Dance Alumni

Joy French is the founding member of Bare Bait Dance Company and is an instructor in the University of Montana dance department.

Angie Simmons is a Visting Artist at The University of Southern Mississippi for AY 15-16. She holds an M.F.A. in dance choreography from the University of Colorado-Boulder, with an emphasis in the Alexander Technique, and a B.S. in secondary dance education from Illinois State University. Simmons is former modern faculty...

Stephen Schroeder has performed with Zenon Dance Company since 2001, with ARENA Dances, Minnesota Dance Theatre, TU Dance, Nautilus Music Theater and the Minnesota Opera. In addition, he currently acts as Zenon’s technical coordinator and was recently awarded the 2012 McKnight Artist Fellowship for $25,000.

Thank you to Nancy Smith for sharing the following: Terry Ann Sendgraff, dance pioneer, matriarch of aerial dance, visionary artist, and deeply influential teacher transitioned peacefully in her home in Oakland California on September 6, 2019. She was 85 years old. An icon in the San Francisco Bay Area, Terry...

Dance Professor Michelle Ellsworth is one of six artists to receive the 2019 Doris Duke Artist Award.