CHARLOTTE GRIFFIN
Charlotte Griffin works internationally as a choreographer, performer, and teacher. She was the 2005 recipient of the Scripps/ADF Primus-Tamiris Fellowship at the American Dance Festival, representing the USA in the International Choreographers Commissioning Program. She premiered KRS in collaboration with composer, Milica Paranosic who received the Erskine Faculty Development Grant from the Juilliard School to work in residency with Ms. Griffin.
Ms. Griffin's first introductions to dance were with Annie Dwyer, Nina Wheeler, and Tommi Overcash-Galaska in Durham, North Carolina. In 1993, Ms. Griffin moved to New York to study at The Juilliard School with support, in part, from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation. She completed her BFA in Dance under the direction of Mr. Benjamin Harkarvy and was honored with the prestigious Martha Hill Award for excellence in her field of study.
The encouragement of Ms. Bessie Shönberg and Mr. Harkarvy directly influenced her to choreograph. Her work has been commissioned by the American Dance Festival, Institut del Teatre in Barcelona, Juilliard Dance Ensemble, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, Marymount Manhattan College, New York Choreographic Institute, Eliot Feld's Kids Dance, Patricia Kenny Dance Collection, Peridance Professional Trainees, Princeton University, Rutgers University, and more. She has created new works and re-staged repertoire for various festivals including the ADF Four-Week School, Bates Dance Festival, Juilliard School Summer Program, New York State Summer School for the Arts, and Creative Arts Summer Program in Manhattan. The direction of her choreography has been guided by a passion for inter-arts collaboration. A significant artistic kinship has developed between Ms. Griffin and composer Milica Paranosic. They first collaborated at Juilliard in 1996 and have since co-created over a dozen works. Ms. Griffin is also interested in computer animation. She is crafting both dance movements and pedestrian gestures for the short animated film, Summer Breeze, by 3-D computer animators Yaron Canetti and Shen-Fang Chen. From 2000 to 2003, Ms. Griffin was on the faculty of Marymount Manhattan College teaching Dance Composition. Throughout her career, she has continued to perform both her own solo work and in the productions of many talented choreographers including David Neumann, Toshiko Oiwa, Karen Graham, Yasmeen Godder, Robert Battle, and Sue Bernhard.