CLARA GIBSON MAXWELL: CURRICULUM VITAE
CLARA GIBSON MAXWELL
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CURRICULUM VITAE
ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHIC WORKS:
Thoreau's Henhawk Visits Mexico Commission for the Encuentro Internacional: Castoriadis político. Academia y autonomía colloquium organized by the Cátedra Interinstitucional Cornelius Castoriadis (Mexico). Multi-Arts Site-Responsive performance and videodance with Clara Gibson Maxwell (dancer), accompanied by Romain Garioud (cellist).
2021 Virtual World Premiere of "Thoreau's Henhawk Visits Mexico," a 39-minute choreographic/musical/video-projection/spoken-word creation during The Thoreau Society Annual Gathering on "Thoreau and Diversity: People, Principles, and Politics," July 11. Trailer available at: https://vimeo.com/kaloskaisophos/thoreau-henhawk-visits-mexico-trailer.
2017 Live premiere of a choreographic/musical/video-projection/spoken-word creation, "El halcón como símbolo," November 23. Multi-Arts Site-Responsive performance at the Casa de la Primera Imprenta de América (House of the First Print Shop in the Americas, Mexico City).
Appalachian Springs Foundation Gala Dance duo with Isabelle Dufau.
2015 Oral Lake Fishing Club (Clarksburg, WV)
Soul Kitchen Dance duet with Clara Gibson Maxwell and Isabelle Dufau (dancers); Clara Gibson Maxwell and Charlotte Lequeux (singers). Commission: Musée de la Poste, for the Opening and Opening and Closing of the L'Art fait ventre ("Bellyful of Art") Exhibition, in coproduction with Mon Oncle D'Amérique Productions and L'éclat des gestes. Music: Robert Johnson/Ben Jonson/Jim Morrison/Dave Bryant/Chris Bowman, with spontaneous public-participation photographic installation, "L'itinérare en portraits végétaux," by Christelle Westphal. Chefs-musicians: Romain Garioud (cellist), Dave Bryant (pianist), Chris Bowman (percussionist). Saucière: Georgette Happi.
2014 Musée du Montparnasse and Espace Pierre Cardin (Paris)
Lou Andreas-Salomé Commission: Verein für das Studium und die Förderung der Autonomie. Trio of Clara Gibson Maxwell, Laura Schandelmeier, and Stephen Clapp, with Critical Theory
Professor Helmut Dahmer as Sigmund Freud, and including projection of Encuentro-Encuentro. Make-up artist Charlotte Lequeux.
2012 APEX Theater Kabarett (Göttingen)
Encuentro-Encuentro Commission for the "Encuentro Internacional : La creación humana" colloquium organized by the Cátedra Interinstitucional Cornelius Castoriadis (Mexico). Quartet with Clara Gibson Maxwell, Isabelle Dufau, Laura Schandelmeier, Stephen Clapp (music: Ornette Coleman,Trinity, transcribed for cello and performed by Romain Garioud).
2012-2023 Film showings: Rotterdam, Brussels, APEX Theater Kabarett (Göttingen), Universidad de Guadalajara, Mehringhof (Berlin), Loughborough University, Ex-Asilo Filangieri (Naples), Université de Sherbrooke à Longueuil (Montréal), Colegio de San Luis, la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, the Cinémathèque Québécoise (Montreal), CIESAS Unidad Regional Occidente (Mexico City), Center for German and European Studies (ZeDES), Chung-Ang University (Seoul), Seoul Museum of Art, "Thinking About Architecture" course 4.607, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture (Cambridge, MA)
2012 Videodanse World Premiere: Cinéma Chaplin-Denfert (Paris)
2011 Multi-Arts Site-Responsive performance at the Casa de la Primera Imprenta de América (House of the First Print Shop in the Americas, Mexico City)
Lire aux cabinets Four multiarts site-responsive performances. Dancer: Clara Gibson Maxwell. Assistant: Malika Hamzi. Texts: Henry Miller, Lire aux cabinets; Cornelius Castoriadis, "La Force révolutionnaire de l'écologie", Une société à la dérive (extrait sur Victor Hugo et les égouts de Paris); George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Music: Patti Smith, "25th Floor," Easter).
