Assistant Professor, Dance Education Coordinator
Physical Education & Human Performance
Dance
Dance Education, BS
Contact
Office
Harrison J. Kaiser Hall
018-10
Tuesday
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Wednesday
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Thursday
9:25 am - 10:25 am
Or by appointment
Biography
After an extensive career in Europe, PASCAL REKOERT became a premier dancer and Associate Artistic Director with Jennifer Muller/ The Works, assisting Artistic Director Jennifer Muller with choreographies for New York City Opera, with performances at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall and with projects in Bolivia, Thailand, China, and Brazil. Since 2000, Rekoert has also produced various international festivals and performance series in New York City.
Rekoert’s choreographies have been presented in theaters in Switzerland, Italy, Great Britain, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and the United States. Rekoert’s commercial work includes PTT Dutch Royal Communications, BERENIK, Motorola, Levi’s, Dockers, L’Oreal Paris, New York Fashion Week, and various celebrity designers. Described as “magnetic and intricate” (the Dutch Volkskrant, 2001), Rekoert has also collaborated with various filmmakers, creating award-winning dance films, podcast dance film festivals, and hybrid film-dance performances.
As a Lincoln Center Scholar who finished his master’s degree in an inaugural partnership program between Lincoln Center Education and CUNY Hunter College, Rekoert helped revise the New York City Department of Education Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in Dance. After teaching dance professionals for two decades, Rekoert became a full-time NYCDOE dance educator in 2015. As part of his doctoral studies at Columbia University, Teachers College, his research explores the correlations between masculinity and dance within the male adolescent population in urban neighborhoods.
Education
Areas of Expertise
K-12 Dance Education
Private Sector Dance Education
Dance & Gender
Publications, Research & Presentations
Recent Publications
Rekoert, P. (2022, November 27). Socioemotional Learning and Movement Education: A Synergistic Pairing. NDEO. https://www.ndeo.org/Learn/Dance-Education-Blog/ArticleID/324/Socioemotional-Learning-and-Movement-Education-A-Synergistic-Pairing
Rekoert, P. (2023). The Gender-Sexuality Continuum in K-12 Spaces: A Case Study of Five Male Educators Teaching Youth in New York City. Journal of Dance Education, 0(0), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/15290824.2023.2244954
Rekoert, P. (2023, March 16). Males in Dance Education. NDEO. https://www.ndeo.org/Learn/Behind-the-Curtain-Blog/ArticleID/346/Males-in-Dance-Education
Rekoert, P. (2023, November 1). Dancing Around the Topics of Legacy and Loss: Remembering Four Dance Icons. NDEO. https://www.ndeo.org/Learn/Dance-Education-Blog/ArticleID/374/Dancing-Around-the-Topics-of-Legacy-and-Loss-Remembering-Four-Dance-Icons
Older Publications Include:
CTAHPERD Bulletin: Crelata℠ Launches New Arts Education Technology Platform to Get Dance Education into More Schools (September 2022)
CTAHPERD Bulletin: Teacher Transformation in Pandemic Times (September 2020)
CTAHPERD Bulletin: Full Steam Ahead (November 2019)
Dance Enthusiast: IMPRESSIONS (before the show): John Mark Owen's "Requiem" (September 2012)
Dance Enthusiast: The Dance Enthusiast Asks The Men Dancers: Lar Lubovitch, Arthur Mitchell, Gus Solomons Jr. and Robert Swinston (August 2012)
The Huffington Post & The Dance Enthusiast: There's A New 'Stomp' In Town (June 2012)
Presentations were held at the following conferences and summits:
CTAHPERD - The Connecticut Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
NJAHPERD - The New Jersey Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (2023)
NDEO - National Dance Education Organization (2023)
NAfME - The National Association for Music Education (2023)
NAHPL - The National Academy of Health and Physical Literacy (2022)
Awards & Grants
Central Connecticut State University - Excellence in Teaching Award 2022/23, Honor Roll (February 2024)
Central Connecticut State University - Excellence in Teaching Award 2020/21, Honor Roll (February 2022)
Arnhold Fellowship for Dance Award - Teachers College, Ed.D. in Dance Education Fellowship (Aug 2019 - May 2021)
Susan Fuhrman Endowed Scholarship - Teachers College, Ed.D. in Dance Education Fellowship (Aug 2018 - May 2019)
Digication E-Portfolio Award - Presented at Harvard University (May 2016)
Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund - Grant which fully subsidized graduate studies as a Lincoln Center Scholar at CUNY Hunter College (May 2014 - May 2016)
DNA's Raw Directions Choreographic Commission (Spring 2013)
SLAM Emerging Artist Commissioning Program - Funding and space grant to create original work in Elizabeth Streb's unique performance space STREB Lab for Action Mechanics (Fall 2013)
Westbeth Artists Residents Council - Dance festival production funding grant for WestFest, a self-produced international dance and dance film festival held annually at Westbeth (Fall 2009 - Spring 2011)
Chashama "Best Short Film Award" - Award for choreography of the short dance film "Erasmus Spitzen, Crossing a Bridge on Points" (Jun 2008)
The Field Residency - 2-week residency at the dance facility of celebrity dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov at White Oak
Plantation in Florida* (Jul 2008)
The Works' Emerging Artist Space Grant - Multi-year choreography space grant provided by Jennifer Muller/The Works for creation, rehearsal, and performance (Jan 2001 - Feb 2012)
Prix d'Auteur du Conseil Général de la Seine-Saint-Denis - Award for performance in Truus Bronkhorst & Marien Jongewaard's "The Fall" in Paris, France (1998)
Memberships & Affiliations
VP-Elect Dance & Nominating Committee member, National Academy of Health and Physical Literacy, Eastern Seaboard Region, Dance Division
VP Dance, The Connecticut Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance
Research Fellow, Jacob's Pillow Archives
Board Member, Young Soon Kim/ White Wave Dance Company
Awards Committee, National Dance Education Organization
Member, Connecticut Arts Administrators Organization
Courses Taught
DAN 110, DAN 151, DAN 235, DAN 272, DAN 298, DAN 299, DAN 300, DAN 477, DAN 480, FA 412, PE 416