Michele Trumble

Michele Trumble is a choreographer and dance educator whose work investigates bridging movement and voice as well as unearthing universal themes from personal stories. Having worked in a wide range of dance environments, her choreography process always includes inspiration and input from the performers she works with. Her choreography has been performed at festivals along the East Coast and she spent a year co-directing and choreographing for Buen Viaje, a multigenerational and multi-ability dance company that performed throughout New Mexico. Along with choreography, Michele enjoys writing dance reviews and historical and cultural aspects of western contemporary dance. Her local and national concert reviews and other dance writing can be found in Dance Chronicle and World Dance Reviews Online. She holds a BA from Franklin & Marshall College and an MFA in Choreography from University of North Carolina Greensboro. She has instructed at several universities in areas such as contemporary and ballet technique, yoga, kinesiology for dancers, contemporary dance history, and writing for dance. She is currently dance faculty at High Point University where along with teaching theory and technique courses, she also advises the university’s chapter of the National Honor’s Society of the Dance Arts, and choreographs for the faculty dance concerts. Michele continues to create and produce work in North Carolina and teach yoga as a registered yoga teacher in the Triad community.