Tina Marie Curran
· Assistant Professor of InstructionUniversity of Texas at Austin · School of Design and Creative Technologies
Active 2016–2023
About
Dr. Tina Curran is an Assistant Professor of Instruction at the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at Austin. She is the director of UTeach Dance, overseeing the preparation and professional mentorship of students in the B.F.A. in Dance: Dance Studies Option, with a focus on Texas dance teacher certification. Her role includes acting as a liaison with the College of Education and overseeing educational initiatives within the program and in the dance education community. Her research areas include dance literacy, living dance legacy, and teacher preparation and professional development. Dr. Curran is a co-founder of the Language of Dance Center in the USA, alongside Ann Hutchison Guest, and conducts certification courses and workshops nationally and internationally. She is also a faculty member of the Dance Education Laboratory at the Harkness Dance Center in New York City, where she has offered courses in the Language of Dance, Dancing History/Living Legacy, dance pedagogy, and transformational teaching. Her extensive experience includes facilitating training, presenting workshops, and delivering interactive keynotes at numerous institutions and organizations worldwide, such as the University of California Santa Barbara, Brigham Young University, New York University, the Royal Academy of Dance, Roehampton University in the UK, Taipei National University of the Arts, and others. Dr. Curran holds a B.F.A. in Dance from The Juilliard School, an M.F.A. in Choreographic Theory and Practice from Southern Methodist University, and a Ph.D. in Teaching and Administration from New York University. Her certifications include the Language of Dance Certification Specialist, Teacher of Labanotation, and the American Ballet National Training Curriculum.
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Oceanography
- Structural engineering
- Engineering
- Geology
- Medicine
Selected publications
Direction—Broader Exploration of Space
2023-05-09
book-chapterSenior authorAbsence of Support: Springing (Elevation); The Five Basic Forms
Routledge eBooks · 2023
Senior authorCorresponding- Geology
- Engineering
- Structural engineering
2023-05-09
bookSenior authorThis second edition of this well-known text book now offers downloadable resources to accompany the dance studies throughout the chapters. The authors take a new approach to teaching, learning and creating with notation through movement exploration, exercises and short dances, thus enlarging the scope of the book to teachers of movement, movement analysis and choreography as well as the traditional dance notation students.Updated and enlarged to reflect the most recent scholarship and through a series of exercises, this book guides students through:movement, stillness, timing, shaping, accentstravellingdirection, flexion and extension,rotations, revolutions and turnssupporting, change of supportspringingbalancerelationships.All of these movements are explored sequentially and are represented symbolically in notation so the student learns how to physically articulate, notate and describe the movements as they are performed.
Routledge eBooks · 2023
Senior authorCorresponding- Medicine
Relationships: Further Development
2023-05-09
book-chapterSenior authorTiming; Phrasing; Dynamics—Recapitulation
2023-05-09
book-chapterSenior authorRelationship: Situations in Meeting; Looking
2023-05-09
book-chapterSenior author2023-05-09
book-chapterSenior author2023-05-09
book-chapterSenior authorOne-Sided Gestures; Gestural Pathways; Gathering, Scattering
2023-05-09
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Frequent coauthors
- 24 shared
Ann Hutchinson Guest
- 2 shared
Frederick Curry
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