MTSU Dance Department

Guest Artists

MTSU Dance Program is pleased to hosts a wide range of Nationally and Internationally recognized  Guest Artists residencies. Guest artists make meaningful contributions to the development and growth of our students throughout the year.

For the 2011/2012 year we are pleased to welcome:

FALL 2011

Holly Handman Lopez
August 31 - Spetember 6

Holly Handman-Lopez received a B.A. from Connecticut College in 1993 and her M.F.A. in Choreography and Performance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2007. She has worked with many prominent choreographers, including David Dorfman, Nicholas Leichter, and Lisa Race; and she has performed extensively in New York City venues, such as the Dance Theater Workshop, Miller Theater, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Ms. Handman-Lopez’s choreography has been shown at a number of colleges and universities – among them Bennington and Bowling Green State University. She has been awarded numerous guest-artist residencies at such prestigious institutions as New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Sarah Lawrence College, and The New School, where she has taught, choreographed, and directed student performers. She has been a Visiting Artist in the Theater and Dance Department of Oberlin College since 2003.

She choreographed Oberlin’s production of Orpheus in the Underworld in 2004, A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2007, Kindle in 2007, Tennessee Williams' Vieux Carre in 2008 and in 2009 the Oberlin Dance Company.


Cynthis Cutierrez-Garner
October 21 - 28


SPRING 2012

information coming soon


Our Past Guest Artist:

Teena Custer - 2011

Alwin Nikolais Residency - 2010
Alberto Del Saz, Director


Claire Porter - 2010

Laurie Merriman - 2010

E.E. Balcos - 2010

Wendy Allen - 2009

Stefanie Batton-Bland -  2010 & 2009

Ivan Pulinkala - 2008

Mari Jo Irbe - 2008

Sara Semonis - 2008

Zelma Badu-Younge- 2004/2005, 2005/2006, & 2007/2008

Chung Fu Chang- 2005/2006

Heidi Clemmens- 2004/2005

Teena Custer- 2005/2006

Travis Gatling- 2004/2005 & 2007/2008

Ursula Payne- 2007/2008

Ivan Pulinkala- 2005/2006

Erica Wilson-Perkins- 2007/2008