Laura Ann Samuelson currently lives in Colorado and is working on starting up a contemporary performance series. Information about its first installment entitled, "And The People: An Evening of Diverse Performance," can be found here: http://lauraannsamuelson.com/LAURA_ANN_SAMUELSON/upcoming.html. She will be showing a new solo titled, "DEMOLITION woman." In addition to this, Laura Ann is starting the interdisciplinary yoga teacher training at the Nosara Institute in Costa Rica, and will be teaching a technique class and set a piece at the MADE in France program next summer.

Nichole Canuso’s dance company will be performing "TAKES" in NYC this coming January during APAP and Under the Radar Festival. They’ll be at 3LD, a fantastic venue in lower Manhattan, the first weekend January 5-8. www.nicholecanusodance.org

Nicole Bindler teaches embodied anatomy yoga out of her house and at the University of the Arts. She continues her education in movement and dance, studying yoga, Bharatanatyam, Kalari, and contemporary Indian dance with Jayachandran Palazhy and Hemabharathy Palani at the Live Arts Brewery in Philly. She has many other exciting projects, blogs, and classes coming up. Check out her website, http://nicolebindler.com/ for more information.

Sarah Smith is the editor of KINEBAGO, a new printed journal of writing about dance and movement-based performance in New England. Summer, 2011 was its inaugural issue. Visit www.kinebago.com for more information on this exciting new publication!

Sarah Grossman (08) now runs her own business in Toronto, inspiring people to love being healthy, specifically by working with nutrition and food. You can visit her website for more information: www.livingkitchenwellness.com

Pele Bauch performed her first solo, show-ism, at Joyce SoHo during July 2007, and published an article in the Winter/Spring 2008 issue of Contact Quarterly. She was recently part of the Joyce SoHo Artists-in-Residence APAP Showcase January 2011 in New York City.

Illana (Berman) Krechmer is working as an actress and Pilates trainer.

Nicole Bindler created PIA MATER in 2007 and performed at Mascher Space Coop to sold-out audiences. In the fall of 2007 she spent two weeks in Japan dancing with Corrie Befort at the Venue SuperDelux in Tokyo. During 2008 she offered a six-week self care for dancers and yogis workshop series, performed with Mascher in their Influx Series, and taught with Cyrus Kambatta in Seattle.

Kimberly Brandt and Walsh Hansen had a showing of their video 50 MPH at the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance.

Cheryl Brous is living in Portland, and attending graduate school in education. She is also dancing and teaching with a local tribal belly dance troupe.

Katharine (Kat) Callard joined eight others to bicycle from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. to raise money for social justice organizations across the country. The riders--lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, straight, and allied cyclists--rode to raise awareness about forms of oppression in queer communities while meeting with other marginalized communities, such as Native American reservations, small farmers, homestead ranchers, mining towns, and low-income neighborhoods.

Nichole Canuso recently premiered "As the Eyes of the Seahorse," a new work by Nicole Canuso Dance Company and The Mural and The Mint premiered at HERE Arts Center in New York City in December 2010. "As the Eyes of the Seahorse" is a live indie-rock concert fused with immersive choreography, where dancers and musicians continuously trade places as movement and music--from guitars to bike wheels to mason jars--collide. Nicole also mounted two pieces for a showcase at Joyce SoHo in March, 2008 and performed with The Mural and The Mint in Philadelphia in January 2008.

Eva Dean toured BOUNCE with her New York-based company, Eva Dean Dance. They performed at Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, New York, and Union Street Dance, Brooklyn. In 2007 she launched a Repertoire Workshop Series featuring her choreography and that of Susan Marshall.

Sarah Eley has danced with Krisen Day in the Hawley Martin Dance Company, and in the Blaze Dance Group. With Blaze, she performed in the LiveArts Festival in the Philadelphia Fringe Fest; at First Night, Northampton; and at Thornes, A.P.E. Sarah collaborated with drummer Katie Koti to create a percussive dance performed at the PaperMill Studio in Holyoke, MA. She began graduate work in the Smith College School for Social Work last year.

Ashley Hensel-Browning is currently finishing her M.Ed. in the Arts in Education program at Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she is studying art education, community organizing, and education policy. She's working on a project right now to develop yearlong dance residencies in public schools in northern New England and directing operas with the Opera Theatre of Weston in Weston, VT. She is also making work with fellow Hampshire alum Zoe McDonnell, co-artistic director of their modern dance company, ZoAsh Dance, which premiered work this fall 2007 in their Cambridge concert "close door: an open house dance production." They are currently working on a concert of new work.

