Meet Helen Simoneau, choreographer

Helen Simoneau, of Winston-Salem, is dancing across the globe this summer, sharing the work that won her a recent North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship Award for Choreography. Until September 3 she will be in residence at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts to choreograph two new works to be performed in both Winston-Salem and New York City in 2011 with dancers Lindsay Fisher, He Jin Jang, Burr Johnson, James McGinn, Manelich Minniefee and Rebekah Pleasant.

Earlier this summer, her company spent a week in Germany to rehearse and perform Flight Distance at PACT-Zollverein in Essen as finalists for the Kurt Jooss Prize 2010. The PACT-Zollverein center is an old coal mine and coke factory converted into a performance space.

Returning to the American Dance Festival, this time as faculty instead of as a graduate student, she taught an intermediate level modern technique class. She was also artist-in-residence at the Bates Dance Festival in Maine.

In November she will be one of only 12 artists selected to perform at The A.W.A.R.D. Show! 2010: New York City produced by the Joyce Theater Foundation. Read more about Helen’s whirlwind summer on her Web site at http://www.helensimoneau.com/.