Lyn C Wiltshire

LYN C. WILTSHIRE (formerly Lyn W. Elam)
Artistic Director
L’A.R.T. Dance Project
Associate Professor of Dance
The University of Texas at Austin
Lyn Wiltshire was touched by dance at a very young age growing up in New York City and her career fits the model of passion and fervor surpassing credentials. She has trained and performed with many notable teachers and dance companies, including the Dance Theatre of Harlem and toured nationally and internationally with The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. To her credit she has performed in film, television and with symphony orchestras around the country. Her path to academia has been by way of “the school without walls”, choreographing and teaching until finally her reputation preceded her. As an Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Texas she is a dance educator, administrator and director. Beyond her work at UT, Lyn has presented workshops, master classes and lectures in London, Portugal, Taiwan and all over the U.S. and Hawaii. Her choreography has been commissioned by companies in Texas, Indiana, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, New York and California and through this network presented to Canadian and European audiences. During her time at the University, Lyn has directed and choreographed for the UT performing ensemble Dance Repertory Theatre and in 2004 and 2006 the ensemble premiered her work in Innsbruck, Salzburg and St Johann, Austria for performances in the Young Tanzsommer Festival. In 2004 she became the Artistic Director of L’A.R.T Dance Project . She is privileged to take this opportunity provide direction and bring her expertise to the dance project. She is the recipient of Choreography Awards and Masters Fellowships for Choreography and Dance and is on the registry of the National Choreography Plan. She synchronized a five year affiliation between the Department of Theatre and Dance and the Glenda Brown Choreography Project as one of the departments Summer Programs. Through her efforts, the first MFA in Dance at UT was initiated in the department. In addition, she has served on the Dance Advisory Panel for the Indiana Art’s Commission, Louisiana Division of the Arts and has adjudicated pre-professional companies throughout the mid-west. She will be an adjudicator for Regional Dance America’s National Festival to be held in Pittsburgh, PA in 2007.