Mark Bankin
Teaching
Ausdruckstanz
Description: Dance Class focuses on choreutics, the kinesphere, scale études, central–peripheral–transversal pathways, spatial harmony, and the icosahedron. Drawing from the teaching lineages of Jean Cébron, Hans Züllig, Kurt Jooss, Sigurd Leeder, and Mary Wigman, the class resurrects—from archives and kinetography movement partitions—exercises and études from the German modern tradition, and uses this framework language in contemporary phrasework and prompt-based devising.
Select teaching engagements:
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Whirlwind Dance Summer Intensive Faculty, Columbus, OH — Jul 2025
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Sainte-Anne Universitaire Hospitalier Psychiatrie (Workshop Facilitator) — Paris, France 2021
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Conservatoire de Paris (Graduate Instructor) — Paris, France — 2019–2021
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NYU Shanghai (Visiting Instructor) — Shanghai, China — Spring 2018
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Tatwerk Berlin — Berlin, Germany — Feb–Oct 2017
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Dance Diagram Praxis
Description: Intensive workshop lab in reading, writing, and staging Kinetography Laban movement partitions. We work with different movement frameworks, grammars, and symbolizations to notate dances, engage archives, support choreographic process, and complexify movement analysis. Core content includes timing, levels, planes, weight, rotation, orientation, relationships, quality, and ensemble compositions. No prior notation experience required; intermediate–professional movers, choreographers, and researchers welcome.
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