Barbara Angeline

Barbara holds an M.A. in Dance Education (New York University) and a B.A. in Dance (University of California, Irvine). She is an Assistant Professor in Dance and Arts Online at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Teaching includes Jazz Dance; History of Broadway Dance–a course which I wrote–Broadway Dance Technique, Dance History: World Survey, Dance Appreciation Online, Dance Studies and Dance Improvisation. She also teach MFA courses in Research and Pedagogy for Online Dance Education.

Previous teaching includes: History and Performance of Musical Theater, Ballet and Jazz Dance (Drew University), Musical Theatre Dance and weekly musical theatre audition workshops (Steinhardt School at NYU); Movement for Actors, movement and combat for Academy Company plays and musical theatre and period movement workshops (American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York; Ballet and Musical Theatre Dance (Lee Strasberg Institute, substitute).

As a performer, Barbara was featured in Broadway Backwards 5 (soloist) at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Broadway Backwards 6 (Dance Captain) at the Longacre Theater, and Broadway Backwards 7 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on Broadway. Credits also include: The Oakland Ballet Company (soloist), The Gypsy of the Year Awards, featured dance roles in Equity musicals, 5 years in the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular, and 4 years as dance captain and dancer for The Radio City Easter Spectacular. She had the great fortune to work with Woody Allen, Jerry Mitchell, Graciela Daniele, Robert Bartley, Bernadette Peters and Aretha Franklin.

Barbara is the founder/artistic director for Hysterika Jazz Dance Company, a dance company dedicated to paying tribute to the origins of jazz dance and finding a voice in the evolution of jazz dance. Dance works are often intertwined with historical explorations: Tightrope, inspired by a study of Bob Fosse; eat Crow inspired by the life, era and movement of Josephine Baker; and Mi Maschera (Mask Me) which explored the opportunities that Venetian masks may have provided for women of the Baroque era to explore repressed identities. In February 2017, she performed the solo from eat Crow as part of an event at the National Black Theatre in Harlem–“Celebrating Black Excellence.” She also choreographed Hot Miss Lil–based on the life and music of Lil Hardin Armstrong–and Doin’ My Jazz, which was inspired by the movement and music of James Brown. Current creative research/choreography is focused on Ada Overton Walker, an iconic black feminist dancer, choreographer, and creative director who forwarded new ideas about black, female performers in the late 19th/ early 20th centuries.