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Wendy Woodson

Wendy Woodson is a choreographer, director, writer and video artist. She is founder and artistic director of Present Co. Inc. (http://www.amherst.edu/%7Ewwoodson/PresentCompany/), a non-profit organization committed to developing original performance works that combine different media. She is also a Professor of Theater and Dance at Amherst College (and the Five College Dance Department). Since 1980 she has created eighty works for stage and video. Dance and theater works have been performed throughout the US and in Europe in such venues as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Emerson Majestic Theater, Jacob's Pillow, Wolf Trap, PS 122 and at numerous colleges and universities. Video works have been exhibited at festivals throughout the US and in Germany and at the DeCordova Museum. She has received numerous awards for her work including fellowships and grants in choreography, playwriting and video from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the D.C. Commission on Arts & Humanities and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Consortium, among others. Most recently she was selected as a Fulbright Senior Scholar and was an artist-in-residence at the Victoria College of the Arts in
Melbourne, Australia, 2007.