Fertile Universe

Stefanie is a freelance multi-media artist who specializes in dance and movement.

She has worked with many organizations such as; Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Barrington Stage Company, Berkshire Opera Company, Simon’s Rock, Williams College, Berkshire Community College, Terpsichore Dance Studio, Lenox Community Center, Hudsons’ Operation Unite, and East Harlem Union Settlement Association as an educator, performer, choreographer and visionary.  Presently she is on faculty with Community Access to the Arts, Dancecapade School of Dance, and Kinesphere Movement Arts Studio.

Stefanie is a member and co-director of the performance ensemble Silver Swimmers (USA), the Commonwealth Tap Collective based in Boston and is the primary artistic director of the Creatures of Habitat (COH)- Physical Poetry Ensemble.  She collaborates frequently with various local and international artists, musicians and community development enthusiasts. Stefanie is a certified Gyrotonic instructor, former Americorps Member, graduate of UMASS Amherst with a degree in Environmental Sciences (focus on toxicology), and has taken artistic residency with The Storefront Artist Project (02-06) and Dana Bixby Architecture (07).  She is an active board member for Topia Arts Center in Adams, MA.

In Spring of 2007, Stefanie was recognized as a “Young Woman Moving the Berkshires Forward” by the Berkshire Eagle newspaper and awarded certificate as an asset to the community by State Senator Benjamin Downing.