Carol Teitelbaum (dancer)

Carol Teitelbaum, a member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company from 1986 to 1993, joined the faculty of the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio in 1985 and was faculty chair from 1998 until the studio at Westbeth closed in December of 2011. Ms. Teitelbaum has staged dances from the Cunningham repertory at State University of New York at Purchase, Barnard College, Ballet de Lorraine, and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. She has taught master classes and held guest teaching positions at many institutions, including Stanford University, the University of Michigan, the Conservatoire de Paris, LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts, the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program and Marymount Manhattan College. Ms. Teitelbaum holds a Master's of Fine Arts in Dance from the University of Michigan. Currently, she teaches for the Cunningham Trust at City Center. Before joining the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, she danced in the Lucinda Childs Dance Company and the Manuel Alum Dance Company. Ms. Teitelbaum is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner (CM). She enjoys working with children with special needs as well as with adults from all walks of life.