MARY O’ROURKE
BIO
Mary O’Rourke began her dance training in Buffalo, New York, and received her B.A. in dance from Loyola University Chicago. Currently she is a performing artist with CDI/Concert Dance, Inc. under the direction of Venetia Stifler. She has presented choreography at the American College Dance Festival, Noumenon New Moves Choreography Competition, Going Dutch Festival, and at the Conservatory of Music in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In addition to traveling to Vietnam, she has traveled to Havana, Cuba to participate in a cultural exchange with La Escuela Nacional de Arte as well as collaborate on a dance for camera. She holds a deep interest in the relationship between dance and theatre and was able to explore this partnership in collaboration with director/deviser Ann Kreitman on a devised physical theatre work Les Innocents performed in Mason Hall at the Preston Bradley Center and (Re)discover Theatre’s For One. She has previously worked with Khecari as an understudy/performer in The Cronus Land, The Retreat, and participated in their DCASE residency at the Chicago Cultural Center as a performer in TEEM part 2.
