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, a recipient of a University Fellowship, is a doctoral candidate in the Dance Department at Temple University. She will be a Associate Graduate Fellow in the Center for the Humanities at Temple (CHAT) for the 2018-2019 academic year. Her dissertation, under the advisement of Dr. Sherril Dodds, is titled Behind the Scenes and Across Screens: Michael Jackson and His Dancing Chorus. 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 a MFA in dance performance from the University of Iowa (2009). After receiving her masters, she taught Dance History: Baroque to Contemporary, Introduction to Dance Studies, 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 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, is a doctoral candidate in the Dance Department at Temple University. She will be a Associate Graduate Fellow in the Center for the Humanities at Temple (CHAT) for the 2018-2019 academic year. Her dissertation, under the advisement of Dr. Sherril Dodds, is titled Behind the Scenes and Across Screens: Michael Jackson and His Dancing Chorus. 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 a MFA in dance performance from the University of Iowa (2009). After receiving her masters, she taught Dance History: Baroque to Contemporary, Introduction to Dance Studies, 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 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.