| MARYLEE HARDENBERGH
Artist-in-Residence
mlhardenbergh@juno.com
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Primary
Responsibilities at CGEE
- Create a strong and positive awareness of the environment through
site-specific performance events
- Organize the annual Solstice
River dance
- Weave site-specific performances along the Mississippi River
with water quality issues
Professional Experience
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Hardenbergh has been choreographing large outdoor, site-specific
dances since 1985. She has created several water dances: on barges
in the Mississippi River, its lock and dam system, a Wastewater
Treatment Plant, for the harbor in Duluth Minnesota, the Housatonic
River in Connecticut, a clock tower along the Volga in Russia, and
a lake park in Ely, Minnesota. Other sites include the Minnesota
Arboretum, the bombed-out Parliament Building in Sarajevo, Bosnia,
the Minneapolis Farmers Market with five Cherrypicker trucks, the
Walker Art Museum's Sculpture Garden, the Weisman Art Museum's construction
site with Bobcats, roofs of skyscrapers, and library windows.
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Awards and Honors
Hardenbergh has received:
- A Fulbright Scholarship for choreography,
- A two-year National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Choreography,
- Four McKnight Choreographer's Fellowships,
- A Soros Foundation Grant for creating a dance in Sarajevo using Muslim,
Catholic and Orthodox dancers, and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council;
- Various commissions, including from the Walker Art Center, Jacob's
Pillow, the Weisman Art Museum, the St. Paul Riverfront Commission,
the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum and the Northern Lakes Arts Association.
- A national award for a dance at a sewage treatment plant from the
Water Environment Federation for Public Education.
- "Artist of the Year" award twice by the Twin Cities-based City Pages
- Feature in an article about site-specific dance in the April issue
of the 1996 Dance Magazine.
- Membership on the short list for the NEA's Artists and Communities
in the Millennium.
Education
- Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York. General Honors. B.A., Classics.
1970
- Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont. M.A., Dance/Movement Therapy.
1974
- Laban/Bartenieff Institute for Movement Studies (formerly The Dance
Notation Bureau) New York, New York. C.M.A. (Certification in Movement
Analysis) 1975
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