2009 Urbanisme & démocratie neighborhood association Summer Solstice event, Jardin partagé des Thermopyles, 16:45, 17:45, 18:45, 19:45, June 20.
Trouble in Mind Solo (music: traditional blues)
2007 Showings: Studio Opinioni; Atelier Grangousier
Clara&Bobby "Music and Dance Beyond Improvisation" at Les Sept Lézards Jazz Club (Paris)
2005 Dance duo with jazz combo, Bobby Few (piano), Harry Swift and Jack Gregg (bass), Isabelle Pierre (dancer)
Grand Opening Grand
Opening of a new Imac Improvisational Music Center (Tour & Taxis, Brussels,
Belgium)
2004 Solo dancer, accompanied by Noah
Howard (saxophone), Bobby
Few (piano), other jazz musicians and poets
Pourquoi un ordinateur ne peut-il pas remplacer l’esprit humain?
2004 Cocktail-Performance Salle des Arcades, Hôtel de Ville. À l’invitation de la
Maire adjointe chargée des Nouvelles Technologies. video-projections: James Edward Davis
À Fleur de femmes Solo dance and Ensemble Andiamo
chorus member.
2003 Operatic mise en scène, Catherine Boni, Église Saint Sulpice, Nibelle, France
Thinkin' It Thru With the Happy Few Solo dance with
musicians (Bobby Few,
Tom Chiu, Harry Swift, John Handelsman)
2003 Bilingual Café Philo (Gale
Prawda) at Les Sept Lézards Jazz
Club (Paris)
Se Plaire à Plaisance
Solo dance (music: Bobby Few
), storytelling, shakuhachi
performance, and site-responsive improvisations in artists' studios
2002 "Journées Portes Ouvertes" sponsored by the Mairie
of the 14th arrondissement and L'Entrepôt
(Paris)
Cellodanse Solo dance
for live cello (Bach's Second Cello Suite played by Romain
Garioud ) followed by a bilingual discussion on art as experience
2001 Discussion led by Café
Philo's Gale Prawda at Café
de Flore (Paris)
The Banquet
2004 Salle des Arcades, de l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris, at the invitation of the Maire adjointe chargée des Nouvelles Technologies. Multiarts site-responsive performance. Duo with Isabelle Pierre (dancer), Tom Chiu (violin), Guem (djembe), Jean-François Pézo (Monsieur Loyal). Music: Ornette
Coleman; Pancraçe
Royer. Video-projections: James Edward
Davis.
2001 Integral collaboration with the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture in conjunction with the Frank
Lloyd Wright Foundation, Taliesin
Architects, and Spirit of the Senses. Performed at Taliesin
West (Scottsdale, AZ). Multiarts site-responsive performance. Duo with Isabelle Pierre (dancer), Paul Susen (violin). Music: Ornette
Coleman; Pancraçe
Royer (performed by Susan
Jacobs Lockhart). Video-projections: James Edward
Davis.
2001 Site-responsive dance duo for artist José
Ferreira's copy-art vernissage at Le
Centre des Arts Vivants (Paris)
2000 Site-responsive dance duo for Les
Verts du XIVe end-of-year preelection party (Paris)
Corpsensus
Duo with piano, cello, violin (music: Pancrace
Royer, Jeffrey Mumford, live European premiere: Ornette Coleman's
Trinity)
1999 Théâtre du Renard (Paris). Followed by "Chautauquas" with French art critics and historians (Jean-Marie
Brohm, Marc Le
Bot, Claude Frontisi) and philosophers (Christian Descamps, Claude Lefort);
Théâtre du Renard (Paris)
Trinity Music: Ornette Coleman's Trinity
2014 Musée du Montparnasse and Espace Pierre Cardin (Paris)
2011 Casa de la Primera Imprenta de América (Mexico City)
2005 "Arts on Foot" Kick-off event for Capital Fringe Festival (Washington, DC), with Laura Schandelmeier (dancer), Tom Chiu (violin). September 17. 505 7th Street NW, Washington, DC.
