LYNN BARR DANCE THEATRE was founded in 1988, when she presented full evening productions of “THE WOMEN” at McKenna Theatre, New Paltz, Maureen Stapleton Theatre, Troy, N.Y., Albany State Museum for the Women In the Arts Festival, to much acclaim. She then began teaching primarily in Europe, was a guest instructor in Berlin, Weimar, Germany, Poznan, Poland, Prague, Czech Republic and most recently Belgrade, Serbia. Lynn Barr has presented her work in piazzas and theatres in Italy, in front of bombed out buildings in Serbia, on the river Vlatava in Prague, at the Museum of Czech Music in Prague, and at the Chamber Music Festival in Cesky Krumlov, in Bohemia. After 16 years of teaching and presenting work in Europe she decided to work at home with her newly formed company performing at Cunningham Studio, New Dance Group Studio Theatre, and at St. Mark’s Church. Lynn Barr Dance is a company, which includes dancers, classical musicians, actors, visual artists, and fashion designers. She addresses serious questions both political and social. Her mission is to pose these serious questions using the dance idiom in a visually stimulating and arresting way. Lynn Barr Dance Theatre returns to continue to disturb and provoke dance and theatre audiences here in America.

LYNN BARR, CHOREOGRAPHER

Lynn Barr began her dance career with the Paul Sanasardo-Donya Feuer Dance Company. She was a soloist with the Philadelphia Lyric Opera Co. and with the New York City Opera Co. at Lincoln Center. After many other dance engagements, she returned to dance with the Paul Sanasardo Dance Company in New York. Forming her own company in 1988, she toured with her evening length productions of "The Women", and" Mystos". She has been the artistic director of the State University of New York at New Paltz Dance Programs abroad for 14 years in Italy and in Prague, Czech Republic. Ms. Barr has also taught in Berlin, and was invited to teach for the Tanztheater von Ismael Ivo at the Deutsches National Theatre in Weimar, Germany. She was guest teacher for the Polish Dance Theatre in Poznan, Poland; Pesaro, Ancona and Urbino, Italy. She was invited by the American Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia to teach and choreograph. After successful performances in Belgrade the works were shown again in Grenoble, France. Ms. Barr was recently seen in a film entitled Tanzrebellen, ”Rebels of The Dance” shown on ARTE (the PBS of German/French T.V.)  Segments of Il Circo Della Vita were featured.  After much traveling and working in Europe, she returned to work with her newly formed company in New York.  Ms. Barr was recently featured in a film by Ralph Strohle entitled "Tanzrebellen" or Rebels Of The Dance. Among the choreographers were Donald McKayle, Sophie Maslow, and Eve Gentry. It was shown on "ARTE" (the PBS of Europe) on German and French T.V.  Two additional films by RaLPH STROHLE, where her work was featured were 'DANCING AGAINST THE GREAT DEPRESSION' and "THE FUTURE OF DANCE".