LAUREN NEWMAN is a New York City based dance artist and teacher. She holds a BFA in dance and a B.A. in art history from Southern Methodist University. She was a member of the Martha Graham Dance Company from 2010-2016 where she performed soloist roles in Graham’s repertory, as well as in works by Kyle Abraham, Larry Keigwin, Nacho Duato, and Andonis Foniadakis. Lauren was part of the original creative process for works by Annie B. Parson, Marie Chouinard, and Michelle Dorrance. In 2012 she performed in the touring Italian production, Cercando Picasso, a play directed by Antonio Calenda with choreography by the artistic director of the Martha Graham Dance Company, Janet Eilber.

Lauren can also be seen in the Martha Graham Dance Technique video, produced by Dance Spotlight, as well as in the feature film Fall to Rise directed by Jayce Bartok. This past year she performed in the music video Black Snow by the music artist Oneohtrix Point Never and in his concertscape, Myriad, at the Park Avenue Armory. Most recently she performs with Madeline Hollander, and has also worked with Isabel Lewis, Yanghee Lee, Jesse Factor, Kristin Draucker, and Deborah Zall. Lauren has taught as an adjunct professor at Marymount Manhattan College and Long Island University, and has been a guest teacher at Southern Methodist and Rutgers Universities. Lauren continues to teach at the Martha Graham School and enjoyed working with our younger generation of artists at USDAN camp for the arts for the last three summers. Lauren is also certified to teach in the Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis methods.