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Ara Fitzgerald is a choreographer, writer, improvisor, performer and educator. Known for solos with original text, she revels in collaborations with photographer/filmmaker, Peter Cunningham, composer, Wall Matthews, choreographers Clare Byrne, Paris based Martha Moore, and the honor to perform reconstructions of work by renowned dancer/clown, Lotte Goslar. She was a member of The Workgroup, directed by Daniel Nagrin and The Entourage Music and Theater Ensemble. Her work has been seen on and off Broadway, in dance spaces and museums. A graduate of Connecticut College, and Wesleyan University, she taught at Connecticut College, Trinity Square Conservatory, The National Theater Institute, and served as director of dance and theater at Manhattanville College. When she told her grandmother, a retired vaudevillian bandleader, that she would pursue modern dance, her grandmother retorted, “A modern dancer is just a vaudevillian with an education.”