Artemis

Artemis has been dancing, teaching, and researching dance history for 25 years. She brings her spirited and articulate technique to workshops, which include a lecture on the history and/or culture that generates the dances she teaches. Artemis has contributed to many publications. Extensive travel to 33 countries and intensive research into the idioms of the East, women’s issues, psychology, ancient history, oriental dance, and dance ethnology have yielded many manuscripts and articles. She has an M.A. in psychology, an M.S.W. in social work (with a specialization in cross cultural awareness), and has done postgraduate work in dance movement therapy. Her research is being used by Egyptian universities, the Middle East Institute in Washington D.C., and the Library for the Performing Arts in New York. Illustrations from her extensive collection of antique pictures from North Africa and the Middle East are being used by the International Encyclopedia of Dance and the Smithsonian Institutition.