BFA, SUNY Purchase. MFA, City College of New York. A movement artist, educator, and writer, Brungard (she, her) has received numerous grants for her creative work, which encompasses dance, film, and installation. Most recently, she received a Creative Engagement Grant from the Lower Manhattan Culture Council in support of The Global Warming Dunking Booth, an interactive performance installation. Brungard presented Qualia—a contemporary update on a postmodern, task-based, movement score using SMS prompts—at the Movement and Computing Conference at Arizona State University in 2019. Since 2008, Brungard has been teaching undergraduate as well as graduate courses on subjects ranging from Dance History to Screendance to Yoga in the Hunter College Dance Department. In addition, she has taught at Queens College. At SUNY Purchase, Brungard studied dance history with notable author/scholars such as Sally Banes, Joan Acocella, David Vaughan, and Wendy Perron. She recently assisted with citations for Perron’s book, The Grand Union, and has written for Dance Magazine. In her early career, Brungard performed with various choreographers—including Wendy Perron, Merián Soto, Victoria Marks, Mark Taylor, and Dance Alloy repertory choreographers such as David Rousseve, Eiko & Koma, and Ann Carlson—contributing to the work creatively, usually through improvisational practices. Brungard is an Authorized Level 2 Ashtanga Yoga teacher and has designed the curriculum for a 200-hour teacher-training course, Ashtanga Sadhana. SLC, 2022–
Undergraduate Courses 2022-2023
Dance
Dance History
Component—Year
This course examines the historical roots of contemporary dance, with an emphasis on global forms that have had expression and become hybridized in the United States. Themes that run throughout the course include dance and spirituality, sexuality, gender, class, and activism. Working thematically rather than chronologically, we will look at what makes dance universal and imperative as a cultural force in general in the context of related sociopolitical and artistic movements. We will seek to understand how dance is both is expressed by and reflects the human condition, embedded in communities as both a social and an artistic form.
Faculty
Graduate Courses 2022-2023
MFA Dance
Dance History
Component—Year
This course examines the historical roots of contemporary dance, with an emphasis on global forms that have had expression and become hybridized in the United States. Themes that run throughout the course include dance and spirituality, sexuality, gender, class, and activism. Working thematically rather than chronologically, we will look at what makes dance universal and imperative as a cultural force in general in the context of related sociopolitical and artistic movements. We will seek to understand how dance is both is expressed by and reflects the human condition, embedded in communities as both a social and an artistic form.