Danielle Goldman is Assistant Professor of Dance at the New School in New York City. She earned her PhD from the Department of Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts/NYU, and she received the 2005 Gertrude Lippincott Award and the 2006 Deena Burton Memorial Award for Outstanding Dissertation Research. She is currently writing a book on improvisation. Having performed for six years with Troika Ranch, she is now dancing in the works of Anna Sperber and DD Dorvillier.