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Directory Jeff Friedman Jeff Friedman is a dancer and choreographer who has been based in San Francisco from 1979 to 2003. He received a professional degree in architecture from the University of Oregon and specializes in the creation of multidisciplinary site-specific performance events. Jeff was a member of the Oberlin Dance Company from 1980-1989, touring nationally and internationally in Southeast Asia and the former Soviet Union. He has also been a guest artist with the Santa Fe, Los Angeles and San Francisco Opera Companies and has taught dance technique and history throughout California including appointments at Sonoma State and San Francisco State Universities. In 1988 Jeff founded LEGACY,
an oral history project for the Bay Area dance community
held at the San Francisco Performing Arts Library &
Museum. He also consults throughout the United States
on creating new projects based LEGACY's model. Support
for LEGACY has included numerous grants from the National
Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council.
Jeff holds a Ph.D. in Dance History and Theory from the University of California, Riverside where he was Jacob K. Javits United States Department of Education Fellow. His research areas include oral history theory and methodology, narrative theory, phenomenological approaches in philosophy and Futurist photography. A certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst, Jeff's current research is a qualitative study of oral history interviews with former members of the Twyla Tharp Dance Company. His work extends cognitive science theories of language production through metaphor toward a more sophisticated apprehension of embodied channels of communication. His research has been published in Sounds and Gestures of Recollection: Performing the Art of Memory (Cándida Smith, Routledge); The Oral History Research Handbook (Baylor University, AltaMira Press); Historia, Antropologia y Fuentes Orales (University of Barcelona) and The Oral History Review. Photo Credits:
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