Camp Faculty
Holly Williams is a choreographer, dance administrator and professor at UT who has performed nationally and internationally with the companies of Mark Morris, Laura Dean and Jose Limon. 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 the past year she has created new works for the American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive/Austin, Contemporary Ballet Dallas 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 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. Ms. Williams is on faculty at the University of Texas where she currently heads the M.F.A./Dance program. She is on the Board of Directors of the Dance Critics Association and the American College Dance Festival Association and has been active in the Performing Arts Research Coalition multi-year audience survey project funded by the Pew Trust. She is delighted to be the coordinator of the Performing Arts Camp.
