Tamsin Carlson is a graduate of the Arts Educational School, where she was awarded a college diploma, and London Contemporary Dance School, where she was awarded a diploma for her course work.
Tamsin Carlson is a graduate of the Arts Educational School, where she was awarded a college diploma, and London Contemporary Dance School, where she was awarded a diploma for her course work. She was then invited to be a member of Edge 4D, London Contemporary’s post-graduate performance company, for which she was awarded another diploma. Upon graduation, she toured England with the Toutes Femmes dance project, choreographed by Ellen Van Schylenburch, and performed in projects by choreographers Charmaine Seet, Moana Napier, and Lance Fuller.
In New York Tamsin was a faculty member of Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and a member of RUG (Repertory Understudy Group) for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company from 1996-1999. For the 1999/2000 season she toured Europe and New York with Lucinda Childs Dance Company, performing in the Lucinda Childs’ 25th Anniversary Concert.
In Los Angeles Tamsin has been a member of Rudy Perez Performance Ensemble since 2000, and was a Lester Horton Award nominee for her performance in The Art of Rudy Perez (2001) at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex. She has been performer and Associate Artistic Director of LA’s Vox Dance Theatre, and currently is part of the Chatting Bodies experimental Skype performances with the German-based Fabien Prioville Company with members of Pina Bausch’s dance company.
Tamsin has given numerous master classes, teaching the technique of Merce Cunningham, among others. She has been a guest teacher at Irvine Valley College; California State University Long Beach; California Institute of the Arts; LA Dance Project, and Pieter Studios. She was a faculty member of the Cunningham School in New York City from 1997-2002. Tamsin teaches modern dance at the Colburn School’s Trudl Zipper Dance Institute, where she is also chair of modern dance.