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Allie Lochary, Dancer
July 14, 2011
Allie Lochary is returning as a dancer for our 2011-2012 performance season. She’ll be dancing in Stuck in Time, a new duet to be premiered January 25 in NYC. Enjoy reading her bio below!
Allie Lochary, from Charlotte, NC, graduated cum laude with a BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from Elon University in 2009. She now lives and dances in New York, New York. Prior to graduating, she had the pleasure of touring throughout North Carolina with kearns dance project under direction of Lauren Winslow Kearns. Her choreography was presented at the American College Dance Festival for adjudication in 2008. Upon graduation, Allie performed with Martha Connerton in her hometown. Since relocating to NYC she has performed work by Oliver Steele and fellow alumni Michelle Micca. From 2010-2011 she was a member of In-Sight Dance Company during which time her choreography was presented at The Secret Theater. Allie continues to teach Pilates and is currently a member of kearns dance project and Summation Dance.
Kara Griffin, Dancer
July 8, 2011
Kara Griffin is returning as a dancer for our 2011-2012 performance season. She’ll be dancing in Stuck in Time, a new duet to be premiered January 25 in NYC. Enjoy reading her bio below!
Kara Griffin, from Cape Cod, MA, is a recent alum of Elon University where she received her BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography and BA in Strategic Communications. Griffin now lives in New York, NY and is excited to continue her creative collaboration with kearns dance project.
Griffin danced with kearns dance project in the 2010-2011 North Carolina Dance Festival Tour in Swinging on a Bench. During her Elon career, Griffin worked with Lauren Kearns since 2007 in pieces like Catching, Cubed, hush…touch…move, the multimedia piece I Live Here, And the Tempest Cries… and End Game. Other Elon faculty she has danced with includes Nina Wheeler, Linda Sabo and Gene Medler. Guest artists she has worked with while at Elon include Jon Lehrer, Chuck Davis and Laura Dean. She has also performed at the American College Dance Festival in student and faculty works in 2008, 2009 and 2011 and showed her choreography at the festival in 2010. Griffin has also performed in Elon’s Dance in the Landscape (2008), Choreography I and II Salons (2007-2009), Dancing in the BlackBox (2007, 2008, 2010), DanceWorks student choreography showcase (2007, 2008, 2009), the Senior Thesis Dance Concert (2007, 2008, 2009), Tapped Out! (2008, 2009, 2010), Reflections (2008), Vibe (2009), Elements (2010) and On That Note (2011). Her choreography debuted at the 2008 Choreography I Salon with her solo Rended. Later, in the spring of 2009 her duet The Fire in Your Heart is Out was performed in the DanceWorks student choreography showcase, and her quartet Drift. Release. Envelop. Abstract. Memories. was performed at the 2009 Choreography II Salon. Her senior thesis, A Half Made Whole premiered in February 2011.
Griffin has also worked as a marketing intern for both Bill T. Jones and Parsons Dance. She is certified in the Pilates Mat Sequence I.
I’ll be announcing the company members and artistic collaborators for the 2011-2012 season soon. Please check back!
2011-2012 Company Members
June 30, 2011
lauren kearns biography
June 30, 2011
“I am a contemporary choreographer emphasizing physical invention, expressive clarity, dynamic athleticism, and unexpected moments of intimacy. I weave mindful and full-bodied dancing, iconography, music, video, and visual design to create a rich, layered, and multi-sensory experience for the audience.”
Lauren Kearns is the artistic director and choreographer of the company. She has choreographed over forty-seven professionally produced concert pieces nationally and internationally. Kearns is starting off 2012 with performance engagements in New York City, Greensboro Fringe Festival and Auriallac France. She will be collaborating with artist Sallie DeEtte Mackie of Solid Revolution Photography on a portraiture and article about her choreographic work this coming summer.
Kearns received the 2008 NC Dance Alliance Choreography Fellowship and has received over twenty-eight grants and fellowships to support her creative and scholarly research. She is a seasoned dance artist and somatic specialist having trained and worked with notable modern and post-modern artists including David Rousseve, Victoria Marks, Pat Catterson, Nancy Topf, and Erick Hawkins among many others. Kearns is also a dedicated yogini and is certified in Alignment-Based Yoga, Vinyasa Flow Yoga, and Classical Pilates. Her immersion in somatic modalities greatly influences her movement vocabulary. Kearns most recently was selected for inclusion in the 2012 North Carolina Touring Artists Director. She has received two Elon Fund for Excellence Grants for her screendance and multimedia dance pieces and recently received a 2012 Elon summer fellowship to pursue her “Somatics in Action” research.
Prior to moving to North Carolina, Kearns was the artistic director of bodytalk dance, a Los Angeles repertory dance company that toured the southwest, had consecutive seasons at Highways Performance Space (a national performance network venue) and had a touring engagement in Changshu, China.
She holds her M.F.A. in Choreography and Performance, and an M.A. in Dance Education and Theory from UCLA. In addition to her choreography career she is a tenured Associate Professor of Dance and Head of the Dance Program at Elon University. She has published dance education articles on her somatic research and her multimedia work. Kearns is a frequent guest artist and lecturer at national and regional dance conferences.
