Hilary Bryan, CMA, is a Wisconsin native who trained in ballet and creative movement from the age of three. She performed extensively on Taiwan with Dance Forum Taipei, Ming-Shen Ku, and Fu-Lann Tao as well as domestically with Charles Moulton, Deborah Slater, June Watanabe, Dandelion Dancetheater, Mobius Ensemble, and Pearl Ubungen.
Ms. Bryan is certified in Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) by the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in New York, lectures in LMA at California State University Hayward, and teaches in the Integrated Movement Studies LMA certification programs (offered through the University of Utah). She taught LMA-based modern dance technique and body alignment at the San Francisco Dance Center for seven years. She has also taught in international festivals in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia as well as at the Oakland Ballet, University of California at Berkeley, SF Performing Arts Workshop, and Taipei American School.
Ms. Bryan earned her B.A. in Russian, history, and mathematics from Smith College and was awarded the prestigious International Educational Exchange grant for independent academic research in the Soviet Union (one full year of funding). She has studied Action Theater with Ruth Zaporah and Sten Rudstrom and classical voice with Bettina Bjorksten and Jane Bryden. Influential teachers have included: Ruth Zaporah, Keith Hennessy, Peter Schmitz, Jim Coleman, Hannah Wiley, Bess and Tibor Zana, Sunny Pang, Lucinda Childs, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Augusta Moore, Peggy Hackney, Janice Meaden, Barbara Mahler, Neil Greenberg, Susan Klein, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, and scores more.
In January 2000, Ms. Bryan co-founded The Body at Work, an ergonomics consultancy, training individuals and corporate clients to move more efficiently and safely at work.
