Biographical note on Wendy Rogers

Photographer Bonnie Kamin © 2007, Marin County, CA, 1992; Wendy Rogers, dancer

Wendy Rogers has choreographed and performed dances for over thirty-five years, residing in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City and now in Riverside where she joined the University of California dance faculty in 1996. She produces work as the ongoing endeavor WENDY ROGERS dancing, and is currently choreographing 'a meeting place,' a multi-year project that generates dancing based on the architecture of Julia Morgan (1872-1957). In 2003 Rogers premiered the evening length dance: WILD LIFE/a movement refuge in the Fall series of the Danspace Project in New York City. She also taught and performed in Malaysia as part of a US State Department cultural exchange. The Wendy Rogers Dance Company (1977-90) and her ten-year project MAKESHIFT dancing (1991-2000) toured nationally and internationally. Rogers' work is rooted in her early years of study and performance with artists including Ruth Hatfield, David Wood, Margaret Jenkins, Carolyn Brown, Viola Farber and Sara Rudner. She has received Fellowships from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Irvine Fellowship in Dance, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.