Taryn Packheiser's choreographic and performance career includes performances in the American Dance Festival's Acts to Follow Series, Boulder Fringe Festival, Boulder Creek Festival, Take A Chance on Broadway, Williamsburg Art & Historical Society Dance Festival, Sans Souci Film Festival, and Promising Artists of the 21st Century residency in San Jose, Costa Rica. Under the auspices of The Packtory, Taryn has produced commissioned sound scores, dances for the camera, and performances in Costa Rica, New York City, California, Colorado, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Iowa. In 2007, Taryn Packheiser and Carla Aubry produced the 1st Annual T:A:R:L:A Dance for the Camera Festival in Ames, Iowa which showcased work from Colorado, New York, Pennsylvania, and Iowa. Also coming to fruition in 2007 was The Packtory offshoot TW, a duet company including dancer/actor Will Schneider. TW will be showcased in the Iowa Fringe Festival in an evening length multimedia performance this July.
Taryn dances professionally with Hurley & Dancers, Co-motion Dance Theater, and the experimental movement and music collective, Separation Anxiety. She has performed in major works by Gabriel Masson, Joe Goode, Bebe Miller, David Parsons and Paul Taylor. Her past company credits include Third Law Dance Theatre, 2B Dance Tribe, Nich-Walk Dance Project, Urban Impact, Elinor Coleman Dance Ensemble, Montage Showcase Ensemble, and the Greensboro Ballet.
She is currently on faculty at Iowa State University where she has taught Modern 1, 2, 3, Ballet 1, 2, Teaching Children's Dance, Dance Composition, and Sound & Movement. Taryn's teaching background includes guest artist residencies at Vanderbilt University, Danza Abend, Universidad de Heredia, Greensboro Ballet, High Point Ballet, The Pointe Academy, Taylor Dance Academy, Ankeny Dance Inc, and the Rocky Mountain Festivention.
Packheiser's education includes Bates Dance Festival, American Dance Festival, American College Dance Festival, and the North Carolina School of the Arts Summer Session. She received her Masters of Fine Arts in Choreography and Performance from the University of Colorado at Boulder and her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Contemporary Dance from the North Carolina School of the Arts.
Hey little lady. So I was stalking people on here and I see that you're friends with Demetrius Klein. How do you know him? He was basically my first dance teacher ever.
i've been racking my brain trying to remember the name of that comedian you and joey recomended i look up. can you remind me again? i hope your trip back went well, it was nice hanging out again. let me know if you're planning any trips to NYC this year :)
jeff chapel and i are doing a collaboration in july. i am going to ask a few new ncsa/lived in brooklyn/now back home musicians to perform as well. i would love for you to perform your work in the showing. thinking july 11, downtown southern pines. you stay with me. we drink beers with jeff. fun.
Hey there, hope ACDF was good. Too bad we weren't able to meet this time around. I'd love to connect and do some classes if I come back through Ames. The company that I work for is based there. Once I'm flowing with things here, I'd love to come do some work.
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Hey there Fun Stufffffff. So, guess we won't be spending a third New Years in a row together this year. Too bad. I was starting to look forward to drunken dancing at the comedy club. Meanwhile, do you have Nallys contact info or her whereabouts???? Call me if youre not too busy one of these days.
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