Biography

Linda Garofalo
Department: Dance
Title: Lecturer in Dance (1998)
Degree: B.F.A., Towson University
Office: SRC
Email: linda.garofalo@goucher.edu
Website: http://www.goucher.edu/dance

Linda Garofalois a full-time instructor at Goucher College, teaching both ballet and modern technique and directing the Dance Department's outreach program, The Moving Classroom Project as well as the Goucher Summer Arts Institute.  She is a dancer, choreographer, and dance educator who began her training with Janice Wilk-McCarthy in Connecticut.  She holds a B.F.A. in Dance Performance from Towson University and has trained professionally at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, Harkness Center for Dance, and the Hartford Ballet where she completed her teaching certification in 1986.  She has performed both nationally and internationally as a member of Geulah Abraham's Danceworks  in New York City, Surge Dance Comopany of Balimtore, and in Edinburgh Scotland, with The Ordinary/Extraordinary Dance Theatre.  She has also performed extensively in the Baltimore area with Nancy Romita's Moving Company, Phoenix Repertory Dance Theatre, and Kinetics Dance Theatre.  Her repertory includes classical and contemporary works by choreographers such as Michael Uthoff, Geulah Abraham, Keith Lee, and Mark Taylor.  Her historical repertory includes Eleanor King's Mother of Tears, Air, Moon Dances and "Envy and Wrath" from Roads to Hell as well as Helen Tamiris' Negro Spirituals.  Her choreography has been performed locally by Dancers in Action at Goucher College, The Inertia Dance Company at Carver Center for Arts and Technology, and Surge Dance Company.  Her works have been presented in Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut, and New York City.  Linda's teaching experience includes serving on the faculties of various institutions such as Connecticut Ballet Theatre, Hartford Ballet, Sudbrook Magnet Middle School, Carver Center for Arts and Technology and University of Maryland Baltimore County.