Ballet East Dance Theatre

                              Andrea Beckham

ANDREA BECKHAM is a Summa cum Laude graduate of the University of Texas at Austin in Sociology and Dance. She is a highly acclaimed dancer, choreographer and teacher, weaving together a diverse background, a restless curiosity and a respect for structure and knowledge. Andrea has maintained an ongoing relationship with the Sharir Dance Company since 1983, first as a dancer and now as a guest artist and choreographer. She has also performed with Lliory Wilson’s Tallulah Dance Company in Seattle, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in New York and John Mead & Company in Tokyo, Japan. Andrea was an award winner with frequent partner Heywood “Woody” McGriff in the choreography of Yacov Sharir in Tel Aviv, Israel,ventured back into the world of classical dance with Ballet Austin in Limmasol, Cyprus, and was included as one of the choreographers for Amerian Ballet Theatre's Summer Intensive in 2001. Her own work has been presented in Texas, New York, The Arts on the Hill Festival in Wyoming, the Avignon-Off Festival in France, the Cyprus International Festival, Holland, Portugal and several small venues around Europe. Andrea is currently teaching at UT Austin in both the Theatre and Dance areas, as well as running the Pilates-evolved Movement and Physical Conditioning Laboratory there, and (always) working on collaborative projects with her own pick-up company, Andrea Beckham Collaborative Dance.

Works for Ballet East

2002 Ole (in progress)	2001 Shadow Play Fish: A Noun & a Verb I Imagine Flying
2000 Merging El Viento	1999 Tangled Hope Springs Eternal

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