Curt Haworth (he/him) received a BA in Creative Writing from UC Santa Cruz and an MFA in Dance from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and was a Professor at UARTs, where he taught from 2002-2024. Curt is an expatriate Californian who choreographed and danced in New York City for twenty years before moving to Philadelphia in 2009; and has an eclectic movement background ranging from Modern Dance and Contemporary Modern techniques to African Diasporic Dance, Yoga, Contact Improvisation, and Ballet. He has studied Ideokinesis intensively with Irene Dowd, and has been influenced by somatic studies in Alexander Technique, Klein Technique and Body Mind Centering. Curt performed with Race Dance, Yoshiko Chuma’s the School of Hard Knocks, the collaborative improvisation group Vitamin C, and toured internationally with David Dorfman Dance from 1990 to 2002, while creating 15 original roles. He was a Movement Research Artist in Residence in 2001-2002, and has taught regularly in NYC at Movement Research and DNA (formerly Dance Space Center, now Gibney Dance). He has taught and set work as a guest artist throughout the United States, Europe, South America and Asia, including 10 summers at the American Dance Festival (ADF) and 10 summers at the Tisch Summer Dance Residency. As a Philly based artist, he produces work with his pickup company and is currently designing evenings of spontaneous music and dance in collaboration with Loren Groenendaal and the revolving Free Fleet artist group and is Artist in Residence at the Mascher Space Cooperative. Look for his work March 18-19 produced by PDP at the Christ Church Neighborhood house.