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Elizabeth June Bergman is a dancer, improviser, scholar, and educator currently based in Philadelphia. Her work takes the form of solo performance, dance scholarship, dancefilms, and collaboration with other dance-makers and artists.
Bergman, a recipient of a University Fellowship, just completed her second year as a doctoral student in the Dance Studies program at Temple University in Philadelphia; her research focus is the dance work of Michael Jackson.
Bergman holds a BA in dance from DeSales University (2005) and a MFA in dance performance from the University of Iowa (2009), where she also taught Dance History: Baroque to Contemporary and Yoga. Bergman teaches across movement forms and academic courses from ballet, modern, and improvisational dance techniques to Dance Studies. 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 own performance work, she has also performed in the work of many choreographers including Jennifer Kayle, Charlotte Adams, Rosy Simas, April Sellers, Amy Lynne Barr, Analia Alegre-Femenias, Lynn Andrews, Emily Gastineau, Joanna Rosenthal, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Lela Aisha Jones, and Chrissy Eltvedt.
Bergman, a recipient of a University Fellowship, just completed her second year as a doctoral student in the Dance Studies program at Temple University in Philadelphia; her research focus is the dance work of Michael Jackson.
Bergman holds a BA in dance from DeSales University (2005) and a MFA in dance performance from the University of Iowa (2009), where she also taught Dance History: Baroque to Contemporary and Yoga. Bergman teaches across movement forms and academic courses from ballet, modern, and improvisational dance techniques to Dance Studies. 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 own performance work, she has also performed in the work of many choreographers including Jennifer Kayle, Charlotte Adams, Rosy Simas, April Sellers, Amy Lynne Barr, Analia Alegre-Femenias, Lynn Andrews, Emily Gastineau, Joanna Rosenthal, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Lela Aisha Jones, and Chrissy Eltvedt.
