Shirley Ririe
Company Cofounder & Education SpecialistMs. Ririe was the United States delegate to Dance and Child International and has produced two dance programs for PBS "Arts Alive." She has been a consultant for the National Endowment for the Arts and serves on the National Advisory Committee for Young Audiences. She retired from the University of Utah where she was a professor of Modern Dance and taught for thirty-nine years.
Her performing and teaching career has taken her throughout the United States and to all parts of the world. She has performed leading roles in works by Jose Limon, Helen Tamiris, Alwin Nikolais, Merce Cunningham, Steve Paxton and Murray Louis and she as studied with Anna Halprin, Viola Farber, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey and Louis Horst.
Ms Ririe has choreographed over 100 works for Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, other dance companies and professional theater companies. She has published material in several textbooks and journals, co-produced a video and workbook teaching package, and was a Fulbright professor in Hong Kong and in Aukland, New Zealand.
She has received the Merit of Honor Award and an honorary doctorate from the University of Utah, the Plaudit Award by the National Dance Association and is also a recipient of the Utah Governor's Award in the Arts for Arts Education.
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