Scott Heinzerling

Professor Heinzerling received his MFA in Choreography in 1991 from The Ohio State University. His professional choreographic works have been presented at Cal Poly Tech, San Luis Obispo, UCLA, CSLB, Moorpark College, Riverside Community College "Dancers for Life" AIDS Benefit Concerts, University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, University of Arizona at Tucson, Emory University in Atlanta, the Melrose Series #5, the Los Angeles John Anson Ford Amphitheater, Los Angeles Dance Kaleidoscope Festivals, the Theatre Regard du Cygne, Paris, France, the 1998 Festival of Theatre and Dance in Avignon, France, and the 2000 Montpellier Festival of Dance, Montpellier, France.

As a professional dancer 1973-1988, he performed in France, Italy, Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador, Central America, Mexico and throughout the United States with the Ohio Ballet Company and Dennis Wayne and Dancers. He has performed classical ballet and modern dance repertoire by George Balanchine, John Taras, Gerald Arpino, Heinz Poll, Ruthanna Boris, Anna Sokolow, Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Laura Dean, and Pilobolus.

Mr. Heinzerling has been the recipient of several Loyola Marymount University Summer Research Grants. In 1998, Professor Heinzerling was co-recipient of the Lilly Fellows Program in the Humanities and Arts Grant. He has served as an adjudicating panelist for the Los Angeles Music Center's Spotlight Awards, the Los Angeles Dance Kaleidoscope Festivals, and the Los Angeles Dance Resource Center Lester Horton Awards. In 2004 - 2006 Scott initiated and served as project director of DANCEtalk, a dance research project contributing to the humanities by questioning, reflecting, commenting on, and celebrating human values, conditions, and operations. In 2008, Scott collaborated with dance colleague Tekla Kostek to choreograph At Nowhere Random, which was presented at the 2009 "Dance Under the Stars Choreography Festival", Palm Desert, CA.

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