2004 Salle des Arcades, de l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris; duo with Isabelle Pierre (dancer), Tom Chiu (violin)
2003 Bilingual Cafe Philo (Gale Prawda) at Café de Flore (Paris); duo with Isabelle Pierre (dancer), Tom Chiu (violin)
2003 Guest-Artist, Dance Place (Washington, DC), "Harmolodic" duo with Tom Chiu (violin)
2001 Performed at Taliesin
West (Scottsdale, AZ)
2000 Site-responsive dance duo for Les
Verts du XIVe end-of-year preelection party (Paris)
1999 Théâtre du Renard (Paris)
1997 Studio de l'Ermitage (Paris), premiere of Trinity
Corpus Solo commissioned for
Centre Thomas
More's "Corps et art au XXe siècle" colloquium (music:
Satie)
1998 Le
Corbusier's Couvent
de Sainte-Maire de la Tourette (L'Arbresle)
Corparole/Bodytalk Trio "Old and New Work" (music: Pancrace
Royer, Jeffrey Mumford, Ornette Coleman)
1997 Studio de l'Ermitage (Paris), premiere of Trinity
Corps-Éros
Solo commissioned by the Festival
de l'Imaginaire, followed by two-hour discussion
1999 Théâtre du Renard (Paris)
1997 Studio de l'Ermitage (Paris)
1997 Maison des Cultures
du Monde (Paris)
Le Projet Noir Quartet (music: Pancrace
Royer); Solo (music: Yovan Markovitch)
1997 "Chantiers en cours," Atelier
Artesonado (Paris)
La Cartésienne/Cartesian
Women Trio meditation on the unity of body, mind, & soul, based on the Correspondence between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and René Descartes. Music: Pancrace
Royer, Jeffrey Mumford, Maurice Ravel
1997 Projection of Video and Discussion, "Seventeenth-Century Women Philosophers" Conference, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
1995-96 Théâtre
Dunois (Paris), Firehouse
Center for the Arts (Newburyport, MA)
Serious Joy Solo with cello (music: Jeffrey Mumford )
2006 Video shown at Philadelphia Music Project’s “New Frontiers in Music” Symposium
2000 Performances by Nancy Havlik at Dance Place (Washington, D.C.), supported by Workspace for Choreographers, and at Baltimore School for the Arts (Baltimore, MD)
1999 Théâtre du Renard (Paris). Performed by Isabelle Pierre
1996 Invited Artist, Faculty Concert Series, University of New Hampshire (Dover, NH)
1995-96 Théâtre
Dunois (Paris), Firehouse
Center for the Arts (Newburyport, MA)
Creation Myth Ballet for dancer and 10 children (original music: Jessica
Krash --tape, harp, saxophone, viola; Levine Children's Chorus)
1994 Commission at National
Park Services' Glen Echo Park Hall of Mirrors Series (Glen Echo, Maryland)
Cartesian Studies Solo wtih singing, meditation on the unity of body, mind, & soul, based on the Correspondence between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and René Descartes. Music: Pancrace
Royer, György Ligeti, Maurice Ravel--harpsichord: Jory
Vinikour.
1994 Regard du Cygne
(Paris)
L’Aimable Music (Pancrace
Royer)
2004 Performance of Maxwell’s choreography by Laura
Schandelmeier. Kennedy
Center Millennium Stage
2004 Salle des Arcades, l’Hôtel de Ville de Paris
2003 Performance of Maxwell’s choreography by Laura
Schandelmeier. The Field, Dance Place (Washington, DC)
2001 Taliesin
West (Scottsdale, AZ).
1999 Théâtre du Renard (Paris)
1997 Studio de l'Ermitage (Paris), premiere of Trinity
1997 "Chantiers en cours," Atelier
Artesonado (Paris)
1997 Projection of Video and Discussion, "Seventeenth-Century Women Philosophers" Conference, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
1995-96 Théâtre
Dunois (Paris), Firehouse
Center for the Arts (Newburyport, MA)
1994 Regard du Cygne (Paris)
Buried Oak Trio for older
gentleman (Étienne "Steve" Blanchot) & two women (original music: Alan
Silva --tape, live synthesizer)
1993-94 Palazzo Bardi (Florence, Italy), with Paola del Cucina; Dance
Theater Workshop (NYC) and Tanz Tangente (Berlin, Germany), with Hikari Baba.
