Contact
Information:
Adair 404
757/221-2598
lbmorris@wm.edu
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Lauren B. Morris,
Adjunct
Instructor
Teaching
and Research
Scholarly and Creative
Activity: Choreography,
performance
Courses Taught: Ballet,
modern
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Lauren B. Morris has lived
throughout the United
States, in Bermuda, and traveled extensively
before
settling in Richmond, Virginia. Graduating cum laude at Virginia
Commonwealth University,
she was honored with the Outstanding Performer Award in Dance and
Choreography. While at VCU, and
subsequently, Lauren had the opportunity to perform under the direction
of Scott
Putman, Gesel Mason, and Gerri Houlihan. In
2005 she traveled to San Jose, Costa
Rica
to study modern dance, choreography,
and automated lighting design. She
attended the Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston,
Maine,
where she studied with Craig Patterson, Michelle Miller, and Tere
O’Connor. Her choreography for the Woodbridge
Senior High School Vikette Dance Team from 2003 to 2005 won numerous
awards at
the Eastern Dance Association National Competition in Myrtle
Beach, South Carolina. During the past three years, Lauren has
applied her choreography expertise through instruction in ballet,
modern, jazz,
and hip hop at Shuffles Dance
Center in Richmond. She also had the opportunity to teach at the Virginia
Commonwealth University
summer dance intensive in 2006 and 2007. Lauren
performed with the Starr Foster Dance Project from
2002 to 2006
and is currently dancing with Amaranth Contemporary Dance in Richmond. Lauren joins the College
of William and Mary faculty
as an adjunct dance instructor in
the
Fall of
2007. |
