My Dance & Research Journey

Dagmar Spain, born in the Czech Republic, is a dance artist, researcher and educator collaborating with filmmakers, visual artists and writers at different institutions around the world; recently at the University of New York in Prague, Czech Republic, where she designed the course The Power of Words, teaching the art of monologue writing, DanceWorks Berlin, Germany, a BFA dance program, where she taught modern/ contemporary dance and designed the course “Applied Learning” for pre-professional dancers; and at the National Czech/Slovak Museum & Library (NCSLM) in Iowa, where she developed programs with the focus on embodied democracy.

Dagmar conducts experiential movement workshops for all populations to unleash the healing power of embodied expressions with a dialogic approach, including at different Transformative Learning conferences, recently at the University of Malta (2025). In the U.S., she taught as a dance artist and lecturer at Brown University, PennState University, Montclair University, and from 1999-2007 at the 92nd St. Y, Harkness Dance Center. She received her BFA in dance at the College for Dance and Performing Arts, Frankfurt, Germany, and her MFA in dance and choreography at Tisch School of the Arts, N.Y.U. Ms. Spain completed her EdD in dance education with a holistic focus on dialogic research & pedagogy at Teachers College/Columbia University in May 2024. Dagmar lives in Berlin, Germany.

"On the whole this company, in trying to bring together not only various disciplines but various people, including performers and audience, is trying to tell us something important: that we need to reach out to each other, to believe in our best dreams of humanity, if we want to survive."

                                                                                                           - Roberta Pikser   Arts Cure, New York