2016 Improv Traditions & Innovations: From Ring Shout To Blues To Jazz Faculty
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Samantha Speis is a dancer and Senior Artistic Associate of Urban Bush Woman, a movement artist who has worked with Gesel Mason, The Dance Exchange, Deborah Hay, Marjani Forté-Saunders, MBDance, and Pearson/Widrig Dance Theater. She was the 2012 recipient of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s New Dance Choreography Lab. Her work has been featured at Danspace Project, Dixon Place, Hollins University, Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Long Island University, and Kelly Strayhorn Theater. Speis’ solo, The Way it Was, and Now, was commissioned by The Jerome Foundation to be performed at Danspace Project for the Parallels Platform Series, and later at the Kaay Fecc Dance Festival in Dakar, Senegal. Speis has been a guest artist and taught workshops throughout the United States, South America, Senegal, and Europe. Recent projects include Liz Lerman’s Healing Wars and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Liz Lerman’s Blood Muscle Bone: the anatomy of wealth and poverty. This is Samantha’s sixth season with Urban Bush Woman.