Modern at the Modern
    2009

ARTIST BIO

Rebecca Gose Enghauser
& Denise Posnak

Rebecca EnghauserRebecca Gose Enghauser (Athens, GA)
Co-choreographer/performer of "Shuffle Play", dancer, teacher, scholar & choreographer, Rebecca Gose Enghauser was a principal dancer with Garth Fagan Dance (1988-1993), touring extensively across the US & abroad to theatres, colleges & universities, as well as such venues as Jacob’s Pillow, The Joyce Theatre (NYC), National Black Dance Festival, Spoleto Festival (Italy), Internationales Tansfest (Cologne), Basel Tanz (Switzerland), & the Carlton Dance Festival (Brazil).

Throughout her career, she has performed her own works & those of several internationally recognized modern dance choreographers such as Doug Varone, Moses Pendleton, Ruth St. Denis, Stephen Petronio, Bill Evans, David Parsons & Carlos Orta. Rebecca has also held numerous consulting, teaching, & teaching artist positions in various arts education & community outreach settings primarily in Nashville, TN. After attaining her MFA in 2001, she has served as an Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Georgia where she teaches modern technique, dance pedagogy, & coordinates the teacher certification program. Her research involves a mix of performing, choreographing, and writing for scholarly journals in dance education.

Denise PosnakDenise Posnak (Athens, GA)
Co-choreographer/performer of "Shuffle Play", Denise Posnak has taught dance at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and, since 2007, at the University of Georgia. She has performed, choreographed, and taught across the United States and internationally, including extensive work in Budapest and in Mexico. She has performed with David Parker and the Bang Group, Sara Hook Dances, and Stephan Koplowitz, among others. She completed her MFA in dance at the University of Illinois in 2006, where she received the M. E. Hamstrom and National Society of Arts and Letters Awards, and her recent grants and performance projects have focused on site-specific, interdisciplinary, and collaborative work with filmmakers, musicians, visual artists, and writers in Chicago, Atlanta, and Athens, GA.