Naropa Leadership

Barbara Dilley, President 1985–93
Barbara Dilley studied and performed dance in New York City from 1960–75 with the Merce Cunningham Co. (1963–68) and the Grand Union, a dance/theater collaboration that was to extend the definitions of the art of improvisation (1969–76). She has a BA from Mount Holyoke College. Beginning in 1974 she has taught at Naropa University in Boulder, CO, first designing the Dance/Movement Studies Program, and then serving as president (1985–93). Her teaching emphasizes “embodied awareness” through dance/movement studies, creative compositional processes and the disciplines of meditation. Throughout the 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.