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Donna Krasnow :
Donna Krasnow is a Professor in the Department of Dance at York University in Toronto where she teaches modern dance based in Limón technique, composition/choreography, conditioning for dancers, dance kinesiology, prevention of dance injuries, motor learning for dance, and repertory. She has a distinguished career as a choreographer, performer, teacher, and researcher. She founded Dance Source, a professional training school in San Francisco, and was Artistic Director for its resident company Möbius. In addition to performing as a guest artist with such companies as Footloose, Northern Lights, and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane, she performed with the Daniel Lewis Repertory Dance Company in New York, and assisted Mr. Lewis in staging José Limón's classic works There Is A Time and A Choreographic Offering. As an independent dance artist, she has toured the solo work With-In-finity, by Motaz Kabbani, from 1997 - 1999, and her most recent works, Falling Forward and Thoughts of Him, were presented at the fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists in Toronto. Donna has taught extensively in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Japan, and she received the University-wide York University Excellence in Teaching Award in June, 2002. She heads the modern division at the Canadian Children's Dance Theatre, and serves as one of the company rehearsal directors for the CCDT company. In 1988, she founded the York Dance Ensemble, York University’s pre-professional repertory touring company, and has toured several times with this young company, doing performances and master classes in Toronto, Ottawa, London, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Sudbury, and Montreal. Donna Krasnow specializes in dance science research, concentrating on injury prevention, conditioning for dancers, and motor learning and motor control. Her most recent research focus has been the adolescent dancer, and psychological issues surrounding injury and dance training. She received her M.S. degree in Dance Science in 1994 from the University of Oregon, where she was the recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Research Award. Donna is a Level I Certified GYROTONIC® Trainer (GYROTONIC® is a registered trademark of Gyrotonic Sales Corporation and is used with their permission.) Her articles have been published in Medical Problems of Performing Artists; Journal of Dance Medicine & Science; Impulse: the International Journal of Dance Science, Medicine, and Education; Journal of Dance Education; Bulletin of Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences; Medecine des Arts; and Dance Research Journal.
Donna also specializes in teacher training workshops, and has done residencies for faculty at Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia, the Royal Academy of Ballet, the Society for Russian Ballet, and faculty seminars at York University. She is the Conference Director for the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science (IADMS), and has served on the Board of Directors for IADMS and for the Performing Arts Medicine Association. She currently serves on the editorial boards for the Journal of Dance Medicine and Science, the Journal of Dance Education and Medical Problems of Performing Artists. |
