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.