Linda Lehovec
Associate Professor, BFA Program Director
Linda Lehovec is a choreographer and performer, working from a home base in the rural Midwest. She is currently on faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) where she is an Associate Professor with tenure.
Ms. Lehovec began her training in Pittsfield, Massachusetts with Madeline Cantarella Culpo. She holds a BFA degree from The Juilliard School and an MFA degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Linda is an active choreographer and performer, creating and dancing in her own work, as well as dancing in the works of contemporary choreographers Joe Goode, Ralph Lemon, Stephen Koester, Bill Young, Sara Hook and David Parker. She has performed her own choreography in Canada, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Detroit and Korea, and performed with her company, Linda Lehovec & Dancers, in Chicago, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. She has also performed regularly with Aiko Kinoshita as part of AcornDance in Seattle, Washington.
In October of 2004 Linda was invited to perform in INDABI, an international dance festival in Incheon, Korea. In the spring of 2006 she was invited to set a work on the students at the Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, where she will returned in the spring of 2007 to make another dance. Linda has been awarded two fellowships in Choreography from the Illinois Arts Council.
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