Diane Frank, M.A.

Diane Frank has been a member of Stanford's Dance Division since 1988. She teaches advanced modern dance technique, mentors student choreographers, organizes Stanford's participation in the American College Dance Festival, and for many years co-directed the annual Dance Division concert. She has been the rehearsal director for numerous repertory works by visiting artists, including works by Brenda Way, Don Redlich, Remy Charlip, and Janice Garrett. She has created and implemented numerous dance research and performance projects in collaboration with Stanford colleagues and visiting artists, notably Chance Dances as part of "Encounter:Merce" with Lively Arts, the Anna Halprin "Myths" Project, and a repertory workshop of Merce Cunningham's "Scramble."

She created the popular "Duets Project" which will be offered again this Spring Quarter '09, and conceived and organized the production of "RED ROVER," a site-specific performance project of 5 commissioned dances for 5 evocative campus sites, performed Spring Quarter '08. "RED ROVER" was linked to the participatory performance course "Figure/Ground: Site-Specific Dance Performance in Outdoor Environments."

Prior to Stanford, Frank lived and danced in New York City, training with Merce Cunningham and dancing with Douglas Dunn and Dancers. She taught technique at the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio for eight years. She was selected by Cunningham to teach repertory and technique for the Atalier Cunningham at the American Center in Paris. She assisted Dunn in many creations and reconstructions of his works, notably for the Paris Opera Ballet where she was a frequent guest teacher for the Groupe de Recherche. Her own work includes eleven years of collaboratively-choreographed projects with Deborah Riley that were commissioned and produced at Dance Theater Workshop in NYC, Dance Place in Washington, D.C., Riverside Theater in London, and The American Center in Paris. Independently, she has choreographed for professionals, students, and young children, enjoying the specific opportunity of each project. She has received numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Jerome Foundation, Meet the Composer, and Arts Silicon Valley.

Office: Roble Gym & Dance Studio, Room 8
Phone (office): 650 725-9330
Email: