Amy Rance McDonnell

AMY RANCE MCDONNELL is currently teaching beginning-advanced ballet and intermediate modern dance at Western Oregon University. She also teaches and choreographs at Modern Dance Technique and Creative Movement in Corvallis, OR. Mrs. McDonnell is originally from the Finger Lakes region of upstate NY where she studied dance with Garth Fagan and Elizabeth Clark. Prior to receiving her MFA in performance and choreography from SUNY Brockport, Amy obtained her BA from Goucher College in Interdisciplinary Studies combining dance, art, and anthropology. She has lived and performed in New York City with Lexington Dance Exchange and Collective Dance NY and has worked with artists such as Sean Curran, Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig, Bill Evans, Gabe Masson, and Vincent Mantsoe. Amy’s work has been shown at the American Dance Festival’s International Dance for the Camera Festival and also at the Heidelberg New Music and Dance Festival.