As a part of the 2007 Oklahoma Contemporary Dance Festival, Perpetual Motion/Modern Dance Oklahoma, Inc., is offering master classes to the public. Classes will be taught by guest choreographers that were selected for the 2007 festival in the Health and Physical Education Building at UCO.

Selected choreographers include Michelle Contrino from Denton, Texas; Tina Kambour from UCO; Sarah Moore from Missouri Valley College; Lesley Snelson-Figureoa, Artistic Director of Muscle Memory Dance Theater in Dallas, Texas; and Stephanie Thibeault from Wichita State University.

Tina Kambour, who is teaching modern dance July 28, joined the UCO Dance faculty in 1992. Her choreography has been commissioned by Aha! Dance Theatre of Kansas City, Northeastern State University, Prairie Dance Theatre of Oklahoma City and Harwelden Institute of the Tulsa Arts and Humanities Council. She received her masters in Dance from the Teachers College at Columbia University and earned a Certified Movement Analyst degree from Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in New York City.

This article appeared in the July 19, 2007 edition of the Vista Online.

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Published Friday, Jul. 27, 2007