MMarlee Doniff is just happy to be here. Over the last two decades her relationship to dance has been tumultuous (and at times very dramatic) but ultimately fated. Currently, they are monogamous and getting on very well. There is a good chance she was the Virgin Mary in a past life which is why she can’t stop making dances about Catholicism. Her latest attempt at this was in a work called dyke devotions which has been described as a mess of “uncontainable bodies in varying states of unruliness, exhaustion, and excess.” This was the product of her annual residency in St. Louis, Missouri where she makes an evening length dance in a month. Did I mention she is a tad bit insane? She brings this insanity into the classroom where her students learn to fly!!!!! Well not actually, but sometimes dancing feels like flying. She holds a degree in DANCE from Webster University and is now working on a SECOND DEGREE IN DANCE at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign #MFA. After three years of sending emails and picking people up from the airport as the Company Manager for the American Dance Festival they have caved and invited her to be the US Representative for the International Choreographer in Residence Program this summer. Phew! In short, dance is both how Marlee makes a living and how she lives. You can view her full CV here.