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Updated 10/1/2021

Barbie Diewald

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    MA

Institution/Business Type: Artist / Creative (Individual)

ABOUT

Barbie Diewald is a choreographer, performer, and teacher based in New England. Originally from Chicago, she trained at the Chicago Festival Ballet, Midwest Ballet Theatre, and Lou Conte Dance Center. In 2008, Barbie moved to New York, where she co-founded TrioDance Collective alongside Emily Jeffries. The company produced seven New York Seasons, including an interdisciplinary work with the Nouveau Classical Project at BAM, and was recognized as “a consistent force in the vast scene of emerging choreographers in NYC (Dance Informa).”

Diewald has developed her work with the support of numerous awards and residencies, including a 2018 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Choreography, Banff Centre’s Rick & Brune Sinneave Artist Award, a 2016 Bogliasco Fellowship, the New England Foundation for the Arts’ New England Dance Fund Award, and a grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She was selected twice as a choreographer for New York Live Arts’ Bessie Schonberg Lab in Composition (with Gwen Welliver and Tere O’Connor respectively) as well as Susan Marshall’s SUMAC Choreographic research program, and was a recipient of Chen Dance Center’s New Steps Residency and the Upstart Residency at Brooklyn Arts Exchange. In 2016 she was an artist-in-residence at Ponderosa, an experimental dance center in Stoltzenhagen, Germany, and in 2018 she was visiting artist-in-residence at the Iron Factory in Philadelphia.

Diewald’s work has been commissioned and presented nationally at Brooklyn Academy of Music, the 92nd Street Y, Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out, The Center for Performance Research, Mark Morris Dance Center, Dixon Place, The Chocolate Factory (THROW), The Cunningham Studios at Westbeth, Villa Victoria Center for the Arts (Boston), and the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought (Northampton, MA). Internationally, she has performed at Ponderosa, The Bogliasco Foundation Centre (Italy), and Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Canada).

Diewald has collaborated and performed with Katie Martin, Bronwen MacArthur and Stephanie Maher, and she engages in a ongoing improvisational performance project, “Unfinishing,” with choreographer Kate Seethaler. She is the resident choreographer at PanOpera, and has developed contemporary ballet and choreographic intensives for the Pioneer Valley Ballet. She makes her work within the framework of Barbie Diewald Choreography, a practice-led research group that performs throughout New England.

Diewald is Assistant Professor of Dance at Mount Holyoke College and the Five College Dance Department, where she was a Visiting Professor from 2017-2019. She has previously taught at Keene State College and Smith College, where she was an MFA Teaching fellow. 

Find Me

Barbie Diewald
Job Title: Choreographer
Phone: 7087075325
Address:
16 Hooker Avenue
Northampton, MA 01060

Additional Content:

About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Year Founded:

2014

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Year Founded:

2014

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Dance - Modern / Contemporary

Additional Disciplines:

  • Humanities - Literature

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Arts Instruction / Lessons
  • Community Arts
  • Curriculum Development
  • Exhibitions
  • Performance / Concert / Reading
  • Public Art Projects (In Free, Public Spaces)
  • Workshops / Demonstrations / Master Class
Seasons Active: spring, summer, fall, winter
Events Per Year: 15

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • Adults
  • Families
  • General Public
  • LGBTQ Populations
  • Teens

Geographic Reach:

  • International

Accessibility of Services

Accessibility of Services:

  • Access accommodations for people who use a wheelchair and have limited mobility

Media Gallery

I Have Worked With

Affiliations and Accomplishments

Awards

Awards:

  • Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Choreography (2018)
  • Mount Holyoke College Faculty Research Grant (2018)
  • Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity: Bruce Sinneave Award (2018)
  • New England Foundation for the Arts: New England Dance Fund Grant (2017)
  • Northampton Arts Council Artist Grant (Administered by the Massachusetts Cultural Council)
  • Lower Manhattan Cultural Council MCAF Grant (Manhattan Community Arts Fund)
  • Bogliasco Fellowship (2016)- Liguria, Italy

Awards

Awards:

  • Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Choreography (2018)
  • Mount Holyoke College Faculty Research Grant (2018)
  • Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity: Bruce Sinneave Award (2018)
  • New England Foundation for the Arts: New England Dance Fund Grant (2017)
  • Northampton Arts Council Artist Grant (Administered by the Massachusetts Cultural Council)
  • Lower Manhattan Cultural Council MCAF Grant (Manhattan Community Arts Fund)
  • Bogliasco Fellowship (2016)- Liguria, Italy

Education

Education:

  • Smith College- MFA Dance
  • Millikin University- BFA Theatre and Dance

Special Designations

Special Designations:

  • NEFA Grant Recipient

Artist Info

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Private Studio
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • Pre-Kindergarten-age
  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Subject Areas:

  • Dance

Fee range:

$70 - $5,000

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Private Studio
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • Pre-Kindergarten-age
  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Subject Areas:

  • Dance

Fee range:

$70 - $5,000

Touring Artist

NEST Eligible Artist

Technical Requirements:

  • Sound System
  • Floor suitable for dancing

Fee Range:

$200 - $11,000

State of Residence:

Massachusetts

Minimum Number of Performers:

2

Maximum Number of Performers:

6