Kaitlin Hines is now a grant writer at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

Malia (Oliver) Gallegos lived in Hawaii from 1991-1996 and danced with IONA Contemporary Dance (until 2000), but relocated to San Francisco to live the adventurous life and became a massage therapist before returning to Hawaii for a few years to work and dance. She is now in Los Angeles studying somatic psychology.

Becca Gardener dances with Ballet Ariel in Denver. They performed at the opening of the Museum of Contemporary Art, followed by The Nutcracker and The Spring Show. She has also been dancing with, and teaching master classes regularly for, the Denver Independent Choreographers Project.

Cass Ghiorse joined Dance Alloy Theater, Pittsburgh's premier modern repertory company, in the fall of 2000. With DAT she has worked with Pilobolus, Kevin Wynn, Stephen Keoster, David Shimotakahara, Mark Taylor, and Beth Corning, among others. She can currently be seen in Nike.com's ad campaign I Feel Pretty.

CJ Holm presented her new work, The Salad of the Bad Cafe, co-created with Tiana Hemlock, at Gowanus Arts in New York in January 2011. She also presented new work at Judson Church in New York in November.

Jane Jerardi produced Chance, a video dance that will appear on the sides of buildings in and around Washington, D.C. This public art project will be presented at four sites. Jane Jerardi and Brianna Milder are both students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and designed and realized together 'Distant/Distance', a performance installation as part of an Open Studio night at the Art Institute. In January 2011, they will also be showing work as part of Movement Research's Open Performance at Dance Theater Workshop, New York.

Hannah Margulis-Kessel was accepted into the master's program in the School of Education at University of California at Berkeley.

Zoë Klein is training at the San Francisco Circus Center. She performed Chinese pole, mini tramp, acrobatics and dance in the program's 3 month showcase. Zoe also performs and teaches internationally with her partner, Dave Paris (HC), as PARADIZO DANCE, combining acrobatics and salsa. They performed Eireann at the New York Salsa Congress in August 2007 and at the Cuba Libre nightclub, Tropicana Casino, in Atlantic City. Zoe performed a new solo combining acrobatics, Afro-Cuban dance, and personal narrative at the Dumbo Dance Festival; plus Sleepers, an acrobatic dance interpretation of Walt Whitman's poem by Dave and Zoe.

Michelle Marroquin teaches Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis movement techniques at Movement Resource Studio in Northampton and yoga courses at Hampshire College. She is dancing Odissi style Indian dance with Ranjanaa Devi’s Nataraj Dancers. “It's been an awesome creative outlet for me…combining my love of dance with the devotional aspect of yoga. It's incredibly challenging and technically precise, but so beautiful!”

Brett Marshall Lefferts has found his niche making music for dance. His band, Seed A.I., was featured on the NPR All Songs Considered Open Mic podcast when the song 2D was picked up from their new album.

Olive McKeon is in the Ph.D. program 'Culture and Performance' at University of California Los Angeles, with Susan Foster as her advisor.

Christopher-Rasheem McMillan is the director at Strategic Rebellions, and a current MFA/PHD candidate at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

Stephen Petronio and company performed at the University of Massachusetts Fine Arts Center and at Joyce Theater in NYC. He received great press for his NYC concert.

Marta Renzi had a screening of her dance video Porch Stories at the Moving Images Festival in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Jen Rosenblit premiered BottomHeavy Productions' newest work, Underbelly and Superfly Afterthoughts, followed by a special guest appearance by Kimberly Brandt (HC). The piece will also be performed at the Movement Research's Open Performance at Dance Theater Workshop.

Noelle Serafino (HC '09) was the Hampshire College Dance Program production intern in spring 2010. She is now living in New York and working as an editorial/translation intern for e-misférica, an online, trilingual, peer-reviewed journal published by the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics. She also just finished an internship at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Julia Skloot danced for the Crispin Spaeth Dance Group in Seattle; taught dance at the Creative Dance Center, which she helped to start; and was a member of the Left Field Dance Collective, which performs throughout Seattle in theaters, warehouses, and public spaces. She studied for an MFA in choreography at Sarah Lawrence College.

Mariana Valencia and Lydia Adler Okrent of Rhinoceros Event premiered their newest work, Huesitos z.p.g., in September 2010. The work was a year in the making; both creators moved, quit jobs, traveled, and found new jobs during the process, but came together with commitment to its creation.

Norah Zuniga Shaw, assistant professor and director of Dance and Technology at Ohio State University, is currently working with William Forsythe and the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design to create an interactive score for One Flat Thing, Reproduced. She has been recently published in Performance Research Journal and was the assistant editor for the book and DVD Envisioning Dance on Film and Video, eds. Judy Mitoma and Elizabeth Zimmer, (Routledge, 2002).

(Page last updated November 2011)