Colleen Farnum has danced numerous MCDC featured roles including in When Words Pour Down, Asiasong on Our Soil, The Death of Garcia Lorca, Tango Undressed, Intimate I and II and Your Blood, My Blood and Europe and South American Tours. Colleen currently teaches at Miami Contemporary Dance School. She received her BFA in dance from N.Y.U., Tisch School of the Arts in 1998. She danced with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company at Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. She directed Skulduggery Dance from 1993-96 performing her choreography at venues across the East Coast, including the 25th Woodstock Anniversary Festival. She has toured America with the H.O.R.D.E. Festival in front of rock groups Phish, Blues Traveler, Spin Doctors and Wide Spread Panic. On the West Coast, Colleen danced with Mary Osland and Company and Agnieska Laska and Dancers. Her work was produced in conjunction with Agnieska Laska for the 2002-03 dance season. She has practiced yoga for over 20 years, beginning her studies at Jiva Mukti with David Life and Sharon Gannon in New York City. She traveled to Mysore, India to study with the founder of Ashtanga Yoga, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. She has also studied Sivanada, Iyengar, Kundalini, Bikram and Hatha. In South Florida, Colleen has danced with Brigid Baker, Dance Esaias, Giovanni Luquini, Momentum, Dance Now Ensemble and her work has been presented at the Florida Dance Festival. This is Colleen’s fifth season with Miami Contemporary Dance Company.