Guest Artists

Current Guest Artist – Christine Rohde

Christine Marie Rohde is originally from Madison, Wisconsin. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point with a BA in Dance and also completed a clinical massage therapy program. Ms. Rohde graduated from the Theatre and Dance Program with a MFA in Dance from the University of Colorado at Boulder in May 2012 with a secondary emphasis in the Alexander Technique. Ms. Rohde's extensive professional background with nationally recognized jazz dance and contemporary dance companies brings further insight to her teaching. She trained and performed in 2002-2003 with the contemporary dance company Juan Carlos Rincones Dance Theatre in Washington D.C., performing at the Kennedy Center among other national venues. Additionally, her have professional experience with Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, as a performing apprentice in 2004-2005. Christine has performed with the company at the Harris Theatre in Chicago and at the Jazz Dance World Congress in San Jose, Costa Rica. From 2005-2009, Ms. Rohde worked professionally with Thodos Dance Chicago, a contemporary dance company, performing nationally and internationally. In 2009 she toured with the company to South Korea, representing the United States, for the Busan International Dance Festival. Additionally, she taught, choreographed, and performed for the Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop with the resident jazz dance company Interweave Dance Theatre from 2010-2012. Most recently Christine dances professionally for 3rd Law Dance Theater, in their multi-media, collaborative dance theater productions from 2014 to today.  She has performed the repertory of such well know dance choreographers as Lar Lubovitch, Gus Giordano, Mia Michaels, Eddy Ocampo, Sam Watson, Rennie Harris, Jon Lehrer, Billy Siegenfeld, Ann Reinking, Katie Elliot, Melissa Thodos and Tony Powell among others.

Beyond her performing experience she has successfully showcased her choreographic work nationally and internationally.  One of her works, Camarilla (2007), was purchased as a repertory piece for  the professional dance company Thodos Dance Chicago from 2007-2009, which was performed by the company and toured throughout the Chicago-land area. Additionally her choreography has appeared at the Ruth Page Dance Center, in Dance Chicago (a Chicago Dance Festival), Thodos Dance Chicago’s Fall Engagement and Winter Concert and the American College Dance Festival (representing the Dance Department of the University of Colorado at Boulder). In 2010, her solo work The Box (2009) was chosen to represent the University of Colorado at Boulder's Dance Program at the American College Dance Festival in the Northwest Region, where she performed and taught several master classes. In 2010, Christine was invited to represent the University of Colorado at Boulder in Costa Rica, presenting a number of her solo works as a headliner for the Promising Artists of the 21st Century. Other choreographic accomplishments include performing and setting an original choreographic work entitled A Heart Full of Love (2012) for Interweave Dance Theatre of Boulder, Colorado and serving as guest artist in 2012 at Ursinus College in Collegeville, PA, where she set a new contemporary jazz dance piece entitled Reawakening. In 2010, she acted as the assistant choreographer for the University of Colorado’s Theatre and Dance Dept’s 50th Anniversary production of Rent: The Musical as well as choreographing for CU’s Opera production of Bernstein’s Mass featuring three choirs and two orchestras. Additionally, she has taught, assisted, and directed numerous community outreach programs (including CU Contemporary Danceworks) providing dance education, lecture demonstrations and performances throughout the Southern Colorado communities.

As a teacher Ms. Rohde is known as a generous, knowledgeable, and energetic educator who pushes her students to explore the range of their abilities as technicians, artists and performers. In 2012, she was awarded the Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she taught university dance classes for Dance Majors and Minors from 2009-2012. Ms Rohde served as adjunct dance faculty in the Dance Department at Pikes Peak Community College from 2012-2013 in Colorado Springs. From 2013-2014 she was Assistant Professor of Dance at the State University of New York Potsdam teaching dance majors and minors in Dance Composition, Jazz Funk, Ballet, Senior Students and Modern Dance. For the last three years she has served as Dance Director at The Art Underground leading, directing and choreographic three different levels of competitive dance companies, teaching ages two to adult in creative movement, ballet, pointe, jazz, modern, jazz funk, tap and musical theater.   

Past Guest Artists Include…

Peter DiMuro, Courtney Jones, Marilyn Sylla and Sekou Sylla, Beth Malone, David Taylor, Matthew Montenegro, Mike Esperanza, Jessica Taylor, Dante Lara, Suzanne Bronson.