Meredith Glisson
Meredith Glisson is a Brooklyn-based choreographer, director, movement coach, and actor for stage and film. Her artistic work spans disciplines, falling in between contemporary dance and theater, acknowledging the body as it confronts itself within situations in order to have the opportunity to renegotiate an alternative position. She has presented her work in France, England, Philadelphia, and New York and is a selected artist for C.O.C.A – Center of Contemporary Artists and Aesthetica Anthology Magazine.
As a movement coach, Glisson works with a range of people from performers to educators to business professionals focusing on enhancing performative presences and actions. She often offers workshops, including The Performative Voice and Body; Overcoming Stage Fright: Pathways to a Peak Performance; The Act of Becoming in the Expressive Body; Undoing Limiting Beliefs: Strategies for a Functioning Body; and Communicating Your Presence for Business Professionals and Educators.
She is an adjunct professor in the School of Dance at University of the Arts, where she teaches mostly in the Thinking, Making, Doing curriculum and co-heads this curricular area with her colleague Jesse Zaritt.
Glisson holds an MFA degree in Interdisciplinary Practices from Falmouth University in the UK, partnering with the MA Solo/Dance/Authorship program at the Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin | Universität der Künste Berlin, and the MA Dramaturgy program and Dance Department at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, University of Zagreb. She also received an advanced degree in Formation Supérieure du Danseur de l’Interprète à l’Auteur from the Centre Chorégraphique National – Rillieux-la-Pape in France, under the direction of Compagnie Maguy Marin, in partnership with l’Université Lumière Lyon 2. She completed her BA degree in Dance and French at Hollins University, Virginia. Glisson is also a vinyasa yoga instructor and completed trainings at WOOM Center (200 hours) and Katonah Yoga (40 hours).
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