Lauren Gaul

Faculty Bio

Lauren Gaul has a multifaceted professional career performing as a Radio City Rockette for over 10 years appearing in the national touring company and on the great stage at Radio City Music Hall. She was also a Rockette swing for three years and worked under the direction of; Linda Haberman, Julie Branam, Dennis Callahan, Becky Downing, and Eileen Grace. As a Rockette she appeared in numerous media tours, events, and parades and on stages such as Radio City Music Hall, the Grand Ol’ Opry, the Wang (Boston), and the Fox (Detroit). She choreographed the Drama League Nominated production of Tennessee Williams's The Mutilated starring Mink Stole and Penny Arcade (off Broadway). Her choreography has been presented at Jacob's Pillow Inside Out, Jazz Dance World Congress Emerging Artist Event, Broadway Dance Center, SUNY Purchase, Pace University, Destiny Rising at the Joyce, Jazz at Lincoln Center and many more. She assistant choreographed shows off Broadway, for regional theater (MSMT), for awards shows (Elan Awards), industrials (Footlocker, Izod, Sesame Street etc.), and cruise lines (Princess, Celebrity), and assistant choreographed for Broadway Bares for three years under the direction of Jerry Mitchell and Denis Jones.
She graduated cum laude with a degree in dance performance from Oklahoma City University under the tutelage of Director Jo Rowan and returned to school to get her MFA in dance performance and teaching from the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase College. While at Purchase she was a Graduate Teaching Assistant for Kazuko Hirabayshi and Roz Newman. For her graduate research she reconstructed a Ruth Currier piece under the direction of Ann Vachon and Alan Danielson of the Limon foundation. In her graduate concerts she worked with many repetiteurs, such as Jim May (Sokolow Foundation), Regina Larkin (Joyce Tristler foundation), The Nagrin Foundation and performed pieces choreographed by Max Stone, Cherice Barton, Daniel Nagrin, Pedro Ruiz, Mark Morris, Joyce Trisler, and Anna Sokolow.
Lauren is an Associate Professor of dance and the Associate Executive Director of Sands College of Performing Arts at Pace University where she co-wrote and co-founded the BFA Commercial Dance program in 2012. She served for five years as Co-Director of the BFA program and directed the Dance Out Loud concert as well as the Senior Showcase. She recently stepped in as Interim Program Head of the BFA Commercial Dance program where she teaches courses in Jazz Pedagogy, Jazz Technique I and III, Ballet Pedagogy, Dance History, Senior Seminar, Senior Project, Freshman Seminar UNV 101 and more. Her other teaching credits include: Broadway Dance Center, New Dance Group, Dance Masters of America, Perry Mansfield, The Rockette Experience, Oklahoma City University, MacComb College, SUNY Purchase School of the Arts and Conservatory of Dance, NYCDA SDI, The Arts Council of Pennsylvania, and numerous other schools, studios, conventions, and intensives nationwide. Lauren is an ABT® certified teacher from Primary to level 5 and was an Artist in Residence and Director of Dance at the New York School for the Deaf where she created and taught a dance program for students from kindergarten to high school. Lauren currently lives in Bergen County, New Jersey with her husband, and two daughters, she is an avid watercolor painter and crocheter and loves summers on the Connecticut coast line.

Licensures and Certificates

• American Ballet Theater, ABT (R) National Training Curriculum Certified Teacher Certified teacher through the ABT(R) National Training Curriculum Primary to Level 5.

MFA, Purchase College SUNY, Conservatory of Dance, Purchase, NY, 2011
Dance Performance and Teaching

BPA, Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, OK, 2000
Dance Performance

Research Interest

Jazz Dance, Jazz Dance Pedagogy

Artistic and Professional Performances and Exhibits

The Mutilated
[Dance - Choreograph piece] Tennessee Williams Festival and New Ohio Theater, New York, NYRadio City Christmas Spectacular
Radio City Rockettes, Madison Square Gardens Entertainment, Radio City Music HallRadio City Christmas Spectacular
[Dance - Perform multiple pieces] Radio City Rockettes, Madison Square Gardens Entertainment, Radio City Music HallRiedel Dance Theater
[Dance - Perform multiple pieces] Riedel Dance Theater, Purchase, NYRadio City Christmas Spectacular
[Dance - Perform multiple pieces] Radio City Rockettes, Madison Square Gardens Entertainment, Radio City Music HallRadio City Christmas Spectacular
[Dance - Perform multiple pieces] Radio City Rockettes, Madison Square Gardens Entertainment, Grand Ol' Opry, Nashville TNBroadway Bares Equity Fights AIDS
[Assistant Choreographer] Broadway Cares, Roseland Ballroom, NYCRadio City Christmas Spectacular
[Dance - Perform multiple pieces] Radio City Rockettes, Madison Square Gardens Entertainment, The Wang Theater Boston MAJacob's Pillow Inside Out Performance Series
[Dance - Choreograph multiple pieces] Becket, MACorporate Industrials
[Dance - Perform piece] AUDI, Astra Zeneca, MJM Entertainment, New York, NYCorporate Industrials
[Dance - Choreograph piece] IZOD, Lady Footlocker, Sesame Street, Sesame Workshop, Astra Zeneca, MJM Entertianment, New York, NYRadio City Christmas Spectacular
[Dance - Perform multiple pieces] Radio City Rockettes, Madison Square Gardens Entertainment, FOX Theater Detroit MIRadio City Christmas Spectacular
[Dance - Perform multiple pieces] Radio City Rockettes, Madison Square Gardens Entertainment, Grand Ol' Opry, Nashville TNTorched
[Dance - Perform piece] Henry Street Settlement, NYCBroadway Dance Center Performance Outlet
[Dance - Choreograph piece] Broadway Dance Center, New York, NYJazz Dance World Congress
[Dance - Choreograph multiple pieces] Buffalo, NYTap Team II and Company
[Dance - Perform piece] Tap Team II and Company, Philadelphia, PA

Past Courses

DAN 102: Jazz Dance
DAN 110: Ballet I (Beg/Int)
DAN 114: Theater Dance II
DAN 116: Tap Dance I
DAN 196: Topic: Contemporary Dance I
DAN 196: Topic: Dance History
DAN 196: Tpc: Tap Dance: Bgnr - Intrmdt
DAN 196: Tpc: Theater Dance I(Beg/Int)
DAN 202: Jazz I
DAN 205: Jazz Dance II (Intermediate)
DAN 311: Jazz III
PACD 100: Ballet I
PACD 102: Jazz I
PACD 105: Ballet II
PACD 107: Jazz II
PACD 145: Vocal Music for Dancers I
PACD 199: Commercial Dance Lab
PACD 205: Ballet IV
PACD 227: Choreography I
PACD 375: Ballet Pedagogy
PACD 379: Jazz Dance Pedagogy
PACD 384: Appld Perfm Lab for BFA Dancrs
PACD 435: Dance History
PACD 475: Dance Seminar
PACD 499: Senior Project
PAGE 187: Foundations of the Artist
PAGE 390: Theatre Internship
PAGE 395: Independent Study in Theater
UNV 101: First-Year Smnr Unvrsty Cmmnty

Professional Memberships

• American Ballet Theater National Training Curriculum
• American Guild of Variety Artists [former Union Representative and Co-Chair of Rockette Negotiation Panel]

College Service

• Sands College Curriculum Committee

University Service

• Sands College Dean Search Committee [Committee Chair]
• Provost Retention Task Force [Committee Member]