Irene Dowd
choreographer

Irene Dowd was on the dance faculty of the Juilliard School from 1995 to 2023. She has also taught for many years at Movement Research and the Hollins University/ADF MFA program in dance, was a regular guest at Canada's National Ballet School from 1991-2013, and NYU Tisch School of the Arts from 1991-2013. Formerly, she taught in the Master’s program in Dance Education at Teachers College, Columbia University for 18 years, and the Master’s program in Arts and Liberal Studies at Wesleyan University for 9 years. Irene is the recipient of the 2014 Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Chair for Distinguished teaching at ADF; recipient of the 2015 Juilliard School John Erskine Faculty Prize; the 2016 Dance Science and Somatics Educators Lifetime Service Award from DSSE (Dance Science and Somatic Educators); the 2018 Honorary Fellowship from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance; and dance-teacher.com’s 2023 Dance Teacher of the Year award. Author of Taking Root to Fly (now in the 12th printing of the 3rd edition), she has maintained a private practice in kinesthetic anatomy and neuromuscular re-education since 1972 in NYC. Irene has had the great pleasure of choreographing dances for Peggy Baker, Margie Gillis and other solo dancers. Her work has been taught in schools and dance companies across the US and Canada.

For Peggy Baker Dance Projects: Irene created the solo Cirrus for Peggy.

For more information visit irenedowdchoreographies.com.