Bubbeh's Grace Duet with dancer & violist (original music: Jessica Krash--computer tape with voice, based on interviews with the composer's grandmother; Sarah Wetherbee: viola).
1993 Twentieth Century Ensemble program, Faculty Music Series, Tawes Recital Hall, Department of Music, University of Maryland (College Park, MD)
Equine Geometry Duet for horse with rider (Frank Wollny) and dancer (original music
& live improvisation: Alan
Silva, Noah Howard, Jeanne
Lee, Kidd Jordan, Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris, Maxwell Price)
1993 Frank
Wright Avant-Garde Festival, Haus Schönblick Sculpture Garden (Heimbach,
Germany)
Celtic Baby Disco Duet for dancer & light in site-specific
environment (original music: Alan
Silva --tape, live synthesizer)
1993 Alternative Culture Festival, Multi-Kulti, Haus der Stadt (Düren, Germany)
Choros Video Project Solo Collaboration with Ornette
Coleman
1990-93 Ferme du
Buisson (Marne-la-Vallée, France). Extensive rehearsals with Ornette
Coleman /Prime Time (NYC)
Ophélie Song Antoine Campo's rock "opéra minimal" (original music: Pascal
Humbert; choreography/song: Clara Gibson Maxwell; lyrics: William Shakespeare's Hamlet). An Ange Magnétic/Mon Oncle D'Amérique Coproduction
1989 31-performance Tour: Café
de la Danse (Paris), La MaMa E.T.C.
(NYC), French Institute for Scotland, Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland)
1989 Ophélie Song, Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, Maxi-Single, Limited Edition, Numbered
1989 Ophélie Song, A film by Antoine Campo and performed by Clara Gibson Maxwell (see excerpt here)
Ellington Solo
1987 Solo (music: Duke
Ellington)
Studio Gulliver (Paris)
Sweet, Hot 'n' Stompin', Girouette, and Rite
1987 Trio, Prix Chorégraphique Marcelle Bourgat (music: Duke
Ellington, Vivaldi, Australian Aborigines)
Forum du Mouvement (Paris), Salon de la Danse (Paris)
Entr'acte Ballets Trio for women commissioned by the Paris
American Academy (music: collage)
1986 Théâtre de la Ville (Le Havre, France)
Tsigane Gypsy solo with touring Romanian folk dance company (music: traditional Romanian)
1987 Solo performance, Ve Salon de la danse, Salle des fêtes de la Mairie du 13e arrondissement
1985-86 Extensive touring with Danse de Roumanie (France)
Satin Dolls, City Slicker, Vortex, Lillian, Petrograd, Lust Study, Beethoven Sonata
1980-84 Juilliard
Dance Ensemble (NYC)
DANCE COMPANY EXPERIENCE/EXPERIENCES WITH CHOREOGRAPHERS:
Mon Oncle D'Amérique Productions
1987- Artistic Director/Choreographer
Robert
Garland (Resident Choreographer, Dance
Theater of Harlem)
2004 Solo Dance, Keeping Still/Mountain (video). Fieldwork: Works in Progress, Dance
Place (Washington, DC), December 18. Choreographed by Robert Garland and Clara Gibson Maxwell. Music collage by Duke Ellington ("Come Sunday") and Ärsenik. Costume by Robert Garland and Clara Gibson Maxwell.
Laura Schandelmeier
2004 Soloist on pointe, Annabel (video), Fieldwork: Works in Progress, Dance
Place (Washington, DC), December 18. Music: Philip Glass ("Modern Love Waltz") and Tracy Chapman ("Give Me One More Reason").
