Since 1997, Marsha has created thought-provoking work that addresses tangible aspects of existence through the beauty and strength of a unique contemporary dance aesthetic. Marsha’s movement invention considers the nature of embodied presence through contemporary dance, improvisation, ballet, yoga, ideokinesis, the Alexander Technique, meditation, tennis and, most recently the GYROKINESIS® Method. She received her BFA in Dance from Arizona State University and her MFA in Performance and Choreography from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Marsha has trained in somatics, the Alexander Technique and yoga with many of the field's most notable teachers both in the US and abroad, including David Dorfman, Bebe Miller, Liat Waysbort, Katherine Duke, Nada Diachenko, Michelle Ellsworth, Elina Mooney, Cliffe Keuter, Joe Goode, Mary Fitzgerald and members of Ballet Preljocaj. Marsha is an avid traveller, and spends her summers studying throughout Europe.

 

Marsha Barsky was the Artist Director of Company Rose, a Nashville-based contemporary dance company from 2007 - 2017. Her choreography has been presented at venues throughout the US and abroad. She has been a company member of Desert Dance Theatre and Shelter Repertory Dance Theatre, and has danced in works by Isadora Duncan, Katherine Duke, Gabriel Masson, Sean Curran, Pat Graney, Bill Evans, Kim Neal Nofsinger, Ana Baer, Stephanie Batten-Bland, and Ivan Pulinkala. She has collaborated with numerous visual artist and musicians including David Heustess, Aaron Walters, VORTEX Percussion Ensemble, Benton C Bainbridge, Mark Hosford, Liz Scofield and SoPercussion.

 

As a university professor, Marsha has taught a broad array of classes in the studio and in the classroom. She has been on faculty at the Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, Western Kentucky University and CU Boulder, and has taught at numerous studios, festivals, intensives and residencies. From 2003-2007 she served as the Director of the Vanderbilt Dance Program, a community-oriented dance center housed in the Office of the Dean of Students. She is a certified yoga instructor, through the Eldorado Yoga Ashram in Boulder, CO (2002). After years of study and research, Marsha became a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique (ATI) under the direction of Robin Gilmore, in 2011.

 

Marsha, Associate Professor, is currently the Director of the Dance Program at Middle Tennessee State University, where she teaches courses in contemporary dance, choreography, improvisation, the Alexander Technique, and dance studies. She has been recently appointed an Affiliate Professor, Chengdu University in Chengdu, China.