Wendy Allen - Fall 2009
BA, Connecticut College; Dance Performance and Choreography, Philosophy
MA, Naropa University; Somatic Counseling Psychology, Dance/Movement Therapy
LPC, ADTR

Wendy Allen is Chair of the Somatic Counseling Psychology Department and core faculty at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. Wendy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a member of the Academy of Dance Therapists Registered (ADTR). Her clinical background includes extensive experience facilitating groups and individuals using experiential, somatic, and creative arts modalities to work with chronic and persistent mental illness, addiction and recovery, trauma, relationship building, and personal growth. In addition to working as a dance/ movement therapist in mental health centers and residential treatment settings, Wendy directed an intervention program for at-risk and adjudicated youth in the Denver area. Wendy has presented her work at the American Dance Therapy Association Annual Conference and continues to consult and teach at local colleges. With more than 15 years of experience as a dance educator at the university and community levels, Wendy also teaches modern dance, improvisation, ballet and choreography while continuing to pursue her lifelong love of dance and performance.

Claire Porter - Spring 2010
www.cportables.com

Claire Porter has performed her PORTABLES in Germany, Holland, England, Latvia and Korea, in the NYC area at Danspace at St. Mark's Church, PS 122, Joe's Pub, DTW, The Kitchen, The Joyce Theater, Joyce SOHO, 92nd St. Y, Town Hall, The Bottom Line, The NY Horticulture Society, Liberty Science Center and NJPAC and at the ADF, The Lucille Ball Festival, Bates Festival, Jacob's Pillow, Florida Dance Festival, Kennedy Center, Woolly Mammoth Theater DC, Tampa Bay Off Center Theater, the Southern Theater MN, The Yard on Martha's Vineyard and others.  Porter has received several National Endowment for the Arts Choreography Fellowships, New Jersey State Council for the Arts Choreography Fellowships, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Awards and commissions from DTW's First Light Project, The 92nd St Y Harkness Dance Festival, Art Matters, Domino's Pizza Company and University Dance Companies. Porter recently set a solo on Kansas City Ballet and is currently performing Namely, Muscles at festivals, conferences, theaters, medical schools and universities around the country.  She taught Laban Movement Analysis and/or

choreography at NYU's Dance Education Program, Columbia Teachers College, Manhattanville College, Connecticut College, Wesleyan University and at HOPE College in MI.  She also teaches Claire's Workout in Bergen County and serves on the Board of DanceNJ.  Porter has an MA in Dance from Ohio State, a BA in Mathematics, is a Laban Movement Analyst and is represented by PENTACLE/DanceWorks, NYC (212) 278-8111.  Her website, www.cportables.com, includes a schedule of upcoming work.

Quotes

“the ever-funny, ever-eloquent Claire Porter” 

Jennifer Dunning, Jan 4, 2008 (New York Times)

“inimitable comedienne” 

Elizabeth Zimmer, Sept, 2006 (Village Voice)

“delightful” 

Roslyn Sulcas, Sept, 2006 (New York Times)

“In her hysterical 'Fund Raiser,' Porter took the role of a demented development

director, who, with rubbery limbs and lips moistened by her sales pitch, would

stop at nothing in her 'naked appeal' to extort contributions from a reluctant

private sector.  The public sector, or at least this audience, was ecstatic.” 

Robert Johnson, Nov 2006 (The Star-Ledger)

Claire Porter's hilarious Interview (2007) is superbly finished, down to the

comedic timing and pathos of every gesture and word delivered by this

harassed, overeager job applicant. 

Deborah Jowitt, 9/11/07 (The Village Voice)

Claire Porter's “Interview” was a sad but hilarious deconstruction of a job

interview and a life. 

Jennifer Dunning, 9/6/07 (The New York Times)