ABOUT

biography/cv
WANDA GALA is an arts educator, choreographer and ethnochoreologist from the US whose professional interest in the
embodiment of cultural phenomenon unifies her practical, academic, and artistic work. As a trained ethnochoreologist her
work is rooted in an ethnographic and anthropological approach to researching dance and human movement systems.
Her performance works examine the historical and contemporary entropies of individual and cultural ideals, mythologies and
fantasies. These," post nuclear family tales" (LA Weekly 2006) occur in theatrical, installation, filmic and site-specific
contexts.

Individual and collaborative works have been presented in the US and abroad in Poland, Switzerland, Scotland, and Italy. Most
recent showings include the screening of “Okno( Okna, drzwi, sciany)” at the American Dance Festival and Festival Era Nowy
Horyzonty in Wroclaw, Poland. Gala also choreographs works for performance artist, Narcissister, which have been presented at
such New York venues as The New Museum, Deitch Projects, and The Box.

Ms. Gala’s dance courses and performance laboratories have a strong base in classical and modern techniques they synonymously
address pedestrian movement through studies in movement impulse and motivation, spatial awareness, structural anatomy and
improvisation. Gala has worked with children in public and private schools in the US she has lead workshops for three years
at the Thirteenth through Fifteenth International Contemporary Dance Conferences in Bytom, Poland. Ms. Gala also has
served as an artist in residence at the Music Center of Los Angeles' Wolf Trap (2005-2006) and the Beacon Center for
Arts and Leadership (2007-2008).

Gala holds a BFA in Dance from California Institute of the Arts (2005) and a Master's in Ethnochoreology for the Irish World
Academy of Music and Dance (2009). She is a regular contributor to Critical Correspondence through Movement Research in
New York, a publication conceived to activate and devediscourse on dance and movement-based work.

Education
2005 B.F.A Dance, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
2009 M.A. Ethnochoreology, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance,
Limerick, Ireland

Additional Training
2009 IDEPAK, Programme for New Ethnochoreologists, University of Trondheim, Norway
2007 Feldenkrais Movement Institute, Berkley, California


Select Works
2009 "An Ethnographic Approach to Site-Specific Movement Research", Performance Presentation at Dance Research Forum Ireland Symposium, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. 30 min.

2008 " W Ruchu Na Skos" presented at Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles, California. 45 min.

2008 " The Blue Storm" presented at Cryptic Providence, North Burial Grounds, Providence, Rhode Island. 35 min.

2008 " Nunca Nadie" presented at Dance Theatre Workshops' Open Studios, New York, NY ; Triskilion Arts' WAXworks & The Bushwick Starr, Brooklyn, NY. 14min.

2007 "Okna Drzwi Sziany" presented at the Nasher Museum of Art, NC for the American Dance Festivals' Dance on Camera, & Festiwale Era Nowe Horozonty, Wroclaw, Poland. 2 min 15 sec.

2007 "Les Biches" presented at Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles, California. 48 min.

2007 "Dunmore Caves Project" site specific performances laboratories, Dunmore Caves, Ireland & Brooklyn, New York.

2007 "Le Puit Noir" presented at the Il Corral's Turn of the Screws Festival of Love and Noise, Los Angeles, CA. 15 min.

2006 "Solome" presented at Galleria Entropia, Wroclaw Poland , Club Aurora, Warsaw Poland& Officina Buenaventura, Castlefranco Veneto, Italy. 32 min.

2006 "Goneness" presented by Arden 2 in CAR:turally Advanced Realizations: actions, works, situations as formative vehicles for ... Costa Mesa, CA & the Il Corral's Turn of the Screws Festival of Love and Noise, Los Angeles, CA. 22 min.

2005 "Org9n" presented at Barnsdall Art Park, Hollywood, California. 25 min.
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2005 "Lil'I" presented at the REDCAT, Highways Performance Space, & California Institute of the Arts. 90 min.


Related Work Experience
2009 Teacher, Undergraduate Turoials in Visual Anthropology and Ethnochoreology. University of Limerick, Irealnd.

2009 Teaching Arts, Coalition for Hispanic Family Services. Brooklyn, NY.

2007-2008 Artist in Residence, Beacon Center for Arts and Leadership. Brooklyn, NY.

2006-2007 Teaching Artist in Residence, Music Center of Los Angeles, Wolf Trap Program. Los Angeles, CA.

2005-2008 Teacher of Contemporary Dance Workshops. 13th-15th International Contemporary Dance Conference, Community Projects. Bytom, Poland.


Awards
2010 Department of Culture Regrant, Brooklyn Arts Council
2007 Artists Resource for Completion Grant (ARC), Durfee Foundation
2005 Interdisciplinary Arts Grant, California Institute of the Arts