Marjorie Folkman is a summa cum laude graduate of Barnard College, where she is currently an associate professor of professional practice with the Department of Dance. Folkman holds an MA from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. A PhD candidate at Bard Graduate Center, Folkman is researching European interwar visual culture and its intersections with choreography. Folkman was a member and principal performer with Mark Morris Dance Group (1996–2007), Martha Clarke’s Garden of Earthly Delights (2007–09), Merce Cunningham’s Repertory Understudy Group, and choreographer Sara Rudner, among others. Choreographic projects have included productions for Odyssey Opera Boston (La belle Hélène), Boston Baroque (Pigmalion and Les Indes Galantes), L’Opéra Français de New York (Faust), Bard SummerScape (Der Ferne Klang, Le Roi Malgré Lui, and Oresteia directed by Thaddeus Strassberger), Paul’s Case for the Prototype Festival/New York, and collaborations with visual artist Kevork Mourad at National Sawdust/Brooklyn and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Folkman has taught with Lincoln Center Institute, as a guest artist at Phillips Academy Andover and Mount Holyoke College, as an adjunct lecturer in dance history at Sarah Lawrence College, and as visiting assistant professor in dance and first year seminar with affiliations in language & thinking at Bard College.