Biography

Juliet Forrest
Department: Dance
Title: Associate Professor of Dance (1982)
Degree: M.F.A., New York University; C.L.M.A., Integrated Movement Studies Program, University of Utah
Office: SRC
Email: juliet.forrest@goucher.edu
Website: http://www.goucher.edu/dance

Juliet Forrest, C.L.M.A., M.F.A., directed her own company and performed professionally in New York City for twelve years before joining the Goucher College dance faculty in 1982. She served as a principal dancer with Kenneth Rinker and toured as a soloist with the Composers/Performers Group of Montreal. She has taught all levels of modern dance technique and composition, music for dance, dance anthropology, improvisation, lecture/demonstration, dance philosophy and criticism, and repertory. Her works have been widely commissioned and supported by grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, the Baltimore County Commission on Arts and Sciences, the Mayor's Advisory Committee on Arts and Culture, and Meet the Composer in Maryland. Her works have been performed at Dance Theater Workshop, Theatre Project, the Conwell Dance Theater, Lincoln Center, the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, and the Kennedy Center, as well as in alternative spaces in New York and Baltimore. She recently received a 2010 commission for choreography from the Beyond Boundaries Dance Company in Colorado.

Forrest earned her M.F.A. from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where she taught composition in 1976, and returned as a guest artist and faculty member in 1996. From 1987 to 1991 she directed The Forrest Collection, Inc., a dance company which featured Goucher College alumni and university professionals. She has also been published in the Dance Notation Journal and Sophie's Wind, a literary and philosophical journal. She has served as an adjudicator for the National Dance Association and maintains an artistic affiliation with the Howard County Ballet. Forrest earned her certification in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis through the Integrated Movement Studiessm Program at the University of Utah in 2006. She is working on her first book titled "The Teaching of Dance Composition and Creative Process."