Marie NWSOD Nutcracker Director.

A graduate of the Dancers’ Studio at Oberlin, the North Carolina School of the Arts, The Juilliard School (B.F.A.), and Sarah Lawrence College (M.F.A.).

She has been seen performing with, among many others, Buglisi Dance Theatre, TAKE Dance, Hilary Easton + Company, Douglas Dunn and Dancers, Juri Onuki, Doug Elkins + Friends, Bennyroyce Dance, Mary Seidman and Dancers, Regina Nejman and Company, Shannon Gillan and Elisabeth Motley’s DOORKNOB Company, Elizabeth Keen, and with the Metropolitan Opera in productions by Zhang Yimou and Mark Morris. 

Choreographic commissions include pieces for Brooklyn Opera Works, Adelphi University, Bennyroyce Dance (where she is Artistic Associate), Springboard Danse Montréal, Ohio Dance Theatre, Blackbird/Oiseau Noir Dance, Moxie Contemporary Ballet, and Randolph College.

She was a Fellow at BAM’s Professional Development Program and was a full scholarship awardee for Teaching Artist Training at National Dance Institute. She served as Chair of Dance at Brooklyn Music School, Chair of the Dance Department at Randolph College, was Director of the Helen McGehee Visiting Artist in Dance Program, and is a faculty member at Adelphi University.

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