Barbara Dilley studied and performed dance in New York City from 1960–1975 with the Merce Cunningham Co. (1963–1968) and the Grand Union, a dance/theater collaboration that was to extend the definitions of the art of improvisation (1969–1976). Beginning in 1974 she has taught at Naropa University in Boulder, Colo., first designing the Dance/Movement Studies Program, then serving as President (1985–1993). Her teaching emphasizes "embodied awareness" through dance/movement studies, creative compositional processes and the disciplines of meditation. Throughout these years she has created dance and performance art; most recently the dEsoLAtedEliGHt Project: 2008-09, and skits for Lady Wabi Sabi. She has two children, Ben Lloyd and Owen Bondurant, and two grandchildren, Griffen and Ella Lloyd.
Barbara Dilley 