About Us
Our Mission
The Moving Company Modern Dance Center sees all children and adults as creative beings. Our space provides a safe environment for students to choreograph, explore and experiment while finding comfort in their bodies. We encourage movement vocabulary based on Modern dance technique and alignment work, improvisation, and holistic movement.
Our Logo
The logo was inspired directly from the enchanting nature captured in this touching photograph. This particular image holds a deeply sentimental significance, as it features the beautiful dancer who played an integral role in my Senior Project at Bard College. Tragically, despite her vibrant spirit and undeniable love, she departed from this world a few years after graduating from College. In selecting this image as the foundation for our logo, we pay heartfelt homage to the memory of my cherished friend, ensuring her legacy of grace and passion for movement and dance lives through all our artistic endeavors and in our hearts.
Logo Evolution
Inspiration
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Linda Mensch
Linda earned her B.A. in Dance from Bard College and throughout the years studied at the Cunningham School. She also has studied Hawkins, Limone, ballet, tap and jazz. She founded the Moving Company Modern Dance Center in Warwick, NY in 1996. She has performed with Spoke the Hub Dancing at Lincoln Center, Toby Armor and the Dinosaur Dance Co., and Aileen Passloff. Her performance company, Menschwerks, has performed throughout the New York City metropolitan area, Boston and the UK. In addition to working at the Center for Modern Dance Education for over thirty years and founding the Douglas Street Dance Festival (now known as Brooklyn Arts Exchange Teen Arts Conference), she has worked with Jaque D'amboise and has taught at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Berkley Carroll and Gowanus Arts Exchange, Nature Place, and many public and private schools throughout the tri-state area. Linda has created site specific choreography in Central Park, One Penn Plaza, galleries, store fronts, and stairways throughout the country and in London. She has run classes in theater programs teaching movement to actors and has been commissioned to choreograph for several theater companies. Linda worked for Road Recovery from 2001-2012 teaching dance to at risk children in residential treatment centers.