College Prep welcomes guest choreographer, Mo Miner

Maureen "Mo" Miner recently relocated to the Bay Area from Illinois where she was an Assistant Professor of Dance at Illinois State University.  She received her B.S. in Psychology and then went on to get her MFA in Dance Performance at the University of Iowa.  Mo has performed with Jennifer Kayle and Company, Shelter Repertory Dance Theatre, Charlotte Adams and Dancers, Duarte Dance Works, Sara Semonis, and in works by Miguel Gutierrez and Lucas Crandall.  In the Bay Area she has worked with Project Bandaloop and is currently dancing with Nina Haft. She is currently teaching at The Shawl Anderson Modern Dance Center.

Guest choreographers are an integral part of the dance program at College Prep. Part of the educational goal in teaching and working with high school students is to expose them to a variety of different styles and disciplines in dance. Students tend to come into the dance department with a preconceived notion of what "Dance Is" or what it means "To Dance". College Prep deconstructs these ideas, by giving students a an opportunity to personally work first hand with Artists. Choreographers join Prep for 1-2 months to develop a new piece of choreography or to teach from the choreographers repertoire