Heather Klopchin
Associate Professor of Dance
1999-
- Dance history
- 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 and Dance History. She has taught both modern and jazz dance technique as well and choreographs for the St. Olaf Dance Department’s student company. In the Spring of 2009 she premiered a new group work entitled “There’s a joke in there somewhere” at St. Olaf. 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.
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, Bill Evans, Doris Humphrey, Mathew Janczewski, Walter Kennedy, Linda Lehovec, Gabriel Masson, Mark Morris, Peggy Paver, Anthony Roberts, Karis Sloss, Robin Stiehm, Deborah Thayer, and Renée Wadleigh. She has also performed with Linda Lehovec & Dancers, Joe Chvala Flying Foot Forum and most recently with Dancing People Company in Ashland, Oregon during her sabbatical. She currently performs with ARENA Dances, a Minneapolis based modern dance company and Eclectic Edge Ensemble a Minneapolis based contemporary jazz dance company.
