Donna Jewell
Professor of Dance, Department Chair
MFA in Dance
Tisch School for the Arts – New York University
Donna Jewell received her MFA in Dance from New York University’s Tisch School for the Arts and is Professor of Dance and the Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of New Mexico.
Ms. Jewell has been choreographing, performing and teaching in Europe and the United States for the last 30 years. She was a full-time faculty member of the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance and a tenured faculty member of the Department of Theater at the Mozarteum College of Fine Arts in Salzburg, Austria.
As the artistic director of Jewell & Company she creates dance films, site specific work and dance/theater pieces for the stage and continues to work as guest choreographer, rehearsal director, and actress for Lawine Torren (www.torren.at) in Austria, a company devoted to theatrical works for large machinery (helicopters, snowmobiles, airplanes, trucks, tanks, and cranes) and humans (actors, dancers, BASE jumpers, and skiers). Ms. Jewell is co-founder of ECOTONE, an ensemble using improvisation as a model for performance, and has worked as a resident choreographer and actress with Buran Theater based in New York and CABULA6 Theater Company based in Vienna.