WENDY WOODSON

Wendy Woodson, artistic director and founder of Present Company Inc., has created over 80 movement, theater,and video works that have been presented throughout the U.S. and in Europe.  She has received numerous awards and grants for her performance and video work including Choreography, Theater and Interdisciplinary Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Consortium and the Boston Film and Video Foundation.  Her full-length movement theater pieces and videos have been shown extensively in the U.S. at such venues as the Washington Project for the Arts, P.S. 122, Jacob's Pillow, Emerson Majestic Theater, the John F. Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap, New Playwrights Theater, the DeCordova Museum, at numerous colleges, universities, and national and international video/film festivals.  She earned B.A. and M.A. degrees from the George Washington University, and trained in theater and dance with Erick Hawkins, Martha Graham, Meredith Monk, Twyla Tharp and many others.

Woodson has been a professor of theater and dance at Amherst College since 1987. She has recently been selected as a Senior Fulbright Scholar for the 2006-07 academic year. Woodson will be an artist-in-residence at the Victoria College of the Arts at the University of Melbourne in Australia in the spring 2007 semester. Woodson will create new performance and video work that continues her interest in stories and images of reconciliation and meditation, and in experimental interactions between live performance and digital technologies.