Susan Murphy

Visiting Faculty

Guest Artist with CORE Concert Dance Company, 1999-2001
M.A., Mills College, L.M.A. Laban Institute for Movement Studies
E-mail: majette@home.com

Susan Murphy has been teaching and performing aerial dance trapeze since 1980. She studied with Terry Sendgraff in Berkeley, CA, who originated the use of low-to-the-floor trapezes in dance choreography. She moved to NYC in 1983 where she developed her own style of aerial dance, integrating principles of Laban Movement Analysis, yoga, improvisation, circus trapeze and modern dance with this art form.

She performed at Lincoln Center with Robert Davidson in 1988 and in other venues in NYC. Articles about her work have been featured in SELF Magazine, the New York Times, the Village Voice and the New Yorker Magazine. She moved to the San Francisco Bay area in 1990 and performed in the Cowell Theatre in Fort Mason and taught aerial dance trapeze to children and adults throughout the Bay area. In 1999 she moved to Athens, where she has been teaching modern dance and aerial trapeze in the Dance Department and choreographing for CORE Concert Dance Co. She currently teaches Theories of Movement in the Dance Dept.