Klens-Bigman Joins FightingArts.com's Team Staff
Deborah Klens-Bigman is Manager and Associate Instructor of iaido at New York
Budokai in New York City. She has also studied, to varying extents, kendo, jodo
(short staff), kyudo (archery) and naginata (halberd). She received her Ph.D in
1995 from New York University's Department of Performance Studies where she wrote
her dissertation on Japanese classical dance (Nihon Buyo). and she continues to
study Nihon Buyo with Fujima Nishiki at the Ichifuji-kai Dance Association. Her
article on the application of performance theory to Japanese martial arts appeared
in the Journal of Asian Martial Arts in the summer of 1999. She is married to
artist Vernon Bigman.
Return to Back
to Meet Our Staff
back to top
home
| about
us | magazine
| learning
| connections
| estore
|