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Walter Kennedy, Associate Professor
(541) 346-4133 • 167 Gerlinger Annex
wck@uoregon.edu

Walter Kennedy was a principal dancer with the internationally acclaimed Lewitzky Dance Company for nearly twenty years. He was trained by Bella Lewitzky to be one of her master teachers of technique, improvisation, and composition, and was also appointed the company's rehearsal director from 1990 until the company's farewell performance in 1997. He has also worked with such diverse choreographers during his dancing career as Lar Lubovitch, Laura Dean, Joe Goode and Anna Sokolow. His choreography has been honored at several American College Dance Festivals, and at such venues as Highways Performance Space and the Dance Kaleidoscope Festival in Los Angeles. In the summer of 1998 he was invited as guest choreographer to The Yard, an artist's colony on Martha's Vineyard, and also at the University of Arizona in the same year. Mr. Kennedy holds an MFA from University of Illinois where he was also Visiting Assistant Professor, and a BFA, from California State University, Long Beach, where he was also part- time faculty.