Dance

Patricia Beaman Teacher of Dance History Phone: 212 998 1980 Email: pb42@nyu.edu

Courses

History of Dance

Biography

Patricia Beaman received her B.F.A. in Dance from the University of Michigan and her M.A. in Dance History from the Gallatin School of NYU.  As a long time member of Catherine Turocy’s New York Baroque Dance Company, she has toured throughout the United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Europe.  In addition to numerous concert dance programs, she has appeared in over fifteen opera-ballets with the company, and as a solo guest artist with Ars Antiqua, Louis Louis, and Brooklyn Friends Ensemble. Ms. Beaman has choreographed for French historical plays by Moliére, Marivaux, and Beaumarché, as well as Italian Commedia dell’arte. She has been reconstructing and performing theatrical passacailles from 18^th century Feuillet-Beauchamp notation, first with Ms. Turocy, and subsequently with independent dance scholars in Europe such as Alan Tjaarda Jones, Ann Jacoby, and Deda Cristina Colonna. Ms. Beaman’s solo triptych, Goddess, Siren, Monster, will feature her neo-baroque staging of the passacailles of Venus, Armide, and Scylla. The first section, Accumulating Venus, was presented in Avignon, France, in August 2007. In addition to her work in Baroque dance, Ms. Beaman has also choreographed and performed modern dance, and taught contemporary partnering in the United States and Europe. She recently received a Mellon grant to reconstruct choreographer Yvonne Rainer’s Trio A and Chair/Pillow, postmodern works from the Judson Church era. Her dance articles have appeared in Dance Research Journal, The NY State Encyclopedia of the Arts, and The Book of Knowledge. Ms. Beaman is an Adjunct Professor in Dance History at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and at The New School, and is an Artist-in-Residence at Wesleyan University.