Tiffany Rhynard, Visiting Assistant Professor

Interlacing the parameters of activism and art, Tiffany Rhynard is a movement artist interested in the intersection between movement and image, specifically in dialogue with the study of human behavior. Rhynard made the transition to dance from visual art during her undergraduate tenure at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she received her BA in Dance. She holds an MFA in Choreography from the Ohio State University where she concentrated in digital video. She has taught at Peace College, North Carolina Governor’s School, Ohio State University, State University of New York at Potsdam, and as a guest artist at Dickinson College.

As a performer, Rhynard has worked with various choreographers including Chavasse Dance and Performance Group, Brosseau Danceworks, X Factor, Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians, Gerri Houlihan, and John Gamble Dance Theater. Her choreography has been presented extensively throughout North Carolina in addition to venues nationwide. Her video works have been screened at film/video festivals including the Dance for the Camera Film and Video Festival in Salt Lake City and Dancing for the Camera at the American Dance Festival. Recent video projects include the documentary Women Building Larger Lives, a film illuminating the strength and resiliency of incarcerated women working in a vocational construction program at the state women’s prison in Windsor, Vermont.

Active in the collaborative process, Rhynard has worked with a variety of musicians, poets, visual artists, and animators. Recent projects include an environmental movement and sound installation with composer Lei Liang, and a biographical solo for Christal Brown in collaboration with writer and poet Karma Johnson. In the fall of 2007, she will collaborate with Marlon Barrios-Solano, real-time media artist, for the Dance Company of Middlebury’s 2007-08 season. Rhynard teaches Advanced Beginning Dance, Intermediate/Advanced Dance, Contact Improvisation, Creative Process, and J-term courses focused on digital video.