Kellie Lynch - Fall 2008

Kellie Lynch is on one of 3 guest choreographers creating works for DANC 253 Repertory Performance to be performed in Fall concert of Professional Works in November 2008

Bio: Kellie Ann Lynch is a New England-based dancer who graduated from Rhode Island College in 2003 (BA Dance) and Smith College in 2007 (MFA Dance). She currently dances in New Haven, CT, with Nazorine Ulysses and Dancers and Bronwen MacArther-MacArther Dance Project. She is also a member of Heidi Henderson’s elephant JANE dance and freelances for artists such as Freedman/Coleman Dance (Northampton), Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance (Brooklyn), Melody Ruffin Ward (Providence), and Cathy Nicoli (Northampton). Kellie is the co-director of slipperyfish dance, a Northampton-based dance company, with dance partner Ariel Gonzalez Cohen. slipperyfish dance has been awarded a 2008, Choreographic Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council in which they will use to introduce their work to new communities in a series of mini tours throughout New England. Kellie has been on faculty at Smith and Mount Holyoke College, currently teaches at Springfield College, and she continues to create and set work on college dance companies in the New England area. This summer she will premiere new work at Built On Stilts Festival, Martha’s Vineyard and the Fledgling Festival, Providence. She will also begin a new site-specific work for RISD’s Frazier Terrace in the Frazier Festival, Providence, July 2008.