College of Fine Arts and Communication


dance department

Faculty and Staff

Nancy Wanich-Romita

Lecturer

Office:   Center for the Arts 1002P
Phone:   410-704-2094
Fax:   410-704-3752
E-mail:   nromita@towson.edu

Nancy Wanich-Romita

 

Education

M.F.A. in Theatre Arts, Towson University

Certification- Alexander Technique, American Center for the Teacher of the Alexander Technique

B.A. Cum Laude in Dance and Elementary Education Certification, Connecticut College

Biography

Nancy Romita, artistic director of The Moving Company, has three times received an Individual Artists Award for Excellence in Choreography from Nancy Wanich-RomitaThe Maryland State Arts, and grants from the Mayor's Committee of Art and Culture from 1994-2002. Ms. Romita's work has been performed in New York City at Dance Theater Workshop, Theater of the Riverside Church, and the 92nd Street YMWHA. She has worked as movement designer for directors Tim Brown and Kate Chislolm and Scott Susong. Her dance/theater work has also been performed at the Dance Place in Washington D.C., Dance Theater Workshop in NYC, Connecticut College, and State University of New York at Purchase, Theater Project and throughout the Northeast. Ms. Romita's work has been commissioned by the Dance in Education Fund, Inc., Aurora Dance Company, Towson University, Essex Community College, Karen & Alvin, the 92nd Street YMWHA Dance Program, and the Maryland Food Committee. Ms. Romita has collaborated with the Baltimore Museum of Art on a dance projects to correspond to the Joyce Scott exhibit 'Kickin it Nancy Wanich-Romitawith the Masters,' and the museum's nationally recognized program, 'Feast Famine and the Female Form.'

She has facilitated movement workshops to inspire hope and healing for churches, community organizations, educational institutions and businesses. Ms. Romita conceived and directed the PATHWAYS Project through which a 60 foot stone labyrinth, contemplative garden was installed at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center to facilitate health, spirituality and healing through movement and the arts. Ms. Romita has developed and conducted movement workshops for The American Dance Festival, The Private Industry Council, Morgan Bank, IBM, The Center for Poverty Solution, and The Annie E. Casey Foundation. She has worked for McDermott Associates as a facilitator in leadership training and movement as transformation, as well as movement training and body language in public speaking.

Ms. Romita has taught at the American Dance Festival in Durham, NC, Connecticut College, State University of New York at Purchase, UMBC, and is currently on the faculty of Towson University.. She is a Certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique and attained a Masters of Fine Arts in Theater from Towson University.

Links

www.atmidatlantic.com
www.alexandertechnique.com



 

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