Molly Buchmann
Professional-in-Residence (Head of Dance)
Buchmann
is co-artistic director of the Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre (BRBT), an Honor Companyin Regional Dance America Southwest. Her choreography for BRBT includes works in both classical and modern idioms and she has choreographed over 50 musicals for professional, community, and university theatres. Her original ballets for both San Antonio Metropolitan Ballet and BRBT have been selected forgala performances of Regional Dance America Southwest. She has served the Louisiana State Department of Education as a professional clinician for dance instructors across the state and as a contributor to Dance and Fine Arts Survey Curriculum Guides. Her training in New York has included the Vaganova Teacher's Course in Classical Ballet and she has studied and performed with ProDanza Italia in Toscano, Italy. She has received an Artist Fellowship in choreography from the State of Louisiana, the Mayor-President’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, and an LSU Tiger Athletic Foundation Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching. She has helped train many dance students who have gone on to dance on Broadway and in major modern dance and ballet companies.
Voice: 225/578-4974
Fax: 225/578-4135
E-mail: mbuchm1@lsu.edu
