Joan Bruemmer
BFA, New York University
MFA, Naropa University
Joan Bruemmer has taught Movement and Acting at Naropa University, Working Classrooms in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Dance Theater of Cologne, Festival D'Avignon, School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam, The Moscow Art Theater, CounterPULSE and San Francisco Dancer's Group. She is artistic director of San Francisco’s Marijoh DanzTheatre, a movement theater company known for integrating multidisciplinary techniques and original text for the stage. In San Francisco, her work has been performed at ODC Theater, the San Francisco Edge Festival, San Francisco Fringe Festival, Women on the Edge Festival, Theater Artaud, Dance Mission and The Marsh. In New York she performed at The Kitchen, P.S. 122, St. Mark's Church, Theater Regenesis, ABCnoRio and St. John the Divine. She was invited to perform twice at the Festival D’Avignon in France and her work has been performed internationally as part of works-in-residence in Germany, France, the Netherlands and at the International Theater Festival in Arezzo. She was selected Pick of the Fringe for 2005 and 2006 for original works produced at the Boulder International Fringe Festival. She has performed with Meredith Monk, and been directed by The Siti Company and Leigh Fondakowski of the Tectonic Theater. Recent acting credits include Mrs. Freeman in square product theatre’s Good Country People; Carol in Theatre13’s The Deer and the Antelope Play and the Nurse in Boulder Ensemble Theatre’s Antigone.
Barbara Dilley BA, Mount Holyoke College
Barbara Dilley studied and performed dance in New York City from 1960–1975 with the Merce Cunningham Co. (1963–1968) and the Grand Union, a dance/theater collaboration that was to extend the definitions of the art of improvisation (1969–1976). Beginning in 1974 she has taught at Naropa University in Boulder, Colo., first designing the Dance/Movement Studies Program, then serving as President (1985–1993). Her teaching emphasizes "embodied awareness" through dance/movement studies, creative compositional processes and the disciplines of meditation. Throughout these years she has created dance and performance art; most recently the dEsoLAtedEliGHt Project: 2008-09, and skits for Lady Wabi Sabi. She has two children, Ben Lloyd and Owen Bondurant, and two grandchildren, Griffen and Ella Lloyd.
Lorenzo Gonzalez most recently appeared in Mame at New Orleans Summer Lyric Theatre and directed The Comedy of Errors at the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival. Among the various theatres he has worked are: The Actor's Gang; The Independent Shakespeare Co.; The RED CAT at Disney Hall; San Jose Repertory; The Ahmanson in L.A.; Tacoma Actors Guild; Seattle Repertory; Arizona Theatre Company; the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for five seasons; El Teatro Campesino; Colorado Shakespeare Festival; Idaho Shakespeare Festival; Fort Worth Shakespeare in the Park. Mr. Gonzalez's MFA is from PTTP at the University of Delaware and is a certified Fitzmaurice Voicework instructor.
Cara Reeser, BFA Performance
BA, Sarah Lawrence College
MFA, New York University
Cara relocated to Colorado from New York City in 1994. She has performed and choreographed for her Denver-based dance company, Still Moving Dances, since its inception in 1994. Cara's works have been commissioned by The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, where she has been collaborating with local artists on site-specific performance works for the past several years. Cara was a member of the Mariposa Artists Collective from 1997 to 2001 and has enjoyed dancing and collaborating with many local and nationally based artists on performance projects throughout the US. She has served on the faculty of Naropa since 1997 and has taught at the Colorado Dance Festival, as well as locally in Boulder, Denver, and Fort Collins, since 1994. Cara is a second generation pilates instructor who had the honor to mentor under Master Teacher Kathleen Stanford Grant, and owns Denver Pilates Studio Pilates Aligned Inc. Currently, Cara teaches workshops in movement education, dance and pilates around the nation.
Joanna Rotkin
MFA, Bennington College
Originally from Boulder, Colorado, Joanna relocated to New York City to pursue her work as a choreographer, dancer, and performer. After receiving an MFA from Bennington College in 2002, Joanna returned to her hometown to continue her work as a performing artist and dance educator. She is the founder of TinHouse Experimental Dance Theatre, a dance company committed to creating experimental dance performance that uses the raw physicality of the human form to bring images, dreams, hallucinations, and fantasies into focus through powerful, bold, and electrifying movement. In 2003, Joanna founded the educationally based dance program, As the Crow Flies, in order to bring dance to a wider and more diverse community. Elders, youth, and developmentally disabled adults gather regularly to practice improvisational dance forms, challenging and nurturing each other to go beyond perceived notions with the hope of learning to appreciate diversity and difference in our community through the medium of dance. Joanna has taught at The Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, Bennington College, Prescott College, and the Shambhala Center in Boulder. Joanna currently teaches at Naropa University, The University of Colorado, and in the community while performing and choreographing regularly with her company.
Lee Worley BA, Mount Holyoke College
MA, Naropa University
Lee Worley founded the Theatre Studies program at Naropa in 1974. She has developed contemplative exercises for arts in education and contemplative education programs throughout her career at Naropa. She also taught theatre at a Buddhist-inspired middle school in Boulder for many years. She is one of a very few holders of the Mudra Space Awareness lineage—a performance training derived from Tibetan Yoga. She was a founding member, actress and teacher in Joseph Chaikin's Open Theater and is a senior student of Tibetan Buddhism. Her recent book, Coming from Nothing: The Sacred Art of Acting, outlines her contemplative acting method.
Joan Bruemmer
Barbara Dilley 
Lorenzo Gonzalez
Cara Reeser, BFA Performance 
Joanna Rotkin 
Lee Worley