Heather Klopchin
Associate Professor of Dance
1999-
- Dance history
- Senior Seminar
- Ballet
Office: 326 Dittmann Center
Phone: 507-786-3070
klopchin@stolaf.edu
Currently, Heather Klopchin is an Associate Professor of Dance at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN where she is teaching Ballet Technique, Dance History, and Senior Career Seminar. She has taught both modern and jazz dance technique as well and choreographs for the St. Olaf Dance Department’s student company. Heather holds a BS degree in Management from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Geneseo and an MFA degree in Dance choreography and performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She recently co-wrote a successful grant to bring in a master teacher and reconstructor of Anna Sokolow’s work to restage Sokolow’s masterwork Dreams at St. Olaf College.
Heather is passionate about performing, choreographing, researching, and teaching dance. Highlights of her career to date include performing in works by Joe Chvala, David Dorfman, Doris Humphrey, Mathew Janczewski, Walter Kennedy, Linda Lehovec, Mark Morris, Anthony Roberts, and Renée Wadleigh. Heather has performed with the company, Linda Lehovec & Dancers, in various locations throughout the Midwest for the past few years. In the Spring of 2006 she premiered a new group work entitled Teaghlach at St. Olaf and performed with Joe Chvala Flying Foot Forum in several shows. Heather also performs with the Minneapolis based company, ARENA Dances. She danced in their ten-year anniversary show at the Southern Theater in Minneapolis in October 2006 and will be dancing with the company in Philadelphia in March 2007 and at the Walker Art Center in Fall 2007. Heather plans to be dancing and choreographing as much as possible during her sabbatical during the 2007-08 academic year
