Clare Byrne (Modern) has been creating dance in New York for over a decade. Her company, Clare Bryne Dance, has performed at the Joyce SoHo, the NY International Fringe Festival, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Danspace Project's Food for Thought series, PS 122's Avantgardarama, The Flea Theater, and Dixon Place amongst others. Outside of New York, she has shown her work at Connecticut College, Muhlenberg College, Roger Williams University, Mirriewold Park, The Yard on Martha's Vineyard and the Wagon Train Project in Lincoln, Nebraska. She is a member of nicholasleichterdance and has danced in the video work of Vickie Mendoza and Amy Larimer. Professor Byrne was on the faculty of 1999 American Dance Festival's Four Week School, and has been a guest teacher at Duke University, Connecticut College, Cedar Crest College, Allentown College and the Festival Fabulous in Leuven, Belgium. Professor Byrne's technique class emphasizes complex, expressive musicality and performance quality. Shaping of space, movement transitions, core initiation and radiating outward focus are experienced in various levels and dynamics, helping the dancer grow as a self-aware artist who is also playfully responsive to the world around her. Professor Byrne's work was most recently presented at Dance New Amsterdam.