Tim Glenn
Home Address:
5150 Maddox Road
Tallahassee, FL 32303-7407
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120A Montgomery Hall, 130 Collegiate Loop
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-2120
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Biography
Tim Glenn is Associate Professor in the School of Dance at Florida State University where he teaches courses in dance technology including dance video and projection design, as well as offers modern dance technique and repertory courses primarily influenced by the Nikolais/Louis philosophy and method of performance. His primary interests in dance technology include digital media, videodance, telematics, and multimedia theater. Glenn is currently collaborating with IUPUI Department of Music and Arts Technology, Butler University Department of Dance, and Dance Kaleidoscope on the Intermedia Festival of Telematic Arts, which includes an Indianapolis dance event with dancers in Tallahassee. Glenn is the project director for ChoreoVideo.com and DanceDocumentation.com and has presented his research in dance documentation (2006) and videodance (2009) at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. He has worked as videographer for the Paul Taylor Dance Company's Repertory Preservation Project since 2003 and has documented 27 masterworks by Taylor. He has been an invited presenter for the National Association of Schools of Dance and serves as technology consultant for a number of organizations. While on sabbatical in 2008-09, Glenn collaborated with New Zealand director Clinton Bradley on the design and choreography for a forthcoming production called Orga-Mecha. In 2008, Glenn directed and produced a restaging and film project based on his 1996 work, Embodiments of Silence. In 2005, Glenn premiered Aqueous Myth: Tales of a Water Planet, a full evening of dance and technology commissioned by the National Center for Choreography. Glenn has been the curator of Dance on Camera - Tallahassee, an international screening of dance films, and from 2001-2005 served as Technology Director for the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at FSU. Glenn received his M.F.A. in Dance from The Ohio State University where, after earning his degree, he worked for the Department of Dance and the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design. He is an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Dance Program (B.S. Dance & B.S.InterArts and Technology) where he taught modern dance and improvisation as an Associate Lecturer. Glenn is a former member of the Nikolais & Murray Louis Dance Company, the Melrose Motion Company, and is the Artistic Director of Performance Tech - Tim Glenn and Company. Influenced by his mentor, Alwin Nikolais, Glenn enjoys "total theater" design, including costume design and construction. Choreographing since 1987, Glenn's repertoire has been performed internationally in The Netherlands, Japan, as well as in numerous national venues. He is the recipient of the Gene Kelly Award for the Performing Arts presented by the National Alliance for Excellence and the Leo Award for Choreography from the Jazz Dance World Congress.
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