Yvonne Meier has been exploring improvisation in performance and teaching Releasing Technique, Authentic Movement and her own improvisational technique, “Scores,” throughout the U.S. and Europe for the past 37 years. She has been on the faculty of the American Dance Festival for the past 5 years. She has taught dance companies such as Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker’s Rosas and Meg Stuart’s Damaged Goods Company, among others. For her choreography, Yvonne Meier has received three “Bessies” as well as an “American Masterpiece Award” from the NEA.
ID: Yvonne Meier in performance. She stands with her arms spreading from her body in a t shape. She wears a peach tone onesie with small plastic babies glued on to it. Photo by Ian Douglas