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Location	Boise, Idaho, United States
Introduction	Since 1976 I have been a dancer and choreographer. For the past 21 years I am co-artistic director of the Idaho Dance Theatre in Boise, a professional contemporary dance company. I am currently working on my 101st dance. In 1990, I sheepishly began to explore the visual arts by first drawing and then beginning to paint the Idaho landscape around me to which I have always been unusually sensitive. For some reason, this place feels deeply personal and visually comforting. Starting in 1995, I began a second professional arts career in painting to accompany my career in dance. These two areas of art making, through their different natures, have given me a balanced life as an artist. Dance, which is a very social art and quite public and intense, contrasts with painting, which is a more solitary pursuit without the hubbub of performances. Each informs the other for me and each helps balance the excesses of the other.

Location

Boise, Idaho, United States

Introduction

Since 1976 I have been a dancer and choreographer. For the past 21 years I am co-artistic director of the Idaho Dance Theatre in Boise, a professional contemporary dance company. I am currently working on my 101st dance. In 1990, I sheepishly began to explore the visual arts by first drawing and then beginning to paint the Idaho landscape around me to which I have always been unusually sensitive. For some reason, this place feels deeply personal and visually comforting. Starting in 1995, I began a second professional arts career in painting to accompany my career in dance. These two areas of art making, through their different natures, have given me a balanced life as an artist. Dance, which is a very social art and quite public and intense, contrasts with painting, which is a more solitary pursuit without the hubbub of performances. Each informs the other for me and each helps balance the excesses of the other.