KATHRYN POSIN studied composition with Louis Horst, Anna Sokolow, Merce Cunningham and Hanya Holm. A graduate of Bennington college, she holds an M.A. in interdisciplinary multi-cultural dance from NYU. She began receiving choreographic commissions in 1975 when the American Dance Festival commissioned Waves. She has choreographed works for Ballet West, The Netherlands Dance Theater I and II, The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (Later That Day with Philip Glass among others), The Eliot Feld Ballet, The Ohio Ballet, Repertory Dance Theater of Utah, Extemporary Dance Company of London, Ballet Pacifica, the Milwaukee Ballet (Bach’s Lunch), and the Cincinnati Ballet. She was the first international choreographer to stage a work for Cloud Gate Dance Theater in Taiwan. In theater, she choreographed the hit rock musical Salvation, and The Cherry Orchard at Lincoln Center. For her own company, the Kathryn Posin Dance Company, Ms. Posin has choreographed over 50 works. The Company has received support from the Guggenheim Foundation, NYSCA, NEA, and the Jerome Robbins Foundation. Galena Summit, to music of Steve Reich, was voted Choreography of the Year by the Boston Globe in 1988. She is a recipient of a 1995-6 NEA Choreography Fellowship; and for fall, 1997, she developed a new work at the Joffrey School