MONICA FAVAND

Monica Favand has been working professionally as a modern dancer, choreographer and teacher since 1991. Her choreography has been performed by the Pennsylvania Ballet, the Group Motion Company of Philadelphia and TRIP Dance Theatre, filmed by PBS, performed in the United States, Europe and South America, and broadcast on public television in Los Angeles and Philadelphia. Monica’s work has been presented at numerous venues including: the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre (Los Angeles), the UCLA Armand Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Cal State Longbeach/Martha Knoebel Theatre, the James Armstrong Theatre (Torrance), 1997/1998/1999/2002 Los Angeles Women’s Theater Festivals, the 1993 Philadelphia Women’s Theater Festival, the 1997/1998 Philadelphia Fringe Festivals, Group Motion Theater (Philadelphia), Occidental College (LA), the DIA Center for the Arts (New York), the C.E.C. (Philadelphia), L.A.C.E. Theater (LA), the 1996/1998 Dance Kaleidoscope Festivals (LA), Highways (Santa Monica), Painted Bride Arts Center (Philadelphia), D.C. DancePlace (Washington, D.C.), Teatro Cervantes (Buenas Aires, Argentina), the International Tanz Festival (Germany), Waschaus Theater (Potsdam, Germany), Tacheles Theater (Berlin, Germany), Kreative Haus (Munster, Germany), Monsun Theater (Hamburg, Germany), Projekt Theater (Dresden, Germany), Brotfabrik Theater (Bonn, Germany), Bryn Mawr College (Pennsylvania), Penn’s Landing. (Philadelphia), the Merriam Theatre (Philadelphia), Baltimore’s Artscape Festival, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Walter’s Art Gallery (Baltimore) and the Regional and National American College Dance Festivals.

Monica is the recipient of a 2004 APPEX (Asian Pacific Artist Exchange) Fellowship through UCLA, a six week artist exchange program in Bali, Indonesia. Her work has been supported by the Culver City Arts Council, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the California Arts Council, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, and the James Irvine Foundation. She has received several Horton Award nominations for choreography and set design, and was awarded a 1997 award for costume design. Monica received her early training at the Baltimore School for the Arts and graduated summa cum laude with a B.F.A. in Dance from Temple University in 1992, where she studied with Mary Wigman disciple/choreographer Hellmut Gottschild. She choreographed and performed with the collaborative ensemble Group Motion, artistic director Manfred Fischbeck, from 1991-1995 and was a dancer with Loretta Livingston & Dancers from 1995-1996. She is founder and co-facilitator of the Sacred Spaces Workshop, a community-based improvisational movement workshop with live music offered weekly in LA since 1999. She formed TRIP Dance Theatre in 1996.

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