Nancy Louise Spanier was born on December 29,1942 and is an American dancer, choreographer, artistic director, filmmaker and educator.
10 Facts About Nancy Spanier
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Nancy Spanier is the founder of the Nancy Spanier Dance Theatre of Colorado, a repertory company known for its highly theatrical and imagistic performances that explore themes through the integration of sculpture, props, and film.
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Nancy Spanier is a professor emerita at the University of Colorado, Boulder where she taught dance from 1969 to 2003.
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Nancy Spanier trained at the American School of Ballet, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School, The Juilliard School, the Martha Graham School, the American Dance Festival at Connecticut College and studied with Louis Horst, Jose Limon, Anna Sokolow, Charles Weidman and Joseph Pilates.
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Nancy Spanier worked internationally as a freelance choreographer and director with theatre and dance companies in the United States and Europe.
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Nancy Spanier has collaborated with playwright Jean-Claude van Itallie, who performed in her Flesh Chronicles physical theatre piece.
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Nancy Spanier was the choreographer of van Itallie's play The Traveller which had its premiere at The Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
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Nancy Spanier was a professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Colorado Boulder for 34 years.
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Nancy Spanier guest taught at Naropa University, Stockholm's Statens Dansskola, Sweden's Lansteatern, Denmark's Aarhus Teater Skole, Copenhagen's Dansens Hus, Bali's Indonesian Institute of the Arts, and New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
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Nancy Spanier was granted a Choreography Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts as well the first Creative Fellowship in Choreography from the Colorado Council on the Arts.