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Marsha Fay Knight (MFA University of Utah ’83) is a Professor at the
University of
Wyoming where her primary responsibilities lie in the teaching of ballet, historical dance, character dance, and period movement for actors. Her experience also includes choreography for numerous musical theatre productions. Marsha's recent UW production credits include NUTCRACKER, COPPELIA, PULCINELLA and INANNA, QUEEN OF HEAVEN AND EARTH. She has continued her study of historical dance forms and reconstruction at
Stanford
University 's Baroque Dance Workshops under the direction of Wendy Hilton and has studied 15th and 16th century dance forms with the Historical Dance Foundation.
University of
Wyoming awards include the UW Alumni Association's Outstanding Faculty Member Award and the Flittie Sabbatical for the 1996-1997 academic year, allowing her to spend the year in
New York City studying and furthering her expertise in Historical Dance. Marsha spent spring ’03 semester teaching in London through the
University of
Wyoming ’s Program for Foreign Studies, teaching and furthering her research in Baroque dance. Marsha continues to serve on the National Board of the American College Dance Festival, and is currently the Northwest Conference Regional Representative.
CHOREOGRAPHIC WORKS (partial list)
Ballet
Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth
Pulcinella
The Nutcracker
Coppélia
Billy the Kid
The Prodigal Son
Opera, Musical Theatre, Staging
Dido and Aeneas
Romeo and Juliet
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Orpheus In the Underworld
West Side Story
Pirates of Penzance
H.M.S. Pinafore, Side by Side
Kiss Me Kate, South Pacific
Guys & Dolls, Oklahoma, Nunsense
DANCE TRAINING
Ballet
Toni Lander Marks, Willam F. Christensen, Li-Chou Cheng, Andra Corvino, Mattlyn Gavers, Barbara Hamblin, Bené Arnold, Bruce Marks, Susan Wheeler Israel, Marjorie Fay Underhill, Robert Barnett, Finis Jhung, Diane Cartier
Historical Dance
Baroque: Wendy Hilton, Thomas Baird, Linda Tomko
Renaissance: Charles Garth, Ingrid Brainard, Julia Sutton
Modern
Julian Littleford, Ana Marie Forsythe, John Wilson, Ford Evans, Bill Cratty, Saeko Ichinohe, Douglas Nielsen
Character
Svetlana Mushkambaryan-Isralyva, Yurek
Lazowski, Li-Chou Chengt
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