Deborah Goffe is a performer, choreographer, dance educator and video artist. She is Founder and Artistic Director of Scapegoat Garden, a collaborative dance theater based in Hartford, Connecticut, driven to create interdisciplinary dance performance that goes in through the nose, eyes skin, ears and mouth to stir those who witness and participate. Since earning her BFA in modern dance from the University of the Arts and an MFA in dance performance and choreography from California Institute of the Arts, Scapegoat Garden has served as the vehicle and creative community through which she explores dance and its intersection with other media. She has received Artist’s Fellowship Grants from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, the Greater Hartford Arts Council, and the Surdna Foundation. Deborah has taught dance and related courses in a number of institutions, including Belmont High School in Los Angeles, CalArts, CREC Center for Creative Youth, Trinity College, and CulturArte – a youth arts summer residency program in Cape Verde, Africa. She is currently on the faculty of CREC Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts.

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