Biography

Katie Langan is the Associate Dean, Arts and Media for the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University – New York City. She served as the Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty at Marymount Manhattan College for three and half years, serving on the Interim President’s cabinet in implementing the merger with Northeastern University. Prior to this work, she was Chair of the Visual & Performing Arts Division (VPA) after having served as Chair of Dance at MMC for over twenty years, moving on as the Department reached Top Ten in College Magazine. While serving as Chair of VPA, she simultaneously acted as Interim Chair for the Art and Art History Department. While Chair of Dance, the program grew from 65 students to over 250, and she fundraised with the MMC Dance Advisory Board, 18 members strong, providing academic scholarship and guest artist opportunities.

Additionally, Langan taught company class for The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for over three years and taught advanced levels for the Ailey’s summer program for several years. She has taught for Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, NYCDA, Dance Space, NYU Tisch, and Ballet Maestro along with Master Classes for the Connecticut Performing Arts Center and others. She was also a guest teacher for Ballet Hispanico’s 2nd Company. Lectures for Broadway Dance Center’s Teacher Conference have included; How to Teach a Good Barre, Why Go to College, How to Teach Fondus, and To the Pointe. Langan has also written several articles for Dancer Magazine.

Langan served as a judge for DRA’s Dancin’ Downtown at The Joyce, the Princess Grace Foundation USA 2010 Dance and Choreography Panel, and was a Board Member of Parsons Dance from 2009-2011. By invitation, she served as a participant in “feedback” showings for The Joyce Theater’s Creative Residency Program. Creative Residency Artists include Wally Cardona, Andrea Miller and Brian Brooks. She is certified in the ABT National Training Curriculum© through Level 5.

Earlier in her career, Langan performed with numerous companies, including the Boston Repertory Company, New York City Opera, the Zurich Ballet, Chamber Ballet USA, and Twyla Tharp Dance. She had the opportunity to work directly with Rudolf Nureyev, Natalia Makarova, Anthony Tudor, Billy Forsythe, and Rudi van Dan Zieg, to name a few. A noted choreographer with over thirty ballets created, her 1995 ballet, Akhmatova, is in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts video archive. Most recently her choreography, Under The Surface, was performed at The Joyce Theater to represent Marymount Manhattan College at NYCDA’s Destiny Rising gala. Langan received her dance training at the North Carolina School of the Arts, American Ballet Theatre, and the School of American Ballet. After retiring from performance, she studied art and design at MMC and received her B.A., summa cum laude, in 1990 when she graduated as class valedictorian. She received the Teaching Excellence Award in 2014 and the Raymunde McKaye Award in 2017 for establishing a national/international reputation in Dance at MMC.

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