Bryn Cohn returns from New York to teach for CMDC! Just $5 cash at Brockus Project Studios from 8:30-10pm... Described as a “dancemaker who does not shy away from much” (DIY Dancer), Bryn Cohn founded the New York- based contemporary dance company Bryn Cohn + Artists in 2011. The company has performed in premiere venues including Danspace Project, 92nd Street Y, The 14th Street Y, Ailey Citigroup Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Symphony Space, The Boston University Theater and Nazareth College among others. BC + A has brought their teaching programs to institutions including California Institute of the Arts, Peridance Capezio Center, California State University, Los Angeles, Velocity Dance Center, Nazareth College, Chop Shop Dance Festival and Renaissance Arts Academy. Cohn has been commissioned to create original works for Missouri Contemporary Ballet, Billy Bell’s Lunge Dance Collective, The Big Muddy Dance Company, Grand Valley State University, California State University, Fullerton, The Pushing Progress Contemporary Training Program, the fashion designer Betsey Johnson on a site-specific installation, The Youth America Grand Prix and Bayonne High School. She is on permanent faculty at Peridance Capezio Center and for the Pushing Progress Contemporary Training Program where she teaches composition, improvisation and contemporary techniques. Cohn directed the modern department at Greenwich Ballet Academy. As a sought after educator and lecturer, she has participated in educational engagements at Gibney Dance, Loyola Marymount University, California State University, Fullerton, Broadway Dance Center, CAPAS and for the Michael Susten Dance Company. Cohn received a full feature profile in Dance Teacher Magazine in July 2016. She was one of twenty international artists invited to participate in The New Aesthetics Performance Intensive in a dance theatre collaboration conducted by Crystal Pite in Vancouver, B.C. Cohn has performed in works by Ohad Naharin, Alex Ketley, Colin Connor and Barak Marshall, and in self choreographed solos Leak and Au Revoir Love. She graduated with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from California Institute of the Arts in dance performance and composition. More Info below.