Staff

	Frances Cohen received her degree in dance from Bennington College in Vermont.  She was dance director of the Jewish Community Center in Tucson for 18 years.  She helped create Arizona Dance Arts Alliance and co-founded the dance program at the University of Arizona.  She began Wolf Trap in Arizona, placing performing artists in Head Start classrooms.  She is the artistic director of Center Dance Ensemble, the resident modern dance company of the Herberger Theater Center. She was the recipient of the 1994 Arizona's Governor's Outstanding Artist Award.
	Susan Silverman received her Bachelor's degree in liberal arts and completed a graduate program in dance and literature at the University of Arizona.  Her early training and performing experience was in NYC and her collaboration with Frances Cohen began when Silverman danced in the Kadimah Dance Company.  She is currently the director of  DTW Classical Ballet Program  and is the artistic director of  Story Book Ballet Theater which collaborates in performance with Free Arts of AZ,  Detour Company and Scottsdale Center for the Arts. She is the Dance Chair for the Greater Arizona Chapter of National Society of Arts and Letters and is a board member of Center Dance Ensemble.
	Sally Hogan is originally from Rockford, Illinois where she was a member of the Rockford Dance Company. She has danced with Center Dance Ensemble for eleven years.  She created CDE's lecture/demonstration "The ABC's of Dance," a new outreach program for K through 4th grades.  Hogan has choreographed for high schools and theaters in the Phoenix area, including TheaterWorks and Arizona Jewish Theater Company.
	Anna Kline earned a BA in dance from ASU and an MA in Dance/Movement Therapy from Goucher College in Maryland.  She has danced with Center Dance Ensemble, the resident modern dance company at the Herberger Theater Center, since 1990. In Center Dance Ensemble's Snow Queen, the role of Lady Autumn was created especially for her. Anna has been teaching all forms of dance throughout the Valley for the past 15 years and was an instructor and artistic coordinator for Bodies in Motion Dance Company Studio for nine years. 2006-2007 was Anna's first teaching for Dance Theater West although she has been a well-recognized teacher for her coaching of the Snow Queen's children scenes.
	Rachel Cohen has a Bachelor's Degree in Dance from the University of Arizona. She has been choreographing musicals for community theaters in the Phoenix area since 1998.  She has choreographed musicals for TheaterWorks, Temple Little Theater, Mesa Encore Theater, Greasepaint, and Stagebrush Theater.  She is rehearsal assistant and narrator for Center Dance Ensemble's Snow Queen.  She has a Master's degree in Special Education and is a reading specialist in the Washington Elementary School District.