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ALLEN FOGELSANGER

Allen Fogelsanger is completing a M.M. in Music Technology at New York University after having served as Director of Music for Dance at Cornell University during 1988-2011. He composes and improvises music for dances, accompanies dance classes, writes movement-interactive programs in Max/MSP/Jitter, and teaches courses that focus on the relationships between music and dance, including in computer-interactive dance. During the Spring 2012 semester he is adjunct faculty in the Dance Department of the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Fogelsanger is the composer and programmer for Armadillo Dance Project. Before working at Cornell he was music director for the Central Pennsylvania Dance Workshop / Pennsylvania Dance Theatre in State College, PA. He earned a B.S. from the Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. from Cornell, both in mathematics, and has studied music composition with Burt Fenner, Steven Stucky, and Karel Husa, and dance composition with David Gordon. Fogelsanger's music and videos, alone and as part of dances and installations, have been presented across the United States and western Europe. Likewise he has presented papers and talks at international conferences and festivals, including Sound Moves, the Abundance Festival, the Accademia Mobile of ICKamsterdam, and at conferences of the Congress on Research in Dance, the World Dance Alliance, and the International Guild of Musicians in Dance. Additionally he has accompanied dance classes at the Harvard Summer Dance Center and at American College Dance Festivals. more...