Andrea Mantell Seidel | Advisory Board

Andrea is a Professor Emerita of Dance, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and founding director of the Intercultural Dance and Music Institute housed in the Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University. Additionally, she serves as trustee of pioneer modern dance choreographer Eleanor King’s choreographic legacy and formerly as artistic director of the critically acclaimed Isadora Duncan Dance Ensemble. Seidel has lectured, presented papers, and performed as a soloist in the work of King and Duncan at prestigious conferences and festivals throughout the US and abroad including among others, the Internationales Tanzfestival in Germany; the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington; Hong Kong International Conference and Festival; NYC Lincoln Center Festival Out-of-Doors; International Festival de las Mujeres en la Danza, Ecuador; the International Goethe Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, and NYC 92nd St. Y which launched her book on Isadora along with company performances. She is a recipient of over 70 national, state, and local grants, including the US Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education 3-year award; NDEO’s Visionary Award (2007), and a Fulbright Senior Scholar award (2010).  Seidel holds a doctorate in dance from New York University and has published numerous articles on the indigenous cultures and rituals of the Americas; historic roots of early modern dance; and intercultural, interdisciplinary issues in the arts in higher education. She has produced two commercially distributed DVD’s of Duncan’s choreography performed by the Isadora Duncan Dance Ensemble Isadora Duncan Technique and Repertory and Isadora Duncan: Masterworks, available worldwide on Amazon and from Princeton Book Company/Dance Horizons.  Additionally, she is the author of Isadora Duncan in the 21st Century:  Capturing the Art and Spirit of the Dancer’s Legacy (McFarland, 2015).