JOAN HARTSHORNE, Gyrotonic® / Gyrokinesis®

After studying at the Jose Limon Studio in New York City, Joan Hartshorne danced with the Jose Limon Company. Joan also studied at the Martha Graham School, the Alwin Nikolais Studio, and the Connecticut College Summer School of Dance.

Joan's choreography has been performed by the Karamu Dancers, Lake Erie Opera Company, the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Cleveland Ballet Guild, the Cleveland Chamber Orchestra, the Covenant Dancers, Dance Center Company, and Case Western Reserve University.

Joan was the director of the Karamu Dancers, faculty at the Dance Center of Cleveland, Director of the Covenant Dancers, and is currently a faculty member at the Beck Center for the Performing Arts.

In addition, Joan is a certified instructor of both Gyrokinesis® and Gyrotonics®.

She holds a BFA in Dance from Case Western Reserve Univesity, Cleveland, Ohio.