CAROLYN PAVLIK, Assistant Professor, earned her M.F.A. in Dance from the University of Washington in Seattle and her B.A. in Dance from the University of Texas in Austin. Carolyn performed and toured nationally and internationally with the Austin-based Sharir + Bustamante Danceworks for thirteen years. In addition to the countless dances she performed by Sharir and Bustamante, Carolyn performed feature roles in Sharir + Bustamante Danceworks repertory by noted choreographers Doug Varone, Ohad Naharin, Senta Driver and Andrea Beckham. As a freelance artist, Carolyn collaborated with many Austin artists including Kathy Dunn Hammrick, Margery Seagal and site-specific dance choreographer Sally Jacques, as well as Seattle-based artist Llory Wilson and San Francisco-based artist Kathleen Hermesdorf. She recently produced, choreographed, and performed in her dance for the camera works Rack3 and Genderations. Her concert choreographic works have been presented in Austin, Seattle and New York. Carolyn is nationally certified in massage therapy and Polestar Pilates. In 2004, Carolyn presented her research "Site-specific Dance in the United States" in the Impulses for Dance: Dance in the Community Conference in Portugal. Her site-specific dance research has also been published in the Australia New Zealand Dance Journal.