Heather Harrington

Maplewood, NJ

Contact: heatherhah@gmail.com

Heather Harrington is a dancer, scholar, figure skater, choreographer, and educator. Harrington has been steeped in the repertory of iconic dance legends, dancing with the Doris Humphrey Repertory Company, the Martha Graham Ensemble, the Pearl Lang Dance Theater, and the Bella Lewitzky Dance Company. She founded her own contemporary dance company in New York City, performing nationally and internationally. Her interest in dance in the MENA region, led to teaching and choreographing in Tunisia and Lebanon. She was invited by Dancers Citizens South in Tunisia, with the support of the US Embassy, to create a piece raising awareness of violence against women. Her artistic and scholarly collaboration with Lebanese dance artist and professor Nadra Assaf has led to performances, articles, and conferences across the globe. She has been on faculty at Kean University, Seton Hall University, and Drew University. She received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and her BA in psychology from Boston University. Her scholarship examining gender and dance, dance as protest, consumer dance, and the choreographic process has been published by Choreographic Practices, Dancer Citizen, Research in Dance Education, Dance Research Journal, Nordic Journal of Dance, Journal of Dance Education, and Dance Education in Practice. She has been teaching Pilates since 2005.