2001 Dancer. Bob Ballard's The Quest for Noah's Flood (National Geographic Society documentary). Cinematographer: Foster Wiley
Compagnie Retouramont/Rendez-Vous de la Danse de la Biennale du Val-du-Marne
2002 Dancer, Geneviève Mazin and Yann Desbrosses' Le sens de la visite (Batofar, Paris)
Mark DeGarmo & Dancers
1989 Soloist, Jewish
Museum (NYC) Soloist, No Strings Attached, Café
de la Danse (Paris)
1988-89 Guest Artist, New York State Tour
Anna Sokolow
1987 Solo, "Désir ardent [Longing]," from Ballade; ;Ve Salon de la danse, in the Salle des fêtes de la Mairie du 13e arrondissement
Ruby Shang & Dancers
1987 Guest Artist, Reflections, Lincoln
Center Out of Doors Festival (NYC)
1986 Parisian Coordinator, Dance for Liberty, a Paris / New York Transatlantic Simuldance (music: Marcus Stockhausen). Esplanade des Droits de l'homme, Palais de Chaillot (Paris, France)/front steps of the New York Public Library
Andy de Groat/Red Notes
1986 Dancer, Vidéo-Danse, cinematographer: Charles Picq (Saint-Quentin, France)
Christine Bayle, L'Éclat des muses
1986 Dancer, Medieval dance performances
Ko
Murabushi
1986 Dancer, Panta Rhei, UNESCO Gala (Paris)
Danse Impro Des Jeunes Artistes Martiniquais
1986 Dancer (Paris)
Marilen Breuker/l'Icosaedre Danse-Théâtre
1985 Apprentice (Reims, France)
Cirque Magicville
1985-88 Traveling circus clown and kick-line chorus girl (France)
Brooklyn Dance Ensemble
1984 Dancer (Brooklyn, NY)
Juilliard
Dance Ensemble
1980-84 Soloist and ensemble performer: works by Antony
Tudor (Soirée musicale), Anna
Sokolow (Dreams, Los Marranos, Four Preludes [Premiere]), José Limon (Misa Brevis), Martha
Graham, and Bob
Fosse (Sweet Charity, from dance notation score) (NYC)
Satoru Shimazaki
1980-82 Dancer: Works by Michio
Ito (NYC)
Mary Anthony Dance Theater
1979 Apprentice (NYC)
Harvard-Radcliffe
Dance Company
1976-79 Dancer: Work by Remy
Charlip among others (Cambridge, MA)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
2023 Projection of Encuentro-Encuentro/discussion with students in Mark Jarzombek's "Thinking About Architecture" course 4.607
Sigmund Freud University (Vienna, Austria)
2013 Alexander Technique Teacher
The Waldomore (National Register of Historic Places, Clarksburg, WV)
2010 Multi-Arts Lecture Demonstration: "Marcel Breuer and the Building of the Clarksburg-Harrison Public Library"
2009 Multi-Arts Lecture Demonstration: "Louis A. Johnson"
University of Cincinnati, Dance Division
2009 Modern Dance Class
West Virginia
University, Division of Theater and Dance (Morgantown, WV)
2005 Alexander Technique Teacher, Fall Term
2001, 1993 Performance/Master Classes/Guest Artist
Institut Oneto (Paris, France)
2002 Private Pilates/Alexander Technique-based movement classes
Baltimore School for the Arts (Baltimore, MD)
2000 Lecture-Demonstration for the Music and Dance Departments
Private Alexander
Technique Practice
1999-2005 Certified Alexander Technique International Teacher
L'Ermitage (Paris)
1997 Dance Workshop/Alexander Technique-based barre/Audition
Tanz Tangente (Berlin, Germany)
1994 Tanz-Musik-Improvisation Workshop
New England
Conservatory of Music (Boston, MA)
1991 Performance/Improvisation Seminar with George Russell, Cecil Taylor, and Alan Silva
École Nationale
Supérieure des Arts et des Techniques du Théâtre
(Paris)
1990 Master Classes in lighting/video/dance
PUBLICATIONS:
"Don't be Penny-Wise, Pound Foolish with Our Future." Clarksburg Exponent-Telegram (Clarksburg, West Virginia), October 17, 2021: C7. (Original, unexpurgated version: "Senator Joe: Don't Be Penny-Wise and Pound-Foolish with Our Future.")
"Film Review Essay: Miss Hill: Making Dance Matter," 2015.
"Should Clarksburg Build New Cultural Center or Renovate Rose Garden Theater?" Clarksburg Exponent-Telegram (Clarksburg, West Virginia), December 16, 2012: C5.
"My ATI Experience." ExChange: The Journal of Alexander Technique International, 20:3 (October 2012): 20-22.
"A Conversation with Paris Ballet Master Wayne Byars,
by Clara Gibson Maxwell," ExChange: The Journal of Alexander Technique International, 17:2 (Spring 2009): 22-27 (typescript version with various links added).
