Member, NASD Committee on Nominations
Elected September 2024, term ends September 2027
MARSHA BARSKY is the Chair and Professor of Dance at Kennesaw State University, with over 20 years of experience fostering and implementing creative and educational programs for both the public and private sectors. Prior to her current appointment, Professor Barsky was an Associate Professor and Director of Dance at Middle Tennessee State University. She has also served as Director of the Vanderbilt University Dance Program.
Professor Barsky continues to hone her craft by engaging widely with contemporary approaches to dance and somatics for dancers and non-dancers. She has taught at numerous venues, festivals, and conferences throughout the U.S., Canada, France, Switzerland, and Spain. In 2017, she was named Foreign Expert in Dance at Chengdu University, China. In May 2020, she was a visiting scholar at the Kroeger College of Public Affairs at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Her writings on Dance and the Dialogical Self have been published in the Journal of Dance Education and in Bloomsbury Press’s Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism volume.
Professor Barsky serves NASD as a visiting evaluator.
Professor Barsky holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Performance, Somatics, and Choreography from the University of Colorado Boulder, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance from Arizona State University. She is a certified Alexander Technique teacher, yoga instructor, and licensed GYROKINESIS® teacher and GYROTONIC® apprentice.
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Posted October 2024