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Sherry Saterstrom
E-Mail: saterstr@stolaf.edu
Where to start--- I just finished three performances that celebrated my 6 decades in dance--"A Body of Knowledge"--moving is my knowing--- and currently am taking a break from rehearsing and creating new work. I am teaching 4 classes this semester in the Dance Dept. at St. Olaf-- Modern l, Power Play, Fundamentally Dance, and The Body Moveable. I love performing and dancing is one of my primary ways of being in life, but I also am a born teacher and I am enjoying giving my classes and the creative process inherent in them-- my full attention now. Who would have imagined 38 years ago when I graduated from St. Olaf that I would be back here having the time of my creative life sharing my love of "the body in motion" with students of all descriptions. Life is a crazy journey! What a pleasure to just follow its lead. (Update: November, 2008)
Susan Schneider Adams
E-Mail: schnadams@yahoo.com
I just choreographed a dance for high school students in a UCC
church in Windsor, Wisconsin. I'm the Associate Conference Minister
for Youth and Young Adult Ministries in the Wisconsin Conference,
UCC. I am also the Interim Associate Pastor at Orchard Ridge United
Church of Christ in Madison, Wisconsin. I continue to choreograph
liturgical dance, perform, and lead workshops and retreats in the
area of Liturgical dance. (Update: Spring, 2003)
Janet L. Hein
E-Mail: janet.hein@notes.udayton.edu
So nice to come across this page! Susan Schneider, great to see what you are doing. I just went through my second hip replacement, so want to start tap again in the near future. Am working at U of Dayton Law School as Asst. Dean of Admissions so I can work with students again, if not necessarily choreographing them, at least counseling them. It continues to keep me young! (Update: November, 2007)
Anne Garrett
E-Mail: anne@msagf.org
Currently the Executive Director of the Microsoft Alumni Foundation, remarried, and four sons: 23, 18, 12 and 9. Life is good. (Update: January, 2009)
Carol Stoutland
E-Mail: sunflowergreens@yahoo.com
I started slowing getting back into dancing about 4 years ago and am currently taking classes at the University of Oregon Dance department. I just started rehearsals to be in the Spring Student Dance Concert. I've had time for all of this because I have been taking an hiatus from my Chiropractic career, but will soon be returning to that life. Having received lots of chiropractic care, my body is functioning better today than it was 30 years ago! (Update: March, 2011)
Karen Schuldt Darling
E-Mail: karen.darling@doj.ca.gov
I have been practicing law since 1990 and am presently a Deputy
Attorney General with the State of CA. I am married with two children;
Christine 4 and Jack 3. I regularly take Ballet classes and participate
in performances with dance studios in Los Angeles. (Update: September,
2003)
Ann Slen
E-Mail: annslen@aol.com
Since graduation, I have continued to perform and teach and have led a Liturgical Dance group at my church. This past year, I purchased the dance studio where I grew up in Fort Wayne, IN. We have a staff of 15 teachers who all grew up together. What an adventure it has been! I have 2 daughters who enjoy dancing, too. (Update: October,
2011)
Kara Wagner Sherer
E-Mail: rector@stjohnschicago.com
I am a priest in the Episcopal Church and rector of a small parish in Chicago. I first came to Chicago when I performed with the dance company at a Lutheran church in Evanston. I remember taking the train to visit the Art Institute. Now I take ballet at a local studio, our whole family danced in the Nutcracker with the Hyde Park School of Ballet, and I always tout the good liturgical dance I learned at St. Olaf! (Update: September,
2009)
Tamara Kangas
Choreographer, director and performer at Chanhassen Theatres.
Select credits: 'Les Miserables', 'Grease', 'Singin' in the Rain',
'West Side Story', 'The Musical of Musicals, The Musical'. We love
seeing Oles at auditions! www.myspace.com/princesstamtam1
(Update: June, 2007)
Stephen Teng Lethao
E-Mail: slethao@pharmacy.com
I am currently working as system administrator for a medical supply
company in Florida. Prior to relocating to Orlando, I was with the
Ethnic Dance Theatre for 1 year. Other than EDT, I have not had
any chance to do any more dancing. I am getting married in fall
of 2000.
Amy Slater
E-Mail: amy.slater@yahoo.com
After living, working, and dancing in Minneapolis for 8 years,
I decided to go back to school. I finished my MFA in dance performance
and choreography at the University of Colorado at Boulder in May
2006. A couple of weeks after graduation I performed a solo piece
titled "Exposed Layers" at the National ACDF at the Kennedy
Center in Washington D.C. I'm in my first year teaching dance at
El Paso Community College (El Paso, Texas). I'm the first full-time
tenure track dance instructor at this community college, so I'm
building a program from the ground up.! (Update: April, 2007)
Kristin Peterson Iovino
E-Mail: kepeterson21@hotmail.com
Since graduation in 1996, I taught ballet and modern dance for
Southold Dance Theater and Conservatory of Dance where i was also
Associate Director. I did Freelance Choreography for companies including
St. Marys College. I was also a company member of Southold Dance
Theater performing in public schools as well as the surrounding
community. In August 2000 I married and moved to Bloomington IN,
graduated nursing school and currently work in Bloomington Hospital
as an orthopedic nurse. I take class on occasion and continue to
teach when able. (Update: December, 2003)
Maria Breza
E-Mail: mbreza@earthlink.net
I am currently living in New York. I study dance with many amazing
artists and audition and audition. Recently I had the opportunity
to teach modern dance as guest artists at Winona State University.
I also choreographed a piece for their student dance company which
will premiere at their concert in early February.
Robyn (Kramer) Clifton
E-Mail: rockyn_robyn73@hotmail.com
Immediately after graduation I was dancing with Zorongo Flamenco
as an apprentice in MN & with Zenon's apprentice program too.
In 11/99 I moved to Albuquerque, NM where I was dancing with a flamenco
troupe. After a "foot thing" & car accident, I took
a break for awhile & got into the Insurance/Investment business
with Mutual of Omaha where I met my now husband Johnny. We moved
to Texas & continue to work together with his own company Talis
Financial Services. We even danced a ballroom (foxtrot & swing)
routine at our wedding 4/9/05. I have started taking a ballet class
again & am auditioning to dance in a Christmas Festival at my
church. (Update: September, 2005)