Elizabeth June Bergman is a dancer, improviser, scholar, and educator currently based in Philadelphia. Her work takes the form of solo performance, dance scholarship, dance films, and collaboration with other dance-makers and artists.
Bergman earned her Ph.D in Dance Studies in the Dance Department at Temple University in the fall of 2019. Her dissertation uses the case study of Michael Jackson and his dancing chorus in the 1970s and 1980s to examine practices of attribution and recognition, commercialism and commodity culture, and racial politics and racial ideology in the Los Angeles commercial dance industry. Her studies were supported by a University Fellowship and a Dissertation Completion Grant. Bergman was an Associate Graduate Fellow in the Center for the Humanities at Temple (CHAT) for the 2018–2019 academic year. Throughout 2016–2018, she created and taught the undergraduate general education course Michael Jackson: Entertainer, Artist, Celebrity.
Bergman holds a BA in dance from DeSales University (2005) and an MFA in dance performance from The University of Iowa (2009). After receiving her masters, she taught Introduction to Dance Studies, Dance History: Baroque to Contemporary, and Yoga in UI's Dance Department.
Bergman was certified as a 200-hour yoga teacher by James Miller in 2011 and received an additional 300-hours training from Rishikesh Yog Peeth in India in 2014.
In addition to her solo performance work, she has collaborated with the dancers of The Collective (Baltimore) and tbd.Dance Collective (Omaha). Bergman has also performed in the work of many independent choreographers including Jennifer Kayle, Charlotte Adams, Rosy Simas, April Sellers, Amy Lynne Barr, Analia Alegre-Femenias, Lynn Andrews, Emily Gastineau, Joanna Rosenthal, Nichol Mason-Lazenby, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Lela Aisha Jones, and Christina Eltvedt.
Bergman earned her Ph.D in Dance Studies in the Dance Department at Temple University in the fall of 2019. Her dissertation uses the case study of Michael Jackson and his dancing chorus in the 1970s and 1980s to examine practices of attribution and recognition, commercialism and commodity culture, and racial politics and racial ideology in the Los Angeles commercial dance industry. Her studies were supported by a University Fellowship and a Dissertation Completion Grant. Bergman was an Associate Graduate Fellow in the Center for the Humanities at Temple (CHAT) for the 2018–2019 academic year. Throughout 2016–2018, she created and taught the undergraduate general education course Michael Jackson: Entertainer, Artist, Celebrity.
Bergman holds a BA in dance from DeSales University (2005) and an MFA in dance performance from The University of Iowa (2009). After receiving her masters, she taught Introduction to Dance Studies, Dance History: Baroque to Contemporary, and Yoga in UI's Dance Department.
Bergman was certified as a 200-hour yoga teacher by James Miller in 2011 and received an additional 300-hours training from Rishikesh Yog Peeth in India in 2014.
In addition to her solo performance work, she has collaborated with the dancers of The Collective (Baltimore) and tbd.Dance Collective (Omaha). Bergman has also performed in the work of many independent choreographers including Jennifer Kayle, Charlotte Adams, Rosy Simas, April Sellers, Amy Lynne Barr, Analia Alegre-Femenias, Lynn Andrews, Emily Gastineau, Joanna Rosenthal, Nichol Mason-Lazenby, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Lela Aisha Jones, and Christina Eltvedt.
