Rebecca Bryant www.pmpd.org   Rebecca Bryant collaborates with dancers, musicians, actors, and visual artists on improvisational and set works that combine movement, sound, text and visuals. In addition to being a Lower Left Performance Collective artist, she is co-founder of the Past Modern Performance Duo, which combines contemporary music, dance, theater and performance art. She performs in traditional theaters as well as site-specific locations, including art galleries, fountains, abandoned electrical factories, rusted spiral staircases, mall escalators and cliff sides. She has performed throughout the US and has spread her work internationally by performing/teaching in Argentina, Mexico, Germany, Sweden and Italy. She has performed work by renowned choreographers Wally Cardona, Victoria Marks, Nina Martin and Lionel Popkin as well as emerging artists such as Marianne Kim, Manuelito Biag, Brittany Ceres and Randé Dorn. Rebecca is a recipient of the Glorya Kaufman, Jean Irwin and Forti Family Awards (1999-2000), and residencies at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program (2005) and Guapamacátaro (2007). Her choreographic work was selected for the Gala Concert at the Southwest Region American College Dance Festival in 2000. Rebecca began her artistic training at an early age, studying visual arts. She holds a BA in Visual Art from the University of California, San Diego, where she specialized in photography, painting, film and installation. She received an MFA in Dance from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she focused on performance theory, body modalities and dance education in addition to her choreographic and improvisational work. Rebecca is currently on the dance faculty at Purdue University and teaches modern/postmodern technique, dance fundamentals and solo, ensemble and contact improvisation.