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Allen Maniker
Adjunct, Theatre and Dance, Dean's Office, College of the Arts
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- manikera@montclair.edu
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- 973-655-7000
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Allen Maniker, M.D. is originally from Detroit Michigan. After completing a year at the University of Michigan as a double major in premed and dance he transferred to the Juilliard school in New York city where he obtained his BFA in dance. He started performing professionally in his second year there with the Wendy Hilton Baroque Dance Ensemble and the Sophie Maslow Dance Company. After graduation from Juilliard, he was an apprentice with the Joffrey Ballet Company and then joined the Bat Dor Dance Company of Israel. After returning to the U.S., he joined the Joyce Trisler Danscompany and subsequently was a guest artist with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for a season. Professional travels took him across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the United States. His last professional performance was in 2015 with a Horse’s Mouth production honoring Anna Sokolow, a choreographer he worked with extensively at Juilliard.
After he concluded his performing career, he returned to his medical studies and obtained his MD from Wayne State University School of Medicine in his hometown of Detroit. He completed his internship and first year of residency at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. He then began his Neurosurgical training at the New Jersey Medical School in Newark, New Jersey. He remained there for 25 years caring for patients, establishing a research lab, teaching residents, and rising to full professor. In 2008 he became the Chairman of Neurosurgery at Beth Israel Medical Center where he had previously completed his internship. He was then appointed a full Professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He has published 49 peer reviewed papers, 22 textbook chapters, and a textbook entitled Operative Exposures in Peripheral Nerve surgery. He has taught peripheral nerve surgery to Neurosurgeons throughout the United States and Internationally. He retired from active practice in 2015. Until recently he was Chairman of the Board of the Steps Beyond Foundation affiliated with the dance studio Steps on Broadway. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Martha Hill Dance Foundation. He has been a guide at the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 2017 where he gives Highlights of the museum and European Paintings tours. He teaches Anatomy to students in the MFA program in Dance and serves as a thesis reader.
Specialization
Anatomy for Dancers