Bertie Ferdman

Teaching Philosophy
I am passionate about theatre, and consider the arts a vital contribution to society. To me, every individual is a powerful creative source. This philosophy is evident in how I teach and how I create. I give students the tools and the knowledge, access to games, improvisations, movement skills, writings, performances, artists, in order to inspire their own voices, their own thinking. Based on the process I use with my own theatre company to develop new work, I teach skills and ways of thinking about art with a focus on how students can apply these principles directly to their own work.

Academic Degrees
PhD Candidate, Graduate Center—CUNY
MA, New York University, TISCH- Performance Studies
BA, Yale University

Other Training
Jacques Lecoq School of Movement Theatre, Paris, France
Phil Soltanoff, Viewpoints
Odin Teatret, Movement
Linda Wise and Enrique Pardo, Voice and Movement
Augusto Boal, Theatre of Images

Movement for Actors
Contemporary Latin American Theatre

PREVIOUS TEACHING
Manhattanville College

Publications
Prizes and Awards
Magnet Dissertation Fellowship
CUNY Honors College Instructional Technology Fellowship
CUNY Writing Across the Curriculum Fellowship
Franklin Furnace Award for Performance (with Ex.Pgirl)
Graduate Teaching Fellowship
Presidential Scholar

Performance Work:
Co-Founder and Artistic-co director, Ex.Pgirl
HERE Artist in Residence: 2002-04; 2007-present
Co-creator and performer:

Paris Syndrome
currently in development
workshop performances Culturemart, HERE

10 Plates
HERE Art Center, 2007
Culturemart Festival, 2007
Prelude Festival (Martin Segal Center, CUNY), 2006

Waving Hello
HERE Art Center, 2004
Brown University, 2005

Ablution
HERE Art Center, 2003
Winner Best of “American Living Room Festival”

Dramaturg, Invisible Cities, The Builders Association

Performer:
Shadow Casters, Boris Bakal (The Kitchen)

Now and Then you put your hand over, Tai Dang (Danspace)

The Hour we knew nothing of each other by Peter Handke, ensemble, director Phil Soltanoff (Five Myles)
Strange Attractors, ensemble, director Phil Soltanoff, choreographer Deb Fernandez (Mass Moca; Five Myles)

The Servant and Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni, Blackmoon Theatre

The Bakkhai, by Euripides, Blackmoon Theatre

Selected Public Presentations and Professional Activities
Convener and moderator: Site-Specific Performance: Theatre and Urbanism. Martin E. Segal Theatre Center
Curator: Rodrigo Garcia’s premiere production of Accidens in USA. Martin E. Segal Theatre Center
Co-curator: International Site-Specific Performance Symposium. Martin E. Segal Theatre Center.
Panelist: NYFA Performance Awards
Co-curator: American Living Room Theatre Festival, HERE Arts Center