Marsha Fay Knight

MARSHA FAY KNIGHT (MFA University of Utah ’83) is Professor Emerita at the University of Wyoming. Primary responsibilities included ballet and pointe technique, historical dance/Baroque and Renaissance, and choreography.  Marsha currently teaches in the Upper School at Dance Theatre of Harlem as well as at Ballet Academy East/Adult Division. 

Marsha’s full-evening productions include A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, NUTCRACKER, COPPELIA, PULCINELLA and INANNA, QUEEN OF HEAVEN AND EARTH. Her experience also includes choreography for numerous short works and musical theatre productions. Marsha’s contemporary ballet OF A MIND was selected for presentation at the Kennedy Center through the adjudication process of the American College Dance Festival 2006.
Academic year sabbatical 2016-2017 in NYC included extensive research at Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration, Oral History Library. From this, she conceived and directed SIX SONGS FROM ELLIS, a multi-genre dance/theatre work based on oral histories of immigrants who passed through Ellis Island.  SIX SONGS was produced in 2022 by Repertory Dance Theatre, Salt Lake City.  She is the recipient of a 2018 Governor’s Arts Award from the Wyoming Arts Council, 2018 UW President Speaker Award, and a 2019 Performing Arts Fellowship from the Wyoming Arts Council/NEA. 2016-2017 NYC sabbatical included a month in Moscow and St. Petersburg, observing at the Vaganova Ballet Academy, and actor training at Moscow Art Theatre. Alongside Virginia Johnson, Marsha was instrumental in shaping Dance Theatre of Harlem’s nine-week residency at the University of Wyoming, Fall 2017.  Marsha spent spring 2003 and 2012 semesters teaching in London through the University of Wyoming’s Program for Foreign Studies, teaching as well as training in Royal Academy of Dance teaching methodology and furthering her research in Baroque dance. She completed two terms on the Executive Committee for the American College Dance Festival Association with previous service as Northwest Regional Director.

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