MATT PARDO, MFA, AEA, has performed in Eisenhower Dance Ensemble, River North Chicago Dance Company (apprentice), Pittsburgh Opera, Groundworks Dance Theatre, Einstein on the Beach (Olivier Award–Best Opera), and Lucinda Childs Dance Company, among others. Dance Europe Magazine selected him as a “Top 100 dancer in the world” for 2010/2011 and called him “an artist to watch.” Pardo is a co-founder and co-director of the production company The Blanket (theblanket.org), which is now producing Lucinda Childs Dance Company, Netta Yerushalmy, and other artists. Choreographic and teaching credits include the American Dance Festival, Point Park University, Elon University, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School, Centre National De Danse Paris, Slippery Rock University, and more. Scholarly research includes an article in the Journal of Dance Education discussing the use of experiential observation in developing a practice of performance. Pardo is an associate professor at James Madison University.
