Marilyn Marilyn Byers, Artistic Director, choreographer and dance educator for The Dance Dimension, designed, developed and directed the original Howard County Gifted and Talented dance program and more recently participated in developing the Prince George's County magnet school arts program on all levels. She currently teaches at the high school for the performing arts. In 1987, she was chosen as one of seven Kennedy Center Teacher Fellows to represent the US in Arts Dialogue Australia in celebration of their Bicentennial. During the Summer of 1989, Ms. Byers and dancers attended a performing arts festival in Nancy, France, where she performed and choreographed a piece in commemoration of the French Bicentennial. In 1991 she traveled with a Kennedy Center delegation to Finland and the Soviet Union again to participate in an Arts Dialogue. Marilyn Byers is also the Artistic Director of the Hopkins Dance Company at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Ms Byers was also awarded the prestigious Art Educator of the year in 2000 in Howard County and was nominated for the Maryland Governors Medal in the Arts - 2001. http://www.thedancedimension.com/ President: Samantha Pflum I'm a senior psychology major and art history minor. I'm from New Jersey and have been dancing with the JHU Modern Dance Company since the beginning of my freshman year. Overall, I have been dancing for sixteen years and am classically trained in modern, ballet, jazz, lyrical, and tap. Modern dance has always been my primary interest, so the Modern Dance Company here at Hopkins was the perfect opportunitity for me to continue pursuing my love of dance. Co-President: Catherine Colwell Hi! My name is Catherine Colwell and I'm a senior at Johns Hopkins currently majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Math and Statistics. I'm from Minnesota (yay!), where I danced competitively for 13 years in lyrical, tap, jazz and ballet at StageDoor of Performing Arts. My dance background is more heavily based in lyrical and I have been fortunate enough to work with choreographers like Mandy Moore, Mia Michaels (may recognize from So You Think You Can Dance haha) and Mark Meismer. I'm in the Phi Mu sorority and the Society of Women Engineers here at Hopkins. I've been dancing and performing with Hopkins Modern Company for four years now and am really passionate about it. Vice President: Emily Moore Hello! I am a junior Public Health Major and a Music minor. This is my third year in the JHU Modern Company and I'm still loving it. I've danced since I was 5, ballet, tap, jazz and theatre dance at Coupe Dance Studio. I'm also in the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra playing viola. Performing arts here at Hopkins have saved me from the woes of a stressed pre-med. Treasurer: Lauren McGrath My name is Lauren McGrath, and I'm a senior Writing Seminars and Anthropology major. This is my second year dancing and performing for the Company. I helped write a grant last year to add dance classes to the Hopkins curriculum - we're currently running two classes, and I'm trying to add even more, semester by semester. In my free time, I like to paint and read Russian novels (and celebrity tabloids). Random fact: I once crashed a wedding with Marylin, Ezra, Amanda, Jen, and Brittany. Secretary: Erika Ho Public Relations: Lisa Strouss |