Holly Williams

Holly Williams has performed nationally and internationally with the companies of Mark Morris, Laura Dean and Jose Limon. In Morris' company she performed in the original casts of L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, The Hard Nut, Going Away Party, Love Song Waltzes, New Love Son Waltzes, and in numerous other works. Ms. Williams' choreography for the Houston Grand Opera, Dallas Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Austin Theatre Alliance, Dallas Theatre Center and the concert stage have won her national acclaim. She has presented concerts of her own work in Austin and at the Merce Cunningham Studio in New York, and her choreography has been commissioned by companies in California, Texas, Louisiana, Kansas and Oklahoma. In recent years she has created new works for the State Street Ballet of Santa Barbara, the American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive, the Universidad de Las Americas in Pueblo, Mexico, Contemporary Ballet Dallas, Ballet Austin Senior Young Artists, and Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth. In summer 2004 her dance/video work "Bolero" made its international debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland and her signature work "Black Magic" toured to Innsbruck, St. Johann and Salzburg, Austria as part of the Tanzsommer Festival. She served as a 2004 dance panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C. and as a panelist for the 2006 American Masterpiece program of Dance/USA. She has a B.A. from Barnard College/Columbia University and an M.F.A. from Texas Woman's University, from which she received the 2001 Distinguished Alumnae Award in Dance. At the University of Texas she currently is Senior Associate Chair and directs the M.F.A./Dance program.