Mary Armentrout is a choreographer working in the space between dance, theater and object art. She studied dance and philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College and received her B.A. in 1985. While there, her work was selected to represent Sarah Lawrence College at the American College Dance Festival. She creates work for both conventional and site-specific venues, recently producing solo shows of her work at Dance Mission theater, Dancers' Group Studio Theater and 848 Community Space, as well as creating performance installations at the Luggage Store Annex, Ft. Funston State Park, Dadafest, and the Tenderloin Festival In The Street. Her work has also been presented in both the Womens' Work Jubilee Festival and the Women on the Edge Series. Her work has been featured on the San Francisco TV program "House of Dance" and the WB20 Ten O'clock News. She is the Executive Director of the Performance Alliance as well as a founding member of Terrain, an East Bay choreographers' collective. She is also a board member of Dancers' Group and the FieldSF and currently teaches at Danspace in Oakland.

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