Game Designer

Deborah Friedes holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA from The Ohio State University. She trained intensively at the American Repertory Ballet’s Princeton Ballet School before diving into modern dance at Brown and dabbling in Israeli folk dance at New York’s 92nd Street YM-YWHA. As a performer, Deborah has danced in works by Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Merce Cunningham, Donald McKayle, Anna Sokolow, David Parsons, and Carolyn Dorfman; as a director, she has reconstructed works by Doris Humphrey and Helen Tamiris from Labanotation scores. Passionate about dance scholarship and outreach, Deborah is a researcher for the American Dance Legacy Institute (ADLI). She has performed and coached several of ADLI’s Repertory Etudes, and she arranged the Village Etude, based on Sophie Maslow’s The Village I Knew (1950). Deborah has taught or conducted guest classes at OSU, the New York State Summer School of the Arts, Ft. Hayes Metropolitan Education Center, and the Arts Impact Middle School (AIMS).