Faculty

DONNA KRASNOW

BA (University of California - Berkeley), MSc (University of Oregon)
Professor: Modern Dance and Dance Sciences
Department of Dance, York University

dkrasnow@yorku.ca

Donna Krasnow has a distinguished background as a choreographer, performer, researcher and teach1er. She founded Dance Source, a professional training school in San Francisco, and was artistic director for its resident company Mobius.

In addition to performing as a guest artist with such companies as Footloose, Northern Lights and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane, she performed with the Daniel Lewis Repertory Dance Company in New York and assisted with the staging of Jose Limon's classic works There Is A Time and A Choreographic Offering. She is a guest instructor at the Limon Institute in New York, Canadian Children's Dance Theatre in Toronto, Arts Umbrella in Vancouver, and Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia.

Photo by Gary Ray Rush

Professor Krasnow's scholarly research focuses on dance science, particularly injury prevention, motor learning and motor control, conditioning for dancers and psychological aspects of injury. Her articles have been published in The Journal of Dance Medicine & Science; Impulse: the International Journal of Dance Science, Medicine, and Education; Medical Problems of Performing Artists; Bulletin of Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences; Medecine des Arts; and Dance Research Journal.

She has taught extensively in Canada, the United States, Australia and Japan, and has presented C-I Training, her conditioning/imagery system for dancers, at conferences and professional training programs internationally. She also offers workshops for teachers, including for the Royal Academy of Dance, the Society for Russian Ballet and Teachers Day seminars at York University in collaboration with Professor Karen Bowes-Sewell.

At York, Professor Krasnow teaches courses in modern dance, composition and choreography, repertory, conditioning for dancers, kinesiology, and prevention and care of dance injuries. In 1988 she founded the York Dance Ensemble, the Dance Department's pre-professional repertory touring company, and regularly directs and choreographs for this young company.