My office is located in the Music and Dance Building.

Professor Seigle is the Dance Program Director and Director of the Mesa Contemporary Dance Ensemble at MCC.

Her career as a movement artist has taken her around the country as a director, choreographer, guest artist, movement coach, and master teacher.  She holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Colorado - Boulder, and a BA in Theatre (Directing) from California State University - Northridge. She also holds a JD, summa cum laude, from Southwestern Law School, where she was named a Biederman Entertainment and Media Law Scholar and served as Editor in Chief of the Southwestern Law Review. Professor Seigle studied Lewitzky Technique under Iris Pell and Fosse Technique under Cheryl Clark and Jennifer Nairn-Smith. Her training also includes studying the Suzuki Method of Actor Training and Viewpoints with SITI Company in New York. Professor Seigle was the founding Artistic Director of the Beacon Street Dance Project and a founding member of the Radical Trousers Movement Theatre. She is an Associate Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC).

As an educator, Professor Seigle enjoys working with students to create interdisciplinary works of dance theatre. She has created more than 20 works of original concert dance choreography for colleges across Southern California and Arizona as well as new modern dance repertoire for the Portsmouth School of Ballet.

Director-Choreographer credits include:

• The Pajama Game (Columbia Gorge School of Theatre)
• Crazy for You (Columbia Gorge School of Theatre)
• Satoh Makoto's Dance of Angels Who Burn Their Own Wings (MFA Thesis Production at the University of Colorado, Boulder)

Choreography credits include:

• Roméo & Juliette (Arizona Opera)
• Amahl and the Night Visitors (Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts)
• Queen Margaret, Two Gentlemen of Verona, and As You Like It (all at Colorado Shakespeare Festival)
• Youre a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Long Beach City College)
• The Brothers Grimm and Sisters Wild (California State University, Northridge)

Stage directing credits include:

• Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? (Arizona Opera)
• Lee Blessing’s Independence (Gardner Stages, Los Angeles)
• Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight (Whitmore-Lindley Theatre, N. Hollywood, CA)

Movement coaching credits include: Beth Henleys The Lucky Spot (Long Beach City College) and A Midsummer Nights Dream (University of Colorado).

Prior to joining MCC, Professor Seigle was a member of the dance faculty at the University of California Santa Barbara, Long Beach City College, Los Angeles City College, and Santa Barbara City College.

She looks forward to welcoming you to MCC Dance!

JD, summa cum laude, Southwestern Law School

MFA, Dance, University of Colorado, Boulder

BA, Theatre, California State University, Northridge