Katie Langan

Background

About Katie Langan

Katie Langan is the Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty at Marymount Manhattan College. Prior to this work, she was Chair of the Visual & Performing Arts Division (VPA) after having served as Chair of Dance at MMC for over twenty years, moving on as the Department reached Top Ten in College Magazine. While serving as Chair of VPA, she simultaneously acted as Interim Chair for the Art and Art History Department. As Chair of Dance, she fundraised with the MMC Dance Advisory Board, now 18 members strong, providing academic scholarship and guest artist opportunities. Additionally, Langan taught company class for The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for over three years and taught advanced levels for the Ailey’s summer program for several years. She has taught for Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, NYCDA, Dance Space, NYU Tisch, and Ballet Maestro along with Master Classes for the Connecticut Performing Arts Center and others. She was a recent guest teacher for Ballet Hispanico’s 2nd Company. Lectures for Broadway Dance Center’s Teacher Conference have included; How to Teach a Good Barre, Why Go to College, How to Teach Fondus, and To the Pointe. Langan has also written several articles for Dancer Magazine.Langan served as a judge for DRA’s Dancin’ Downtown at The Joyce, the Princess Grace Foundation USA 2010 Dance and Choreography Panel, and was a Board Member of Parsons Dance from 2009-2011. By invitation, she served as a participant in “feedback” showings for The Joyce Theater’s Creative Residency Program. Creative Residency Artists include Wally Cardona, Andrea Miller and Brian Brooks. She is certified in the ABT National Training Curriculum© through Level 5.She received her dance training at the North Carolina School of the Arts, American Ballet Theatre and the School of American Ballet. Before Marymount, Langan performed with numerous companies including the Boston Repertory Company, New York City Opera, William Carter Dance Ensemble, the Zurich Ballet, Chamber Ballet USA, New Jersey Ballet and Twyla Tharp Dance. She had the opportunity to work directly with Rudolf Nureyev, Natalia Makarova, Anthony Tudor, Billy Forsythe, Rudi van Dan Zieg, Gelsey Kirkland, Eleanor D’Antuano and Brian McDonald to name a few. After retiring from performance, Langan studied art and design at MMC receiving her BA, summa cum laude, in 1990 when she graduated as class valedictorian. She received the Teaching Excellence Award in 2014 and the Raymunde McKaye Award in 2017 for establishing a national/international reputation in Dance at MMC.