Part-time Faculty
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College, 1976
Martha Bowers focuses on the use of the performing arts for social change. Her areas of special interest include intercultural communications through the arts, dance as a medium for youth development and tolerance education, site-specific performance, and community arts. She has taught at numerous colleges and universities, is the recipient of Chancellor Rudolf Crew's Caring Community Award (1999) for work with recently immigrated teens and a 2002 BAXten Arts & Artists in Progress Award for her work in arts education. Her essays on site-specific, community-based performance have been published online with the
Community Arts Network ; in
Choreographic Encounters (Vol. 1) , the journal of the Institute for Choreography and Dance; and in a forthcoming book on site-specific dance edited by Melanie Kloetzel and Carolyn Pavlik. She has received numerous commissions as well as choreographic fellowships from The Foundation for Performance Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New Jersey Council on the Arts, as well as six consecutive grant awards from the New York Foundation's Artist in the School Community program. She is the executive director of Dance Theatre Etcetera and the project manager for the Dance for Tolerance global initiative.
