Lincoln Center Serious Fun Festival, Theatre for the New City, the Avignon Festival and for television and film. She was a founding member of Phoenix Dance Theatre and a member of several ensembles, including Chantier Theatre, Present Company and Barking Rooster Theatre. TRAINING: Diploma, teaching certificate, Laboratoire Etude de Movement from Ecole Jacques Lecoq, where she received a private pedagogic apprenticeship; Etienne Decroux: corporal mime; Ecole Nationale du Cirque: wire, juggling, acrobatics and tap under the direction of Annie Fratellini; George Washington University: Fine Arts, Dance; Corcoran College of Art and Design. Nationally Certified for Massage Therapy and Bodywork. TEACHING: Center for Movement Theatre: fundamentals of Lecoq; Corcoran College of Art and Design: Dynamic Studies in space, gesture and structure; Towson State University: graduate acting: performance ensemble, neutral mask; Theatre of Creation Festival: assistant to Jacques Lecoq; Tufts University: Lecoq colloquium; University of Toledo: mask; NY Goofs winter clown intensive; Ringling Clown College; MotionFest; Penn State University: graduate acting; M.I.T.: neutral mask; Amherst College Department of Theatre and Dance: George Washington University; choreography for Cabaret; Mid-Atlantic Movement Theatre Festival; ATA National Convention at Tulane. Founder and artistic director, Membrane Ensemble Theatre; Dody also created, owned and managed internationally acclaimed music venue, Nightclub 9:30 in Washington DC from 1980-87.

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