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 Pier Voulkos is a former professional modern dancer who started her
dance career in San Francisco with Ed Mock and retired from the Mark
Morris Dance group in 1989.
tHrough the 1980’s in New York she also worked with choreographers
Daniel Peters, Diane Martel, Donald Byrd, and Rosalind Newman. As a
theatrical designer in 1986 she received two separate collaborative
commissions for theatrical set and costume design, one funded
through the Visual Art Program, New York and the other funded
through the New Works Program, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and
Humanities. Since discovering Argentine Tango in 1997 she has become
totally immersed in its rich social culture, its history, its music
and its improvisation and creative possibilities. She currently
teaches Argentine Tango in San Francisco with her partner Daniel
Peters at the Metronome Dance Center, classes at the Cellspace
Alternative Milonga and in Berkeley at The Beat. |
