Dance

Patrick Gallagher

Music Director

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Patrick Gallagher is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. As a performer, he has re-staged works by Lucinda Childs, Andy de Groat, Yvonne Rainer, and Robert Whitman; Patrick has collaborated with artists Patti Bradshaw, Catherine Galasso, Patricia Hoffbauer, and Cathy Weis, among others. Patrick has worked as a dance musician since 2006, most recently at the Juilliard School, Manhattan Youth Ballet, Mark Morris, and Peridance. He appears in film and other works by the artist Wayne Koestenbaum, and studied vocal technique with the late Barbara Maier Gustern. Patrick has also served as personal assistant to the composer Philip Glass and the dancer David Hallberg. He studied piano with André Gribou and attended Sarah Lawrence College, under the direction of John Yannelli and Sara Rudner.