Susan Leslie Mann performed with professional ballet and
modern companies, including the Hartford Chamber Ballet,
Das Bonner Ballet, and the Sharir Dance Company before
receiving her M.F.A. in Choreography in 1987. Her major
teachers were Igor Youskevitch, Stanley Hall, Mary Alice
Callahan, and Yacov Sharir, before her move to the Baltimore
area where she continued her studies with Sylvia Druker and
Denise Bell-Hyland. She has also taught, choreographed and
directed companies for the University of Kansas, the University
of North Carolina at Greensboro, Western Michigan University,
and the American Deaf Dance Company. As an Associate Professor in the Towson
University Department of Dance, Ms. Mann has received Individual Artist Awards
from the State of Maryland in both Performance and Choreography, and has just
completed a dance designed for television broadcast in collaboration with faculty
members from the EMF and Music Departments.
B.A., University of Texas, 1982
M.F.A.,
University of North
Carolina at Greensboro,
1987
