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Brenton Cheng
Adjunct Instructor, Dance
Instructor
Part-Time Faculty
Biography
Brenton Cheng (CLMA, CMT-SE, MSME) is a teacher, director, and performer of improvised and choreographed work, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a teacher, he empowers students to become sophisticated movers through a cultivation of somatic and poetic awareness, as well as fostering a capacity for surrender. In addition to USF, he serves on the faculty of Integrated Movement Studies (Laban/Bartenieff movement analysis certification), and also teaches performance workshops internationally.
Expertise
- Movement education
- Contact improvisation & partnering
- Laban Movement Analysis
- Bartenieff Fundamentals
- Performance direction
Research Areas
- Partnering composition
- Movement notation
- Applications of technology to movement education
Education
- CLMA
- CMT-SE
- MSME
Prior Experience
- Moving On Center, Oakland
- Integrated Movement Studies, Berkeley