Susan Hefner (Dance Wellness) began performing dance improvisation at the age of 16, graduated from Goddard College, and toured worldwide as a soloist with Nikolais Dance Theatre. Her choreography and improvisation have been presented in many venues including Kiev, Ukraine, the Chocolate Factory, Birmingham International Improvisation Festival, HERE’s American Living Room, Roulette, One Dream, Dixon Place, Joyce SoHo, Danspace Project’s Food for Thought, and Southern Danceworks. Her company has received support from the Harkness Foundations for Dance, Dance Ink, Meet the Composer, Inc., the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Vermont Council on the Arts, Manhattan Community Arts Fund, and 2wice Arts Foundation, and an Outer/Space Creative Residency from Dance Theatre Workshop. Trained by renowned neuromuscular trainer Irene Dowd, Susan has taught anatomy and kinesiology for dancers at L’Escuela Nacional de Danza in Mexico, the International Summer School of Dance in Tokyo, Long Island University, Columbia College in Chicago, and the Limon Institute. She is currently on faculty at Hunter College, and maintains a private practice as a neuromuscular trainer.