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Melissa Wynn is a teacher, choreographer, performer and Co-Artistic Director of Dangerous Lorraines DanceTheater. Originally from San Jose, California, she received her BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School and her MFA in Theatre and Dance with an emphasis in Choreography from the University of California, Davis. She has received additional training at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center and Dance Theater of Harlem among a variety of other training workshops, conferences and master classes.
Wynn's choreography has been presented in New York at the Danspace Project (at St. Mark's Church), Dixon Place, and Long Island University; in Davis, California at the Veteran's Memorial Theater, the University Club, and at the Robert and Magrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts; and in Texas at Sam Houston State University, Texas State University - San Marcos, DiverseWorks and the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in Houston. Her interdisciplinary choreography has intrigued and inspired audiences. Her quartet Desire to Take Flight. performed by The Dangerous Lorraines, was selected to be presented both by the Fort Worth Contemporary Dance Festival and as part of the Dance Houston Does Houston showcase of up & coming choreographers.
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