"Team Teaching the Alexander Technique at My Home-State University," ExChange: The Journal of Alexander Technique International, 14:1 (February 2006): 1, 4-11.
Interview with Ornette Coleman on Friendship,
Cadence, 25:11 (November 1999).
"Dance, Tudor, and Monsters," Zen Notes, 1989.
"Notes on Tudor," Zen Notes, 34:5 (May 1987): 5-6.
"Dancing Tudor's Cereus," Zen Notes, 28:10 (October 1981): 6.
RESIDENCIES:
Centre National de la Danse (August-September 2006)
Dance Place (April 2003,
December 2004)
Taliesin
West, Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation/Frank
Lloyd Wright School of Architecture (November 2000, February 2001)
Workspace for Choreographers Foundation (January 2000; April 2000)
EDUCATION SUMMARY:
Amsterdam-Maastricht
Summer University
2002 Life Art: Use of New Media Technologies in Performance
Paris
Writers Workshop
2002 Deep Writing, with Eric Maisel
Alexander Technique
International
1979-2009 Training in the Alexander Technique
Latin/Greek
Institute
1992 Intensive study of Ancient Greek for Choros project, CUNY--Brooklyn College (NYC)
Institute
for Art, Culture, and Perception
1990 George Russell's "Lydian Chromatic Concept" seminar for Choros project (Paris)
Cambridge
University Summer School
1988 Trinity Hall Shakespeare course (Cambridge, England)
Académie Des Professeurs de Danse en Île-de-france
1987 Diplôme de Monitrice de Danse (Paris)
Juilliard
School
1980-84 B.F.A. Dance (NYC)
Harvard University
1976-79 Philosophy and Film (Cambridge, MA)
TECHNIQUES:
Composition Hanya
Holm, Jacqueline Robinson, Jerome Andrews, Alfredo Corvino, Janet Soares
Ballet M et Mme Raymond Franchetti, Jacqueline Fynnaert (Paris)
Alfredo Corvino, Hector
Zaraspe (Juilliard), Mary Day (Academy of the Washington Ballet), Wayne Byars
Modern Hanya
Holm, Jerome Andrews, Carolyn
Carlson, Martha
Graham, Dominique
Mercy, Dominique Dupuy; and Françoise Dupuy
Improvisation Simone Forti (NYC, Liège, Pantin), Patricia
Kuypers (Brussels; Trielle, France), Mark
Tompkins (Paris)
F. M. Alexander Walter Carrington (London), David
Gorman (NYC/London/Paris/Saint-Alexandre), Godard Binkley, Suzon Holzer,
Gilles Estran, Eillen
Sellam (Paris), Tommy Thompson (Cambridge, MA), Beret Arcaya and Troup Mathews (NYC), Barbara Conable (Columbus OH), Tessa
Marwick & Paul Versteeg (Amsterdam)
Pilates Kathy Grant (NYC), Jerome Andrews (Paris), Philippe Taupin (Paris), Christina Maria Gadar (Sarasota)
Lighting Jennifer
Tipton & Dana Reitz (NYC & Brussels)
MUSICAL STUDIES/ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Voice Teachers: Beret Arcaya, Lione Mathews (NYC), Marie-Henriette DeJean, Dorothy Stone, Anne Dubost-Charvet, George Roiron (Paris)
1989 Ophélie Song:
Long-Play 10-track 45-rpm record (New Rose), 15-minute Video (SACD #34430)
Shakuhachi
Teacher: Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin
2018 Clara Gibson Maxwell Plays Shakuhachi at Zuihō-in Zen Buddhist Subtemple, Daitoku-ji Monastery (Kyoto, Japan)
1999-2009 Badge RATP 5960 2 (autorisation musicien)
1980-84 Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
(Brooklyn, NY), St.
Joseph's Church (NYC) Juilliard
School (NYC)
Percussion Teachers: Guem,
Henri Samba (Paris)
LANGUAGES:
Fluently bilingual French/English; Ancient Greek (reading tragedy); Spanish (reading knowledge)
ZEN TRAINING:
Joshu Sasaki Roshi (NY; Mount Baldy, California); Mary Farkas & Antony
Tudor (First Zen Institute of America, NYC)