Mary A. Chase

Instructs: Moving Women: Women Moving

 

Mary is a Certified Movement Analyst and Bartenieff Fundamentals Practioner. She holds a B.F.A. in dance choreography and performance from the University of Illinois.

Over the last decade she has focused on braiding tradition and innovation through choreography and performance. This delicate balance colors every aspect of her work which was heralded in the Kansas City Star as "eloquence personified".

Mary has performed internationally at the Bali Arts Festival and Center for World Music in Indonesia, in Athens, Greece at the World Congress in Dance Research and in June 2007 she will perform two solos at the Guatemala City International Choreographer’s Showcase. In the U.S. she has performed and her choreography has been produced in 11 states.

Recently her work was produced by Callous Physical Theatre and Velocity Mainspace Theater of Seattle, WA and The Dance Umbrella and Dance Repertory Theatre of Austin, TX. From 2001-2004 she taught technique, composition, improvisation, and dance sciences at Kansas State University. In 2004 she moved to the Seattle area where she was performing with Callous Physical Theatre and teaching experiential anatomy, contemporary dance and creative movement.

Currently Mary lives in Austin and is working toward an M.F.A. in dance at the University of Texas