Carol Bartlett
Artistic Director, Dance Department,
Contemporary Dance
Faculty, Opera Department
Carol Bartlett, Artistic Director of Peabody Dance for the past seventeen years, is a diverse and prolific choreographer whose generative work with established and burgeoning composers has resulted in music-dance collaborative projects in theaters and festivals across the United States and Europe. Her rich and broad-based credentials are both choreographic and pedagogical- uniquely in equal measure.
Ms. Bartlett received her early dance training in England and earned a B. Ed. from London University. From 1974-77 she studied with German expressionist dancer, Sigurd Leeder, protégé of Rudolf von Laban and ballet master for the Jooss Ballet Company. Prior to moving to the U.S., Ms. Bartlett was a performer, teacher and choreographer in England and Switzerland and received the first prize for the Concours Internationale de Chorégraphie in Nyon.
Before coming to Baltimore, Ms. Bartlett initiated and chaired the dance department at USC's Community School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles, founded and directed her own company, Pertpetuum Mobile, and was artist-in-residence at California State Universities in Fresno and Long Beach. During her tenure at Peabody, in addition to establishing and teaching an outstanding core-training program in all areas of contemporary dance, Ms. Bartlett conceives, produces and choreographs (at times in collaborations with other Peabody faculty) the school's performances. Among her activities with the Preparatory Music Department and Peabody Conservatory were the co-development of Arts for Talented Youth (ATY), a pre-professional program for gifted high school dancers and musicians, and teaching stage movement in the Conservatory Opera Department.
