Wendy Johnson-Casper has been involved with dance for 25 years.  She was an original member of Olympic Ballet Theatre in Edmonds, Washington.  She trained with John & Helen Wilkins, Dorothy Fisher, Nelle Fisher, Flemming Halby and Libby Nye. Three of her works, including Hoe Down, were presented in the Emerging Choreographers Division at the Pacific Regional Ballet Festival for three consecutive years. She won the Monticello Scholarship for Choreography at the PRB Festival in 1984 and attended the annual Craft of Choreography Conference in Geneva, New York.  Ms. Johnson-Casper attended Scripps College in Claremont, California and twice was the recipient of the Lucile Morrison Dance Award.  She graduated with a BA in Dance Choreography & Performance.  She has worked in the administration of Pacific Northwest Ballet School in Seattle for the past nine years.   Ms. Johnson-Casper was first introduced to Whidbey Dance Theatre in spring of 2002, assisting Philip Laue with the staging of Nelle Fisher’s Songs Along the River.

 

 

photo by Judi Slepyan

Artistic Directors:
Susan Campbell Sandri
Charlene Brown

Resident Choreographers:
Susan Campbell Sandri
Susan Vanderwood


2004 Guest Choreographers:
Leigh-Ann Cohen
Martha Graham/Sharon Tyres, repetiteur
Jennifer Bondelid

2004 Emerging Choreographers:
Andrea Burr
Kate Yates

2003 Guest Choreographers:
Wendy Johnson-Casper
Asharaine Machala
Carl Massey
Racheale Walsh

2003 Student Choreographer:
Jamee Brown


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