Photo credit: Zachary Z. Handler 2015
lynne price
holds an MFA in dance from the University of Maryland, College Park. While at the University of Maryland, Lynne taught undergraduate classes in modern, improvisation, dance history and theory and a 400 level contact improvisation course. In April 2014, Lynne was honored with the Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award through UMD.
Lynne is a dancer-performer-improviser-choreographer-educator-activist-movement artist working in the Baltimore/DC area since 2009. Lynne has studied and performed improvisation and contact improvisation locally and internationally. Since graduating from Goucher College in 2009, Lynne has worked with The Collective, Effervescent Collective, withhart.dance.projects, the Baltimore Composers Forum, Klein/Prince, BROS, Sharon Mansur, PEARSONWIDRIG DANCE THEATRE, Adriane Fang among many others. Lynne's work has been presented at Dance Place, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, The Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library, Leviathan Studio on Lasqueti Island, Blue Hill Consolidated School in Blue Hill, Maine, Baltimore Theatre Project, The Creative Alliance, 2640 St Paul Space, The Metro Gallery, Lof/T, Patapsco State Park, Peabody Heights Brewery, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Soft House at The Copy Cat, Autograph Playhouse, E.M.P., The Whole Gallery at H+H, the Gordon Center for Performing Arts, the MICA Graduate Student Center and on the streets
Lynne has taught workshops in improvisation, contact improvisation, modern dance, creative process, site-specific dance making, somatic practices and contemplative dance practices at Goucher College, MAHPERD, the Mercury Theatre, for The Collective, for Effervescent Collective, and at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center among others.
Lynne's work is often politically charged and explores gender issues ranging from very subtle to extremely overt. Lynne aims to offer their vulnerability to audiences as an example as well as a challenge to conventional norms. Lynne's thesis, Sharing a Dance with You, premiered at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in October 2014 and will remount in Baltimore in Spring/Summer 2015.