Judith Chaffee
Associate Professor (Movement)
BS, Skidmore College; MS, Smith College; Diploma, International School of Comic Acting, Reggio-Emilia, Italy. Additional training in Viewpoints and Suzuki with SITI Company, in Meyerhold Technique with Gennadi Bogdanov in Moscow, Grotowski training with Sergey Ostrenko in Latvia, Action Theatre with Ruth Zaporah, and stage combat with Gregory Hoffman at UNLV. She serves as the Movement Coordinator/Choreographer for the BU Opera Institute. A specialist in dance, alignment/release techniques, Commedia dell'Arte, choreography, Viewpoints, masks, contact improvisation, and period styles, she has taught in England, Italy, Denmark, South Korea, Latvia, and extensively in the U.S. and New England. She recently published two CDs on Period Movement through Insight Media and is a founding Member of Village Theatre Project, a collective of professional actors in Massachusetts. A former Artistic Director/choreographer/dancer with Boston Dance Collective (1975-2000), she was awarded a Massachusetts Artist Foundation Fellowship grant (1980) and Finalist award (1986). She has choreographed for OperaBoston, LA Shakespeare Company, Huntington Theatre Company, North Shore Music Theatre, Actors Shakespeare Co., Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Boston Playwrights' Theatre, Stoneham Theatre, Viborg Kulture Festival, Denmark, and Kwachon Madangkuk Festival in South Korea. She is a member of ATHE/ATME and website coordinator for www.atmeweb.org and www.commedia-dell-arte.com.