MA in Dance, Mills College, Oakland, CA; BA in Dramatic Literature, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.

Professor Emerita.

Nancy Spanier Performance Inventions

Previous teaching experience: American College Dance Festival. Currently teaches Graduate Choreography, Intermediate Dance Composition, and Senior Seminar.

Founder of Nancy Spanier Dance Theatre/Performance Inventions (1974-present): Her work has been shown regionally, nationally and internationally with performances in such venues as the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, The Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, Schimmel Center for the Arts in NYC, Theatre Tristan Bernard in Paris, the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, the Aarhus Festival in Denmark, and in the Facing America Festival in Germany. Other highlights include performances in Amsterdam, Stockholm, Munich, Berlin, Nürnberg, Tüebingen, Regensburg, and Copenhagen as well as throughout the Rocky Mountains and New England.

Awards:
* Colorado Council on the Arts' Choreography Fellowship
* Cultural Emissary for Inter-Continental Alliance tour of southern Germany
* “Best of Boulder," Boulder Daily Camera
* "Pacesetter's Award," Boulder Daily Camera
* Numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Colorado Council on the Arts, Boulder Arts Commission, and private foundations and corporations.